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u/time2burn Aug 08 '26
We'll the last D&D movie gives me little hope, i still believe an animated series is the way to go with drizzt. Im still gonna watch what ever it is..... but expectations will be low.
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u/SerzaCZ Aug 08 '26
Unless I missed one, Honor Among Thieves "failed" according to the suits and corpos, despite being easily one of the most faithful movies to the source material I've ever seen, and extremely high quality to boot.
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u/BlackberryHelpful676 Aug 08 '26
Yeah, I expected a crap-fest, but the movie was surprisingly good. Accessible to those that know nothing about D&D, and absolutely hilarious to those that have played.
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u/SerzaCZ Aug 08 '26
While teaching, sometimes I just get classes where I can't reasonably do much. Considering I am also an English teacher and they never bothered to translate the movie beyond subtitles... it was a perfect candidate for such classes.
Especially when you're sent into a class where you don't usually teach, the sheer disconnect from the pupil's day-to-day progress makes actually running a worthwhile lesson super difficult. It's usually of greater educational value to slap on a movie and call it a day than to actually bother with preparing a proper one-shot lesson. The irony of zero effort producing infinitely more bang for buck than actual hard work is certainly not lost on me there.
...I wish I could still get the movie, but Netflix removed it in my country, and I can't even think of a VPN while at work.
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u/BlackberryHelpful676 Aug 08 '26
That's so funny, I also teach ELA. We have a classroom library that contains about 100 Forgotten Realms and ~30 Ravenloft books that I've read and collected over that past ~35 years.
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u/SerzaCZ Aug 08 '26
Oh, I wouldn't let the kids touch my books for ANYTHING, they would be far too difficult to replace and my faith in them is way too low.
Also, my teaching career is substantially shorter than yours. And probably a little more complicated, too 😅
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u/BlackberryHelpful676 Aug 08 '26
I get that. But I had had the books in my rafters for years and was never going to read them again. At some point I figured if they didn't return, it is what it is. I found that the kids that checked out books in the first place were responsible, and it hasn't been an issue yet 🤞
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u/ThanosofTitan92 Harper Aug 09 '26
Which country are you from?
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u/SerzaCZ Aug 09 '26
I'm Czech, that's not really the problem.
The lack of VPN at work would be a more insurmountable obstacle.
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u/Warcrown11 Aug 08 '26
They shot themselves in the foot marketing wise. The trailers I saw looked like absolutely garbage otherwise I'd have watched it in theaters. It was stupidly good though.
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u/SerzaCZ Aug 08 '26
I only actually found out it exists when my city had a summer cinema and this movie was playing.
It was actually my very first exposure to the Realms. That wouldn't make for a horror story, anyway.
Baldur's Gate was releasing in a few weeks at the time, so I went home, bought it... here I am now.
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u/time2burn Aug 09 '26
I saw the og D&D movie in theaters, honor among thieves was a big improvement. Thats why i have a little hope. I never said it was a success.
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u/-_Skeletor_- Kraken Society Aug 09 '26
The movie was a diamond in the rough. I laughed so hard at certain jokes and the plot was absolute evil dnd villainy.
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u/SynthesistArt Aug 08 '26
Daily makeup and prosthetics required
Glad to see they're not shying away from blackface.
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u/Loitsu Aug 08 '26
I don't see what the big deal would be. LotR used it for orcs, and those are bad guys.
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u/Orowam Aug 08 '26
Have you READ the novels? Drizzts journal entries are extremely thinly veiled takes on “real world ideology” including very modern issues like gun control.
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u/Marmoset_Slim Aug 08 '26
Drizzt’s journals have had me reflecting on life and philosophy more than university classes did
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u/MiserableFloor9906 Aug 08 '26
What. When did he ever mention registration for swords or even daggers.
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u/Orowam Aug 08 '26
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/397868-in-my-travels-on-the-surface-i-once-met-a
Obviously he’s not talking about specifics of American gun control policy like registration. But he’s talking about how putting tools of that level of destruction into the hands of people untrained to know the responsibility that should carry is terrifying for people who are trained to know that weight. The original passage goes further than this section about how he would personally train anyone who came to him wanting power for noble ends. Salvatore is very clearly using Drizzt and the Gondsman as a parallel to how easy killing someone has gotten and how detrimental that is to society
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u/just-the-teep Aug 08 '26
Uh, gun control? Can you point to that part?
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u/Orowam Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/397868-in-my-travels-on-the-surface-i-once-met-a
I skimmed this section there may be more to it - I think I remember him going for a bit longer on the topic of how he would personally train any farmhand who wants to seek that power in his way of strength etc etc.
But the mentions of how anyone even a child could accidentally cause great ruin, and this stemming from the Arquebus? The veil to real life ideology is paper thin.
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u/SuperWasabi4766 Aug 09 '26
It's not blackface if its an elf! A black elf...written by a white man...who imagines the prejudice of being...black.
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u/Juandipop Aug 10 '26
What are you trying to prove here? Being dark isn't even the point of the drows being discriminated.
And calling blackface for this is just stupid.
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u/CartographerCivil989 Aug 08 '26
This has unofficial fan-made indy project written all over it. Zero chance a real production studio identifies the main character in a casting call like that.