cool vis spoony :)

Jack's tattoos! Classic! Also, just an FYI the black hat with the white stripe was on backwards. Didn't know if you were going for that or not. But the dip goes in front.
Awesome as usual, Spoony!

…. When Spoony talks about his school D&D experience… Am I the only one imagining people behind him yelling: “He's a witch! Burn him?”

still think the more extreme nerds are the ones who go through tattoos to celebrate their geekdom. love all the hats btw. i never got into D and D, i was one of those chicks that played Warcraft for kicks. Also some Magic the Gathering.

couldn't help but laugh at how easily they just go to the caverns. when in the hell were Nerds so eager to leave their homes?? i mean shit.

about the whole intro thing. a little something different is cool. i didnt know it was a new version of your theme music til i paid attention to the lyrics. very nice. and yay everybody is STILL making fun of ….the guy who I cant remember his name *odd stare to camera*

I don't dislike it because it's new, I dislike it because it's bad. It sounds like every generic modern hard rock song on the radio nowadays.

Great video, Spoony, nothing like going into the vaults and watching some old piece of fear mongering propaganda whose sole purpose is to instill fear and paranoia into the hearts of parents around the world. Ranks right up there with Reefer Madness; sure that one was just insane beyond belief, but when you remember that Mazes and Monsters was made in the frikin' 80's it some how makes it worse.

Saddly I was unable to get into the D&D crowd growing up; I loved the concept but none of my friends ever did it, and I didn't really know enough about it to start it up myself (though most of my friends would have just gotten bored and hopped onto the N64 or something in the middle of it….they had ADD). One of my nerd regrets in life was not getting into one of those at least once, but eh what are ya gonna do?

PS: Love the new intro theme, you should definitely keep it, forget what some of the others say, they simply fear change.

I really loved this review, Spoony. Everything from the long but meaningful steps you took in the beginning to lead us in, to the sweet, new, remixed opening, to the funny jokes used throughout. I really think your stuff's picking up with this review! It feels like it's been a while since your last movie/game review, but you sure made up for lost time!

Oh, and I love the occasional freak-outs you do in your reviews over random stuff… great stuff! The pics you find for the “Please wait” moments are classic as well! Keep up the good work! :D

My parents once got concerned about my D&D hobby. They asked me what was up, and I actually rented this movie to show them just how ridiculous their concerns were.

That's right, this film is so bad that it had the opposite of the intended effect, and convinced my parents that roleplaying games are harmless. No way could such a ludicrous plot have ANY basis in reality.

I must say this is one of your best, Spoony.

Wow, I really liked both the new / covered theme song and the review.

“OVERREACT!!”

Great review Spoony. Hail to the geeks.

I remember when I was a kid around 9 years old (I'm 29 now), that our english teacher one day came up with the idea of making groups and have us play D&D, you know, to have a bit of fun practicing it for a day instead of the “boring” classes so we liked it more, as english was the foreign language class for us.

Some kids didn't want to play and were flat out scared about it, because their parents had warned them about that game and how dangerous it was. Really, it was in the list of things parents warned their kids not to do. And I don't even want to know what exactly they told them, seeing that they were in fact scared and eager to comply.

I had never player D&D at that time either, but I know what it was about and I was one of the very few kids in that class trying to explain their class mates they were wrong and how the game worked. They were still scared as hell when we got them to finally play out of sheer peer presure. Sure, they realized it was silly at the end, but it was still very talk about at the school for a while, very surreal.
… and the poor teacher was appalled that was the reaction he got with his “making a fun class” idea.

I know a couple nerds that can actually fight. I watched them kick some serious ass before at a couple parties.

That part about IT work going to India and China almost made me shit myself, awesome review! I also lost my last tech job to India. So I feel your pain.

Lol, insect on the lens@19:40

I hope the old song comes back…

I gotta say, best video to date. Everything seemed to mesh really well though I personally would have mentioned that the Great Hall was based on his long lost brother whose disappearance cause great grief and stress for the family. Yeah…I own the movie. I bought it because of the cover art. I bought a whole different bad movie than I thought I was.

This is why I hate Disqus with a passion. It absolutely hated IE and anyone who won't sign up because they don't want to have to sign up to 50,000 different things. (Also, Open ID hates me.) Now I have to rewrite three paragraphs of text. Although the first one was only a sentence long.

I would like to push for the old theme version, please.

While I'm not going to defend radicalised rage against RPGs, I would like to add some perspective. According to an old tract I have (not Chick, the guy even puts down Christian rock as Satan's work), the problem wasn't the fantasy RPG itself, but what they saw as actual occultic symbols and concept in the work. Their desire was for D&D to create a completely original fantasy world (not even “lightening it up” or complaing about fantasy magic or monsters) without those symbols. The concern was that while not every gamer was part of a cult or selling their soul to Satan, actual cults would use the game as a recruiting tool, since their symbols and concept were right there and making it an easy sell. (Kind of like recruiting Christians with Voltron or something. Oh, you know that was tried. Sven clearly used the sign of the cross to break Hagar's illusion. You saw it!) So there's that.

Also, just because most World of Warcraft players aren't unbathed basement dwellers surviving only on Moutain Dew during 36 hour marathons until they pass out on the keyboard doesn't mean nimrods like that don't exist. Every stereotype in the world started from somewhere, even if it was a cultural misunderstanding (intended or innocent). There were warning signs that JJ there was going to go off the deep end, and if parents knew to look for it when they weren't turning their son's room into vector graphics without their permission (there are parents that dimwitted–thankfully mine are awesome unlike the ones in this movie) they may be able to help the kid (try bonding with them as a loving parent BEFORE they go bat-guano insane) and find a positive outlet for their issues, even if it turns out to be D&D.

So concerns can be genuine, if not misplaced. If you don't want to be judged too harsly, don't judge them too harshly. Not every critic is Jack Chick or Jack Thompson but if you treat them all that way none of you are going to make any headway on either side of the issue.

Spoony… please give Burton a dust :)

nice review!

I liked the review, but the 9/11 joke kinda ruined the whole video for me. Apparently, you forgot about the car bomb attack on the WTC in 1993.

nice intro remix…

“The concern was that while not every gamer was part of a cult or selling their soul to Satan, actual cults would use the game as a recruiting tool”

You know the whole Satanic cults/Satanic ritual abuse phenomenon throughout the 80's and 90's was a complete myth, right?

I laughed my arse off at the 9/11 joke.

Love how you're trying new stuff, but I don't think that theme song works for you. It's like having Johnny Depp be the Terminator. They're good by themselves, but not together.

Hilarious computer science rant. It'd be easy to take out India. Hell, it's so crowded, you could drop three rocks and it would kill 10 people.

And I had no idea you were a gay satanist. You free this Wednesday? =p

I blame the Nostalgia Critic's Warriors of Virtue video for that!

WoW, sounds like your from some form of backwater country still living like medieval times. Oh wait…

I had it much easier ^^, dident have to hide me and my firends played DnD. Might be cos we played sometimes with freinds/brothers that was 4-5 time older then us. And large portion of our population is murdering childeating satanists… I meen atheists.

Yeah, I remember that too… fortunately, we had administrators who would actually listen when we said we weren't playing for ante. Most of the time, anyway.

For some reason, they never busted the kids playing dice in the boys' room, though…

The Johnny Dep-inator…….that movie MUST be made.

Boy was I immensely happy to see this video posted today as Mazes and Monsters is one of my favorite of your written reviews. Also, Benzaie's Tommy Wiseau was fucking HILARIOUS! And I loved the Monster A-Go-Go reference

Beware the sacrilege!

Across the world LARPers look upon this and realised why you can't set this shit up without getting the insurance first.
Now I'm a LARPer myself and have been out on set ups similiar to those caves.
The monsters were played by LARPers themselves in costume.
The party was fighting Reavers (Yes, THOSE reavers, browncoat.) and the end boss was a freaking xenomorph.
This was done in an abandoned German gun battery/bunker with little/no lighting.
We've yet to get anyone suddenly having AVP 2000 flash backs, screaming “It's Game over man! GAME OVER!!” and generally ending up a vegetable.
That said I realise that I'm preaching to the choir.
Honestly, I've LARPed with people with psychological problems who were totally drunk/stoned in situations that were freakish (Such as the time a militia patrol got jumped by a guy in a ghillie suit who was a lawn golem, you can't make this shit up) and they were more scared for metagaming reasons.

You really nailed the DM stare, as I have done it on several occations in my games(almost all of them caused by one player). Which reminds me, the night I first DM'ed my own game was the same day Gary Gigax died. Sad day.

You bring up two interesting points.

1) Politics: you're right in that bringing politics into neutral entertainment territory does change the dynamic. It's hard to actually be neutral all the time, however, and considering that the attacks on D&D and roleplaying games were generated from the religious right, Spoony's views were completely warranted. As you said, he has the right to say what he thinks, and you have the right to watch or not watch.

2) The “mental illness” factor: Really? So television, movies, cable news, video games, books, sports, politics, religion, etc. can't do the same thing? You are right in that people should watch out for their friends and family if they start acting “odd”, but that should be a given. The failures of our society occur when “odd” people are alienated. Social settings usually do the opposite (though not always), and RPGs are quite social. I've played them a lot over the years, so I have some insight here. There's no justifcation for singling out RPGs, nor is there evidence that it leads to cultism, occult or otherwise. The people of Jamestown or the Branch Davidians weren't RPGers first.

My seven cents (correcting for inflation and all).

This is truly just astounding. One of the most hilarious yet extremely saddening examples of how people completely misplace blame.

P.S. Not a big fan of the new intro song. The video is fine but the song is just.. bleh.

Spoonyboy… Wait a minute, M_Appel? the M stands for Maximillion doesn't it? You're Pegasus! Run Spoony, he's gonna use a spell card to turn you into a toon and then probably make you watch Spice World or something else horribly camp!

I like the lighter tone of the original theme song, but the remix definitely works if you need to do a badass video.

Is it me Or Dose the Kids Room that redecorated into a Hosptal does the floor remind u of Portal 2 trailers?

Very funny review Spoony. I had never even heard of this movie before you mentioned it in an earlier video, which left me curious to it and in the back of my mind I hoped you'd review it eventually. I guess blaming social issues on the easiest cause is just human nature, mostly because mentally humans are lazy bastards who can't be bothered to give deeper thought to anything.

Though I won't be too hard on Tom Hanks, this was early in his career so most likely he saw this as a test of his acting skill, what with playing an insane person and all. I doubt he supported the message of the film.

Also, I don't care what others say, I like the new theme song. A little change is good now and then, helps keep things fresh.

My sister went to ASU

D&D will turn players into real life killer. If you don't believe me just watch Mazes & Monsters. Tom Hank's character kill someone in the movie.

Only stupid parenting group who know next to nothing believe that a board game will influence players to kill in real life.

Great review Spoony!

no, it means some random final fantasy fanboy must die before lady scarlett gets spooned… which will make spoony even happier

I remember seeing this when I was little, it made my mom even more paranoid about D&D. Then again she was a batshit insane Christian who thought the ninja turtles were evil too.

WTF. benzai has PS3 games in 2002?! lol

Never stop making videos that was great! So many good jokes and the hat gag was really funny as well.

You act as if intolerance, ignorance, and xenophobia are either exclusive to or the most prominent identifying feature of the US.

!!actor wannabe!!!! what's happened, everything has gone.(the fun, the cleverness, the creativity, the uniqueness, the style, the, comedy, the ability to appeal internationally, the site viewers will accept anything they see. Spooney the celebra-tit.

I think we've just seen the official replacement for Admiral Akbar's “IT'S A TRAP!”

Well, guess the time has finally come to end my life, with me being a homosexual and an abomination to nature, because I go to drama class.
*puts noose around neck*
What? Spoony went to drama class? And Neil Patrick Harris is gay?
*flys outta noose*
I'm not a freak!
*flys into the sun*

What's with the new theme song? “Break Me” was your signature, the tune that my brain has permanently associated with imminent hilarity. Please change it back.

Didn't anyone notice that this song IS “Break Me”? The lyrics are exactly the same as the other song, the music and band are just different…

Every decade/century/millennium needs a scapegoat for people to try to understand why people do the things they do. D&D, Comic Books, Beavis and Butthead, and now video games. We've come a long way, technologically, but people in general are still very stupid.

As for the theme song…he DID keep his theme song…it's just a remix…we've all heard of remixes, right?

Yes, there are a lot of people in the U.S. that are racist. It's a problem that the U.S. as a whole is still dealing with, it's just not the same racism we had 40 or 50 years ago.

But, is a fucking Spoony Expirement video really the place to talk about this? I'm just trying to enjoy Spoony raging on a bad movie. Try taking a sociology class and debating it there, or to a relevant forum.

You kind of have to love the paranoia used to make that movie. It's almost as amusing as the dvd box art. Oh those crazy people. Ha. I hope they keep making the nerds laugh. When the nerd rapture begins all the crimes will be paid for in full… I mean, what? Nevermind.

So who was the poor victim of the gunblade incident? Surely you have it on camera just like the phone call, right?

The cover is misleading, but are there screen captures on the back or inside the box the show how dated the movie really is?

I love your story at the beginning, lmao! It's okay. My grandmother has stated that the priests in her church have said that Pokemon is from the devil, despite it just being an anime for kids.

People are just stupid.

I like your hat collection. Also Benzai as Tommy Wiseau= PURE WIN. Lmao. Thanks for making an embarrassingly bad movie into a hilarious review!

Spoony, I swear, we are brothers under the skin. You talk about your past and your life as it is, man… you're not alone. Whatever you think, you're not alone.

By “Beware the Sacrilege,” he meant to beware the sacrilege of disturbing the dead and that it might pull a knife on him. Funny joke though, and I'm sure you knew that. The intro theme cover… It… It wasn't very good! Very much unlike your reviews! =D

Hahaha. This is my new favroite video. It was just absolutly halarious. Well done Spoony, well done.

(kudos on the It Lives By Night refrence)

Wow, it's been awhile, but you pulled off another win. Hilarious review.

I may not be a D-back fan but I live in Reno so GO RENO ACES!

Yay another review ^_^, I had been hoping you would go into more details about this movie, when i saw a clip from it in the DND review i was like “This looks fucking stupid”.. But it turns out that this was even worse than i though, why the hell would you play real life DND in a cave without monsters or dices, well alright they do roll dices and then they shout out “MONSTER!” and people get scared as shit and wet their pants or according to this movie they just start going completely banana. Also why would they play in a completely dark room with a freaking candle as their only light source, how serious can you take a frigging board game? Nerds don't sit in dark rooms with candle lights.. Goth's do that, nerds sits around the table eating potato chips and haves fun with the damn game. Well anyway nice review and nice work tearing down this stupid movie.

Ok, at 19 mins or so, when they're talking about celibacy, is there at bug on the camera? A black smudge is moving around near the woman's face.

The musical intro isnt bad… but the singer is WAY too tonedeaf!

Loved the mid-life crisis breakdown,

lol, your childhood must have been rough

Boy, the worst thing that ever happened to me playing D&D was when one of the guys I was playing with thought it was a Pen and Paper Grand Theft Auto and started killing everybody in the game… and I swear to this day, that guy was a Satanist BEFORE he started playing D&D! BEFORE! (for those not in the know with my high school year group, there was a legitimate LaVeyan Satanist in my year group who somehow crashed our D&D group. Little did we know that his douchebaggery towards Dwarven Clerics had little to do with Satan, because he was a LaVeyan and not an occultist, but he was well established as a meanie in most interactive entertainment media such as RPGs and video games).

That said I don't think ANYONE I know's ever regarded Magic: The Gathering as any more dangerous than Warhammer 40,000, but I live in Australia and we have a situation here where most of the population doesn't agree with religious fundamentalists who make laws against things like violent video games, even though fundies have power. It's because of them Australia is ridiculed as the country that bans video games that aren't suitable for people under 15.

I for one like that opening. It just reeks of bad assness. Long live the experiment! I GOT BLOOD ON MY GUNBLADE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW IT GOT THERE!

Hahaha! That was funny! :D I use to play another Roleplaying game, and i use to play Wow on a RPPVP server so i have my RP experienses. Thank god i dident grow up at that time i would have just done around scaring people for life and just laugh like hell at there stupidity… Love the hat thing! If i knew i could have sent you my rise farmers hat! If you would have sent it back ofc! Once again Love you Spoony you kick ass! :D

The new cover of the opening is OK, but the original pumped me up for the show more I've got to say. (I liked the 8-bit one if it's any consolation) o-o

Yeah… as much as I can understand you wanting to showcase indie work and give props, the intro music really wasn't my thing. Not that it was bad. I just am not into that kind of rock.

I had no idea this movie existed, but I had heard a great deal about the stories about the evils of D&D and the college students, ect. I even read a couple of books lambasting the game. It was basically one writer piecing together snips of information taken out of context displayed from another writer. It was really bogus and I spotted the blatant ignorance even as a child and when the memories of this witch-hunt were fresh in the minds of americans and most people then still actually believed (and some still do) that D&D were tools of the occult. Of course if you look at the game now, it's about as violent and aggressive as Titan A.E. …heh heh. That poor movie.

AT LAST! :) I've been waiting for this one so long, and it was fabulous!
Btw, nice pimp hat, Spoony.

Yeah, the old intro with Yuna at the opening was the best in my mind. Just seemed like the bad video games and movies were begging to not be abused any more. Review was good though, one of my favorites so far.

Yay Call Of Cthulhu! Now that's a P&P game that will make people think you're a cultist.

Also… I feel like a major geek for recognizing the Monster A Go Go sample…Does anyone know where I can find that movie?

i have to agree, i liked the old one better. even if it was a woman singing…well, so what? at least it was energetic and fun, and even had a bit of attitude. i found myself looking /forward/ to the theme song, if anything.

oy, typeo. *complaint

I didn't play D&D, was actually head of Fellowship of Christian Athletes at my school and was called a satanist by people that didn't know me. And they weren't religious nuts that lied about me and thought I was a satanist in fact they were all irreligious people that called me a satanist. The reason they did was cause I dressed weird and like “Christian Rock!” They didn't even know what I was listening to was Christian! Silly people are everywhere and they aren't just the Ned Flanders type either people just prejudge people that they feel are weird.

My older brother played D&D when he was in high school, and I wasn't cool enough to play with him and his friends. Think about the for a second I wasn't cool enough to play D&D. I think I'm the only person on the planet, what made it worse was my mom was the dungeon master and i still was aloud to play FML

You may say Harry Potter is harmless, but I watched ALL of Benet the Sages reading of My Immortal. Ya… I'll accept your apology now ;)

Are you saying that America is full of stupid people, because if so, you might want to be quiet, less the GATE KEITHER shows up and banishes you to a party, IN CANADA!

Now I will mock you with a hearty American skronk! SKRONK!

…in America.

I really don't like the new opening ;_;

I agree. This country is plagued with idiots.

Mike was def better than Joel but everyone here has to be in their 20s to be sync'd with spoony's references, so they're (like me) the people who were only old enough to get into MST3k during the Mike years. And, as someone who knew MST3k originally from Mike and then went back to watch Joel seasons I was never able to shake the feeling that it was .. less than. Trace -> Bill Corbett as crow is a big part of that feeling too. RIFFTRAX > CINEMATIC TITANTIC TOO !

Really funny Spoony, Don't kill anybody with a limit break now.

Huh, so it really is purely for sexual reasons…

Honestly Spoony, I don't know if you read all the comments on your website or not, but I had to tell you about the new intro you made for your videos, to be frank..

IT SUCK ASS..

The heavy metal track is horrible, the typography is amateurish, the video editing is crap-tastics!

Although your old intro was horrible, but that was EPIC comparing it to this piece of shit.

Get professional help stat! For video editing I mean. :)

I'm sure I've had that GM look more then once with a player of mine in our Star Wars RPG group. The problem is that he hasn't done anything his bounty hunter(SW fighter) hasn't been able to survive yet. He's even insisted once that we split the party when sneaking into a dark factory leading to himself and a partner stuck on some catwalks that had guys that had shot at the rest of us. One of the group was Sullustan and they can see in the dark but not well enough to know it was them up there so the rest of us ended up shooting at them both. At the end of the same fight we cornered the guy we were after and instead of a stun blast he opted to start a boxing match with the guy that he knew was an expert boxer. Maybe we should have let him kill him after connecting the knockout punch now that i think about it…..

Great review but I find it dissapointing that “beware the sacrilege” isnt an internet meme, i just laugh everytime I hear it and think it took several takes just for him to say that with a straight face and not burst with laughter.

Honestly, koldstare, I don't know if you read replies to all your comments on this website or not, but I had to tell you about this comment in response to the Mazes and Monsters video, to be frank..

IT SUCK ASS

The grammar is just terrible, there wasn't actually an ounce of constructive criticism to be found, at no point did you actually point out where in the video his stuff looks amateurish or use any details to substantiate any point at all.

Although your screen name is pretty horrible, it sounds like a work of creative genius in comparison to your half assed criticisms.

Get professional help stat! May I suggest MS Word of firefox to check spelling and proofreading future posts =)

I think you're underselling Joel's sleepy, affable charm! They are like my children. It would be impossible for me to pick a favorite.

Yeah why do people have this view? I mean of my gaming group the closest thing to suicidal person is the guy who regularly gets alcohol poisoning at college. The closed to to insanity is the guy with ADD.

THE HATS! HAAAHAAHAHA! plus the amphetamine addiction, erotic murder, and the useless degree breakdown made this the best review i've ever seen. oh yeah and the gunblade… YOU'RE TEARING ME APART SPOONY!

And a 911 joke! this is pure win.

Actually…take it from someone who grew up reading Jack Chick's shit. He's just bugfuck insane and is using fundamentalist Christianity to spread the crazy.

If anyone can read even a panel of a “Chick Tract” without realising the author is a fucking looney should probably be forced to undergo sterilisation.

16:32 spoony's pose with a pink hat :) lol

…WAIT!

ABOUT THE NEW SONG

it was good but it gives the show a different sorta feel since the style is so different, so when you just opened the review like you always do it was really jarring. i dunno. take that with a grain of salt

Holy shit, I just burst out laughing when Angry Joe showed up as the “illegal immigrant”. That's a low blow, Spoony. But hilarious.

love the new intro, but i would love to have seen in it the doctor Insane transformation

I game where you play as a fictional character and the sole purpose is to make a load a money
better start recalling all those games of monopoly
its fucking evil i tell you

I don't get the hate on the theme song cover. I'd kill to have someone write me a theme song, and to have it covered by ANYBODY would be an honor. How many of you have your own online-show theme song? I don't even like that style of music, but I enjoyed the new, different opening all the same. Explain, internet. Explain.

I'm surprised more people didn't harp on that. It was the first thought I had at that line.

Bayonetta cameo ftw!

btw, thanks for the info about the whole Mazes and Monsters book. i never heard of of this story or where it came from.

New intro = dislike, The review was awesome though

yea, gotta agree, not a fan of the new intro. i like the mood of the original which was fun. this new one is all angry and metal…

did you know that the scorce of alot of jack chicks anti rock and roll and D&D crap came from a man named john todd who the pastor at the end of the chick tract “dark dungeons is modeled after, who had been denounced as a fraud and has been under investegation for forming convens to meet with under age girls and im not kidding about that. and for anti catholic conspiricy theories was a man named alberto rivera a man who would make up stories about his time training to be a priest for the catholic church and steal money from people under the guise needing to build a school. you can look them up on wikipedia and get the whole story.

You're such a hilariously bad actor, Spoony, but I still love you. Also, is that bit about MIT true, or is it just malarkey?

My take is that both Jack T. Chick AND Fundamentalist Christianity are bugfuck insane, because what he rambles on about is just an amplified version of the crap you would hear about in chapel on Wednesdays (the Smurfs are Satanic, Fleetwood Mac is Satanic, Jews are going to Hell because they won't “complete the covenant” and covert, yadda-yadda-blah-blah-blah) except that in Chick's version the last panel of the comic has the Devil laughing HAW-HAW-HAW. It's very hard to hate people for even existing and still try to convert them, but Chick found a way.

Ahahah, I don't think I stopped laughing from the moment you said “call the national guard!”

I think I'm the only person that liked the new intro.

Nice 28 Days Later reference near the beginning.

And WOW those people take their D&D game too seriously. Playing with twenty billion candles? I'm surprised the girl didn't catch her hair on fire.

Spooney admitted he is a Gay Satanist.

Spooney now I have a image of you getting ass pounded by the devil.

Thank you for aknowledging my fantasy.

More like a deer in headlights, but then he was supposed to “balance out” the hat fetishist, the gamer chick, and Insane Tom Hanks….it failed miserably, but that was what he was supposed to do.

That rant about MIT and the software companies was the funniest thing I've ever heard!!!

I am LOVING that The Room reference! Oh god…'nam flashbacks of Tommy Wiseau ass…..OH GOD.

The cover of Break Me is painfully bad. Even the 8-Bit version was WAY better. That said, holy crap! I'd heard about all that fearmongering bullshit about D&D, but I didn't get any prejudice for my gaming ways… (Not specifically, anyway, I still got the run-of-the-mill Nerd treatment like everyone else :D ) Perhaps the Great White North is a little more removed from the whole Hellfire and Damnation insanity our American friends seem to enjoy so much, but JEEZUS CHRIST!

LOVE your rant at 10:16ish, Spoony! My GF almost choked when she saw it :). Also, love the Monster A-Go-Go riff, but I think I was the only one in the room who got it.

What a bullshit movie. Ah, well. Spoon on, brotha.

LOL a gay satinist.

Scott Hall and “great” do not belong in the same sentence if referencing each other, unless “great” is followed by “-ly past his prime.” :p

My thoughts on the theme, since that's the popular topic for the comments, I like the cover version, I'm impressed that someone was able to cover “Break Me,” and I'd throw it on my playlist. That said, it didn't match up well with this video, which I think might be part of most peoples' problem. If it'd been on video that was a little more metal, people woulda hated it less (I'm not naive enough to think they'd change to liking it :p ).

Lesson learned: Never eat – at least, not popcorn – while watching a Spoony review. I almost choked seeing Spoony's hat changes alone (I won't ask where the shiny pink cowboy hat came from ;); it's awesome how he can be hilarious without even needing to say or do anything (though the commentary certainly didn't hurt). Another wonderful job, Spoony, and thanks for once again making me proud to be a nerd. 8-)

By the way who is the evil Ahk Ohga? That guy Frelik the utlimate warrior in his youth wanting to slay Hoke Hogan and in an occasion of partial stutering called him Ahk Ohga?

the old intro was better. old but better. no offense.

I'm a Catholic and even I think She's Bat-Shit insane!!!!!

The guy who got me into playing D&D was part of the old guard (The guys who knew what “Chainmail” the game was and could tell you what “Blackmoor” was), and I grew up smack dab in the middle of the great D&D satanism craze. The hysteria really was as bad as it's made out to be.

Still, this movie along with the “Dark Dungeons” religious tract is actually considered required viewing for my group, especially the younger whipper-snappers. The camp value laughs are just too much.

People tend to irrationalize things because it gives them something to do. The thought of something going in the opposite way they want it to always makes them think of it as “evil”. Personally, I despise D&D, but not because of the Satanism, I just really hate it. Probably because I never really got into it, but I can at least respect the people who DO like it.

Just youtube “living illusion break me.” It should be the first link that comes up. Unfortunately, there's no full song; only the 58 second intro.

Benzaïe's 'Tommy' is better acted than Wiseau's
killing to get an erection? who are you, Ichi the killer?

maybe it was done as a joke but in the 2002 flash back the french one has PlayStation 3 games on the shelf behind him

17:23 – LOST reference?

the quality looks awful for a dvd

Gotta say I loved this one. Can’t stop laughing thinking about all the ignorant morons thinking DnD, harry Potter etc. is dangerous and evil.
Yes, because we didn’t have crazy people and killers before this, nooooooooo.

Keep it up Spoony. Excuse me while I level up my Goliath Warden.

They’re not dolls, they’re miniatures!!!

This is what happens when you try to make a cleric without sufficient wisdom score.

I just cracked at the scene where he starts realizing his life XD

I’m not sure why D&D manages to conjure up such strong feelings for you, but it’s nice that you haven’t gone Chick on us all.

You should have played it up. Made him think that he had better treat you well.

Funny story. That woman was part of a splinter congregation (basically a rogue denomination that is not officially recognized) who the pastor of my church debated when the anti-Harry Potter stuff was at it’s height. He (my pastor) was arguing that this whole hysteria was, in fact, foolish and that the Potter books were actually good for children (citing apologists, theologians, psychologists, sociologists who recommended the books and the like and mentioning that Rowling was a Christian writer in the vein of Alighieri, Lewis and Tolkien).

Their (the fruitcake’s) response? Even if the Church, the Bible, and everyone else disagreed with them, they (the splinter group of Harry-Haters) would go forward because “we knew better”.

So yeah. Once again, we have a case of a fruitcake who has an agenda all their own.

But the story has a happy ending: my pastor impressed a collector who was in attendance during the debate who awarded him with a 1938 copy of The Hobbit…that was signed by JRR Tolkien himself.

Turn Undead!!! TURN UNDEAD!!!

I’m surprised Spoony didn’t mention a major plotpoint in the movie… the “Great Hall” was a delusion of Robby’s brother named Hall, who died a long time ago. So “joining the Great Hall” in looney-speak meant that he was going to join his dead brother. The movie completely fails at its intended message because Robby was bonkers because of a tragic loss, not a roleplaying game. If anything, it’s a PSA against people who have dead family, because, according to the movie, they might go batshit at any moment and kill you in a delusional episode. <_ _>

Awesome and hysterical review. I’ve watched it like a dozen times. Though I did notice a continuity hiccup in the flashback: 2002 to Benzai has a bunch of PS3 games when PS3 didn’t exist until 2006. Then again, the movie had the EXACT SAME CONTINUITY bit, so was that intentional?

Anyways, awesome.

Call of Cthulhu!! :DD

Just wondering, since it’s been close to a year since you’ve last talked about it, but how is 4th edition holding up? Have you tried Pathfinder yet?

Speaking as a ‘nerd’ I WILL get violent over the whole Joel/Mike issue

Speaking as a ‘nerd’ I WILL get violent over the whole Joel/Mike issue

I liked this intro more than the usual. Alternative metal is nice. I prefer heavier types of metal (the type your parents probably despises the most; death metal and its subgenres, though I do listen to almost all of it… symphonic black metal, industrial metal, progressive metal, power metal, folk metal, New Wave of British heavy metal — you name it!), but any metal is better than no metal in my book! Except oldschool black metal… I’d even take Paramore over that, any day.

Oh, I’m drifting off. Sorry. I just had a little chance of sharing my love for music (yes, music!) there.

Very entertaining episode though as always, Mr. Spoony.

Goddammit Tom Hanks, now I can never see Toy Story the same way again.

Also Bayonetta FTW.

Hmmm, can’t say I have ever played D&D. Where I come from, the big game is Magic The Gathering. I do agree with your hatred for scapegoats, especially when it does come to things like violent video games. I am a psychology major, and have actually studied the theory that violent video games and television shows and similar things cause people to be more violent. As of yet, there is no substantial evidence to prove that violent games cause long term effects. Short term they can do things like increase adrenaline and raise blood pressure, but even then, actual violence isn’t very likely. One has to already be incredibly mentally unstable to be affected.
ok, now that I am of my psychology soap box…great review Spoony. I enjoyed the different hats, and, as usual, was laughing almost the entire time :D

LMAO the Jack’s tattoos was great

and ROFL to the killing people to get erections!

Argh, I hate all stereotypes associated with nerd-om. They’re almost as bad as the stereotypes that come with liking heavy metal or “emo” music. I THOUGHT WE HAD MOVED PAST ALL OF THIS GUYS. Aren’t we supposed to be an accepting society or something? That’s what everyone says. You have to be tolerant. WELL TOLERATE MY GEEKINESS then we’ll talk.

Also, the heavy metal opening sequence is AWESOME. (And where did you get those hats?!)

I wonder what your neighbors thought when they heard you scream, “I’m gonna burn this mother down to the ground!”

I wonder what your neighbors thought when they heard you scream, “I’m gonna burn this mother down to the ground!”

wow benzaie can time travel because the gun blade part takes place in 2002 when the room was released in 2003!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow benzaie must be able to time travel because the gun blade part is in 2002 when the room was released in 2003!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow benzaie must be able to time travel because the gun blade part was in 2002 when the room was released in 2003!!!!!!!!

sorrys on the triple post

P&G Productions?

what is sad is my my fire and brimstone christian parents still believe in all this stuff. I still play it anyways ITS A FUCKING BOARD GAME!! GET OVER IT!!. I feel ya spoony i am a student in high school and this ridiculous propaganda still hasn’t went away.

we dont get DnD over here like atall lol so i don’t get the fuss really, tho it does seem a bit extreme too blame games for missing 20 year olds lmao

I never played much DnD until after I graduated, but my dad’s always told me the tales of religion vs DnD and how stupid and silly the whole argument got. One of the guys I played with is part of a hardcore religious family, and he was talking with one of the priests one day who actually got really snappy at him when he mentioned he played. It’s pretty funny, I don’t think some of them will ever get over it.

On a side note, Good review. Props for Jonathon Caulton’s “I feel fantastic”, I found myself singing the lyrics without realizing it. =P

Hey Vin Disel plays D&D you know….right…its all stupid.

I love you, Spoony

That’s silly according to the 3rd ed book of exalted deeds the vow of celibacy only give a +4 bonus vs charm effects nothing about powering up spells. :P

on the calendar it looks like 1983 not 1982.

theres blood on my gunblade!

15:41 This is what we call the DM ‘oh shit’ look. Like he (in the case of my brother’s boyfriend our DM) just realized how entirely stupid you just were and how catastrophically screwed your character is, and they struggle to find a way to salvage your character and the campaign. X3

I too am a nerd. I know the pain.

mazes and monsters is a far-out game

Benzaie must have very useful resources to have a bunch of PS3 games in 2002.

And i can relate to Iron Weasel in several ways. My ENTIRE FAMILY plays the god damn game, and we have been for god only knows how long. Seriously, my mom, my dad, all four of my uncles, and both of my brothers and sisters have all played the game. Its fun, and is kinda good socially.

Best scene in this review has to be Spoony’s breakdown 10 minutes in…..wow…hilarious..

Tarnish notte the majesty of Jay Jay’s collection of hats!

I watched this movie after this review, and I have to say there’s a lot of other stuff in there that he missed out which is just as stupid.  Like how in the hell would Robbie FORGET HIS OWN NAME.  There are many scenes where he only answers to Pardu.  If that’s the case then he’s obviously suffering from some form of multiple personality disorder, which has nothing to do with a fucking game.

I just watched this review right after the DungeonMaster Review.
If you will permit me. I would like to point your attention to a movie called ‘The Gamers: Dorkness Rising’.  It is literally the only good DnD movie you will ever watch.  If you want to see a DnD movie that’s true to the game, has a decent plot and interesting characters, not to mention being pretty damn funny at times, then I beg of you to see this movie.  It’s a B-movie with a budget little over 2 bucks but please don’t let that scare you away.  I promise you you wont be disappointed.

interesting opening. i like it!

OMG I’VE FOUND PARDUE THE HOLY!!! SERIOUSLY!!!

http://www.goblinoidgames.com/labyrinthlord.html

it’s in the core rule book page 8 under clerics…

RAGE

Awesome video Spoony i love re-watching this review

19:20 -> Cue the James Bond music.

Actually Spoony the Larping at the ending where Robbie was still crazy could have worked to their advantage if they were intelligent enough to think it through. Basically they could have rolled a random monster encounter and made it attack Robbie and during the battle rigged it so that the monster kills His character. That might have snapped Him out of being crazy.

I allways loved this review. And so far i think it is one of spoonies best, if not the best review he ewer made.

Never played D&D myself, the only rulebook i ever owned was for Werewolf the Apocalypse, and never found any friends to play any roleplaying game with, unless you count things on the internet. Damnit, i am jelaus of Spoony not because he is an internet celebrity, but for having people of the same interest in school.

I am a gamer (tabletop, video games etc.) who enjoys heavy music (iron maiden, wintersun, opeth etc.), but I need to offer a few observations here. The majority of gaming devices (cards, dice) come from ancient divination paraphernalia such as tarot cards and runes. Occult practitioners today (new agers, luciferians, wiccans) still use such methods to access hidden (occult) knowledge from ascended masters or spirit guides. While this movie may be a technical joke, many people today really “believe” in spells, they just call them cause-effect thinking, or positive affirmation methodology. “See it in your mind’s eye, and it will happen” is essentially the mantra of writers such as Eckhart Tolle, Norman Vincent peale, or Helen Schucman. While to some, D&D is just a game where you let off some steam and enjoy storytelling, to others it is an outlet to actuate mental alchemy, and in effect, create an ACTUAL alternate universe in one’s mind. This is where D&D CAN be a catalyst for the distortion of reality, depending on how far you take it. One of the best MTG players at my local hobbyshop (who has been to Japan for tournements) is a devout satanist, and has attributed much his success to positive affirmation. He also said that MTG is a great introductory step (flavorwise) to get interested in occultism. While there is a lot of arbitrary information being thrown around, there is definitely a correlation between the occult and gaming. As far as there being a “gateway”, that really depends on the intentions of the player.

Ok here we go *cracks knuckles*

I actually have to agree with a poster on your commentary. This movie is not a Pro-RPG movie but its not an Anti-RPG movie either. As anyone who is talking about the game in a negative way is actually shown to be very wrong. The Detective I mean.

Also the way Robby went crazy is not so odd. Some people if they where to have a mental break would regress to a child mind or to a time they felt same. But Robby had a place better then that. He had a character who was strong and powerful so his mind went there to protect itself.

Also lvl 9 seems to be a big deal in this game so if Robby had been playing the game long enough to get to lvl 9 that means it was not the game that made him go wacko. My theory is the stress of a new place, collage, his girlfriend kinda putting the breaks on a little, his parents being shitty, and maybe even being a little to into the game all came crashing down on his head and to save itself his mind went to the only place it felt safe.. Into the game where he was powerful and strong.