Dungeons & Dragons (2022)

I doubt I’ll ever see this again, but it was an entertaining watch with friends.

We all were hoping to see a beholder, but the fat dragon made up for that. That shit was fucking hilarious. We couldn’t stop laughing and the lulz just kept rolling with each joke thrown out by the peanut gallery.

The story and plot was a little sloppy in some areas, but whatever. Overall I was able to enjoy it for what it was.

I saw it and will give it a 7. It was dumb fun. I'll disagree with the poster above in that it felt like it was written by dumb hollywood people. I was actually surprised with this script, where everything was tied together pretty neatly and there really wasn't any screen time that was wasted. It was a competent, but not amazing movie. I felt like the biggest weakness was the acting from druid girl and fighter girl was not the best.

Rajaah said:

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Prydain Chronicles. Got the whole set in the rare first-edition. This might stir up a few memories for people who were schoolkids in the 90's.

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Those were probably the first novels I ever read. Definitely the first series and definitely the first of whatever you call this genre. But I didn't recognize that was what you were talking about until I saw the name Lloyd Alexander because I didn't remember prydain (I always called them the Taran or high King books) and the covers of mine are completely different.

The Disney cartoon was garbage and I was overall pissed at it. But i agree i'd like to see it done on screen right.

Mahes said:

I tried thinking back..

I could not think of any moment of time when I thought too myself or heard anyone mention, when campaigning with friends or otherwise ,"I wonder how big an Owlbear's cock is?"

That takes a special kind of person to consider that.

I say this because now I honestly wonder....

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What? I need a wood weapon to cast shillelagh! You never suddenly needed a wooden weapon?

Hoss said:

Those were probably the first novels I ever read. Definitely the first series and definitely the first of whatever you call this genre. But I didn't recognize that was what you were talking about until I saw the name Lloyd Alexander because I didn't remember prydain (I always called them the Taran or high King books) and the covers of mine are completely different.

The Disney cartoon was garbage and I was overall pissed at it. But i agree i'd like to see it done on screen right.

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Yeah, now it's referred to generally as the Prydain Chronicles, but for a long time the five books didn't really have a concrete name like LOTR does.

The ones I have are first edition, which is pretty cool. I had to pay up to get them (in some cases, some I lucked out). They look exactly like the ones in the school library as a kid. Just a full-on dose of nostalgia looking at 'em. Some day I'd like to read all five again, if I can handle even more nostalgia.

I used to describe this series to people as "LOTR but not as complex" because that's kinda what it is. But it really is its own genre. LOTR is like, high fantasy elves and wizards and so forth. The Taran books are more like the birth of "young adult" fantasy, where the main character (and his girl) are kids and we see them both grow up (and eventually get together) over the five books. Similar setting and story otherwise. I like how the Taran books have a heavy Irish/Gaelic kind of setting with the names of things and so forth.

I remember as a kid some of the other kids didn't like Taran Wanderer. Actually had a guy tell me to skip it. I think it might be my favorite of the bunch. The main character goes around learning tradeskills and literally turns into a man during that book.


Something I never noticed until recently is that there's kinda a dichonomy between the covers of the first and last books. The first book he's a kid riding a horse, the last book he's an adult storming into battle on a horse while everything's on fire.

Man, I could probably do an entire thread discussing this book series TBH.

Rajaah said:

I remember as a kid some of the other kids didn't like Taran Wanderer. Actually had a guy tell me to skip it. I think it might be my favorite of the bunch. The main character goes around learning tradeskills and literally turns into a man during that book.

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Yeah I think it was my favorite too. Still remember the guy with the "prepare for success" attitude. He kept the fences repaired just in case someone came along with a flock of sheep needing a home.

Anyway, saw the movie last night. It was terrific. It might be the best new movie I've seen this year. TO be fair, I haven't seen a lot of movies this year though. I'd have to actually do some research to remind myself what I've seen.

Oh and I'll add, in the little theater we've been using for the past few years, We've never seen a crowd this big. Small sample size, I know, but it was a wednesday night and there were 2x as many people as we've seen for any other movie.

I can't give a demographics report for our viewing. I don't like other people so I don't pay attention to them. I only noticed the crowd because of how much I hate people.