There's no rehabilitation possible for a movie that terrible. It's not really even fun bad, just bad bad. In the 90s, I was a big fan of D&D and Street Fighter and both of those movies were just.... so disappointing. What a bummer both of those were on two of my favorite franchise opportunities...
Those numbers were quoted here by Ben Riggs. By purest coincidence, there's a new Dungeon Craft video just posted yesterday that also refers to some of them.
More like modern D&D is a very niche, weird club while older D&D plays with timeless themes... admittedly with some 70s and 80s baggage in how exactly its presented. Even the mantra of "5e is the best-selling edition of D&D ever" isn't accurate at all; Basic (admittedly, I'm playing a little...
On the contrary; it's not nearly vague enough. As you say, there's a no politics rule. Why are you clearly posting a thread that's about politics? More to the point, why are there multiple threads that indulge in talking about politics with a tiny thin veil of "oh, but I didn't refer to anything...
1) I feel really depressed and unhappy about "recent events".
2) Don't talk about "recent events" in this thread.
Too late! You already did. Seriously; why are there so many threads right now that are covert socio-political threads, that purport not to talk about them, but in reality that's...
Faerun is the Forgotten Realms. Everything added to it since was clearly added with the expectation to be used as a separate "sub" setting at best, or even just a separate setting altogether, or it was a poorly advised weird thing that was developed long after Forgotten Realms launched (Abeir).
Which has the corollary begged question; do the stats that we're presented with really give us a good indication of who the hobby is actually? We're constantly told that it's mostly younger Millennials (the kind that didn't used to be called Gen Y) and Gen Zers, or even younger, and showed a pie...
The only non-(TT)RPGs where I do any roleplaying are to a limited degree CRPGs and unusual stuff like Fiasco or murder mystery parties that are more like RPGs than they are like anything else... but which also aren't really RPGs either. I could ... maybe ... be prevailed upon to do some minor...
But they're not nearly old enough to be in the market for remakes and reboots of stuff that came out in the 70s or first half of the 80s, which is most of what WotC's content has been. There could be various explanations for that, but none of them are immediately obvious. Or rather, they may be...