The Angry GM finally saw Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Surprising no one, he didn’t like it. And while he was originally going to keep his opinion to himself, he broke his silence and had a Live Chat to share it.
Comments are open, but there are ground rules outlined in the podcast itself. A lot of my dislike for the film is grounded in my personal values and worldview. A worldview and values I impose on no one but myself, but which nonetheless informs the choices I make in my life. As such, there are folks who will consider some of what I’m saying “political.”
Take the warnings seriously. If you don’t think this is a thing you can cope with or if you’re going to demand the chance to argue back or raise counterpoints, JUST DON’T LISTEN. I will be watching the comments VERY closely and I will moderate them or close them for the sake of civility. I am not interesting in defending my view. I am just describing my opinion. You’re welcome to yours, but people asked for mine.
I think you nailed why everyone says the movie feels like a standard TTRPG adventure. The players do nothing but fart around and goof off as they are dragged through the adventure by Deus ex Machina (the GM) until they get to the end, where they have an epic battle with the big bad.
Man, Angry always makes such a fuss about becoming political and I’m getting all worried and then it’s just some perfectly fine conservative values. I thought he left Twitter. Whenever I have dinner with my family I just hope I don’t have to explain why we shouldn’t shoot immigrants at the border on sight again.
As a very left listener I often feel sorry that Angry gets so much flak for so little “controversial” stuff in his takes from my side of the political fence. The left is doing a shit job at Marketing imo.
Anyway. I liked the movie, it’s nothing I’ll rewatch comparing it to the first guardians of the Galaxy is really fitting imo (enjoyed that one as well!).
But if anyone wants to see an actually good comedic movie with a father coming to grips with his responsibility handled _well_ I think “the nice guys” didn’t get the credit it deserved. It pulls of what the DnD movie couldn’t and it is still funny as hell.