watched the new d&d (hereafter dadhat) movie earlier and yeah that was alright. however it was absolutely full of unbearable quips that had me wondering how anybody can bear to watch movies where the dialogue is like this more than once in a blue moon. mostly it was chris pine’s character that was the guilty party and by the end i managed to just tune him out.
i liked the paladin character a lot. part of that is that it was nice to have somebody in the fantasy movie talk like they were in a fantasy movie instead of like a twitter poisoned millennial. mostly through it was that the movie managed to have its cake and eat it too, vis-a-vis his characterisation, in as much that he both poked fun at the absurdity of his position whilst being a good representation of the class fantasy that draws people to paladins. unfortunately every time he had a funny line (which was pretty often actually) chris pine would do the wayne’s world get a load of this guy cam and deliver a bad one liner to let me know that the funny line the paladin just delivered was in fact funny. in 2023 cinema is a quip, ruining a perfectly good proceeding joke forever.
not exactly a hot take to be like ‘hey has anybody noticed that marvel movie dialogue is way too invasive across mainstream cinema’ but i don’t actually watch many movies. the last blockbuster i watched was detective pikachu, so i was just a little taken aback.
anyway kind of weird to say hey this movie was fun here’s three paragraphs of what sucked about it i know. but sometimes it’s just more fun to talk about the stuff that was bad. ‘ooh the mean lady cast time stop like in my computer games!!’ is not a very good post (or at least it wasn’t fun to write).
in conclusion, they should have got jeremy irons for this one too.
