You know those movie scenes where it's from a bird's eye view, and the sky is orange with sunset. And then the camera pans down to something very cinematic happening
Ok now imagine that, and it camera pans down, right? And we see from two opposite sides of the battle field, fighting tooth and nail, fist and teeth and rocks and whatever else they can get their hands on, to get to the other.
And there's one moment where we see one of them go down just before they reach eachother, but at just the right moment the enemies brains spill from their head. And they're together. At last. But it's not over yet.
The enemies just keep swarming. But they fight as one unit, covering and ducking, knowing eachother better than they know themselves.
And it's finally as the last enemy is cut down that the camera returns to normal view
listen I expected literally Nothing from the D&D movie okay, like I can't make it clear enough that I expected the most soulless money grab with a good cgi budget imaginable, I went in having already gone through every stage of grief and landed on acceptance and LISTEN
I fucking CRIED during this dumb RPG movie. it wasn't just "not terrible" it was objectively good with a clever plot and compelling characters and sincere emotional beats. this movie loves D&D so fucking much and it NAILS the "a bunch of goobers try to be cool and accidentally discover The Power Of Friendship And Also Great Violence" classic D&D party vibe. their barbarian's last name is fucking Kilgore and my entire family cried in the theater.
This tweet has wholly altered the way I view this particular moment.
For me...yeah, the dog lives. Of course the dog lives! He's always lived! Every time I've watched the movie, the dog lives.
But this tweet made it click: audiences didn't know that. It would 100% have been a cinematic move to have this shot turn into Boomer getting swallowed up by the fireball, imprinting the horror of the alien attack...not by killing a kid or Vivica Fox, but just the dog. He's just a dog, after all. He doesn't need to survive. He has no role in the plot from this point on. Of course the dog's going to die! He's a dog! It will be darkly comedic and tragic and put emotional devastation onto the audience.