Tom Hanks LOSES HIS MIND! - Mazes and Monsters (1982)

[@UnclePhil73]

Best Onion headline: “Local Satanist Group Disappointed to Learn D&D is basically just Math and Improv”.

[@planescaped]

Man, imagine if the guy who played The Master in Manos went on to win multiple Oscars and have a long, prestigious career.

[@john_blues]

This movie stinks, but it's 7,000 times better than Manos.

[@celticwarrior6349]

OMG...😂🤣

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

Come on now. Torgo is the real star of that movie. He’d be the one winning Oscars. RIP Torgo

[@celticwarrior6349]

@@chimpinaneckbrace RIP Torgo...what ever was going with his life...Torgo key Figure in Manos

[@rattusenchanted]

I'm half tempted to make a one shot based on Manos just to see if my group ever catches on.

[@nseven1117]

the real demon in DnD is all the math work and micro-management you need to do.

[@FanboyFlicks]

The irony is that I actually have the dryest skin in the known universe

[@carn9507]

I dunno. Two weeks ago I woke up to find half my face flaking right off. Not joking. To do with the fact I was struggling with my depression the previous week and had gone days without eating or drinking or anything and my skin got very dehydrated. It's fine now it's recovered with drinking plenty water and using moisturiser the past couple weeks but damn, that was some dry skin for sure. Was kinda like that scene in the Poltergeist where the guy hallucinates tearing off his own face but like without any of the wet gooiness. Just face coming apart in dry chunks. :O So yeah, stay hydrated and moisturised, people. :D

[@soosquatch4236]

You've obviously never seen my husband's knees (I hope)

[@rattusenchanted]

You made dry skin funny. Only a true master of dry skin could do that. Respect.

[@georgehenderson7783]

Baby oil! Smear that on your skin 2 to 3 times a day and drink plenty of water - problem solved!

[@deanm375]

As a lifelong D&D player I really enjoyed this. Back in 1984 I had an aunt who freaked out when she found out I played D&D/ She was big into watching all the TV evangelists at the time and was convinced I would be possessed by demons if I continued to play. It was really disturbing how brainwashed she was over this.

[@808yorkie]

!maybe you're possessed by demons

[@deanm375]

@@808yorkie They're not demons.... they're demented gnomes.

[@beauwalker9820]

I remember similarly, back in the late 90s, my Mom heard on the TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network on TV) that Harry Potter was "evil," and ironically after seeing the first movie, and book she became a fan of it. lol

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@deanm375 Pants gnomes? 🧙‍♂️🔮👖🩳

[@guybrush1701]

I've honestly been holding off watching this video because of how fucking angry I get at this stupid fucking DnD panic. I didn't want to have this video piss me off (the film, not Mark obviously) but I wasn't expecting the movie to be THIS stupid. Job well done, Mark. lol

[@chrisgrove7829]

I love that Chris Makepeace is in this as JJ. I will forever think of him as the kid from My Bodyguard and Meatballs with Bill Murray:)

[@inky1159]

Hearing Mark say the most Canadian sorry ever made me laugh

[@jasonmay2023]

Full blown sore-ee made me really laugh out loud

[@planescaped]

Easiest way to tell if someone is Canadian is to just ask them to pronounce "sorry".

[@808yorkie]

Or car park

[@stevenbacon-cheddar9914]

@@808yorkie no, that how you tell if someone is from Boston. Pahk the cah at hahvahd yahd….😂

[@jennyanydots2389]

The state of your sister/mom's meat curtains made me cry.

[@mattrogersftw]

Mark's friendly Canadian accent shines when he says "sorry."

[@robc6567]

As a long time D&D player I can honestly say I rarely ever walked around steam tunnels in a custom puce velvet robe while vanquishing evil..... The skit was amazing this time ,looked like it fit the scene perfectly ! 😆

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Oh yeah.

[@danielgehring7437]

I mean I have, but not for role-play purposes.

[@katroamleft4721]

I am not into DandD but walking around steam tunnels in a custom puce velvet robe sounds like fun!

[@garrick3727]

As a non-American, my main question is: WTF are steam tunnels? My college had nowhere where you could wander round in wearing a custom puce velvet robe. Well, apart from one particular bar.

[@danielgehring7437]

@@garrick3727 It's a bit of a misnomer, because the rooms don't carry any steam themselves, they just allow workers access to the pipes that do. So I guess they just call them 'steam tunnels' instead of the more accurate 'crawl space' or 'rooms in a basement' because it sounded more dramatic for the story. You can see them in Goonies, Caddyshack, and they're pretty infamously associated with Porky's. Although if I recall correctly, the steam tunnels which the suicidal student was in were to an abandoned WWII factory, and a bit more complex than usual, making it only 'super-hyper suspiciously unlikely' that he got lost in them, instead of just flat out impossible.

[@thewatcher6295]

Never has the conversation about dry skin been so funny. I can't stop laughing, I had to compose myself to write this.

[@rattusenchanted]

Honestly same, however I am now more aware of my dry skin lol.

[@DesolatorMagic]

The Burbs with Tom Hanks (1989) was one of the best movies ever made if you've ever lived in a suburb. Crazy how quickly things changed!

[@jennyanydots2389]

Your taste in movies just gave me long COVID, herpes AND AIDS. Thanks bro.

[@TimmehJay]

I was a D&D playing kid when this came out and it made me so mad. I've held a grudge against Tom Hanks ever since.

[@twillymantheoneandonly5587]

They just rebooted Williow....so....Netflix "Mazes and Monsters" 2023 is on the horizon.

[@herbiehusker1889]

He's kind of a bad actor.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Here we see a classic case of the D&D rage caused by overdosing on D&D

[@DamnedSilly]

I know... just fed all the nonsense that was floating around back then. And people think flat-earthers and right-wing politicians are crazy... they didn't have to live through the endless 'moral panics' of the '80s. Everything, and I mean everything kids and teens did in the '80s was bound to lead to suicide or moral depravity. If even half the claims were right then every kid who survived the 1980s in America was a Satanist who had consumed part of at least one baby during a ritual after a D&D game... or a rock concert... or a rap concert... or watching MTV... or drinking Bartles and James Wine Coolers...

[@amyslingsby6947]

I was a D&D teen then, and my older sister decided to tell my mother I was in a satanic cult and D&D must be banned. My mother made an attempt at banning it, but I pointed out we were sitting around her kitchen table, in plain sight, laughing and taking down a pizza and she gave up. Everything was satanic to uptight grown-ups back then. Rock music was another big one, subliminal satanic messages in music videos was another. 🙄

[@michaspecht]

Loving the skit at 10:48, it's so on point! The lighting, the pullover, the overall composition - it's why I'm always happy to see a notification for a new video!

[@thewanderingtomato7674]

that was hysterical 😂😂😂

[@FanboyFlicks]

It was a fun one to do but also a little but of a pain because I didn't have a small table high enough to rest my arm on so I had to use a dvd box set and a few sheets of foam board as a riser to stand the table on. I enjoyed shopping for the wig though.

[@c.moriarty1178]

@@FanboyFlicks It's an excellently reusable wig. Looking forward to seeing it in future skits

[@CultureKind]

@@FanboyFlicks "walking around for 8 or 9 hours, confused." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Jokes! RESPECT!✊🏾😅😆😆

[@kungfew1396]

@@FanboyFlicks You're special effects are way way past Breen levels of excellence Mark. 🤟

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

Ah yes, the spiritual successor to those 50's movies where the teenage protagonists are driven to arson, robbery, and axe murder by smoking weed.

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

That's the take conservative America had to understand! The danger! The terrible danger of DnD!

[@bigbearkat2010]

@@NathanTarantlawriter man every time I see something like this, it just feels like the proverbial glass house getting stones thrown at it whenever I hear a soapbox about how fragile and easily offended people are today.

[@Blutteufel]

It was earlier than the 50s but, if you ever have the opportunity to watch Reefer Madness, I recommend that you take it. It's always good for a laugh, but it gets a little boring at times. Of course, there are ways to make it more entertaining...

[@planescaped]

​@@bigbearkat2010 Whether it is panicking over and burning witches, to thinking Elvis steals souls. Ignorant morons have always and sadly will always exist to gasp and clutch their pearls over the new scapegoat that is easier to blame than the real issues.

[@joeshmoe6930]

Hey man, weed is a gateway drug. I know someone who thought they were a banana because they drank a glass of orange juice and someone tipped them over.

[@rattusenchanted]

A phenomenal review Mark! Level 9 material! Also big thanks to you and to our friends who have supported us along the way. Hope you all enjoy the module. Thanks everyone! -Rattus

[@mookiewilson4166]

Mark’s finally making his own scenarios? Let’s hope he bewares the sacrilege.

[@tecumsehcristero]

I was one of the first 40 subscribers

[@dubuyajay9964]

The map at 13:18 is VERY nice though.

[@Blutteufel]

I played my first session of D&D immediately after watching this when I was 9. Good times.

[@rattusenchanted]

That's awesome. At first I wasn't sure I was really going to like it. I got an invite from a friend and joined just to say hi. 4 years later and I made a business about it. I think I got a liiiiitle obsessed lol

[@lw3646]

Yes that was a WWI German helmet, previously used by the Prussian army and some of its police. Replaced during WWI by the steel Stahlhelm helmet which gave much better protection agaisnt artillery shrapnel.

[@NefariousKoel]

Was called a "pickelhaube". AKA "pointy cap". 😄

[@ThePosrein]

I remember watching this as a kid and enjoying it because I played D&D and was familiar with the paranoia because of my evangelical relatives. Good times!

[@howiegruwitz3173]

Thank God your soul survived unscathed

[@jettanyx1]

My mom funny enough would defend me against her church cronies and encouraged me to play. I was very withdrawn due to depression. So for her, “she’s making friends and socializing…AND doing math!” Haha. She was a crap parent but had a few good moments

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

Same here!

[@brentwalker3300]

Evangelical relatives? Ooh, fun!

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

Bro! Ya the fear was real when I first played it in 1993

[@sensualchocolate4928]

I only wish Mark could do these more often. This is by far one of my favorite channels on KZbin and I've been watching for a few years now. He has a fantastic delivery, is very very funny and does in my humble opinion excellent reviews. Mark if you see this two things, first please never stop and two thank you for all the hard work you do to entertain us your fans. Blessings and good fortune to you and yours this Holiday Season.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

On the bright side, the wait gives him more time to make a video funny rather than running into the problem of so many shows that have to churn out bland videos to meet a deadline.

[@sensualchocolate4928]

@@IsmailofeRegime very good point

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

You have to love it when people who have never read a single D&D book, or seen a game, or even knew a single person who has ever read or seen a single D&D book, portray what they think D&D is. The version of D&D that they show in their movies, TV shows, books, etc... seem to... not actually be a game. The rules always seem to be... well... there are no rules. They always show the kids playing the game in dark rooms, lit by candles. They're ALWAYS in some sort of costume. And they're always portrayed like they're doing some kind of mystic ritual to summon Cthulhu or something. And they ALWAYS portray the players as BEING the characters instead of playing as one in the game. The players in these people's minds just... make up whatever the hell they want... and then become that in real life. And it always gets to the point where these people are running around thinking that they're D&D characters. There's never any actual game rules. There's never actually any GAME.

[@TVsMrNeil]

I love that CBS aired this movie in 1982, and then they aired the actual Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series the very next year on Saturday morning for kids. Now that's a reversal.

[@cargo_vroom9729]

The irony is that so much of the moral panic about D&D was about the players not being able to tell fantasy from reality. But it was really the people behind the panic who couldn't tell the difference.

[@STho205]

To an extent, short term yes. However Anglo American society has become more and more obsessed with unreal fantasies involving even body dismorphia every year since the late 70s. I was a college student in this era and the D&D gamers, SCA and Renfaire folk were a small population that mostly left it behind like frat hazing or other HS and college fads of former decades...but the interest spread into other fascinations and fed fedishes. Then when computer gaming, movies became more and more immersive or realistic a true brainstorm effect began. Zombie obsession, witchcraft, flat earth, magic, ghosts exploded onto big business by the 90s and after 2001 gender dysmorphia went mainstream and has doubled every few years as more and more people are fascinated with role playing a part in real life...to the point even not agreeing with the fantasy of the day is seen as violence against the power of the self delusion. I don't put that on the shoulders of game creators that liked board wargames and Conan style movies, turning the interest into imaginative games.... But like movies, music, books, TV, internet, social media, interest mags....it is part of a puzzle that builds a future with a few problems.

[@cargo_vroom9729]

@@STho205 Haha what? That was a lot of words to be transphobic for literally no reason and no relevancy. But sure, it's other people who have weird obsessions.

[@STho205]

@@cargo_vroom9729 at this point it is a manufactured phenomenon by the circus environment feeding on 15 minute fame in an anonymous world. There have always been clowns that paint themselves for laughs under the big top for pay and a strange place to live. However a natural occurrence doesn't go from nearly zero to 2000MPH in 10 seconds. Like platform shoes, ladies cigarettes or faddish hairstyles...they are contrived by The Man...the Mad Men...and kids of every generation think it is their unique spontaneous choice.

[@Kira-zm7vy]

​@STho205 I agree with the other reply. That's a whole lot of words to say, "I'm transhpobic" sounds like a you problem to me

[@joshweaver7654]

Having friends that are 100% authentic is priceless. Wearing sick ass hats and feeling comfortable in one’s skin amongst open souls is a gift few are fortunate enough to experience

[@DragonMaiden77]

My family got a pile of movies for free, this was in it. My dad and I decided to watch it one day, and at the end of it I remember we looked at each other and were just like ‘wtf happened in that movie?’ Glad Tom Hanks got better roles

[@slubberdagollian]

Sadly, this movie and the panic that inspired it, influenced an entire generation. I was ostracized from my mom's drunk and drugged family when they found out I played.

[@dubuyajay9964]

It might be for the best.

[@jennyanydots2389]

Is that what you've been telling yourself all these years?

[@spankynater4242]

I think memories are false here. I don't remember their being any kind of panic associated with this game, except the fear that if your child played it, they were unpopular dorks.

[@jennyanydots2389]

@@spankynater4242 There was and still is a hardcore child exploitation aspect inherently associated with everything here.

[@spankynater4242]

@@jennyanydots2389 what?

[@blacknapalm2131]

*The real risk of D&D is that it can extend one's virginity for years*

[@behrwillsonn3181]

Actually "Going to Jail" in Monopoly is a good thing especially if you have properties. Because then you can just collect money from the other players without risking paying rent on the spaces you fall upon.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

The movie also never addresses that his brother literally disappeared. I think that could be more of a reason for his mental breakdown than D&D

[@blatherskite3009]

18:13 Well said, sir. Every generation, there are new bunch of moral scares about things that older people fear "the kids" are getting dangerously obsessed with - comic books, videogames, rock 'n' roll, video nasties, Dungeons & Dragons, mobile phones, Pokemon, online gaming, social media, etc. And the media can always dredge up a few losers who fit the negative image; who _did_ lose the plot, and did become dangerously obsessed with whatever the current panic is about. But the truth is always the same: those people had underlying issues, and if they hadn't found their obsession in that thing, they would've found it in another. The thing itself is not the issue; the issue is with the person. But it's always easier to blame something weird and new that the older generation don't understand, rather than tackle difficult truths ... like the fact that a percentage of people are simply crazy. And then everyone finds a new thing to be "concerned" about - the cycle repeats, and no-one ever seems to learn anything from the previous false alarms. The middle-aged people who are now raising fears about social media _were_ those kids who knew their parents' concerns about them playing D&D and Atari were foolish, but for some reason they can't seem to recognize that they're doing the same thing to their kids.

[@bradforddillman7671]

This is the My Bodyguard, Jaws and Bachelor Party crossover I never knew I needed.

[@jlarrybrewer1149]

😂😂😂😂 You win the internet 😂😂😂

[@dubuyajay9964]

?

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I was introduced to D&D in 1981 when I was in the sixth grade. The first week of school, a D&D club was announced that would be in our art room. I went there. The place was crowded. I had a blast. It increase my social life a thousand fold compared to what it was. It was popular. it was fun. Then, about three weeks later, me and my friends showed up at the art room for the club. The door was locked, the lights were out, and no one was there. We just assumed that the club was cancelled for the day, or the teacher had something going on. The next week, we showed up. Again, the door was locked. No one was there. The week after that.. the same thing. At this point, we asked what was going on. We were told that the club was cancelled, and that there wasn't enough people showing interest. This boggled our minds because the club was popular and was always packed with kids. No one would give us a straight answer for why the club was cancelled. We were given the explanation that, "There's just no club any more." and were expected to just accept it. It wasn't until years later that we found out what had actually happened. Apparently some kid's parent heard about the "SATAN WITCHCRAFT CULT CLUB" that was going on, corrupting the children in my middle school. So this parent got a small minority of parents together, and called the school, freaking out about it. They threatened that if the school didn't stop the club, that they would go to the media. So instead of dealing with all that (This was SMACK IN THE MIDDLE of the whole "Satanic Panic, D&D is evil, and a tool of the Devil to corrupt the kids" time period.), the school principal just... pulled the plug on it. Coward.

[@noahvance6160]

I am so sorry to hear about that.

[@Fiveyin]

funny enough this happened to me in 05 on campus. DND and magic and yugioh where all banned and we had to play in secret. The games were all considered satanic

[@mentilly_all]

try proving God and the devil don't exist

[@fizban690]

This was a classic from my childhood. This movie came out at the height of the anti-D&D movement, assuming all the players were witches and evil. I like it, however, mostly because it has Chris Makepeace who only did like 4 movies.

[@MaddMango]

I was 13 when this hit the airwaves. I was heavily into D&D and resented this movie then. Now I look at it in fondness.

[@planescaped]

It was as much of a preposterous and terribly researched joke as Reefer Madness was. Fortunately Mazes and Monsters didn't have as much of a long-standing effect on perception of D&D as madness had on weed.

[@rattusenchanted]

Sounds like DnD is calling your name. This is why I love Dnd. You are never too old to play it. FYI Mazes and Monsters is an inspiration for part 2!

[@blackismyfavoritecolor869]

Yeah I grew up in a 1980s during the Satanic Panic. Interesting times to say the least.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

As a D&D player, I have to admit this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's so bad it's funny and they don't even get the game stuff right. Even taking into account changing things for copyright they literally get nothing right. It's hilarious. It also gave us what is possibly the funniest Spoony episode, before his fall.

[@skaetur1]

No one involved in the making of this, not even the OP author, had ever even seen a game played, let alone played it themselves.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

@@skaetur1 Oh, I know. I was an open D&D player during the Satanic panic and have been called a Satanist for that alone. I've heard all sorts of crazy B.S. about what people who have no clue but THINK they know what a D&D game is like. I had a teacher actually tell me, without a hint of anything other than total certainly, that when your character got hurt, in the game, you had to hurt yourself in the same way, as part of the game. I was wearing a t-shirt, showed her my arms, pulled down my shirt (this was the 80's I wouldn't do anything like that today), showed her what I could of my body and asked "do I look like I've done that or been doing that, at any point?" Just gave me a weird look and walked away. I had a classmate point at a random cut I had on my arm (at a different time and place) and claim I did it to myself because od D&D. Nope, it was just a normal everyday wound that everyone gets (I don't even remember now how I did it). I had another person tell me that games were played in a dark room by candlelight. I pointed out that a large percentage is reading books and notes and darkness and candlelight doesn't really make that easy. :) Crazy stuff. It's just reading, talking and rolling dice.

[@marveldcextinctionwrestler7773]

Poor Tom Hanks, first losing your Mind on an island and Now this

[@humbledb4jesus]

I self taught myself lead guitar, wrote a bunch of songs, put 2 bands and 3 albums together, and even did a TV gig... But it means nothing because I never attended a guitar lecture in college...

[@blackismyfavoritecolor869]

1982 in my opinion is one of the best years for cinema but of course every year is going to have its duds.

[@808yorkie]

Is 82 when that made for t.v. nuke war !movie with S Guttenberg in it, came out?

[@timdelia4609]

Saw it when I was a kid. My parents, sadly, saw it to and were very concerned about me and my friends playing D&D. We had a big family sit down at the family table to discuss. Looking back, it was so silly.

[@toweypat]

This reminds me of when I heard a rumor that some kid got so into EverQuest that he killed himself over it, and I thought "wow, that game must be awesome!" And that's how I got into MMORPGs.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

Funny, when I watched this movie as a teenager (that also played D&D), I never got the anti D&D message. For me the story was about a group of cool teenagers that play D&D (just like me) getting into a real life adventure due to meeting a guy that has a serious mental disorder. Given that the original players never showed any kind of delusions, while Tom Hanks was the new kid they knew nothing about, it never occurred to me that the message was supposed to be D&D causes delusions. The way the D&D players are depicted vs their parents, I still believe who ever directed/cut the movie didn’t intend it to be anti D&D despite the book eing anti D&D (all the nice, good and empathetic characters are the teenagers that play the game regularly, how is that supposed to be anti D&D?).

[@garrick3727]

The film isn't even that damning of the guy with mental problems. They show his parents constantly arguing and his mother drinking, so there is a suggestion that his retreat into fantasy isn't necessarily inexplicable. The other kids seem to have weird parents too, like the one who keeps having his room re-decorated by his mother. You would think if it were a moral outrage film then the parents would be clearly shown to know best, but as it is they seem even more messed up than the kids. I think you're right, and that the director essentially subverted the message.

[@STho205]

That was my take also. They just happened to trigger schizophrenia in a boy already partway in it. Many obsessive and immersive activities can send a nutter down the peanut chute. They were mostly fine, though spending too much effort on their LARPing game. As it was the people I knew that played D&D did not don costumes and go into cellars or caves. They sat in a room swigging soda and eating too many doritos and pizza slices...while someone rolled elaborate dice and made stuff up like they were reading from a rulebook...but it was really Fisbin.

[@davidgantenbein9362]

@@STho205 True, going into LARP wasn’t that common back then. But there is a LARP-ing scene in the US and I‘m pretty sure it did attract D&D players. On the mental state: I‘m pretty sure that it’s somewhere mentioned that something similar (less extreme though) happened and was the reason they moved him to another school. Not having people with schizophrenia under treatment is like opening the door for all of this. If anything, the movie is maybe anti US healthcare system?

[@STho205]

@@davidgantenbein9362 no matter where you live if the family or person doesn't present themselves then they aren't treated. NHS or nuthouse for deep wallet insurance... doesn't matter. If the person commits a crime or tries suicide then they can be forced into treatment or confined. This character did try suicide based on delusions he could fly, but did his friends hand him over to johnny the cop downstairs for an ambulance to Belview? Or did they take him home. I don't recall as the movie was 40 years ago. His parents looked quite well off and well insured. He could have been committed or treated years before. They were hiding his condition to save face and keep him off record. College will help him grow out of this "phase". Very common IRL. Often viewers like to see an axe they want to grind where it is not applicable.

[@STho205]

@@davidgantenbein9362 oh LARPing style hobbies were all the rage back then, but not gaming. SCA and Marklanders were very big in the late 70s. Combat tournaments, feasts, exhibit fairs, research papers for college credit. I think they have had an upswing recently with Outlander festivals.

[@Weazel1]

I remember watching this as a kid when it came out and wondered what was wrong with him. I was too young to understand that they were saying the game made him break. I just thought he was a deeply troubled person who had no concept of reality. According to the movie, I was wrong. I always thought it was hilarious when threw the “magic dust” on the mugger, though.

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

It's extremely weird that the movie sets Robbie up as an obviously troubled kid from a difficult household with feuding parents and, oh yeah, the unsolved disappearance of a brother, and is then like, "This is all because of D&D!"

[@curosaber]

@@PassTheMarmalade1957 I know, right? I never understood that. Especially the complain the detective makes about playing the game being nothing more than maiming and killing. I supposed playing cowboys or soldiers and pretending to slaughter Native Americans and Nazi is all innocent fun and games, right? What's worse is that while parents complained that the boardgame caused players to lose their hold on reality, those same parents claimed to have seen their children summon actual demons through the game.

[@ProBreakers]

I played DND for years and it’s true, nearly lost my entire play group to cave madness. Sad business.

[@WDRhine]

I can appreciate your loss; I lost a good friend to PacMan Fever. It still haunts me.

[@bafflemint8442]

2:13 This movie was released in 1982, the exact same year as Ms. Pac-Man, which was designed by two MIT graduates based on their experience running a makeshift video arcade out of their dorm and using MIT equipment to manufacture upgrade kits to sell to arcades. This is like if his parents wanted him to go to Texas A&M and he refused because he wanted to concentrate on football.

[@danielramsey6141]

Exactly! Shit man, this guys’ family is so fucking awful. 😂

[@TeatroGrotesco]

I can't believe Tom Hanks had that whole tirade about dry skin... Wait, it was Mark? Those inserts are getting seamless, dude. 👍

[@jakarnilson]

He really did a great job with that Pardue wig.

[@mikes7504]

slight dramatic pause, camera zooms in ..."No, it's not." BRILLIANT!!!

[@CornbreadOracle]

I remember seeing this on tv when it came out. I was 10. It made me want to play Dungeons and Dragons.

[@MrFuggleGuggle]

This movie made me so mad, I've been casting hexes from my parent's basement every day against the creators since it came out in 1982.

[@rattusenchanted]

I approve. I grant advantage to your rolls.

[@masterseal0418]

Though this movie started Tom Hanks' career on a sour note, it's phenomenal that he went into stardom after playing the leading role next to Daryl Hannah in Splash(where Hanks met a mermaid who wants to blend in with human society despite being half fish) one of the first films from Disney's more edgier and eventually defunct(for now at least) sister studio Touchstone Pictures, a far cry to a -cautionary tale- psychological thriller about D&D. Anyways, Critical Role for life!

[@wolfshanze5980]

It was really more Bossom Buddies that got Tom Hanks career moving than anything else.

[@bigbearkat2010]

Kind of like how Paul Rudd opened with being badly miscast in arguably the worst Halloween movie (which is really saying a lot) but was able to recover because he did Clueless straight after.

[@planescaped]

@@bigbearkat2010 I knew Rudd was in that movie but I always forget it was his first major role.

[@mattbaker7305]

Who else is happy to be here? Another WMWM!

[@rattusenchanted]

Whoop whoop!

[@rattusenchanted]

WE ARE! :D

[@pommie5093]

I'm waiting for Mark to win an acting award for all of his work. He is a scene stealer in every movie he's in.

[@roleplayer5564]

I love watching this and Dark Dungeons as a great double feature of the horrors of D&D.

[@rattusenchanted]

DUDE DARK DUNGEONS!!! Finally someone mentions that masterpiece!

[@toddboughn5168]

I absolutely love Dark Dungeons. I still can't believe the producers got Jack Chick's permission to make it.

[@benneilson10]

You have gotten better over the years. Keep it up! If you redo some of the movies with your skits put into it I would love that.

[@Spacemonkey2142]

Best thing ever when mark says no he’s not ok he still thinks he’s a fkin wizard! Makes me chuckle every time

[@marcoprates1936]

Your channel is awesome man! Appreciate the sense of humor. Greetings from Brazil

[@The_Kentuckian]

The fact Mark has a D&D module based off his show is pretty awesome.

[@BretHammond1967]

I loved this! Thanks for putting it together. I remember watching Mazes and Monsters when it was first on TV, then a couple years later seeing Hanks in Boosom Buddies and realizing it was the same guy!

[@thewanderingtomato7674]

PEER PRESSURE should be the name of a movie at some point. A horror movie, of course.

[@MichaelRainey]

There are several movies by that name. Only one was even a full length feature film but it is not horror.

[@thewanderingtomato7674]

@@MichaelRainey I didn't find them. give me one director so I can go after it. the name is great. Shhould still be a horror movie.

[@MichaelRainey]

@@thewanderingtomato7674 I used IMDB. Only the 2014 short from Alan M Brooks even has a plot summary. Movies titled Peer Pressure have made no impact on film culture or box offices.

[@thewanderingtomato7674]

@@MichaelRainey ah but those are shorts. :( I found a made for TV movie that is a drama. But again, I want a horror movie and Mark should direct it :D

[@letitiabertin4655]

Been waiting for this! Recently found out about this movie and have been waiting for you to do a vid on it

[@michaelpodlisk5481]

The saddest part is Tom Hanks acting is top notch as ever, for a mediocre plot he still gives 110% as always

[@Kokolowolf]

Tom Hanks as played by Mark annihilated me man well done

[@jpotter2086]

I discovered Mazes & Monsters in 1998 while writing a thesis on the history of gaming. I have been recommending it and loaning it to friends ever since!

[@FeastForThought]

That dry skin bit would have been a fantastic transition to a skin care sponsor, lost opportunity Mark! lol

[@GKitz211]

First ad during the video? "World of Warcraft" ... I laughed out loud! 😁

[@lw3646]

You should review Dungeons & Dragons 2000.

[@NefariousKoel]

This. All of those terrible D&D movies!

[@RandolphTheWhite1]

Tom Hanks is still in character to this day.

[@spddiesel]

YES! I remember watching this during its network debut, because I loved "Bosom Buddies." Even as a kid I laughed my ass off 🤣🤣🤣

[@CC-fd5qx]

I remember the satanic panic. My friends kept hounding me to play d&d for a long time. When i finally decided to risk my eternal soul and gave in and played I realized it's just one guy telling a story to 3 other guys listening and eating fruit loops

[@dbradford259]

I remember this movie. I knew a couple people that already had mental issues and they used to play Dnd with us. They went a little to far later in life. It's kind'a like that saying violent games don't make people violent but violent people tend to play violent games.

[@davidb5411]

I played D&D for almost 20 years, all through the 80's and 90's. In college, we'd start Friday evening after class and wouldn't break up until late Sunday. In the Summer, we'd go for days, take a break, then start back up again. Oddly, we all graduated on the Dean's list. At least it kept me away from "Reefer Madness"!

[@jankarieben1071]

I like to put this movie on in the background for new players, it’s so ridiculous it’s a great ice breaker, chills out nervous players every time. 🤗

[@parasharkchari]

I don't know why, but I couldn't help but grin when I noticed Lloyd Bochner in the car playing Tom Hanks' dad. Every time I see him, I feel compelled to shout "It's a cookbook!"

[@AntiNihilist]

I feel like this could've been an all time great with just a change in one or two conversations where they explain backstories or the appeal of D and D

[@hjorhrafn]

The ending makes this much more of a CoC game than a D&D one.

[@williammitchell5201]

Man, I love your show so much. I get really excited each time an episode comes out. Please never stop!!

[@liamwynne566]

Love me some Tim Honks 👌❤️

[@nilsnyman6767]

I was born in 1970 so being a pre-teen when D&D was launched hooked me hard! I was also a ward of the state, a foster kid, so I had a BUNCH of different kinds of parents every few months. One set of fosters were in their 70's and hardcore bible thumpers. I came home from school one day and the mom told me she found my D&D stuff and tossed it all in the fire place! She claimed she could hear demons screaming in the fire. Can't make this sh*t up man! They were high up on the list of most terrifying fosters I had lol.

[@dubuyajay9964]

I'm sorry Mr. Cat. :(

[@Morboeatspeople]

On Code Monkeys, Todd's character is named Pardue. Now, I know why. Thank you as always, Mark!

[@HughAverageHomoMan]

this is the first time i've seen someone openly mention that show in a long time lol

[@Correc7edAura]

Awesome timing dude! I was just watching your review of your own movie Serial Santa lol

[@floretionguru2977]

"JJ" is Chris Makepeace who is in a great movie called My Bodyguard (plot: think of a very different take on "Karate Kid"-it came out several years before it). That movie stars a very young Matt Dillon and is the film debut of several other now famous actors: Adam Baldwin, Jennifer Beals, Joan Cusack.

[@pretorious700]

Tom was in a sitcom called "Bosom Buddies" before this. It was also awful.

[@emreyurtseven23]

I love when a movie gets so stupid Mark just snaps at it like 16:20 :D

[@rinchenwangchuk5641]

Awesome, Mark has hit home run with this one .. Thnx man

[@rocdocs]

Oh baby! I saw this as a young ball! And loved every moment!

[@Gideun]

The dryskin bit is hilarious. One of my favorite Level 9 Creators.

[@whiskeymike8702]

This is actually my favorite Tom Hanks movie.

[@l456tatertot3]

Amazing as always! It’s always fun to try and predict where Mark will insert himself in the video, I thought he’d be Tom Hanks character but I thought it would have been during a game scene. This was even better!

[@helenjones5787]

Thank you for always making me laugh!! Even when I watch them over again!! 😂😂😂❤😂😂

[@TheeGrumpy]

In retrospect, Hanks has steered clear of the costume fantasy genre. Cloud Atlas is arguably his only foray; infiltrating a cult in Dragnet also had a D&D vibe.

[@1514max]

They're called Pickelhauben.

[@eddstarr2185]

Wow Mark, its like "Reefer Madness" . . . with dice rolls! I agree with you that "Monopoly" is the world's most dangerous game, many a marriage hit the skids over property on Park Place.

[@Strawberryjasmindoll]

Tom Hans can't do no bad movies in my eyes lol

[@pretorious700]

Nice grammar, Sparky.

[@brandonlordbaltimore5182]

Who tf is Tom Hans? Even my spell check corrects it to Hanks ffs. 😄

[@Strawberryjasmindoll]

@@pretorious700 it's not my native language

[@Strawberryjasmindoll]

@@brandonlordbaltimore5182 not mine, oops lol

[@nickgumke]

The way he described the phone call between the mom and that girl had me choking

[@herbiehusker1889]

The way you say "sorey" immediately identifies you as a Canadian.

[@NefariousKoel]

Canuckistanis saying, "robot". It's entertaining. 😄 Ends up sounding like 'Row Butt'.

[@wildman2012]

Sure looks like Anne Francis from Forbidden Planet at 2:32.

[@heidifedor]

I remember watching this on TV, and I was like, “hey, that’s the guy from Bosom Buddies.”

[@Che-e]

He must have missed a house payment.

[@jaytravis2487]

His mom says those are his favorites because she is the kind of mother who chooses for her kids and "knows what they really want". Hence the MIT thing

[@danielramsey6141]

Seriously, the parents in this film are awful people!

[@xTacticalHugZx]

Her skin does look a little dry XD

[@FreihEitner]

I always get a kick out of how you insert yourself into the movies you're reviewing. :-) Well done.