I got about half an hour in before turning it off in disgust.
The female characters were diverse girlbosses, including the fighter who even has a side shave. The male characters were all either gay or might as well have been. The claim that the movie is apolitical is clearly inaccurate: the woke politics are implicit in the casting and characterization decisions.
I never played D&D, just because. I found this movie to be especially entertaining. Plot moved well, the characters made sense and allowed me to move through the relm.
I totally disagree with the person who said Holga was a girl boss or that the male characters were all totally weak. The characters fit the tropes of the D&D classes perfectly! And Holga was a great character who played her character class exactly as it should be in the game - she was a Barbarian, after all - she's the TANK; she's SUPPOSED to be the one taking the hits and doing the fighting! And in the setting, a woman being the tank is perfectly acceptable - its fantasy, not reality, and isn't supposed to be realistic.
Edgin was definitely not a weak-spined guy. Who says that for a male character to be strong, he must always play the fighting classes? Edgin was smart, determined, and a leader. If you noticed - Holga may have done the fighting, but she followed Edgin's lead; not exactly girl boss mode there at all since girl bosses definitely would not take a passive lieutenant role to a man.
I found that if I watched this movie through the lens of the creation - meaning picture this being a D&D game being played by real players and picture everything that happens as a result of the dice - then it makes sense. But even without that method, I found the characters to be fun and engaging and would definitely rate it highly and hope that as time goes by, it grows into a cult classic that finds the audience it deserves!
I really enjoyed this movie. It told a good story well, moved along smartly, all the loose ends tied up nicely, there was no annoying preaching (or very little) which is rare these days, and it worked.
If you found wokeism in this film, you brought it in yourself. For me to find it, I had to consider the story and characters in the most jaded, cynical sense of hypersensitivity to the culture war.
As an OG gamer who started with the red-box staplebound booklet, I could practically see the players behind the story and that gave an extra layer of wonderful to the movie. The producers went in to provide fan service, giving 18 of the top 20 favorite monsters of the game in it (They only left out Beholders and Mind Flayers because they didn't have the budget to do them justice). I could identify the spells being cast and only one of them was cast twice (as would have been possible after a long rest). Themberchaud was a delight to watch that chonky ancient red dragon trying to catch it's dinner.
This movie may be labled a failure by the industry (and the owners actually tried to sabotage it for agenda's sake but failed on the whole), but it's the movie the fans deserved, and the culture warriors can suck lemons about it.
I got about half an hour in before turning it off in disgust.
The female characters were diverse girlbosses, including the fighter who even has a side shave. The male characters were all either gay or might as well have been. The claim that the movie is apolitical is clearly inaccurate: the woke politics are implicit in the casting and characterization decisions.
I never played D&D, just because. I found this movie to be especially entertaining. Plot moved well, the characters made sense and allowed me to move through the relm.
I thought so too, glad I wasn't alone!
I totally disagree with the person who said Holga was a girl boss or that the male characters were all totally weak. The characters fit the tropes of the D&D classes perfectly! And Holga was a great character who played her character class exactly as it should be in the game - she was a Barbarian, after all - she's the TANK; she's SUPPOSED to be the one taking the hits and doing the fighting! And in the setting, a woman being the tank is perfectly acceptable - its fantasy, not reality, and isn't supposed to be realistic.
Edgin was definitely not a weak-spined guy. Who says that for a male character to be strong, he must always play the fighting classes? Edgin was smart, determined, and a leader. If you noticed - Holga may have done the fighting, but she followed Edgin's lead; not exactly girl boss mode there at all since girl bosses definitely would not take a passive lieutenant role to a man.
I found that if I watched this movie through the lens of the creation - meaning picture this being a D&D game being played by real players and picture everything that happens as a result of the dice - then it makes sense. But even without that method, I found the characters to be fun and engaging and would definitely rate it highly and hope that as time goes by, it grows into a cult classic that finds the audience it deserves!
That was how I watched it, like it was a game in action!
I really enjoyed this movie. It told a good story well, moved along smartly, all the loose ends tied up nicely, there was no annoying preaching (or very little) which is rare these days, and it worked.
If you found wokeism in this film, you brought it in yourself. For me to find it, I had to consider the story and characters in the most jaded, cynical sense of hypersensitivity to the culture war.
As an OG gamer who started with the red-box staplebound booklet, I could practically see the players behind the story and that gave an extra layer of wonderful to the movie. The producers went in to provide fan service, giving 18 of the top 20 favorite monsters of the game in it (They only left out Beholders and Mind Flayers because they didn't have the budget to do them justice). I could identify the spells being cast and only one of them was cast twice (as would have been possible after a long rest). Themberchaud was a delight to watch that chonky ancient red dragon trying to catch it's dinner.
This movie may be labled a failure by the industry (and the owners actually tried to sabotage it for agenda's sake but failed on the whole), but it's the movie the fans deserved, and the culture warriors can suck lemons about it.