360: A Dwarf Named Elwood

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Settle back with a bagel or two and get ready for a film that fails to bring all the excitement and world-building of fantasy roleplaying to life! Our brave panelists watch 2000’s “Dungeons & Dragons”, which features dungeons, dragons, a horribly unbalanced party, an infuriating lack of connection to the game, a set of polar-opposite performances by Jeremy Irons and Thora Birch, a six-foot-tall “dwarf”, political theater even more boring than The Phantom Menace, generous garnishes of racism and sexism, and a villain who wears blue lipstick. Oh, and did we mention that TV’s Doctor Who is in it as an exposition elf? Join us as we watch until the end and finally say, “Ugh, WTF?”

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0:00.0	Schools out for summer and Redbox has the video games to keep you entertained with more than 40,000 locations nationwide.
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0:29.3	Getting into video games has never been so easy.
0:33.8	It's not brain science, it's rocket surgery.
0:36.3	This is Dungeons and Dragons 2000.
0:42.0	The incomparable, number 360, June 2017.
0:49.3	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
0:51.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:52.0	Time for us to revisit another bad movie.
0:54.8	This time representing the decade of the 2000s. It is the Dungeons and Dragons film.
1:02.2	Film is a strong word. Let's go with movie. Cinematic experience. It is. Yeah, it was more of a
1:09.2	cinematic experience. That's right. So joining me to talk
1:12.0	about Dungeons and Dragons, the movie, the motion picture, are the following fine people. Tony Sindler.
1:19.2	Hello. Hello, nerds. I've made a mistake. Mm-hmm. You're not alone. David Lorer also made a mistake. Hi, David.
1:27.1	Oh, I'm just rolling for excruciating right now.
1:30.7	That's not how that works.
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