Minions & Monsters - July 1

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[F-ZeroOne]

With that title, I was half expecting Tom Hanks to show up to teach kids about the dangers of tabletop role-playing games!

[Big s]

6 hours ago, F-ZeroOne said:

With that title, I was half expecting Tom Hanks to show up to teach kids about the dangers of tabletop role-playing games!

Mazes and Monsters was on a bunch when I was a kid. At the time, we didn’t realize at that age that it was made as anti Dungeons & Dragons during the satanic panic era. I think it wasn’t until junior high when I kinda started catching on to what was going on since a friend had a bunch of anti cool stuff propaganda videos his church would hand out. I might not have checked out Celtic Frost til much later if it weren’t for those stupid videos.

[Dynaman]

Oh man - Tom Hanks was in that M&M drivel?  

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Dynaman said:

Oh man - Tom Hanks was in that M&M drivel?  

Yup, one of his first roles. I don’t think he really understood the politics behind the story and has come out in interviews saying that he never intended any harm by taking the role. Just seems like a young actor hoping for that breakout role and it got him more notice. It’s a terrible movie, but if you can have fun with bad movies and don’t take it seriously, it’s kinda fun with the right kinda friends to do a silly rewatch. Might even make for an awkward historical watch with the kids to kinda show them the temperament and odd paranoia of the time. It would also make for fun if you got young ones that maybe don’t quite get how far things were trying to get simple things like music, games and cartoons banned. The 80’s had a lot of cool things going on with entertainment and parental groups just thought they were evil, not like bad influence, actually evil

[Dynaman]

Being a D&D gamer (The Fantasy Trip in particular) I could not watch the movie no matter what.  The very idea of it was disgusting.  Luckily the whole bunch of "carp" died out when people found out the hysteria was a bunch of "feces".