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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8977270" data-attributes="member: 18182">This movie sure had a lot of preview screenings! Well, maybe all films do, but this one I cared enough to pay attention. Despite the film not opening until this Friday, I got to attend a preview screening tonight. It was called a "fan event", but all we did was watch the movie, no swag. Apparently starting April 1, everybody gets a poster . . . .I absolutely loved this movie! Yes, some of the effects were sub-par, but I was only briefly taken out of the picture with a few shots of halflings, dragonborn, tabaxi, and aarakocra . . . and that afanc. But I still appreciated the inclusion of these creatures, as it really helped the world-building and separating the "Realms" (Forgotten) of D&D from other fantasy franchises. And there were a lot of subtle, blink and you'll miss 'em, examples of world-building including baby (?) rust monsters, axebeaks as domestic animals.The locations visited, the characters met, all seemed very true to the source material. Even the name-drops of other locations and characters seemed to flow and help world-build instead of stop the narrative with a "hey look, this is a D&D movie" like the 2000 movie and sequels did. The Forgotten Realms really came alive for me, and even in ways I wasn't expecting as, up until now, I've only read about the Realms with the occasional cover and interior art pieces.The movie was dramatic, it was funny, it was FUN. The plot (mostly) made sense, the characters were believable, and I found myself caring about the heroes and how things turned out for them. When Simon [ISPOILER]gets a second chance at love[/ISPOILER] . . . I almost cheered! Even though it was pretty predictable.The tie-in prequel novels and comic are NOT necessary to enjoy or understand the film, but . . . . I do think they enhanced my enjoyment of the movie. The two novels were actually pretty good and stood on their own, the graphic novel was, well, okay and probably easily skipped.I'm a teacher on Spring Break whose friends were just not interested in going out to see the film this week . . . . but when they are ready, I'm going again!</blockquote>

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