• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I thought the Wicked movie would be super bloated when I found out that they were splitting it into two parts, but I liked it a lot and it was really faithful to what I remember of the musical

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      4 days ago

      I’m glad that you enjoyed it, that’s great, but I thought it was really bad and cringy. I’ll focus on the positive, I did like the escape from jail scene at the beginning because that scene did have a genuine players-improvizing-their-ridiculous-stupid-plan-while-the-flabbergasted-DM-tries-to-keep-the-campaign-going feel to it. I wish the rest of the movie was able to capture that same D&D feeling

      • Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I think they had to strike a balance of “feels like what would actually happen in a game of DnD” and “we need to streamline some things to make it work as a movie.” And I think they struck a decent balance. It was fun to see the times they failed a roll/skill check, and the creative solutions to problems.

      • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        4 days ago

        I thought it totally did, right down to the overpowered NPC that gets added to the party to move the plot along because the actual group seems to be unable to progress stuff fast enough for the DM.

        • RandomStickman@fedia.io
          4·
          4 days ago

          Yeah, as a DM I totally feel that thought out the entire film as well. Another good example for me as the bit where they managed to get under the area, which felt like they skipped the entire dungeon to the boss fight and led them straight to docks.

  • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    Everything, Everywhere, All at Once arrived as the concept of multiverses already started to get stale again - but managed to be the best multiverse movie ever.

  • adhocfungus@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    A Knights Tale (2001). Sits in kind of a weird space, and didn’t do great critically. A loose retelling of a story from The Canterbury Tales set in the 1300s but with modern references and music. A lot of it feels formulaic.

    Yet I think the movie is great. There’s some amazing chemistry between the actors (Heath Ledger, Alan Tudyk, Paul Bettany, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell). The story may be a bit easy to predict sometimes, but the emotional beats hit incredibly hard. I can’t really describe why it works, because it probably shouldn’t.

  • Missmuffet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    I feel like people weren’t expecting Puss in Boots 2 to be such a complete and goddamn banger

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    George Lucas and the studio thought Star Wars (1977) would be a flop, but I can’t find a good source for what audiences at the time expected. I think audiences doubted that Iron Man (2008) and the following series would be successful with RDJ starring. Some of the movies based on SNL sketches probably exceeded audience’s expectations due to the choice of source material and failures of other films inspired by the same show.

  • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Perhaps it’s just nostalgia speaking and it is technically another Lego movie, but Bionicle: The Mask of Light was pretty great.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    For the Harry Potter movie that every Harry Potter marathon seems to skip due to sadly not having almost anything to do with the overall plot, Prisoner of Azerbaijan attempts to do several things better than the other seven movies. I am not even a Potterhead and yet I see it and think “why are you trying to shove that one away, that’s the opposite of how this should work”.