RedLetterMedia - Dungeons and Dragons Commentary Highlights

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Journey through a mystical land of atrocious CGI, worse acting, and bounced paychecks with Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans, in this compendium of highlights from RedLetterMedia's hilariously insightful commentary track for the 2000 hit flop, "Dungeons & Dragons".
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[@BanyaBat]

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[@vandelayofficial492]

definitely do more of these, this is great.

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[@stephenward7856]

In fairness, these are done really well! Thanks for putting them together.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

​@@BanyaBat have you seen dungons and drsgons honour among thiv yeg

[@lawjef]

When will we see the Mike Stoklaska play through of Baldur’s Gate 3???

[@midnightanimal4598]

Tom Hanks' performance in "Mazes and Monsters" is the worst thing to ever happen at the World Trade Center.

[@smaakjeks]

Wowa, hold on. In case you didn't know, that's the place where a terrible plane crash almost happened, with an Aerolíneas Argentinas airliner, in 1981. Show some respect.

[@phillystevesteak6982]

Lol

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@smaakjeks This comment subverted expectations.

[@CC-wf2qb]

@@jeremytitus9519 Rian?

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@CC-wf2qb I have been uncovered!

[@Silversaxophone1]

Wait, half the people full roleplaying and the other half just talking like normal? Sounds like every DnD session I have been in.

[@BIacklce]

its like a half assed DeathStalker 2

[@RobbieIsntAmerican]

@@BIacklce deathstalker 2 is so fun though

[@BIacklce]

@@RobbieIsntAmerican hence it's half assed. The fun is full assed

[@kevingarlick4617]

Honestly in a lot of ways it really is the perfect encapsulation of your average dnd table.

[@Tridd666]

i cant help it when i play a tabletop i just play myself, except with spells

[@thejunksynchronhero]

Mike saying that he once ruined an entire dungeon master’s campaign is easily the most Mike thing he’s ever said. Proof positive that he’s always be a contrarian.

[@MrLego3160]

But he didnt ruin the campaign, he won it.

[@TheFloodFourm]

@@MrLego3160 tbh DM dropped the ball making it so simple all he did was roll a crit

[@MetalGearRAY675]

Yeah that story didn't make much sense, I feel like he left some details out there. a dart is very weak and a crit would only increase the damage relative to what it normally does. it should only have killed him if the boss was already near death.

[@SylentVoidkeeper]

@@MetalGearRAY675 It depends how RP heavy the game was. I’ve seen a lot of games where a DM’ll allow something crazy if super rare circumstances like that happen. Plus the other players at the table were probably goading them to do it as well.

[@UnlimitedBick]

@@MetalGearRAY675 I assume he rolled 19 for the headshot, 20 for the eyeball, or something. Homebrewing out your own boss for rolls is good DM, but it must've sucked to do.

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

I mean, in a way it's the most honest adaptation of D&D. - Defeating Bad Guy through no consequence of your own actions - Stealing better storylines from other media - Anachronistic speech - Dungeons *and* Dragons - Goofy stuff happening that undercuts tension

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Since when was that in any official D&D material? And I don't care about some kids' play session. When I think D&D I think Drizzt Do'Urden, Count Strahd von Zarovich, Tanis Half-Elf, Lord Soth... not some high schooler's homebrew campaign.

[@bbrbbr-on2gd]

@@SwiftNimblefoot It's more so the spirit of the game. Nothing ever goes according to plan, and people just have fun... because it's a *game* .

[@andrewvanhorne4359]

@@SwiftNimblefoot Well guess what. I am the Maze Controller. And I have absolute authority in this game!

[@reizak8966]

My head-canon is that they're actually just playing a game of D&D and the DM is so frustrated by their lack of convincing roleplay that he just gives up by the end. I'm sure there's a decent campaign in there, somewhere.

[@ADxTygon]

​@@SwiftNimblefoot hahahaha NERD!!!!

[@RighBread]

The craziest thing I've heard in awhile is that Mike played D&D while Rich did not.

[@kreuz7sieben]

Right? So Mike is a nerd after all 😅

[@Trevin_Taylor]

@@kreuz7sieben because mike was so cool with his “this reminds me of TNG when...”

[@Ragnarok540]

@@kreuz7sieben he was already a star trek nerd

[@DanArnets1492]

Rich Evans was too busy being the QB of his highschool and fucking every leading cheerleader

[@dorpth]

@@DanArnets1492 Only the leading cheerleader? Rich fucked the ENTIRE PYRAMID. His highschool nickname was "Pharaoh", he was inside that pyramid so much.

[@roble8943]

Every magic missile missing line is made even funnier when you learn the context that magic missle is one of the only attacks in DnD that never misses.

[@pengwin_]

until 5th edition at least

[@AzureIV]

Those were clearly fireballs or firebolt or something like that. Not magic missile.

[@roble8943]

@@AzureIV Shhh, I know but the joke won't work if it was Firebolt.

[@Lanternsong]

@@pengwin_ It automatically hits in 5E, too.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Indeed, it is ridiculous. It's like wizardry 101.

[@electricbayonet2]

“I do declare that you are now all equal. Let the celebration begin!” Her shouting that as the wide shot of the smouldering city transitions to a graveyard has some big “We did it Patrick, we saved the city!” energy.

[@brandonspain12345]

This movie actually convinced me that Jeremy Irons would've made a great alternate role for Green Goblin.

[@blackenedwritings]

It still amazes me that New Line Cinema released this and the first Lord of the Rings movie with a single year between them.

[@AvengerII]

New Line is the same company that made The Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Their staple prior to getting bought by Warner Bros and given more money was producing low budget slasher flicks.

[@stuartspencer2161]

I'm wondering if this movie was sitting on a shelf for a number of years, and thrown into cinemas before LotR before it was too late

[@brianschlicher59]

Yeah that little revelation (coming out 1 year before LoTR) really makes this funnier.

[@isprobablyjobhunting]

Holy. Fuck. Fellowship is 20 years old. Godamn.

[@brianschlicher59]

@@isprobablyjobhunting 1991 was 30 years ago!

[@TheMrelvisvicious]

Wait... was that Tom Hanks on top of the World Trade Center? Is Tom Hanks Rem Lezar?

[@vinceradical8910]

Rem Lazar, Forest Gump. Same Character

[@Rune3D]

Mama mia Rem Lazar!

[@cloudofthought]

There's a little bit of Rem Lezar within all of us.

[@vinceradical8910]

@@cloudofthought UGH! (shudders)

[@nopejoeandangie]

I never even knew Tom Hanks was in a corny devil-panic 1980s D&D movie Really goes to show how 'the media' can influence and taint otherwise legitimate news. I still remember that crazy devil-panic prosecution where they were prosecuting some day care workers for killing kids in satanic rituals and flushing them down magic toilets with trapdoors and other ridiculous stuff. I think it was the McMartin Preschool Trial that lasted from 1983 to 1990 and resulted in 0 convictions, intersecting the Satan Worship moral panic with the child abuse moral panic (though child abuse was a bigger problem)

[@arealbigboss]

if i was suddenly responsible for a $45 million movie i would absolutely fuck it up just like how this guy did lol

[@ElvenRaptor]

Honestly, it's kind of amazing this film turned out as well as it did. It would have been ten times worse with me at the helm.

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@ElvenRaptor New Hollywood campaign idea: mini-budget movies (max. 50 million dollars) directed by amateurs. GO!

[@ElvenRaptor]

@@DarkAngelEU That would probably yield some interesting results at the very least. LOL

[@uselessDM]

@@DarkAngelEU That's how The Last Jedi was made right? That couldn't have been a professional film maker, right? Right?

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@uselessDM It's the best of the new trilogy, so whatevs.

[@IcyLemon1000]

I was sure RLM and audiences outside of Britain wouldn't realise the meta gag in the casting of Richard O'Brien as the guy who runs a trap filled maze, so I'm very happy you included the cutaway to footage from Crystal Maze.

[@ThreadBomb]

It's amusing to think of all the American's being baffled during the Crystal Maze segment of this video. I never actually watched the Richard O'Brien series, but am a big fan of the later Richard Ayoade version.

[@ells101]

@@ThreadBomb Oh Richard O'Brien is THE definitive quirky and eccentric Crystal Maze guide!

[@BanyaBat]

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[@NGRevenant]

I grew up watching Crystal Maze and never ever realised the host was Riff Raff, my mind is utterly blown.

[@pierreblanchon4722]

The crystal maze make me think of show simimilar in france name fort boyard,it's the same speech but british style and not in a fort.

[@puffytheboyd86]

Mike!? Are you losing your touch? “Wizard girl” was Crewman Tal Celes in Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episodes "Good Shepherd" and "The Haunting of Deck Twelve".

[@ElvenRaptor]

And somehow managed to become a regular on "Jag" in its later years. Lord knows how she got another job after this movie.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Wow, never realized that.

[@titsbitchmcgee7502]

Mike is a fake geek girl

[@ThePinkMan]

I don't think Voyager is his forte.

[@planetpuce6971]

A weapon to surpass Michael Gear

[@geoffreybrockmeier3765]

Fun fact: The actor who played the dwarf, Lee Arenberg, was in Pirates of the Caribbean and... STAR TREK!!

[@BeefMissileband]

And FREAKED

[@smrnr7074]

I’ll forever associate him with his role as the head-first parker on Seinfeld

[@JallenMeodia]

That can't be right. Mike didn't spend 10 minutes explaining in detail the plot of the episode. ;)

[@oggedask]

Mike moffet the phony

[@Tuikkal]

OH SHIT

[@Kinzokugia]

"What good did our heroes even do? They brought the McGuffin to the bad guy." So It's like a real D&D campaign?

[@TheFloodFourm]

Every complaint of this movies script and pacing can be swept away with "that's what D&D is" which is why I think it's so good

[@Chris-yz7cs]

Jeremy Irons literally took this movie to pay for a pink castle on the west coast of Ireland.

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[@IamSonyanddumb]

this was 1 year before lord of the rings... hahahahahhahahahaha what a joke of a director, he must be crying right now

[@bencarlson4300]

If all I had to do to buy an Irish castle was to over act in a terrible movie, sign me the hell up

[@stellviahohenheim]

I thought Jeremy Irons played Elrond

[@GreenVikeenArt]

Can you imagine dying, then your bones are preserved and used in a church just so so you can appear in a D&D movie?

[@Afterburner215]

Not just any D&D movie, THIS one specifically

[@OliviaCLTFC]

@@Afterburner215”no no, not that one, the BAD d&d movie.”

[@Windowsprodukt]

Where do I sign up!?

[@user-tr1ui4fx1g]

​@OliviaCLTFC is the new one any better?

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

What a legacy, Mark...

[@all_watched_over]

Marlon Wayans is playing the same character he played in Scary Movie which was Marlon Wayans trying to be Chris Tucker in Friday

[@musicwelikemang]

Marlon Wayans isnt know for his acting range. Thats for sure

[@MisterSpinalzo]

It's so bizarre, he was so good in Requiem for a Dream I didn't even notice it was him

[@SammEater]

More like trying to be Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

He feels like some gangsta rapper thrown back into a fantasy world. He is just anachronistic.

[@traashghost]

@@SwiftNimblefoot "gangsta rapper"?? lol no

[@Logan-cw9yr]

"Let their blood rain from the sky" is one of the greatest moments in the entire history of theatrical arts.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

The delivery of that line is genuinely awe-inspiring.

[@BanyaBat]

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[@TheTGOAC]

FROM A LACERATED SKYYYYY

[@IamSonyanddumb]

this was 1 year before lord of the rings... hahahahahhahahahaha what a joke of a director, he must be crying right now

[@waqas4318]

should have won an oscar

[@JakeRanney]

"I have absolute authority in this game." "Game?" "Game." "Game."

[@GeorgeBPryor]

Money plane.

[@twoteesful]

Proud? Proud. Proud

[@The_ScapeGoat]

@@twoteesful "Get the fuck out of my way!'

[@kylefrank638]

Secrets only the Sith knew.

[@tristan8940]

Neon “standing ovation” sign begins blinking

[@calvinjluther]

There's a behind the scenes video on the DVD that purports to show a cut cameo for Gary Gygax and other DnD guys, but what it actually shows you is how quickly Jeremy Irons shut down after the director yelled cut.

[@whodatninja439]

it's on youtube too, and all 20 minutes of deleted scenes, including the horrible "inside the map" scene, and a better alternate ending. it's quite a ride.

[@SammEater]

@@whodatninja439 Thanks for the tip, that was like watching the magic being made. lol

[@whodatninja439]

@@SammEater The dvd and blu ray has TWO commentaries as well, WITH the game creators, i'd love to hear what they have to say,

[@michellen.780]

Not gonna lie...I just found the clip and it kinda ruined Jeremy Irons' performance for me! I thought he was genuinely having fun filming the movie and seeing his complete shut-down after "cut" hurt a bit :(

[@Clay3613]

@@whodatninja439 Link please?

[@SimplyGodka]

"Do you think this guy put this scene on his reel?" "Of shame." His REEL OF THE WORST

[@bleachedbonez]

Marlon Wayans in this feels like Dave Chapelle's character in Robin Hood: Men in Tights where he's wearing Robin Hood's hat backwards. Like his entire character was a satire on the stereotypical black comic relief sidekick...but it wasn't satire.

[@silverwheel]

Mike killing Lord Soth with a dart really subverted the expectations of everyone that played on that campaign.

[@dormetheus]

Darts don't even crit on a 19!

[@Mumen_Rider15]

@@dormetheus Sounds like the DM was just tired and wanted it to end lol.

[@dormetheus]

@@Mumen_Rider15 that's what I was thinking

[@bellicose4653]

I doubt the veracity of that story. I bet he threw the dart and everyone joked about a potential boss killing crit, but it never happened. Now the joke lives on as a story.

[@NZBigfoot]

Me and my brother aged 5 and 8 played Keep on the Borderlands 1st edition with my older brother who was 20 at the time (D&D was his stuff)... me and my younger brother ended up going into the cave that housed the Ogre as our first choice, now take a 1st level halfling rogue and a human fighter and put them against an ogre... being a smart arse kid I basically said ill take my torch run through the ogres legs and light his animal skin cloths on fire... older brother knowing this was gonna be a slaughter made me do a dex roll, I rolled what he thought was sufficient Ogres pants went up in flames, along with the Ogre... 35 years latter that moment and evening still sits clear in my mind. A good DM knows when to fudge it, or let stuff like that roll for the enjoyment of the players. Its what makes for memorable games.

[@darkmikolai]

Just so we are clear, the kind of Dungeon Master that allows Lord Soth to be insta killed by a single dart is the type of dungeon master all should aspire to be.

[@HortonSalm]

The exact opposite of a railroader. The greatest of Dungeon Masters.

[@kayallen5420]

Fun fact: In the theatrical cut of this movie (because I saw this shit in a theater), the scene where Marlon Wayans is dropped off the cliff, the boxes at the bottom of the fall were visible. IN THE THEATRICAL CUT. Even baby me at the time went WTF.

[@Dennzer1]

🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫

[@AzrialAlaria]

No joke, I saw this in the theater too and when Wayans character died, the whole theater CHEERED! As did I.

[@KissMyConverseFool]

True story: There is a now moderately hard to come by DVD of this that actually has animatics of several deleted scenes including the one inside the map, and while they're unfinished, they vastly improve the coherence of the story

[@ElvenRaptor]

Yep. It's almost obscene how much they'd have improved the film. It still wouldn't have been good, just better.

[@undercovergiraffe571]

RELEASE THE SOLOMON CUT!!#

[@DPMusicStudio]

"Vastly improve"... heh.

[@Torus2112]

1:26 Jeremy Irons' over the top evil laugh is almost exactly the same as Mike's normal laugh.

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[@IamSonyanddumb]

this was 1 year before lord of the rings... hahahahahhahahahaha what a joke of a director, he must be crying right now

[@danboud8135]

There's a lot of Jeremy Iron's performance that reminds me of Frank Langella's Skeletor. Like he knows he's in shit so all you can do is just chew your way out.

[@Artanis99]

Or he may think more like Michael Ironside did in Highlander 2 quote: "I figured if I was going to do this stupid movie, I might as well have fun and go as far over the top as I possibly could. All that eye-rolling and foaming at the mouth was me deciding that if I was going to be in a piece of shit like that movie, I was going to be the most memorable fucking thing in it. And I think I succeeded"

[@cannonfodder4000]

Idk about that, Langella played it pretty straight cause his kids liked he man

[@breezingby2611]

@@cannonfodder4000 I mean, Langella did say Skeletor was one of his favorite roles But I think he’s well aware that it was a bad movie for him to have fun in

[@cannonfodder4000]

@@breezingby2611 hmm true

[@notinspectorgadget]

langella acted kinda like skeletor would act. Jeff Irons' performance came off like he knew there was no one to reign him in.

[@NightMedicine]

Life goal: play D&D with Mike one day.

[@atom_gray]

Drinking and Driving?

[@FortWhenTeaThyme]

I'd love to GM for RLM and make it like a B movie on purpose, with bad actors and contrived plots.

[@STOCKHOLM07]

Lord Soth is definitely gonna be in my next campaign, and he's super weak to darts to the face.

[@gandalf8216]

Only if Jay is DMing, he'd be perfect for it.

[@FortWhenTeaThyme]

@@gandalf8216 Rich Evans is the most GM-like of all of them. Mike would fuck up his game on purpose.

[@rodav3393]

i remember learning that actors could be 'bad' in things watching this movie as a young child

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[@IamSonyanddumb]

this was 1 year before lord of the rings... hahahahahhahahahaha what a joke of a director, he must be crying right now

[@AcmeMonkeyCompany]

Blue-lips slowly and effortlessly killing Marlon Wayans legitimately messed me up as a kid. I had never seen a good guy getting tortured to death in such a violent fashion. He was so powerless and it horrified me

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

did you develop a weird fetish as a result or something

[@AcmeMonkeyCompany]

@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 The opposite I would say. I immediately get soft when I see someone get brutally murdered

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

@@AcmeMonkeyCompany thats good to hear 😂

[@jacobcore6278]

It’s so out of place outrageous. What the fuck. I couldn’t stop laughing. Why would they put this in? It’s gotta be some racist or marlon hate

[@alexxx4434]

@@jacobcore6278 Thi is -SPARTA- D&D!

[@Kanezeran]

>not getting to play D&D with Rich Evans and Mike Stoklasa in high school Why even live

[@SFTaYZa]

Rich Evans never played DND.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

you got reason to live then, as Rich states during the vid he didnt play DnD during high school :D

[@brucelombardo]

It’s true. I was the die.

[@cyclone8974]

They sound like they'd be awful to play D&D with

[@Kanezeran]

@@cyclone8974 nah man, chucklefucks like these are the best kind of people to game with, always. You just gotta know to adapt accordingly and never let yourself take the game too seriously.

[@Indigo_Gaming]

This movie came out 4 years after Dragonheart, and its titular dragons look abysmal compared to that movie. I really feel for the guy who made this film, since he was literally 19 when he secured the rights to make it. It was probably the ultimate fan film when you think about it.

[@jonhufford6980]

Looks abysmal compared to dragonslayer, and that’s from like 1982 or something...

[@richardduska1558]

Yeah the guys tryed to make this hes big break in movie and he only wanted to produce it. He infact tryed to get good directors like Copola or James Cameron. But hes higher up basicly tolld them off because....she didn't know who they were. If you can belive it. Also LoTR came out like a year or two later which is a drastic contrast.

[@hankhill7827]

To give credit, Dragonheart was using ILM tech from Jurassic Park and the dragon was the only major CGI work in the film and a major character. D&D didn't have that luxury or budget and needed way more effects shots and full CG characters especially for the climax so in hindsight it was doomed to fall short.

[@dbones8795]

haha you said tit

[@frankmaybury5292]

@@hankhill7827 Had they had the budget to pull it off this still would have been terrible.

[@Kravis63]

The crude animating of Mike’s D&D story has me rolling laughing.

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[@linksgrandma25]

I never knew Mike and Rich have been friends since high school, that’s pretty heartwarming tbh

[@emcee_spokesman]

Ridley looks like someone shot Denny from The Room with the handsome ray

[@kylefrank638]

He looks like a Wesley Crusher and Cliff Secord amalgamation.

[@Pneubeteube]

I can almost guarantee you this was written with the idea that every main character is actually a player outside the "movie" playing a DnD campaign hence the anachronisms and turning into light or whatever at the end.

[@micalzoncillo249]

yeah i always saw it like that too.what this movie needed was some scenes with the characters in like a highschool and establish their characters outside the fantasy world to contrast with their rpg characters. and more jeremy irons, more irons would have made this movie better regardless of anything.

[@MrChickennugget360]

@@micalzoncillo249 actually that would have played on the corniness and bad acting.

[@TheZigzagman]

That would've been a fantastic meta-narrative if they bothered to follow through on it beyond dialogue.

[@micalzoncillo249]

@@MrChickennugget360 i can totally see irons playing a teacher and having a blast role playing a villain.

[@Davvg]

I like this because it implies that marlon wayans was so annoying in real life that the party kicked him out, and they were so petty they felt the need to unceremoniously kill his character

[@Krbyfan1]

What shocks me the most about this film is it would not be out of place in the really late 80's or early 90's but this came out in 2000.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

A lot of great movies get called "ahead of their time". This was one *behind its time*.

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

lol nearly at the same time as the lord of the rings lolol

[@matthewtopping2061]

It's shocking that this was a theatrical release from a major studio in 2000. It looks more like an episode of Xena Warrior Princess or Adventures of Hercules.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Msthew wel Regis dies asoo hsve vhibes some to xhmred like the on episode of charmed that the girl innthe medical setting like this filmmis like thst but nonsopy opera drama and no guy who loked they cracked out of tsilor shopp

[@matthewtopping2061]

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Did you have a stroke while typing or something? Can't understand what you want to say.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Ok​@@matthewtopping2061oksybwhat I ment ssy this this movie is aslo kinda like tht fetu length vers ionof tht miediviezl episode of charmed but with drsgons and other things 😊

[@matthewtopping2061]

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Why are you typing like that? Are your fingers sausages or something?

[@MrHEC381991]

That Crystal Maze bit lmao Brilliantly edited video.

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[@Viceroy_Sundercles_III]

I am honestly shocked that Mike was the D&D player and not Rich.

[@Penguins569]

He subverted your expectations.

[@arempy5836]

He broke new ground

[@narnbrez]

D&D requires being able to form coherent sentences and be understood by others

[@allenu]

It’s surprising to me he only learned what an NPC is later on despite playing D&D

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

I was gonna say thats because you need multiple friends to play D&D so obviously Rich is disqualified but then I got sad so I decided to write this comment instead

[@JakeRanney]

"Not so talented, Mr. Ripley." Nice reference bro

[@AJR-zg2py]

A reference lost on many people nowadays (especially the younger people) since the movie being referred to faded away into obscurity - for those puzzled, the wording intentionally makes a reference to "The Talented Mr. Ripley." Good movie but never talked about anymore.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@AJR-zg2py I hope, you know that's a famous book. Otherwise your comment would be really ironic.

[@AJR-zg2py]

@@karlkarlos3545 I know it's a book. But I haven't met a single other person who was ever aware it was a book - and the movie was all they knew. Either way, it's a good reference.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@AJR-zg2py Well, what can I say? Patricia Highsmith is one of the great crime authors of the 20s century. And the Matt Damon version was not even the first adaptation of her book.

[@skydiamsteam6005]

@@AJR-zg2py Eh I’m young-ish and I still watched that movie

[@spagzs]

“Jeremy’s Iron”.... “I have a ball...perhaps you’d like to play with it”

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[@sortedevaras]

The saddest part is that during Mike's dnd story I immediately remembered Lord Soth and that he is in Dragonlance.

[@fpedrosa2076]

What's so sad about that? Lord Soth is great. Especially when he got sent to Ravenloft, moped around doing nothing until his main writer got pissed and dragged him back to Dragonlance and everyone pretends it never happened. Real american comics energy, complete with pointless crossover and pointless canon.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

That's not sad. Those were good books. And hey, we are getting new novels, finally. they settled the lawsuit.

[@AncientSlugThrower]

That Lord Soth story of a critical hit with a dart to the eye is easily the most D&D thing ever.

[@TalkernateHistory]

Tom Hanks was lured to the top of the World Trade Center by Rem Lazar

[@johnnygreenface4195]

What if Rich Evans' divine essence manifested during World War 2?

[@Mantis42]

Even as a kid I thought this looked like hot garbage. If you want to know why so many millennials of a certain age have an aversion to CGI, its because so many forgotten movies like this came out in the 2000s, and it was a noticeable drop in quality from the relatively good looking practical effects of the 90s.

[@bigbake132]

Totally agree 100%

[@BrentWalker999]

Spot on!

[@haleymist09]

YAS

[@sdgc8667]

I was born in 86 and hate CGI for different reasons, I even hate how everything is shot with super ultra mega HD cameras. It makes CGI look even worse

[@workdiggitz]

I really wish they would do more commentary tracks.

[@DisgruntledPigumon]

They don’t because of videos like this. :(

[@NickGore-rf2dd]

After the one where they spend the entire time whining about drumpf I’m glad they don’t.

[@bigfatchubbybritboy9445]

What commentary track is that?

[@hsstfggjkjhdesxcvn]

@@bigfatchubbybritboy9445 probably the Gremlins one? I know that was filmed on Election day 2016, so they mentioned in the RE: View.

[@SFTaYZa]

@@NickGore-rf2dd never forget. Orange man bad.

[@mr.bluesky4130]

“This giant maze, but it’s only 3 rooms” So a shitty dungeon in your average DnD game?

[@paulcoy9060]

It's the same room, but the DM just turns it around on the kitchen table, and to cover for it, he explains, "It's a Tesseract", because he loves that word. Totally not me, by the way.

[@sorvian25]

The anachronistic dialogue is actually the most D&D part of this movie tbh. It's exactly how many players in my groups sound.

[@Pumpkin_Fart]

6:08 "Game? Game. Game." Reminds me of Freddy Got Fingered. "Make me proud. Proud? Proud"

[@DancerVeiled]

I love how the mage is like "Well it's a wall of force I guess we can't do anything."

[@TheLanceUppercut]

She didn't have Disintegrate memorized

[@jkjerbdhetheth]

“Half of them talk like real people and it sounds very anachronistic.” I see they switched to talking about The Witcher

[@JackgarPrime]

I headcanon it that its the players doing different amounts of getting into character.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Sooo true. I stopped halfway in the first season.

[@prince-solomon]

Using the term "anachronistic" in a fantasy setting is quite daft, no matter whether it´s D&D, The Witcher or anything else. You want them to talk like they did in medieval times in a certain region? Great, you won´t understand a single sentence. You want them to talk some fake medieval stuff that you can understand? Why? It´s unrealistic and anachronistic anyway. So let them talk to each other in a way the modern audience understands it. That´s how they talk to each other in whatever fantasy language they´re actually talking in -> normal, standard contemporary stuff.

[@SS3Jake.]

7:26 I will NEVER not laugh hysterically at how Mike pronounces "ghosts" in ANY video 🤣🤣

[@andrewwdavvid]

“It’s like when we play Risk” Well now RLM needs to make an actual play series

[@rovhalt6650]

I'd watch that

[@sweepingtime]

Lord Soth wasn't any ol' undead, he was the Darth Vader of D&D, the character that actually coined the title 'death knight'.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Yep, basically Death Knights were created in 2E using him as a template, powers and defenses and all that.

[@mr.battle20]

Fun fact about Lord Soth: at one point he was pulled into the mists of Ravenloft and made into a Dark Lord. The thing about that setting is that while Dark Lords are given mastery over a domain, they are also prisoners in the Dread Realm, forever cursed and unable to escape, thanks to the power of the mysterious and nebulous Dark Powers. The Dark Powers are meant to oversee all the Dark Lords as well as the peoples of Ravenloft, and ensure that evil deeds get their just rewards. Lord Soth was made into a Dark Lord because of a lifetime (and undeath) of misdeeds. No Dark Lord at that point had ever escaped. Lord Soth did. How? By doing nothing. Literally. He sat on his throne and did absolutely nothing. He didn't even budge an inch. After a considerable amount of time passed, the Dark Powers eventually grew frustrated and bored with him, and set him free. He returned to his world of Krynn (the Dragonlance setting) and resumed his evildoing as normal.

[@sweepingtime]

@@mr.battle20 That's interesting. I grew up with Dragonlance so that version of Lord Soth I am most familiar with. I had not read much into his misdeeds during his time in Ravenloft.

[@shadisoopsydoodle7298]

@@mr.battle20 and then Lord Soth died by Mike the dart throwing mage via dart in the fuckin' eye.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

​@@shadisoopsydoodle7298 Basically like Scatman Caruthers' character in The Shining except at least the weapon that killed Scatman was actually intimidating and dangerous instead of comically-pathetic.

[@jeffersonderrickson5371]

Marlon was trying to do his best Ruby Rod.

[@belphegor_tv]

Mike talking about Lord Soth, his illusionist mage, and just RPGs in general makes me so happy.

[@TheSion40k]

Thank you for that Crystal Maze montage, my child hood of turkey twizzlers and smiley faces came flooding back.

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[@janeeyre1990]

"I'm sure it made them shit their pants, but they were too deep to pull the plug" - Rich Evans

[@hydradominatus3641]

Haha.. I love that.

[@Dantevesalius]

That lord soth story is exactly why they gave high CR creatures legendary resistances and actions.

[@SammEater]

A shame cause I think it's hilarious that you can defeat the big boss of the game by accident with the shittiest weapon in the inventory.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Well, also most high HD creatures are immune to instakill spells. There is also magic resistance. Try using finger of death on a dragon, even if it goes through MR the saving throw is hard to defeat.

[@Grinnar]

In 3e, which was when this movie came out, undead were immune to critical hits.

[@SammEater]

He was probably playing an early edition or his GM simply didn't know all the mechanics of the game which is possible.

[@OwenOfElliott]

Neither of those things would stop a dart. however in 5e critting with a dart does only 1 extra damage.

[@pardontillinghast4989]

It was amazing to see a crystal maze reference feature so much in a movie. I'm sure everyone in the UK would have gotten the joke but I'm guessing it never aired in the US. So bizarre.

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[@movieman175]

Mike killing Lord Soth with a dart is probably the greatest thing I've ever heard .

[@darklighter66]

Think of it as some people playing D and D and the movie is how they are imagine it going. Wayans has been brought by a friend and he doesnt really get it.

[@commonflax4947]

Suddenly that brutal murder makes a lot more sense. The DM is just really sick of his random shenanigans.

[@arandombard1197]

In this case, Wayans is there black friend who doesn't understand this nerdy shit.

[@Cairotheclown]

Its really weird listening to Tom Hanks' voice coming out of his younger self. It almost feels dubbed, I don't know why

[@kanyewestlive6905]

It's probably coz Hanks had to loop his lines afterward coz of the noise the wind makes on top of the Twin Towers

[@kendyer8761]

@@kanyewestlive6905 made*

[@kanyewestlive6905]

@@kendyer8761 correct

[@atom_gray]

game?

[@meangreen8873]

@@atom_gray Game.

[@DanDoel]

The thing I don't get about this is that Mike played D&D in high school, but didn't hear the term NPC until he read Ready Player One.

[@ben3129]

Lore discrepancy

[@digdug1489]

@@ben3129 his writers got lazy

[@milesedgeworth132]

When Mike was in high school the car wasn't even invented. I don't think they were throwing around the term "NPC".

[@Randomcorpse]

Best line of this film is "But you're just a low level mage". Not only fourth wall breaking, but out of character by D&D standards too.

[@Tuikkal]

So you have a dwarf in a fantasy movie who is as tall as everyone else? Okay.

[@aleccampbell7707]

A Giant in his race haha

[@kevinbeelard6442]

In D&Ds defense dwarves usually stand between 4 and 5 feet tall.

[@mcsuck1]

Maybe it's Elder Scrolls rules and dwarves are just elves that live underground.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Guess this is what The Watch took as inspiration for Cheery?

[@hannibalburgers477]

@Sheev Palpatine They are more like sligtly shorter jewish rhetoric-atheist supremascist semi-elves that god rekted.

[@neal2399]

That Lord Soth story was fucking magnificent and I barely understand how D&D works

[@Thatonedude917]

I like how D&D stories so often get embellished A dart deals 1-3 or 1-4 damage, depending on edition, with a threat on 20 (or 19-20 if it's a keen dart) and a damage multiplier of x2. That means that on confirming the critical, he could do a maximum of 8 damage, assuming he had no strength modifier (a safe assumption for a wizard). Assuming it was magical, you're still looking at 8-12, unless it had elemental burst for some reason The story would be better if he worked up the hard-fought victory that they narrowly achieved when he got a dart crit as the villain was escaping with low hp

[@neal2399]

@@Thatonedude917 it’d be even funnier if his dungeon master didn’t understand the rules well enough and mistakenly thought he one-shotted Soth

[@managarn8038]

@@neal2399 lets be honest, when we played for the first times, nobody, DM included, knew wtf we were doing.

[@atom_gray]

@@Thatonedude917 Ackshually...

[@Cadaveralien]

@@Thatonedude917 Maybe they used one of those dumb crit tables with insane outcomes (20=target is killed, 1=you die)

[@sock2828]

I was on mushrooms when I first saw this movie and I'm amazed I didn't start freaking out when that dwarf started talking to the camera.

[@bad72690]

When this movie came out I was probably 9 and it was the first time I saw a main character get badly hurt and then killed. I cried and we left the theater.

[@dondavenport7077]

I saw this in the theater and it terrified me. Not because of how bad it was, but because New Line was releasing The Lord of the Rings the following year. I was worried LotR was going to be just as bad until it finally came out.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

Maybe that was their game the whole time. Set the bar as low as possible so that when people hear about the Kiwi Sam Raimi making a Tolkien movie their minds get completely blown by the final product.

[@jack-a-lopium]

And it *WAS* terrible, so you were relieved... because it was a true adaptation of the terrible books.😉

[@Senthain]

@@jack-a-lopium Interesting take.

[@jack-a-lopium]

@@Senthain Hahahah, sorry about that... I don't mean to poo-poo something that you and many people really like. I have the unpopular opinion that I really don't like LOTR, either the books or the films.

[@Senthain]

@@jack-a-lopium You could at least explain why

[@natewei]

For some reason as soon as mike said “lord” I guessed lord Soth from the dragonlance novels. Pretty crazy, I remember reading those in high school. NOT A NERD

[@riograul2043]

I've been a huge Richard O'Brien fan ever since I first started enjoying his work, and it's rare to have a genius like him who has the ability to both write music, write a script, act, and have "a look" he truly is one of a kind and one of the greatest creative forces of the past century

[@grunions9648]

GREAT Crystal Maze sequence there, hats off.

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[@grunions9648]

@@BanyaBat Oh go on then ;)

[@TannoyVoice]

Wow, the de-aging technology RedLetterMedia use on the 'young Rich Evans' clips is better than Disney!

[@RatelHBadger]

Jeremy "scene chewer" Irons

[@wolf2965]

Hey, at least it is quite clear that both Irons and O'Brien (the thieves' guild guy) had fun filming this - and definitely put in fun performances as well. Bruce Payne - the only actor that came back for the sequel - possibly as well. Not sure about anyone else...

[@changer_of_ways_suspense_smith]

His accent/voice literally sounds like he's chewing something.

[@fireballninja01]

Mike’s dart story reminds me of one of the only DnD games I’ve played. The first boss my friend set up was the slave handler of the slave ship. To introduce the story, the handler came down and gave a speech. While manacled, I took my wooden bowl and said “I throw it at him” and in the first roll of the game, I roll a nat 20 and knock the first boss unconscious.

[@RabbiHerschel]

How? In every edition of D&D that has been published in this millennium, improvised weapons only deal 1d4 + Str damage. A crit would double the dice and bonuses, so you'd deal 2d4 + 2x Str at most. Even if you rolled a 4 on both dice, that wouldn't be enough to knock a "boss" unconscious.

[@codapepper7764]

Can we all take a second to appreciate the editing of this video. I've seen a lot of "RLM Highlight" videos which are just the commentary tracks with cuts. Thanks big man Banya, you added a bit of spice to my life

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[@fitter1972]

Mazes and Monsters was based on the real life story of James Dallas Egbert III, who's suicide they tried to tie to D&D

[@AzureIV]

There was also a comic/graphic novel thing that was made to show that D&D was satanic.

[@fitter1972]

Haven't seen that, but I read the book from the PI hired to find JDE, called the Dungeon Master. It was a sad story about a troubled child genius who went to college early and didn't fit in. Things went real bad and he was used by a lot of bad people for really bad things. The PI found him, but the kid never recovered mentally and killed himself later.

[@sebastianmitderaxt203]

@@AzureIV Dark Dungeons. It was a chick tract (protestan christian comics from the US if anyone is wondering) and made into a short movie in 2014. The premise was about the addiction to DnD, leads to a suicide because players could not live on after dying in the game and so on.

[@SylentVoidkeeper]

@@sebastianmitderaxt203 You’ve forgotten an important detail: the folks who got the rights to make the Dark Dungeons movie were hardcore D&D fans themselves, and basically made the movie as a loving/scathing mock towards the original tract and it’s stupid, stupid message You can tell because they reference a lot of memes about D&D, including jokes about chaotic neutral and attacking the darkness with magic missile.

[@TheZigzagman]

@@SylentVoidkeeper Loving is right. They even recreate most of the panels from the comic. My favorite part of that movie is when a bunch of cool teens in leather jackets walk by in slow motion and the teacher goes, "Stay away from them. Those kids play role-playing games."

[@hollistinian2]

“I don’t care about....... Bridget?” - Rich Evans

[@JackgarPrime]

That must be why Bridget isn't in the launch lineup for GG Strive.

[@SammEater]

At least she is kinda cute.

[@poopagore]

23:38 *HAHA* Homer's stock broker is everyones agent. God bless who ever edited this.

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[@stobe187]

Marlon Wayans' role in Requiem for a Dream must be one of the biggest flukes in all of movie history

[@corruptgunslinger]

My guess: Marlon loves goofy roles. His roles are probably more crafted to his personality than his need.

[@dv0jcesmudla]

Fun fact: That church of bones is located in very old minig town called Kutná hora. Name of the place is Kostnice (closest translation is Boneyard) its a way for reminding "Memento mori" for middle age europeans.....we were much cooler those days :D

[@borna1231]

I was there twice, amazing place! It´s very surreal, being surrounded by all those bones, but the atmosphere in there is definitely not morbid, which you would think it would be.

[@whodatninja439]

i've been there when i was in prague

[@corruptgunslinger]

Pretty normal for Europe. I saw something similar in Rome.

[@deathmetalbard]

Thinking back on this, they really should have adapted the cartoon show since that had modern kids being sent into this world and thus having the main characters speak more modern would make sense. Almost like the Jumanji reboots.

[@cygil1]

By the terms of the contract a D&D cartoon feature was not an option. There's a whole story about how director Courtney Solomon got the rights to make this. His mother was a minor production coordinator and helped him secure the rights from TSR. He negotiated for two years. Somehow he managed to convince a bunch of small investors in Hong Kong to pitch in and pay for the rights. This was in 1990 when TSR was cash-strapped and manage by an incompetent CEO in Lorraine Williams, which is why they sold the rights for a song to a 21 year old D&D nerd with no film-making experience. The contract specified that a film had to be produced within ten years, or else the rights would revert to TSR. The license he had allowed him *only* the use of the D&D name and the use of generic D&D fantasy tropes and creatures, not the cartoon or Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms or any other of the more valuable properties. By 2000 the rights were about to run out so he rushed this turkey into production.

[@Isseinoyuu]

17:00 Mike has gone senile and thinks Big Trouble in Little China was a game of D&D he played

[@thefaulkness]

Splicing in the crystal maze was GENIUS

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[@misterquantum9840]

I'll bet Tom Hanks never gets invited to any of the Hollywood D&D games because of that stupid movie. So sad.

[@frankmaybury5292]

I bet anyone who knows him and plays invites him to play hoping he shows up as the cleric Pardieu at least once a month.

[@DisgruntledDoomer]

Are there any famous D&D players? I remember people like Vin Diesel and Stephen Colbert talking about it, at least.

[@StarvingHamster]

@@DisgruntledDoomer Vin Diesel made a whole movie based on his character and he also got Judi Dench into it while making Riddick, and Joe Manganiello is a Dungeon Master

[@vinceradical8910]

I guess.....

[@franohmsford7548]

@@StarvingHamster And it was terrible! www.imdb.com/title/tt1618442/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_11 Even less to do with actual D&D than this movie! If only Hollywood would stop pissin' around and just make Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Winter Night/Spring Dawning properly {Not half cartoon/half CGI!}!

[@gallaghim]

Love the Crystal Maze part. I remember that fondly from when I was young.

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[@PirateZ1]

7:55 I've definitely done this at a bar before and now I feel attacked

[@kedabro1957]

Yeah, I don't think these guys have been to many dance clubs. There was nothing weird about her at all.

[@Maxisamo1]

Imagine being a powerful Dark Lord and you get defeated because a mage (who doesn't even have a specialty in throwing weapons) runs out of spells and throws a dart at you

[@urktheturtle2988]

Red letter media should do a 5e campaign. I would love to see them all go completely insane.

[@theboxcaradventurer1874]

Would be a short trip. Pretty sure one of them already is.

[@matthewpahnke2613]

Nah have them play B/X or 1e or whatever system Mike played.

[@DashNapalm]

They should play Pathfinder aka the good 3.5. I bet by his age Mike played during the 3.5 crazy

[@redtexan7053]

@@DashNapalm He hints pretty heavily in that dnd story that he was playing original dragonlance moduals. If I’m not mistaken that was 2E.

[@DashNapalm]

@@redtexan7053 Yeah, i wrote the comment before finishing the video lmao.

[@floraposteschild4184]

The lead actor has no credits after 2009. Can't say that was a bad decision.

[@Dazen101]

You edited this to feel like a Best of the Worst / Re:View episode. Love that.

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[@drowningin]

24:15 look at that bounce

[@squattingheads]

Who else wants them to play D&D?

[@braquemar]

Oh god yes.

[@Sh4dowFawx]

"You have contracted AAAIIIIDDDDDDSSSS!!!!"

[@sergnb0]

Particularly whatever version of crazy rules D&D that allows you to kill ultra powerful enemies in one hit with the weakest weapon you could find on a 5% chance basis. That shit must be wild to witness.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

meee 🥺

[@Clay3613]

@@sergnb0 AD&D.2 is the best.

[@jkjerbdhetheth]

“She’s just on *a* dragon *somewhere*.” And then they moved on to Game of Thrones

[@leastworstgamer]

Like, where is she right now?

[@jimjam7928]

They kinda forgot the establishing shot to show Thora Birch on the dragon.

[@Davis30b]

I want to see Red letter media D&D session in the future so bad.