1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Great the Flick with Ben o'ha on ninety six am. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 2: Ben is with us. Good morning band. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: Good morning. And now, guys, have you ever played Dungeons 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: and Dragon No, I have not. No, nobody has a 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: vintage to you know. It is the original geek game. 6 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: It is absolutely for geeks. There's no doubt about it. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: Peak geek energy, in peak geek peakeek. So and look, 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: and you have every right to be deeply suspicious about 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: a movie adaptation of Dungeons and Dragons because it's, firstly, 10 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: no one really knows the game other than the fact 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: that it's very geeky, and it's kind of like the 12 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: butt of a joke about geek culture. And there was 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 1: an adaptation in the year two thousand and that starred 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: Oscar winner Jeremy Irons no less and it was terrible, 15 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: yeah right, absolute stinker, critical and box office flop. So 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: based on all of that, you'd probably think that a 17 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: new Dungeons and Dragons movie is probably not going to 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: be much better. But I am pleased to report you'd 19 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: be absolutely wrong, right, yeah, yeah, So Dungeons and Dragons 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: Honor among Thieves stars Chris Pine as a sort of 21 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: a fallen hero who's locked up in prison. His name's 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: Edgin and his best mate Holger Kilgore played by The 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: Fast and the Furious as Michelle Rodriguez. They're serving this 24 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: lengthy prison sentence for attempting to steal magical artifacts. Like 25 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: the heist was all about, like obtaining the magic he 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: needed to bring his really departed wife back to life 27 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: and kind of like have this perfect existence with his daughter. 28 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: But they got caught, they got imprisoned, and so now 29 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: the duo have no choice but to kind of escape 30 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: from prison find his daughter, who's been looked after by 31 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: a former colleague of theirs in crime and a con 32 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: man played by Hugh Grant who seems to have kind 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: of like really leaned into these kind of roles at 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: this day of his career, and he's very good at 35 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: it as well. But what makes this film so good 36 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: is it kind of celebrates the source material without being 37 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: completely beholden to it. So for people like us who 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: don't really know much about dungeons and dragons, there's nothing 39 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: here that we're going to look at and go what 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: is this about? Like it all makes perfect senses of film, 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: and it's treated with such a great sense of humor, 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: that it feels like, you know, everybody's kind of in 43 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: on the joke, whether you're a big D and D 44 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: fan or you know, you think it's all a bit 45 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: of a joke itself. But the directors say that they 46 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,399 Speaker 1: were influenced by a bunch of films that I think 47 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: give you a pretty good idea of what this Dungeons 48 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: and Dragons movie is like. So films like The Princess Bride, 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: Monty Python and Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings and 50 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: Indiana Jones. So if you can imagine a mash up 51 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: of all of those films, that's kind of what we're 52 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: talking about here. And like, I think a lot of 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: people would think that sounds okay, that is a bit 54 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: of a bention, bit of a laugh. As well. As 55 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: they're going to go on this quest to find the 56 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: daughter and save her from the class of Hugh Grant, 57 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: they have like they throw in their lot with a 58 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: wizard who's lacking in self confidence played by Justice Smith. 59 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: There's a shape shifting druid played by Sophia Lillis from 60 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: the recent movies and also possibly the most beautiful night 61 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: in Shining Armor of all time, who's played by Bridget 62 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: and heartthrob Reggie John Page yea, and the way that 63 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: they incorporate him into the plot is actually hilarious. It's 64 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: kind of spoof a lot of what he did in 65 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 1: Bridgid and it's quite well done. Then you've got a 66 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: lot of fantastical kind of CGI beasts as well that 67 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: are kind of treated in a very funny way as well. 68 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: And in the end you kind of end up with 69 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: this charming movie that actually makes it pretty easy to 70 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: be swept up in the Dungeons and Dragons world. And 71 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: I now you know, like there'll be sequels, mark my words. 72 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 2: Well, I've just binged the last of us. So I'm 73 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: going to never say no because who'd have known that 74 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 2: so much? I'm going to never say no mode At 75 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: the moment, ben Any, Dan d Darcy, you're giving it 76 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: what you got. 77 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to roll three and a half. That's that's healthy. 78 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: It's pretty hot.