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    I've watched the Italian trailer, I can already say that I'll be watching it in English, because they little I heard about the dubbing and the translation was horrible. This is something that might affect this movie indeed, I mean poor distribution investments and choices (and I suspect that that has been, partly, the same issue some of the older D&D movies had).

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    And finally, the usual complaint: The number of dragons in the movie is large. Dragons are by the lore of the actual game, rare. They are also, again by the lore of the game, requiring large areas.
    Staffing three dragons in the trailer alone, all of them big = too many dragons.
    I concur, but that's expected.. I mean, seeing the past flops of D&D movies, they are most probably pointing towards attracting as much people as possible, to being with. Dragons always work nice, humor does the same, some sexy stuff can do wonders (The Witcher anyone? ). I would expect all those elements to be in it, and I could be fine with them as long as there's a solid story in the background, I mean the kind of straight story which makes up for good D&D plots (anyone who played D&D long enough knows that the best games are those with "simple" plots, regular characters and so on and on). Going for the glorious plot, once you have so many things to unravel already, is not a great choice IMO.

    This is what they did with "The Legend of Vox Machina" IMO. Stereotyped characters, plots which are rather simple. I guess any show that would actually be able to convey what a real D&D game is, instead of just going epic, would be a good show.
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    The Legend of Vox Machina though was a played-game. People played it and other people loved the story. So it got animated. I never heard the original podcasts but I have seen no complains.

    Also, about the "Sexy stuff" ... meh. It's a D&D movie. I would prefer if it was more family-friendly. And I understand what you say by "sure, dragons are rare, but they are also cool so people want to watch dragons" but hopefully, they will avoid the "too many dragons" things and sacrificing too much for the rule of cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    Also, about the "Sexy stuff" ... meh. It's a D&D movie. I would prefer if it was more family-friendly. And I understand what you say by "sure, dragons are rare, but they are also cool so people want to watch dragons" but hopefully, they will avoid the "too many dragons" things and sacrificing too much for the rule of cool.
    Once more I concur. I did not want to tell that that's a good move, just that I understand why they did that.

    Quote Originally Posted by alhoon View Post
    The Legend of Vox Machina though was a played-game. People played it and other people loved the story. So it got animated. I never heard the original podcasts but I have seen no complains.
    Which definitely proves my point
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    Here is my short and non-spoilers review of the "D&D: honor among thieves" movie:
    It was fun and funny and I enjoyed it. It was a nice experience but don't expect the new LotR. I am glad I watched it in the cinema cause there are a lot of effects.
    Now, it does a decent (but not perfect) job to be accessible and enjoyable towards people that not know D&D but it is clearly not targeted towards that, "generic" audience. You can understand and follow the movie even if you don't know about D&D and Forgotten Realms but it loses much of its charm, IMO, if you don't know the "mechanics" behind many things you see. To put it simply, you can count hp as you watch it and you recognize many of the spells. People that don't know what "hit points" means would assume it is the usual light action movie thing of the heroes taking a beating and not dropping.

    Plotwise, it was ... adequate. There is a story and progresses nicely. The producers didn't take many gambles and played it safe. This is not a story that turns Forgotten Realms on its head. It is a story that you can assume it happened or didn't happen in your FR campaign without much of a hitch.

    Last but not least, the trailer that said "the question of whether the movie would have fireballs" while showing a fireball...
    No. That was actually Melf's Minute meteors. It was not a fireball. I don't think there WAS a fireball in the movie.
    I would rate it... 4 out of 5. An enjoyable movie that could well lead to more movies / tv series and if they are of that quality, I would be happy about it. It was much better than I expected.
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    I had low expectations and am surprised by the good reviews. Really tired of the endless superhero movies so Wife and I will be giving it a go. The local movie theater is only a couple blocks away and so is a decent steak house and bar so hoping it makes for a good day out. I will fill in my thoughts later.
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    Quote Originally Posted by conon394 View Post
    I had low expectations and am surprised by the good reviews. Really tired of the endless superhero movies so Wife and I will be giving it a go. The local movie theater is only a couple blocks away and so is the a decent steak house and bar so hoping it makes for a good day out. I will fill in my thoughts later.
    Love how you connected the cinema with some quality time spent with your wife, that's something modern generations haven't realized. Unrelated I known, but still worth mentioning.
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