Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 -1st Watch/Reaction/Review

greatest joke in this movie most people missed, Bradley Cooper as a halfling means he's a mini cooper

Xenk: "So you blame his mother for his corruption?" Forge: "I blame my mother"

Jarnathon feels like a name the DM had to make up on the spot for an NPC they didn't intend on naming.

"He's a lich, he's a lover..." Brilliant. lol

I wonder exactly how many people went and found the lore on Thumberchaud the fat dragon and added that to their next campaign. Yes, the fat dragon is d&d lore and was created by Gary gygax apparently when his cat laid down on the table during a session.

And just imagine this conversation with the 3D FX team.... Producers: You are going to do the displacer beasts... And you are going to do the owl bear... Now, you, we need to do the pudgy dragon.... Last FX tech: And what am I doing? Producers: We've saved the most important model for you... We need a potato...

"She's throwing POTATOES!"

The hither/thither staff feels totally like something the DM would pull out to fix that the puzzle was screwed up.

The Red Wizard Sofina was played by Daisy Head... Anthony Stewart Head's daughter

The part where the illusion spell of Chris Pine breaking down had me DYING!! Hahaha that was the most hilarious part ever!

I love imagining the argument between player and DM over whether Holga is proficient in potatoes.

One of the things I really loved, is that of the few lore accurate characters from forgotten realms lore, they decided to bring in Themberchaud. I did not expect them to use him and I am really happy they used him.

This is so good - and Themberchaud is the BEST boy. We love us a chonky dragon.

One of the best aspects of this movie is how they scoured the Monster Manuals for all the monsters no-one uses. Intellect devourers, gelatinous cubes, displacer beasts owlbear - they even had two baby rust monsters. Hell, even the dragon wasn't standard -he was a chonky boy.

The reference to the animated series was golden.

One of my favorite tropes from the game is Simon being the keeper of stuff...there is always that 1 player that gets stuck holding all the party's stuff

As a lifelong D&D (etc) player, what I love about this thing is that it plays like a D&D game. So many things. Such as when they accidentally collapse the bridge so the DM (the person running the game) has to feed the players a way to continue ... in this case with his portal staff. Things like that, and the crazy lateral thinking of the players, happen all the time in D&D games.

When the Owlbear stomps the evil Wizard at the end it reminded me of the Hulk doimg the same to Loki in Abengers.

One of my favorite scenes was where Xenk was explaining the hideously complicated means to get across the bridge, then, of course, Simon fuckered it all up. That was 1000% the DM, through their DMPC going off about the awesome trap/puzzle they took several hours to create...and the PC's just screwing things up, like we always do. And when Simon looked over at Holga and asked 'What's that?...even before he could say another word, I looked over at my wife and said "That's a DM ass pull", and I was right! I cant count the number of times I've had to make stuff up, literally out of thin air, to keep my games moving, after the PC's did something silly/horrifying/mega-awesome. Awesome movie; Incredible reaction!! Love all y'all!!

The reason neither Ed nor Doric cast any actual spells is the non-D&D players would ask, "If they can use magic, why do they need the sorcerer?". Also, the pudgy dragon is Themberchaud, an actual creature in lore - though, when last seen, he was in the Duergar city of Gracklstugh, a couple hundred miles from where they were in the Underdark.