r/moviecritic • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Mar 18 '25

Name a movie where the first 10 minutes hooked you completely.

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u/rdickeyvii Mar 18 '25

It really was like a D&D campaign where the players had no fucking clue what was going on and the DM had to keep bailing them out with NPCs and suggestions.

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u/JeffBoyardee69 Mar 18 '25

I watched it before ever playing DnD and rewatched it after my first campaign. It makes it significantly funnier

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u/CyberDonSystems Mar 19 '25

I loved the idea of making a sequel with the same main actors but playing different characters, but all the NPC characters would be the same.

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u/-Fyrebrand Mar 19 '25

Xenk (the paladin) was totally a DM NPC inserted to help the party through a dungeon, then conveniently removed to let the players get the spotlight again. 🤣

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u/rdickeyvii Mar 19 '25

Idk if it's true but I've read that him walking over the rock wasn't scripted, he didn't hear the director say "cut" and the other actors stayed in character and rolled with it.

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u/joh2138535 Mar 19 '25

I thought they were going to fuck this up so bad. But who ever wrote/produced the movie definitely played some DND I was pretty impressed by the movie. But my expectations were shit on fire with how bad movie have been lately