The movie did originally have “Lord of the Rings” level graphics, but Jeremy Irons was eating so much scenery, they had too stretch out what scenery they had left and this is what we got lol
I love that Ben From Canada's brainrot from having to watch all these movies and edit videos on them has grown from snide captions all the way to just inserting a clip of himself correcting James EDIT: Oh good god they're making him watch Pixels. Ben From Canada are you... are you okay?
imagine being the executive who said to James Cameron, in 1999, "so what makes you think you can direct our movie?" If you do that, you deserve to hear about it every day for the rest of your career.
Jeremy Irons is one of those rare actors who, while they can't *save* a bad film, can at least give your money's worth while they are on screen. I don't think the guy has ever actually delivered a bad role
I was actually discussing this very flick last week with a mate who didn't know it existed and he was like, "Oh they made one in 2000" and I was all "That must have been the third one then" but it wasn't, Harry, it wasn't the third one at all! It was the first one, then the sequels are even more years after fuckin' _The Matrix_ and _Jurassic Park_ and _Lord of New Zealand_ and shit!
I genuinely didn't know this was from the year 2000 until this video. I thought it was made in, like, 1993 or something (that being said, I've never actually seen the movie, I just know of its existence).
well they did the smart thing and mainly had 1 dragon at a time and shown hiding behind real scenery and sets most of the time. This movie went nuts and had like 70 badly rendered dragons all flying around a fake city and fake sky.
The only line that's stuck with me 23 years later is when the Female Mage casts the rope on the main guys, Second Jimmy Olsen smarms "This must be the only way she can get guys to come home with her." to which she quips "I would have to cast a feeble-mind spell on myself to take the likes of you home." Just...Just wonderful.
Rodney! Also this movie has my favorite "who allowed this to happen and why" quote. The dwarf is talking about dwarven women having beards while riding a horse and starts rocking dramatically whilst declaring it is better when you have 'SOEMTHING TO HOLD ON TO'
My heart sank at the end of this as I genuinely thought you were announcing a Caravan of Garbage for Schindler’s List. I was worried you guys were about to nuke your own RUclips channel 😂
PSA: you CANNOT talk about this film without the hilarious deleted scene, which both makes the film make so much more sense and features the funniest incomplete dragon CGI I have ever seen. I remember howling watching this with my dad when I was little. Good times
It’s my time now to be everybody’s favourite guy; GUY WHO MENTIONS TRIVIA IN THE COMMENTS THAT JAMES FORGOT !! Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, is in this film. He was one of the actors in the running for Gandalf but, obviously, was rejected in favour of Ian McKellen. Baker took a role in this film because he thought it would be a similar production, and one that required him not to relocate to New Zealand for the better part of a year, and allegedly hated every part of the production despite his small role. He is even quoted as saying he only briefly looked at the script and came onto set believing he was playing an elk.
My friends and I saw this movie in theatres and there was one other group of folks in there with us. During the scene where the beholder comes around and one of the characters says, "it's a beholder!", one of the guys in the other group leans over to his friends and says "ummmm I believe that's a beholder KIN". Anyway my friends and I still will say "I believe that's a beholder KIN" any chance we get.
I cannot imagine being 19-20 and having 35-100 million dollars and a major franchise on my shoulders it’s a remarkable achievement he even got this released
I do kind of feel for the guy. He got the rights cheaply because the owners of the IP probably never expected anything to come of it, only for those same people to alienate some of the hottest directing talent in Hollywood and place him in the position of having to direct a SFX-heavy action-fantasy film with no prior experience and just over a third of the budget that would have been available if they'd been able to secure commitment from someone with a proven track record. Honestly I think that the lackluster state of the CGI, video compositing and dungeoneering sections can be attributed to the budget and the lack of experience necessary to make up for those deficiencies. They probably couldn't afford to do much in the way of fight choreography, or give the actors a sufficient amount of money to justify spending the time on choreography and rehearsal, and I imagine that the CGI issues weren't helped by the intended scope (especially at the end where there are loads of dragons flying around and causing chaos. They kind of picked the worst possible creatures to try and animate: the number of unique animations and variation in models that would have been needed to translate the dragons to the screen for such a brief part of the film would have been really difficult to do well back then. At least the beholder didn't have legs, but integrating it into footage convincingly and articulating every on of its eyes and facial features probably ended up making it a quite difficult creature in its own right and it doesn't look great.).
Three things… I knew when he said shade of lipstick. Second, that blue harvest story is the second time you’ve used some blue plant or algae thing for blue harvest. Third I FUCKING LOVE YOU BOTH!
Damodar popping up in the new movie at 25:18 and being lambasted by Chris Pine (nearly wrote Chris Pratt here) absolutely slew me, so you guys get some experience points for that, I guess.
5:26 James Titanic Cameron? What are his qualifications? All of them, Williams. Big budget, small budget, realistic, fantastical, costumes, stunts, effects. His crew wear shirts that say "You can't scare me, I work for James Cameron."
I’m honestly interested in seeing the Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie despite never playing DND, I was interested with seeing the movie when I saw that clip where the cast fail with the 5 questions for the dead person.
I contend that current Sandler is fine. You just have to start with 2016 after The Do Over. The Hotel Transylvania movies are decent kid flicks, and everything else ranges from passable to fantastic (he genuinely deserved an Oscar nod for Uncut Gems).
I don’t even wanna watch a video making fun of Pixels, imagine having to watch the full movie! And having to go over certain scenes several times to get the edit right!
How on earth did Ben and Laurence land on a quick pull from 90s Australian children's TV show 'Round The Twist' @12.26 when James mentioned 'eating snails?' What an amazing, but wildly obscure reference!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? When strange things are happening, are you going round the twist? I can remember the theme tune to a 90s tv show, but I can't remember what I did last week...
Since it looks like Space Marine 2 is coming out this year, I would love to see them review the animated Ultramarines movie. It may even be worse than this
I saw this in the cinema several times in Ireland. Then I was in the Netherlands and films opened months later there and I saw it a few more times. It was so enjoyable. I probably have seen this in the theater more times than anyone else has. I don't know what that says about me
1:39 God bless you, Ben or Laurence; whoever decided to use Ocean's Eleven there. It's the simple, not-necessarily-a-meme references that make me appreciate your videos so much.
Seeriously, the special effects on _Young Sherlock Holmes_ were leagues better than those in the first _Dungeons & Dragons_ movie... but YSH came out in 1985!! So all their creature effects (like the little flying demon-monkeys) were done Ray Harrihausen style in stop motion with actual figurines. Except for the stained glass golem, that knight that jumped out of a stained glass window... that one was actually ground-breaking early CGI, if I remember a making-off I saw correctly.
By showing Brennan Lee Mulligan AND Broden Kelly in this video, you have suggested a College Humor/Aunty Donna/Mr Sunday Movies Avengers-style crossover, and it’s all I ever needed.
I'm always here for the lulz and jokes. But Maso really floored my by casually dropping nominative determinism in relation to the villains shade of lipstick. These guys are fucking funny but also seem to be well-read and worldly, and not just about comics and TV shows.
Richard O'Brien as Thieves Guild Master Xilus is amazing, though, and clearly having the time of his life, for all of the 10 minutes or so that he is in that movie.
New fan. Currently watching every Caravan of Garbage, ever I almost didn't watch this video because I don't care about D&D but the Blue Harvest bit made me glad I did.
Btw everyone, Nick Mason makes a guest appearance on Dragon Friends in a 2 part DnD podcast adventure. He plays a street urchin trying to become an amateur detective. It's brilliant.
This harkens back to classic caravan of garbage for me. And that's not to dis anything you've done recently. But I always love when you guys tackle an obscure straight-to-DVD-looking thing with terrible special effects 😂
They had to use Beholders because it's an instantly recognizable D&D monster that was featured on covers for classic books. A Lich or a Tarrasque wouldn't be that widely known.
1:00 Fun fact: those full motion cut scenes from Dark Forces II were the first live-action Star Wars filmed since the Original Trilogy. It made use of primitive (though impressive at the time) CGI sets to place real actors in the world of Star Wars, a technique George Lucas would later use when making the Prequels. This sowing of a nascent film making technique, combined with its copious use of blue screens, inspired the working title "Blue Harvest", coincidentally also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.
OMG Spellbinder is something I watched dubbed (in hungarian) as a child and often think about but gave up on finding because I wasn't sure which part of it was real and which was something I just made up! Thanks so much, guys!!
I exactly know what you mean! I grew up in the Netherlands watching a lot of subbed australian shows that our local network aired for some reason. Round the Twist, Spellbinder, Secret Valley, Mission Top Secret... ehmm... The one with the big clock time machine in the mall... what was it called...? Timekeeper?
had to stop what i was doing and scrub back to 11:09 because, you're telling me, that this bad movie, insisted on filming at SEDLEC??? OSSUARY????? they needed a REAL HUMAN BONE CHANDELIER FOR THEIR MOVIE???????????
I was so exited to see this movie because it came out when I was a huge dnd kid. I was so angry, and all my dnd friends were angry. We knew it meant they’d never make another for the theater. 20+ years later I hope this one can turn things around.
10:00 the whole Richard O'Brien segment of the movie is a lot more entertaining in retrospect now that I know about his Crystal Maze series, which had run in the UK from 1990 to 1993 but nobody outside the UK had any idea existed. I'd like to know what the marketing for the movie was like in the UK and if they played up the connection.
The Aunty Donna flashes cut into the video make slightly more sense here as a recent trailer clued me in to the fact that the boys from Aunty Donna voice the reanimated corpses in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. That scene where they can only ask 5 questions to the corpse before it dies again never to be brought back feels like it was pulled from a D&D session the directors actually played and makes me even more excited to see this movie.
14:09 That shot is a great example for your own universe. The Aguefort Adventuring Academy. This plot would make for a great D&D inspired Netflix show.
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I can't believe I've been listening to the podcast and watching the videos for 8 years. Y'all are the longest lasting relationship I've ever had.
Longer than your dominant hand?
That's so romantic
@@evandickinson6393 Got ‘em!
Nice
I found them when I was looking for reviews for valerian and the city of thousand planets.
@@evandickinson6393 🔥🔥🔥
James' little giggle when he's midway through Blue Harvest and Mason realises 😂
To be fair it's impossible to say with a straight face
And the boos are perfect and hilarious 😂😆
Right when it was time for Green Trivia, I thought to myself "I miss the Blue Harvest bit". I never laughed harder than I did for this one
lmao same
Don't encourage him, please, I've got money...
I had this one spotted three words in, hope he isn’t losing his fastball!
@@meloD30 I'm listening
Mason's extremely low-energy "boo." at James' blue harvest joke was GREAT
The movie did originally have “Lord of the Rings” level graphics, but Jeremy Irons was eating so much scenery, they had too stretch out what scenery they had left and this is what we got lol
Brilliant
Nah mate, he ate so much scenery they had to waste their entire effects budget on replacing it all with CGI backgrounds
Chewing*
@@MrJakePaddy no, he swallowed...
I love that Ben From Canada's brainrot from having to watch all these movies and edit videos on them has grown from snide captions all the way to just inserting a clip of himself correcting James
EDIT: Oh good god they're making him watch Pixels. Ben From Canada are you... are you okay?
More Ben please. He's the stealth 3rd voice of this channel.
Not only do Beholders have many eyes, they're also extremely paranoid so it makes even less sense for them to sneak around it
And doesn't at least one of the eyes disintegrate whatever it looks at?
Plus extremely combatative with other beholders.
@@Sharklops Each eye has a different magic ability. The main eye can fire a disintegration beam.
Very weird that one would be on guard duty as well.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog Actually, at least as of 5e, the main eye is an anti-magic field
This episode had everything I love. Jeremy irons, around the twist, shade on spellbinders, and references to nominitive determinism.
You yourself are an example of nominative determinism, having the appearance of two or more large cats.
I did NOT expect Around the Twist. But then, does anyone ever?
And Blue Harvest :)
And RODNEYYYYYYYYYYYY!
imagine being the executive who said to James Cameron, in 1999, "so what makes you think you can direct our movie?" If you do that, you deserve to hear about it every day for the rest of your career.
They deserve to have that tattooed on their forehead.
Jeremy Irons is one of those rare actors who, while they can't *save* a bad film, can at least give your money's worth while they are on screen.
I don't think the guy has ever actually delivered a bad role
His role in Margin Call was awful and despite Joe Rogan not committing crimes or breaking the law, he is not a good person.
@@steverogers7601 whatever, crackhead
@@steverogers7601
"Authoritarians did nothing wrong"
@@steverogers7601 wtf are you on about Irons is magnificent in Margin Call. Absolutely cold blooded CEO done extremely well.
@@Davidsworldtravels hes a Joe rogan fan so really that says it all.
Once he got to the part about requiring special seaweed I knew what was happening.
So did Mason😂😂😂
Haven't watched it yet but does it have to do with Rodney?
@@futuredozer1735 indirectly, yes
I actually got as far as thinking, "Wow, I can't believe they went to all that trou-.....waaaiiit a minute."
I’m convinced most of the 80s fantasy movie AI videos use this movie as reference material and it isn’t even from the 80s
I was actually discussing this very flick last week with a mate who didn't know it existed and he was like, "Oh they made one in 2000" and I was all "That must have been the third one then" but it wasn't, Harry, it wasn't the third one at all! It was the first one, then the sequels are even more years after fuckin' _The Matrix_ and _Jurassic Park_ and _Lord of New Zealand_ and shit!
Lord of New Zealand is my jam
The lighting on the AI generated images is too good to be copied from this movie. I suspect their main refferences are _Krull_ and _Ladyhawk_
I genuinely didn't know this was from the year 2000 until this video. I thought it was made in, like, 1993 or something (that being said, I've never actually seen the movie, I just know of its existence).
Ya but DND is
Reign of Fire came out 2 years after this movie and it still has some of the best looking dragons to this day which is crazy to think about
So True...👌
Good movie, underrated, but I still hate they cut a lot of stuff
Best is still Dragonslayer.
well they did the smart thing and mainly had 1 dragon at a time and shown hiding behind real scenery and sets most of the time. This movie went nuts and had like 70 badly rendered dragons all flying around a fake city and fake sky.
The only line that's stuck with me 23 years later is when the Female Mage casts the rope on the main guys, Second Jimmy Olsen smarms "This must be the only way she can get guys to come home with her." to which she quips "I would have to cast a feeble-mind spell on myself to take the likes of you home."
Just...Just wonderful.
This sounds like a very specific interaction during a real campaign and it ended up being used for the movie
What a treat to have Green Trivia, Blue Harvest and the Guy Who Shouts Rodney all in one episode again.
Rodney! Also this movie has my favorite "who allowed this to happen and why" quote. The dwarf is talking about dwarven women having beards while riding a horse and starts rocking dramatically whilst declaring it is better when you have 'SOEMTHING TO HOLD ON TO'
The Blue Harvest joke made my day😂
I'm surprised Ben doesn't love this movie and defend it, actually.
My heart sank at the end of this as I genuinely thought you were announcing a Caravan of Garbage for Schindler’s List. I was worried you guys were about to nuke your own RUclips channel 😂
I'm glad my upload of the D&D movie making-of helped you for the video guys !
Thieves didnt even give you a source credit.
PSA: you CANNOT talk about this film without the hilarious deleted scene, which both makes the film make so much more sense and features the funniest incomplete dragon CGI I have ever seen. I remember howling watching this with my dad when I was little. Good times
I have come to look forward to *Ben* and *Laurence's* editing as much as the hilarious commentary by *Nick* and *James.* _Bravo to all!_ 🙋🏼♂️
It’s my time now to be everybody’s favourite guy; GUY WHO MENTIONS TRIVIA IN THE COMMENTS THAT JAMES FORGOT !!
Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, is in this film. He was one of the actors in the running for Gandalf but, obviously, was rejected in favour of Ian McKellen. Baker took a role in this film because he thought it would be a similar production, and one that required him not to relocate to New Zealand for the better part of a year, and allegedly hated every part of the production despite his small role. He is even quoted as saying he only briefly looked at the script and came onto set believing he was playing an elk.
i need more editor interventions, no way they these bogans are right all the time
My friends and I saw this movie in theatres and there was one other group of folks in there with us. During the scene where the beholder comes around and one of the characters says, "it's a beholder!", one of the guys in the other group leans over to his friends and says "ummmm I believe that's a beholder KIN".
Anyway my friends and I still will say "I believe that's a beholder KIN" any chance we get.
I cannot imagine being 19-20 and having 35-100 million dollars and a major franchise on my shoulders it’s a remarkable achievement he even got this released
I do kind of feel for the guy.
He got the rights cheaply because the owners of the IP probably never expected anything to come of it, only for those same people to alienate some of the hottest directing talent in Hollywood and place him in the position of having to direct a SFX-heavy action-fantasy film with no prior experience and just over a third of the budget that would have been available if they'd been able to secure commitment from someone with a proven track record.
Honestly I think that the lackluster state of the CGI, video compositing and dungeoneering sections can be attributed to the budget and the lack of experience necessary to make up for those deficiencies. They probably couldn't afford to do much in the way of fight choreography, or give the actors a sufficient amount of money to justify spending the time on choreography and rehearsal, and I imagine that the CGI issues weren't helped by the intended scope (especially at the end where there are loads of dragons flying around and causing chaos. They kind of picked the worst possible creatures to try and animate: the number of unique animations and variation in models that would have been needed to translate the dragons to the screen for such a brief part of the film would have been really difficult to do well back then. At least the beholder didn't have legs, but integrating it into footage convincingly and articulating every on of its eyes and facial features probably ended up making it a quite difficult creature in its own right and it doesn't look great.).
Three things… I knew when he said shade of lipstick. Second, that blue harvest story is the second time you’ve used some blue plant or algae thing for blue harvest. Third I FUCKING LOVE YOU BOTH!
Holy shit I never expected a Dimension 20 crossover on Caravan of Garbage
Deep cut and underappreciated joke
It’s amazing to see
HOOT-GROWL! HOOT-GROWL!
Was totally expecting a Hilda-Hilda reference when they started talking about funny names
@@IAmMightyMike what was the joke?
The Guy Who Shouts Rodney always brightens up my day. Unfortunately I did not see this week's Blue Harvest coming.
Damodar popping up in the new movie at 25:18 and being lambasted by Chris Pine (nearly wrote Chris Pratt here) absolutely slew me, so you guys get some experience points for that, I guess.
Just because of this video, I'm putting Damodar Snakeears into my next game. I'm curious if any of my players will get the reference.
could’ve cried when I realised where james was going with that lipstick joke, what a comeback
11 years after Jack Nicholson in Batman, the Hollywood equation for IP blockbusters was still 'Just put all your casting money into the villain'
5:26 James Titanic Cameron? What are his qualifications?
All of them, Williams. Big budget, small budget, realistic, fantastical, costumes, stunts, effects.
His crew wear shirts that say "You can't scare me, I work for James Cameron."
The Blue Harvest comeback made my day. Genuinely put a big smile on my face 😁
Ben from Canada popping in at 21:53 is the best part 😂 more Ben from Canada needed!
I’m honestly interested in seeing the Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie despite never playing DND, I was interested with seeing the movie when I saw that clip where the cast fail with the 5 questions for the dead person.
Same here
that clip is pure D&D energy
Please don't make Ben and Laurence watch modern Sandler. They're good boys. They don't deserve to be punished like this.
I contend that current Sandler is fine. You just have to start with 2016 after The Do Over. The Hotel Transylvania movies are decent kid flicks, and everything else ranges from passable to fantastic (he genuinely deserved an Oscar nod for Uncut Gems).
No one deserved Pixels…
I don’t even wanna watch a video making fun of Pixels, imagine having to watch the full movie! And having to go over certain scenes several times to get the edit right!
@@wesstapley Naaaaaaaaaah
The old stuff was on the same level as the new stuff. Make of that what you will...
I remember vividly watching this and spotting two extras in a bar fight scene just holding each other’s shoulders and rocking back and forth.
How on earth did Ben and Laurence land on a quick pull from 90s Australian children's TV show 'Round The Twist' @12.26 when James mentioned 'eating snails?' What an amazing, but wildly obscure reference!
I sadly didn't notice the blue harvest until it was too late, he bloody got me
21:50 I’m surprised Ben didn’t love this movie. He loves every other horrible thing that James makes him watch lol.
I did see this back in 2000 and for 23 years I haven't been able to say the right words to describe what I saw. Thank you guys. You nailed it.
Good gief, at 11:49 you can actually see the green screen glitching out in two spots.
I loved this movie when I was young and stupid. I remember the dragons being photorealistic and WOW.
Life comes at you fast.
Yeah, I grew up with ps1 graphics, this seemed awesome looking at the age of 11...
Still felt boring and stupid tho.
LOL, 19:40. "The main guy and the snooty wizard lady who are gonna f-.... have a kiss, later."
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
When strange things are happening, are you going round the twist?
I can remember the theme tune to a 90s tv show, but I can't remember what I did last week...
"I asked myself: What is this?"
It's perfection, my friend. Complete and total perfection!
I really appreciate Ben trying to class this one up with a tonne of Succession clips.
Since it looks like Space Marine 2 is coming out this year, I would love to see them review the animated Ultramarines movie. It may even be worse than this
Jeremy Irons is the greatest part of this movie he's just looks like he's having the most fun with this
As a Dimension 20 fan, I love the use of Lou's Nat 20 clip lol
I saw this in the cinema several times in Ireland. Then I was in the Netherlands and films opened months later there and I saw it a few more times. It was so enjoyable. I probably have seen this in the theater more times than anyone else has. I don't know what that says about me
I'm not sure what it says either, but it's certainly a lot
1:39 God bless you, Ben or Laurence; whoever decided to use Ocean's Eleven there. It's the simple, not-necessarily-a-meme references that make me appreciate your videos so much.
The sudden crit role song clip had me living thank you Ben and Laurence great edit 🎉🎉🎉
Seeriously, the special effects on _Young Sherlock Holmes_ were leagues better than those in the first _Dungeons & Dragons_ movie... but YSH came out in 1985!! So all their creature effects (like the little flying demon-monkeys) were done Ray Harrihausen style in stop motion with actual figurines. Except for the stained glass golem, that knight that jumped out of a stained glass window... that one was actually ground-breaking early CGI, if I remember a making-off I saw correctly.
Rodney AND Blue Harvest. Legendary moment in history
By showing Brennan Lee Mulligan AND Broden Kelly in this video, you have suggested a College Humor/Aunty Donna/Mr Sunday Movies Avengers-style crossover, and it’s all I ever needed.
Dimension 20 footage makes me happy, thanks editors
Succession, Better Call Saul AND Dimension 20? Ben and Laurence speaking directly to my soul
The dimension 20 layover justified my dropout subscription lmao
I'm always here for the lulz and jokes.
But Maso really floored my by casually dropping nominative determinism in relation to the villains shade of lipstick.
These guys are fucking funny but also seem to be well-read and worldly, and not just about comics and TV shows.
Loved this film as a kid, that snails death/porridge scene used to kill me. Thanks for the nostalgia.
The second anyone mentions Round the Twist the theme song immediately plays in my head and doesn't stop for about a week.
That blue harvest bit, got me real good 😂
Seeing dimension 20 footage on a Mr Sunday video is very strange for me, like finding out a friend from school knows a friend from college.
Giving a crazy absurd performance to win an Oscar? Lame. Giving a crazy absurd performance to obtain a castle? True warlock behaviour very impressed
My favorite thing is the commentary track for it which is 90% "We had this cool scene right here but we ran out of money.*
Nice Dimension 20 nod!
Edit: oooh, and Crit Role!!
The preemptive “boo” while James tries to finish his Blue Harvest bit 😂
I will always love the guy who yells Rodney
I really want to watch James and Maso play Dungeons and Dragons now with Ben as the Dungeon Master
Richard O'Brien as Thieves Guild Master Xilus is amazing, though, and clearly having the time of his life, for all of the 10 minutes or so that he is in that movie.
I just remembered that eragon and this movie are separate entities
New fan. Currently watching every Caravan of Garbage, ever I almost didn't watch this video because I don't care about D&D but the Blue Harvest bit made me glad I did.
Friendly reminder: When these dudes say "NOINEY NOINEY NOINE", in English it translates to 1999
Also, I’m glad that James Cameron didn’t do this because I wouldn’t have Dimension 20 so, fair trade
The guy who shouts Rodney never fails to make me smile
Hey, I’m just happy Dimension 20 got put in the video.
Btw everyone, Nick Mason makes a guest appearance on Dragon Friends in a 2 part DnD podcast adventure. He plays a street urchin trying to become an amateur detective. It's brilliant.
This harkens back to classic caravan of garbage for me. And that's not to dis anything you've done recently. But I always love when you guys tackle an obscure straight-to-DVD-looking thing with terrible special effects 😂
They had to use Beholders because it's an instantly recognizable D&D monster that was featured on covers for classic books. A Lich or a Tarrasque wouldn't be that widely known.
Nicely put huge nerd
1:00 Fun fact: those full motion cut scenes from Dark Forces II were the first live-action Star Wars filmed since the Original Trilogy. It made use of primitive (though impressive at the time) CGI sets to place real actors in the world of Star Wars, a technique George Lucas would later use when making the Prequels. This sowing of a nascent film making technique, combined with its copious use of blue screens, inspired the working title "Blue Harvest", coincidentally also the working title of the original Star Wars from 1977.
OMG Spellbinder is something I watched dubbed (in hungarian) as a child and often think about but gave up on finding because I wasn't sure which part of it was real and which was something I just made up! Thanks so much, guys!!
I exactly know what you mean! I grew up in the Netherlands watching a lot of subbed australian shows that our local network aired for some reason. Round the Twist, Spellbinder, Secret Valley, Mission Top Secret... ehmm... The one with the big clock time machine in the mall... what was it called...? Timekeeper?
Blooody love seeing an unexpected Dimension 20 clip!
As I clicked play I thought to myself “I guess James is done with the blue harvest joke.” Glad to see a return to form.
had to stop what i was doing and scrub back to 11:09 because, you're telling me, that this bad movie, insisted on filming at SEDLEC??? OSSUARY????? they needed a REAL HUMAN BONE CHANDELIER FOR THEIR MOVIE???????????
I didn't realize how much satisfaction I would suddenly derive from a Ben cameo.
More Ben (from Canada) content, please!
Fantasy High in a Mr Sunday Movies video, the crossover I didn't know I needed.
I absolutely love the Aunty Donna clips sprinkled through these videos. Thank you Ben and or Lawrence ❤️
I was so exited to see this movie because it came out when I was a huge dnd kid. I was so angry, and all my dnd friends were angry. We knew it meant they’d never make another for the theater. 20+ years later I hope this one can turn things around.
10:00 the whole Richard O'Brien segment of the movie is a lot more entertaining in retrospect now that I know about his Crystal Maze series, which had run in the UK from 1990 to 1993 but nobody outside the UK had any idea existed. I'd like to know what the marketing for the movie was like in the UK and if they played up the connection.
Thank you Ben from Canada for your service at 21:51
16:56 I wonder what James looked into with dragon blood 😂
The Aunty Donna flashes cut into the video make slightly more sense here as a recent trailer clued me in to the fact that the boys from Aunty Donna voice the reanimated corpses in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. That scene where they can only ask 5 questions to the corpse before it dies again never to be brought back feels like it was pulled from a D&D session the directors actually played and makes me even more excited to see this movie.
Ben's interjections are frequently some of the funniest parts of these videos
I profoundly identify with the green trivia guy who shouts “Rodney” and then gets eviscerated.
Green trivia and guy who shouts Rodney is easily the best segment in anything ever
14:09
That shot is a great example for your own universe.
The Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
This plot would make for a great D&D inspired Netflix show.
AAAAAAYYYYYYYYY Dimension 20 appearance, what's upppppppppppp!!!!!!