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Fun Fact The origins of Owlbears is a rather...weird one; long story short, a crazed wizard thought it would be a "fun" idea to mesh an owl (regardless of species) and a grizzly together
Xenk is an excellent example of an NPC provided by the GM to buff up the party for a particular quest, but not for their actual quest. He's also an example of the archetypical Paladin up to and including not deviating from his chosen path, even if there are boulders in his way.
Originally they were kicking around having Drizzt Do'Urden for that role. I would have freaked the F out in theaters. :::holds up OG childhood 1989 copy of The Crystal Shard signed by the man himself::::
That moment where he realized that Holga is truly Kira's mom got me too. He wasn't trying to bring back her mother, he was trying to bring back his wife. And so that moment that he gives that up hits every time lol
It reminds me of a thing in my campaign where a character wants to get revenge on their Noble Djinn dad(I won't go into detail but the dad is 100% a bastard and deserves it), and a mysterious NPC they've had encounters with is slowly talking them through recontextualizing their quest as him needing to die for the betterment of the world rather than them specifically wanting to kill him for personal reasons. There are reasons for this that I won't get into here, but it's an interesting interaction and that on-screen moment made me think of that.
My favorite behind the scene gag is when Xenk the Paladin leaves the party and walks off down the beach. The director yelled cut, but Regé-Jean Page didn't hear him and just kept walking. As a goof, he just walked over the "boulder" that was on set and kept going. The director loved it so much, they kept the whole scene in the movie. If you watch closely, every time they switch camera perspective to show the boulder again, you can see Regé-Jean Page getting further and further away until he's just a dot moving in the distance! Anyway, I'd been waiting eagerly to see you two react to this, and it did not disappoint!! Thanks so much for checking this out, and I look forward to the next video!!
In true DnD fashion, a player/actor does something dumb because they thought it would be funny, and the DM/director lets it happen because it is, in fact, funny
@@malcolmrowe9003 That is actually what happened. Director decided to wait, and Rege not knowing what to do decided to continue portraying straight as a stick paladin thus walking stiffly over the boulder . An amazing impromptu moment
I first watched this movie a day after having my gallbladder removed, and the scene where the distraction glitched out made me laugh so hard I nearly passed out from the pain. In hindsight... was totally worth the pain.
I went into this movie thinking that there was no way it could be good. But boy was i wrong. It's funny, inventive, respectful to the source material, moving at times and overall it's just fun. It is a fun movie. Glad you guys liked it too :)
Fun fact: In the lore, the dragon Themberchaud powers the forges of an entire dwarven city. The magic casters placated him with treasure, calming enchantments and food. lots and lots of food. including the cities criminals. Hence his enormous size hahaha.
Fun fact: When this movie was in pre-production, the director talked to Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast and asked is there a maximum security prison anywhere in Faerun, because he had a great idea for the opening scene (which turns out to be Edgin and Holga using Jarnathan to escape), and Chris realized that there is no maximum security prison anywhere on Faerun, so he created Revel's End in the adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden, which takes place a few years before the events of this movie happens.
@@JnEricsonx All I know is what he is doing in current events. According to the synopsis of the latest Drizzt book that will be released this month called "Lolth's Warrior", he is involved in a civil war in Menzoberranzan. A large group of drow are starting to wake up and question their loyalty to Lolth, while others remain blindly loyal, so a war is brewing in the city.
Fun tidbit: the guy who plays Scanlan (Sam Rygel) his current character is named Fresh Cut Grass, which was the Easter Egg when Simon cast the "fresh cut grass" spell
They did such a good job with this. Looking at the background of the writers, it shows that fans of the source material can sometimes (often) make a better story than fans of simply owning the IP.
"She's like Keyleth". Actually there's a Critical Role reference in this movie, while very subtle. The "Fresh cut grass" spell Simon is using at the beginning is named after Sam Riegel's character in campaign 3, FCG (Fresh Cut Grass).
I never really played any D&D, but as an RPG gamer, I'm excited to watch this one. The whole movie was a very enjoyable and fun experience, I even get some of the references. Then, they put that emotional scene at the end , that really got me too. Never thought I'd shed tears watching this.
So I guess by now, you guys have Googled Daisy Head, who played Sofina and found out she's the daughter of Anthony Head, who played Giles on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.
This movie is just so much fun. Doesn't take itself too seriously but also doesn't joke over the top of the few emotional moments it has. Something I've had a problem with in later Marvel movies is they don't let the moment settle before they undercut it with comedy.
I Ioved this movie! My tabletop role-playing group saw this in the theater together. D&D was the first thing we played together. ❤ Then, eventually, we explored many other TTRPGs. But D&D has a special place in my heart. I love hanging out with friends, ordering food, creating characters, and going through the story together. The bard illusion made me laugh so hard, Simon totally failed his concentration check roll, LOL. As a player of D&D, it really did remind me of the game and how fun it can be, and sometimes, things don’t go according to plan on your adventures. Go with the flow and have fun!
Fun Easter Egg: in the Maze, one of the other parties is decked out exactly like the characters from the extremely cheesy yet fun D&D cartoon from the '80's.
Simon's Major Image spell of Ed singing is my favourite part of the movie. My stomach hurt I was laughing so hard as his head started sinking into his shirt!
One of my favorite decisions made for this movie was to use all the monsters never seen in traditional fantasy movies. I mean - displacer beast (the tentacle panther thing,) gelatinous cube, intellect devourers - even the dragon was hardly standard, being a big chonky boy.
I've been playing D&D (and other roleplaying games) on-and-off since I was a tiny kid in 1985. An awesome hobby. Awesome film too. I'd say this film felt FAR more like tabletop D&D than any computer-based roleplaying game. Computer games just have a very different feel and lack the crazy on-the-spot inventiveness of tabletop fun.
Totally agree. Have been playing pen & paper RPGs since 1984. No Computer based game can replace the fun and interaction between players within the group and with the GM/GM. Just took out my Call of Cthuluh books and be preparing a new campaign in 1920s Germany. German CoC material is awesome. Well, it has litte to do with D&D besides sharing the. RPG background, but... 😊 Since Hollywood is running out of ideas for good movies. Maybe some of these RPG adventures could be a nice idea for a new movie? CoC, Chill, Vampire, Werwolf, 7th Sea, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Mage, Twilight 2000, etc. There are so many backgrounds out there. And so many scripts/adventures already written, that possibly could be Adapter to the small and big screen. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game
@@JAFG_2603 Nice! I ran some Trail of Cthulhu tabletop games but my favourite was combining it with the much more 'crazy improv' combat stuff from the Classic Marvel RPG for a 'Knight Rider and Ozzy Osbourne vs Cultists' campaign I ran. I love how warped that Marvel game is - for a start, it encouraging you to burn away your previous experience points to modify in-game dice rolls etc XD
Can't remember whether you're long-time Critical Role fans or just got into the LoVM animation. If not familiar with the Vox Machina story beyond season 2 of the animation, read no further. There be SPOILERS ahead. .. . . . . . Well, one SPOILER, anyway. When Doric is falling, and everyone's thinking, "Change into a bird!", I keep thinking about a certain goldfish.
I personally loved the movie and I'm glad you did too. I'm a D&D player and I thought it was just awesome. The movie doesn't take itself seriously and it knows what it is and you just have fun with it. There are a series of books written by R.A. Salvador who featured a character called Drizzt Do’Urden who is a dark elf or Drow who has a moral crisis with the way drowse society works in escapes. I would love to see those made into a movie by the same folks that did this movie.
"You are terrible!" "I can be a bit naughty..." Fun Fact: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello makes a cameo during the Arena sequence. What Script Fact: Regé-Jean Page improvised the scene where Xenk steps right over the boulder, barely even breaking his stride. Chris Pine then improvised the resulting narration. Lost In Adaptation: Druid Doric (Sophia Lillis) repeatedly turns into an Owlbear, which appears to be her favorite form for fighting. According to the current official rules of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, a druid cannot turn into an Owlbear. A druid can in fact only turn into a Beast (and eventually an Elemental), but the Owlbear is classified among the "Monstrosities" and a druid character cannot take the shape of those particular creatures. Game Accurate Fact: The movie is set in the Forgotten Realms setting. All the spells used in the film, while largely unnamed, are all legitimate spells used in the Dungeons & Dragons. The overweight red dragon the party encounters in the Underdark is Themberchaud, a known powerful denizen of the Underdark. In an overhead shot as Edgin (Chris Pine) and Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) walk through town, you can see two rust monsters fighting over a scrap of metal, which serves as food for this species. The prison Edgin and Holga escape from is Revel's End. A prison built on a cliff-side overlooking the Sea of Moving Ice in the Frozenfar region of the North.
Apparently, Revel's End was created due to this movie. It was in the writing stages at the same time Rime of the Frost Maiden (a Campaign Module) was being written. The writers of the film approached WoTC looking for a remote prison somewhere in Faerun, so the WoTC writers put one in the new module that the film could use.
I really enjoyed this movie and hope we get the sequel they hinted at, but I sadly doubt we’ll get it. Didn’t even reach $100M domestically and only slightly above $200M worldwide. For a movie like this that doesn’t scream green light to a sequel.
A bunch of people love this movie because it feels like a genuine d and d game between friends, even with them messing up and the dm having to find fixes for them to keep going.
It's a shame that it didn't make much money, especially as it's seen as a great film by almost everyone. Hopefully we will see a sequel, but it's unlikely it will have as big a budget.
The best thing we can do for it is get other people to rent it or watch it on streaming. Those numbers would show up on the studio's radar as potential/likely customers for the sequel.
But considering how much people loved the movie I hope creators of this will think of an idea to organize a kickstarter/fundraiser to be able to make second movie. I would deffinetely find money to donate towards making sequel a reality
It didn't make enough money, but they're talking about a sequel anyway with a reduced budget. My favorite scene is the Intelligence Devourer scene, it made me laugh because Intelligence is a dump stat for all of their characters.
I wish more people had listened to the positive reviews that this movie was getting but unfortunately this movie ended up being a pretty big money loser. I did see an article saying that there could be a sequel, but with a much smaller budget. I have no issues with a smaller budget as long as they make it as fun and as charming as this one.
Eh, it wasn't that far off from recouping its budget at the box office. Thanks to the positive word of mouth, there's an excellent chance they'll make a profit after rentals, DVD/BR sales, and streaming.
Fun bit - when Sofina and Simon went "Hand to Hand", the spell they use is Bigby's Hand, which was the source of "Scanlan's Haaaaand" from Legend of Vox Machina. My niece wants them to do another with the same actors, but playing all different characters, like they've started a new campaign. Sadly, the movie underperformed and a sequel seems unlikely. It's a shame, too, this was great.
I honestly find Michelle Rodriguez hit or miss a lot of the time, but yeah, her & Chris Pine made this movie so much better with how much fun you can tell they're both having.
How IS this interesting for spectators? That's an amazing point i didn't consider, and no one other than you that I've seen has. Bloody Brilliant. Non sarcastically. I feel dumb as shit for not noticing that.
People are very wrong when they say this movie is a bomb. Expect a sequel in a few years. Hasbro wants a movie franchise. Theatre Box Office $208Million Production cost $151Million Digital Income and Marketing Expense are kept hidden by the studio. From the Motion Picture Association in mid-March 2023 the Digital Box office at the low end is at least 3 times physical theatre box office. Minimum digital box office of $624Million for this movie (3 times theatre box office). People are still discovering this wonderful movie. We do know that this movie was advertised at the Superbowl which would add some amount to the marketing expense.
The other aspect is I believe Hasbro kicked in a bit of the production budget. If they've measured success on that front as an advertisement for the game itself, they'd probably do so again (especially with D&D Next launch around the corner). Which means Paramount's production cost wasn't $150M. Plus, the next one has lots of built in advantages. Even if the sets are down, all the practical creatures I'm sure were just mothballed, so they don't need to recreate all of them. And, this one filmed in the HEART of COVID protocols in Ireland. It's not talked about, but that *had* to add significant expense. Things like 2 week mandatory quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, all the heath checks and cleaning, etc. Shoot, the whole sound team was out with COVID the day they were filming the scene in the cavern where they escape Themberchaud and they had to call in literally the only other sound team in Northern Ireland at the time that could do the job - a BBC nature documentary team. All of that adds up, and I bet it added up in a very significant way.
Congrats Madison and Christian on your pregnancy, I hope it goes well and you have a beautiful baby! If you are not pregnant I'm really sorry and embarrassed by this comment, I meant nothing mean at all❤
I don't think it is Elminster. *Simon* thinks it is, but the figure always dances around his assumptions. "I'm an Aumar, too." I think it really is no more complicated that it was Simon's imagination and insecurities blocking him. The man is a representation of those insecurities.
Unfortunately, it looks like the prospects for a sequel are not great. Although this movie did very well critically and was embraced by the D+D community, it did not meet Paramount's expectations financially. If there were to be a second movie, it would have to be on a much reduced budget, and that would inevitably mean a dip in quality. I'd rather take one really good movie and leave it at that than carry on making worse and worse sequels. ( Indiana Jones ).
Certainly, this would be much better if it had made like $500M and a sequel was no doubt. But, I think things could be rosier than they seem. First, Hasbro kicked in some of the budget so the studio wasn't out $150M. If they got the return they wanted as a D&D advertisement, it seems reasonable that they'd do so again. Second, it was filmed in the *heart* of the pandemic in Northern Ireland, with all of the vast protocols that required. Everything from a 2 week quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, to all the heath checks and cleaning they would have had to do on a film set, up to replacing the entire sound team last minute (with a BBC nature doc team of all things) when they came down with COVID. All of that HAD to be expensive. And lastly, lots of the practical effects stuff won't have been discarded. That won't have to be reinvented for a potential sequel. In the end, I can absolutely see my way to a $120M D&D movie budget, which is more like $80-100M for Paramount depending on Hasbro. Even if the sequel did no better at the box office (which honestly is unlikely given this one has had legs in the streaming markets), that still puts it in profitable range. And if they can not screw up the release window (one week before Super Mario...sheesh. I went 8 days after release and couldn't get it in IMAX anymore...), there's even more potential. With this cast and creative team, they could *crush* a movie at that budget, IMO. In recent news, Paramount CEO has actually said specifically that D&D sequel is possible, though they would have to bring the cost down (this isn't a surprise, and in line with what we expect. Just depends on how much). And, Hasbro just finished selling eOne to Lionsgate (previously the company that handled their TV and movies) but specifically did *not* include the rights to, among other things, D&D media in the sale. That may hint, to me, at future plans with the IP.
My wife was so upset with me during this movie. Holga got stabbed "by a red wizard's blade" and I started laughing. Oh no! The same thing that killed his wife! And he just got the movie's MacGuffin, the one item in the story's world that could fix it. And Holga was the only mother his daughter knew. Whatever could happen here? I don't think I stopped snickering at the young readers level drama until the scene was over. It was made even funnier by my wife elbowing me in the ribs the whole time as I struggled to hold it in.
The remarkable part for me was that even though Holga's death and subsequent resurrections via the tablet was telegraphed from a mile away, it still managed to resonate emotionally to me. They play it out just long enough, hit you with the music and the Kira flashbacks and it just works IMO.
Is this the first time we've seen a lich in live-action? Cos that big bad that Sofina worked for, he's a lich -- most powerful type of undead there is, a magic-user that gave up his own soul for perpetual existence.
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Fun Fact
The origins of Owlbears is a rather...weird one; long story short, a crazed wizard thought it would be a "fun" idea to mesh an owl (regardless of species) and a grizzly together
As a huge D&D nerd, this movie felt like a hug
Bro yess! I completely agree 🥹🔥
such an apt way to put it 😄
You are not wrong
Between this and BG3 it's kinda felt like our year.
Same!
Xenk is an excellent example of an NPC provided by the GM to buff up the party for a particular quest, but not for their actual quest. He's also an example of the archetypical Paladin up to and including not deviating from his chosen path, even if there are boulders in his way.
Originally they were kicking around having Drizzt Do'Urden for that role. I would have freaked the F out in theaters. :::holds up OG childhood 1989 copy of The Crystal Shard signed by the man himself::::
Yeah, and the portal staff thing is a classic gizmo a GM has to come up with to help the players out after they screw up a puzzle etc!
@@JnEricsonx Imagine they end up in Menzoberranzan
@@f.g.5967 They're in the Underdark after all.
That moment where he realized that Holga is truly Kira's mom got me too. He wasn't trying to bring back her mother, he was trying to bring back his wife. And so that moment that he gives that up hits every time lol
It reminds me of a thing in my campaign where a character wants to get revenge on their Noble Djinn dad(I won't go into detail but the dad is 100% a bastard and deserves it), and a mysterious NPC they've had encounters with is slowly talking them through recontextualizing their quest as him needing to die for the betterment of the world rather than them specifically wanting to kill him for personal reasons.
There are reasons for this that I won't get into here, but it's an interesting interaction and that on-screen moment made me think of that.
30:52 I love that you can still see Xenk walking away in a straight line in the distance.
My favorite behind the scene gag is when Xenk the Paladin leaves the party and walks off down the beach. The director yelled cut, but Regé-Jean Page didn't hear him and just kept walking. As a goof, he just walked over the "boulder" that was on set and kept going. The director loved it so much, they kept the whole scene in the movie. If you watch closely, every time they switch camera perspective to show the boulder again, you can see Regé-Jean Page getting further and further away until he's just a dot moving in the distance!
Anyway, I'd been waiting eagerly to see you two react to this, and it did not disappoint!! Thanks so much for checking this out, and I look forward to the next video!!
In true DnD fashion, a player/actor does something dumb because they thought it would be funny, and the DM/director lets it happen because it is, in fact, funny
@@pabloc8808 Agreed! Some of the best moments of any RPG I've played or run are exactly these types of moments. 😅
I thought it was a joke about how NPCs that have awkward walking paths, but this works too lol.
I've also heard that the director deliberately didn't shout "Cut" because he wanted to see what Page would do.
@@malcolmrowe9003 That is actually what happened. Director decided to wait, and Rege not knowing what to do decided to continue portraying straight as a stick paladin thus walking stiffly over the boulder . An amazing impromptu moment
Fun fact: the adventurers in the arena who get trapped in the cage were the characters from the 1980's Dungeons and Dragons cartoon!
I first watched this movie a day after having my gallbladder removed, and the scene where the distraction glitched out made me laugh so hard I nearly passed out from the pain. In hindsight... was totally worth the pain.
Simon's illusion glitching was one of the FUNNIEST movie scenes I've seen in a WHILE. I laughed SO HARD at that. 🤣🤣
It was a standout moment in a movie made of standout moments :D
A perfect representation of a failed concentration check.
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DM: Okay, make a stealth check.
Simons player: Uh... 3...
DM: ...... Roll a concentration saving throw...
Simons player: Uh.... 1....
I went into this movie thinking that there was no way it could be good. But boy was i wrong. It's funny, inventive, respectful to the source material, moving at times and overall it's just fun. It is a fun movie. Glad you guys liked it too :)
Fun fact: In the lore, the dragon Themberchaud powers the forges of an entire dwarven city. The magic casters placated him with treasure, calming enchantments and food. lots and lots of food. including the cities criminals. Hence his enormous size hahaha.
Fun fact: When this movie was in pre-production, the director talked to Chris Perkins of Wizards of the Coast and asked is there a maximum security prison anywhere in Faerun, because he had a great idea for the opening scene (which turns out to be Edgin and Holga using Jarnathan to escape), and Chris realized that there is no maximum security prison anywhere on Faerun, so he created Revel's End in the adventure Rime of the Frostmaiden, which takes place a few years before the events of this movie happens.
@@LightStreak567Icewind Dale.....where's Drizzt? :(
@@JnEricsonx All I know is what he is doing in current events. According to the synopsis of the latest Drizzt book that will be released this month called "Lolth's Warrior", he is involved in a civil war in Menzoberranzan. A large group of drow are starting to wake up and question their loyalty to Lolth, while others remain blindly loyal, so a war is brewing in the city.
@@LightStreak567 I havent read since around 1000 Orcs, which I apologized to RA because there's no decent book stores around by me anymore.
@@JnEricsonx Wow, you have a lot of catching up to do, but it will be worth it. You'll be surprised to see the life Drizzt has currently.
Fun tidbit: the guy who plays Scanlan (Sam Rygel) his current character is named Fresh Cut Grass, which was the Easter Egg when Simon cast the "fresh cut grass" spell
He told he was named after his owners favorite smells.
@@dansmart3182 to be honest, I think they are everyone's favorite smells!
@@dansmart3182 "Fresh Cut Grass, Oatmeal, Pussy, " I was cracking up.
They did such a good job with this. Looking at the background of the writers, it shows that fans of the source material can sometimes (often) make a better story than fans of simply owning the IP.
"She's like Keyleth". Actually there's a Critical Role reference in this movie, while very subtle. The "Fresh cut grass" spell Simon is using at the beginning is named after Sam Riegel's character in campaign 3, FCG (Fresh Cut Grass).
The "mini-cooper" scene was excellent.
The escape scene with Doric fleeing the castle was one of the coolest things I've seen.
44:14 Glad to see someone else who made a "hand-to-hand combat" joke about that scene 😆
Im so glad to see the positive reaction this movie is getting now. It is so much more witty and clever than I expected it to be.
I never really played any D&D, but as an RPG gamer, I'm excited to watch this one. The whole movie was a very enjoyable and fun experience, I even get some of the references. Then, they put that emotional scene at the end , that really got me too. Never thought I'd shed tears watching this.
hugh grant killin it with every single role recently
So I guess by now, you guys have Googled Daisy Head, who played Sofina and found out she's the daughter of Anthony Head, who played Giles on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.
Oh! I didn't notice that before Simon is descended from Elminster one of the most famous wizards in the forgotten realms.
This movie is just so much fun. Doesn't take itself too seriously but also doesn't joke over the top of the few emotional moments it has. Something I've had a problem with in later Marvel movies is they don't let the moment settle before they undercut it with comedy.
This was such a surprise. I loved this movie. Im hoping theres a sequel.
The spell used for the hand fight was Bigbys hand which from critical role is scanlan hand
I Ioved this movie! My tabletop role-playing group saw this in the theater together. D&D was the first thing we played together. ❤ Then, eventually, we explored many other TTRPGs. But D&D has a special place in my heart. I love hanging out with friends, ordering food, creating characters, and going through the story together. The bard illusion made me laugh so hard, Simon totally failed his concentration check roll, LOL.
As a player of D&D, it really did remind me of the game and how fun it can be, and sometimes, things don’t go according to plan on your adventures. Go with the flow and have fun!
I friggin love this movie...I love when fantasy world can be dark and funny in tone at the same time
Took my nephew and his friends to see this thinking I’d be bored and I had more fun than any of them 😅
It's not just Bradley Cooper, it's Bradley Mini-Cooper
Fun Easter Egg: in the Maze, one of the other parties is decked out exactly like the characters from the extremely cheesy yet fun D&D cartoon from the '80's.
One thing I love about DND, is the chunky dragon, I mean look at him, he’s so fat, I’ve been laughing when I saw him at the theater 😂😂😂😂😂
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that part has always made me laugh the most in this film
Simon's Major Image spell of Ed singing is my favourite part of the movie. My stomach hurt I was laughing so hard as his head started sinking into his shirt!
One of my favorite decisions made for this movie was to use all the monsters never seen in traditional fantasy movies. I mean - displacer beast (the tentacle panther thing,) gelatinous cube, intellect devourers - even the dragon was hardly standard, being a big chonky boy.
Is a Canon dragon though.
@@JnEricsonx Technically, ALL the monsters are Canon. But I've been playing D&D for forty years, and I have never, ever encountered a chonky dragon.
I've been playing D&D (and other roleplaying games) on-and-off since I was a tiny kid in 1985. An awesome hobby. Awesome film too. I'd say this film felt FAR more like tabletop D&D than any computer-based roleplaying game. Computer games just have a very different feel and lack the crazy on-the-spot inventiveness of tabletop fun.
Totally agree. Have been playing pen & paper RPGs since 1984. No Computer based game can replace the fun and interaction between players within the group and with the GM/GM. Just took out my Call of Cthuluh books and be preparing a new campaign in 1920s Germany. German CoC material is awesome. Well, it has litte to do with D&D besides sharing the. RPG background, but... 😊 Since Hollywood is running out of ideas for good movies. Maybe some of these RPG adventures could be a nice idea for a new movie? CoC, Chill, Vampire, Werwolf, 7th Sea, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, Mage, Twilight 2000, etc. There are so many backgrounds out there. And so many scripts/adventures already written, that possibly could be Adapter to the small
and big screen.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game
@@JAFG_2603 Nice! I ran some Trail of Cthulhu tabletop games but my favourite was combining it with the much more 'crazy improv' combat stuff from the Classic Marvel RPG for a 'Knight Rider and Ozzy Osbourne vs Cultists' campaign I ran. I love how warped that Marvel game is - for a start, it encouraging you to burn away your previous experience points to modify in-game dice rolls etc XD
Also Xenk is def the dm babysitting the characters in the right direction.
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yeah,... except... she kinda does know what she's doing.
...most of the time...
"We're gods!"
*_FPLAF!_*
I haven't seen it yet, so I'll go and watch it first, and then I'll come back and watch it again with you guys❤
Gotta love the mini (Badley) Cooper long joke
As a DM, I'm totally making that dead guy an encounter. A built in Easter Egg!
And a tabletop version of dungeons & dragons holga is a barbarian who specializes in improvised weapons which the movie showed perfectly
As a DnD payer, I love this movie. ❤️🙏
This movie is so much better than anyone expected it to be. :) I loved it!! Really hope they make a sequel with the same cast & writers.
Can't remember whether you're long-time Critical Role fans or just got into the LoVM animation. If not familiar with the Vox Machina story beyond season 2 of the animation, read no further. There be SPOILERS ahead. ..
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Well, one SPOILER, anyway. When Doric is falling, and everyone's thinking, "Change into a bird!", I keep thinking about a certain goldfish.
This movie was so much better than I expected it to be. Top ten of the year best.
I personally loved the movie and I'm glad you did too. I'm a D&D player and I thought it was just awesome. The movie doesn't take itself seriously and it knows what it is and you just have fun with it. There are a series of books written by R.A. Salvador who featured a character called Drizzt Do’Urden who is a dark elf or Drow who has a moral crisis with the way drowse society works in escapes. I would love to see those made into a movie by the same folks that did this movie.
"You are terrible!"
"I can be a bit naughty..."
Fun Fact: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello makes a cameo during the Arena sequence.
What Script Fact: Regé-Jean Page improvised the scene where Xenk steps right over the boulder, barely even breaking his stride. Chris Pine then improvised the resulting narration.
Lost In Adaptation: Druid Doric (Sophia Lillis) repeatedly turns into an Owlbear, which appears to be her favorite form for fighting. According to the current official rules of the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game, a druid cannot turn into an Owlbear. A druid can in fact only turn into a Beast (and eventually an Elemental), but the Owlbear is classified among the "Monstrosities" and a druid character cannot take the shape of those particular creatures.
Game Accurate Fact: The movie is set in the Forgotten Realms setting. All the spells used in the film, while largely unnamed, are all legitimate spells used in the Dungeons & Dragons. The overweight red dragon the party encounters in the Underdark is Themberchaud, a known powerful denizen of the Underdark. In an overhead shot as Edgin (Chris Pine) and Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) walk through town, you can see two rust monsters fighting over a scrap of metal, which serves as food for this species. The prison Edgin and Holga escape from is Revel's End. A prison built on a cliff-side overlooking the Sea of Moving Ice in the Frozenfar region of the North.
Apparently, Revel's End was created due to this movie. It was in the writing stages at the same time Rime of the Frost Maiden (a Campaign Module) was being written. The writers of the film approached WoTC looking for a remote prison somewhere in Faerun, so the WoTC writers put one in the new module that the film could use.
I really enjoyed this movie and hope we get the sequel they hinted at, but I sadly doubt we’ll get it. Didn’t even reach $100M domestically and only slightly above $200M worldwide. For a movie like this that doesn’t scream green light to a sequel.
So many funny scenes in this movie. Very much was surprised. I loved it.
This is a fun, hilarious and underrated movie! Thanks for a great reaction!
The death and reawakening scene always gets me man 🥲
Fun fact: the dwarf at 39:24 is Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine
Oh shit, never thought about the fact the spectators can't see anything in the games. Nice!
A bunch of people love this movie because it feels like a genuine d and d game between friends, even with them messing up and the dm having to find fixes for them to keep going.
Rewatching this really made me wanna play Sulis again.
This was one of the funnest movies I've seen in a while.
It's a shame that it didn't make much money, especially as it's seen as a great film by almost everyone. Hopefully we will see a sequel, but it's unlikely it will have as big a budget.
The best thing we can do for it is get other people to rent it or watch it on streaming. Those numbers would show up on the studio's radar as potential/likely customers for the sequel.
@@marauderdz I would love a second movie but it's probably unlikely since they already sold off the studio that made the movie
But considering how much people loved the movie I hope creators of this will think of an idea to organize a kickstarter/fundraiser to be able to make second movie. I would deffinetely find money to donate towards making sequel a reality
I really enjoyed your reactions to this. You guys are cool.
Bearowl was close... Real close 😂
Bet you didn't think you'd cry watching this movie.
It didn't make enough money, but they're talking about a sequel anyway with a reduced budget. My favorite scene is the Intelligence Devourer scene, it made me laugh because Intelligence is a dump stat for all of their characters.
Love this review! You guys are slick! Especially for someone who's played DND for so long. You should try it - if you haven't. Best!
the call-back to the Saturday morning cartoon - when they were in the maze was so great
Oh, yay! I've been waiting for this one, I'm going through Vox Machina withdrawals!
This is GREAT movie. Shame People apparently did not show up to see it in theaters. Now we probably wont get a sequel...
I believe Simon the sorcerer is in detective Pikachu.
I love this movie but i heard it bomb at the box office.
12:25 😂so close
I wish more people had listened to the positive reviews that this movie was getting but unfortunately this movie ended up being a pretty big money loser. I did see an article saying that there could be a sequel, but with a much smaller budget. I have no issues with a smaller budget as long as they make it as fun and as charming as this one.
Eh, it wasn't that far off from recouping its budget at the box office. Thanks to the positive word of mouth, there's an excellent chance they'll make a profit after rentals, DVD/BR sales, and streaming.
amazing movie
Fun bit - when Sofina and Simon went "Hand to Hand", the spell they use is Bigby's Hand, which was the source of "Scanlan's Haaaaand" from Legend of Vox Machina.
My niece wants them to do another with the same actors, but playing all different characters, like they've started a new campaign.
Sadly, the movie underperformed and a sequel seems unlikely. It's a shame, too, this was great.
A new campaign is a freaking brilliant idea.
It actually was pretty good. Then again after the 2000 movie I had low expectations 🤷♂️
The entire cast is great but Rodriguez and Pine stole the entire show!
I honestly find Michelle Rodriguez hit or miss a lot of the time, but yeah, her & Chris Pine made this movie so much better with how much fun you can tell they're both having.
Best movie 2023
Lol.. no it's Mini-Cooper.
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How IS this interesting for spectators? That's an amazing point i didn't consider, and no one other than you that I've seen has. Bloody Brilliant. Non sarcastically. I feel dumb as shit for not noticing that.
People are very wrong when they say this movie is a bomb.
Expect a sequel in a few years. Hasbro wants a movie franchise.
Theatre Box Office $208Million
Production cost $151Million
Digital Income and Marketing Expense are kept hidden by the studio.
From the Motion Picture Association in mid-March 2023 the Digital Box office
at the low end is at least 3 times physical theatre box office.
Minimum digital box office of $624Million for this movie (3 times theatre box office).
People are still discovering this wonderful movie.
We do know that this movie was advertised at the Superbowl which would add some
amount to the marketing expense.
The other aspect is I believe Hasbro kicked in a bit of the production budget. If they've measured success on that front as an advertisement for the game itself, they'd probably do so again (especially with D&D Next launch around the corner). Which means Paramount's production cost wasn't $150M.
Plus, the next one has lots of built in advantages. Even if the sets are down, all the practical creatures I'm sure were just mothballed, so they don't need to recreate all of them. And, this one filmed in the HEART of COVID protocols in Ireland. It's not talked about, but that *had* to add significant expense. Things like 2 week mandatory quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, all the heath checks and cleaning, etc. Shoot, the whole sound team was out with COVID the day they were filming the scene in the cavern where they escape Themberchaud and they had to call in literally the only other sound team in Northern Ireland at the time that could do the job - a BBC nature documentary team. All of that adds up, and I bet it added up in a very significant way.
Congrats Madison and Christian on your pregnancy, I hope it goes well and you have a beautiful baby! If you are not pregnant I'm really sorry and embarrassed by this comment, I meant nothing mean at all❤
That can’t be Elminster, though. The hat’s not tall enough.
I don't think it is Elminster. *Simon* thinks it is, but the figure always dances around his assumptions. "I'm an Aumar, too." I think it really is no more complicated that it was Simon's imagination and insecurities blocking him. The man is a representation of those insecurities.
I love the movie. I'm glad you two liked it.
A suggestion, Nimona.
Unfortunately, it looks like the prospects for a sequel are not great. Although this movie did very well critically and was embraced by the D+D community, it did not meet Paramount's expectations financially. If there were to be a second movie, it would have to be on a much reduced budget, and that would inevitably mean a dip in quality. I'd rather take one really good movie and leave it at that than carry on making worse and worse sequels. ( Indiana Jones ).
Certainly, this would be much better if it had made like $500M and a sequel was no doubt. But, I think things could be rosier than they seem. First, Hasbro kicked in some of the budget so the studio wasn't out $150M. If they got the return they wanted as a D&D advertisement, it seems reasonable that they'd do so again.
Second, it was filmed in the *heart* of the pandemic in Northern Ireland, with all of the vast protocols that required. Everything from a 2 week quarantine for everyone arriving internationally, to all the heath checks and cleaning they would have had to do on a film set, up to replacing the entire sound team last minute (with a BBC nature doc team of all things) when they came down with COVID. All of that HAD to be expensive.
And lastly, lots of the practical effects stuff won't have been discarded. That won't have to be reinvented for a potential sequel.
In the end, I can absolutely see my way to a $120M D&D movie budget, which is more like $80-100M for Paramount depending on Hasbro. Even if the sequel did no better at the box office (which honestly is unlikely given this one has had legs in the streaming markets), that still puts it in profitable range. And if they can not screw up the release window (one week before Super Mario...sheesh. I went 8 days after release and couldn't get it in IMAX anymore...), there's even more potential. With this cast and creative team, they could *crush* a movie at that budget, IMO.
In recent news, Paramount CEO has actually said specifically that D&D sequel is possible, though they would have to bring the cost down (this isn't a surprise, and in line with what we expect. Just depends on how much). And, Hasbro just finished selling eOne to Lionsgate (previously the company that handled their TV and movies) but specifically did *not* include the rights to, among other things, D&D media in the sale. That may hint, to me, at future plans with the IP.
Walking away in such a straight line is a reference to the square grid pattern of D&D maps.
nope, it was joke about how direct and unyielding paladins are
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My only critique, from a long-time D&D player view, is that Edgin the Bard had no Bard abilities. I guess he was just a smart-ass with a lute.
22:06 DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION, WHAT’S YOUR FUNCTION?!?
this movie had no right to be this good💓💓💓
Sadly the box office wasn't enough for a sequel. Only a miracle will save it.
Wow you guys took a while for this.
There's a sequel series coming to paramount plus!
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Theory is that Xenk walked a straight line from that beach to where he captured Forge.
Themberchaud is my son i love him
Hi Madison and Christian I really love your reaction to Dungeons & dragons And I hope The Flash is next on your list !!!
My wife was so upset with me during this movie. Holga got stabbed "by a red wizard's blade" and I started laughing.
Oh no! The same thing that killed his wife! And he just got the movie's MacGuffin, the one item in the story's world that could fix it. And Holga was the only mother his daughter knew. Whatever could happen here?
I don't think I stopped snickering at the young readers level drama until the scene was over. It was made even funnier by my wife elbowing me in the ribs the whole time as I struggled to hold it in.
The remarkable part for me was that even though Holga's death and subsequent resurrections via the tablet was telegraphed from a mile away, it still managed to resonate emotionally to me. They play it out just long enough, hit you with the music and the Kira flashbacks and it just works IMO.
The movie actually dident do well, people loved it, but they barely made the money back.
Is this the first time we've seen a lich in live-action? Cos that big bad that Sofina worked for, he's a lich -- most powerful type of undead there is, a magic-user that gave up his own soul for perpetual existence.