D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

[Umbran]

I'm here for the LOLZ.

I find posters intense reactions to the notion that the new elfmovie might be a flop at the box office absolutely fascinating...

Mod Note:
Did you perhaps stop and consider for a moment that this would read as a public admission of trolling, and that red text would appear shortly thereafter?

Maybe not the best move on your part. How about you stop poking things with sticks to see their reaction, hm? Thanks.

 

[Zardnaar]

They did predict that, yet it still didn’t stop some reviews from ragging on its story/plot...

So movie reviews are subjective.

You can have low scored movie hit big, well reviewed ones flop.

I think critics are out of touch with pop culture personally I don't use critic or audience scores. They like historical drama and movies with morality themes. I like explosions. And cats.

Movies are art there's no secret sauce formula what works for me or the box office.

 

[Jaeger]

You can have low scored movie hit big, well reviewed ones flop.

I think critics are out of touch with pop culture personally I don't use critic or audience scores. They like historical drama and movies with morality themes. I like explosions. And cats.

Movies are art there's no secret sauce formula what works for me or the box office.

Agreed.

If one is paying attention and is reasonably informed, their opinion is just as vaild as anyone else’s citing the same sources.

 

[Zardnaar]

Agreed.

If one is paying attention and is reasonably informed, their opinion is just as vaild as anyone else’s citing the same sources.

Well it's art. Sone people's reasons for disliking something might be stupid doesn't change the fact tgey don't like it.

Mario not really my type of movie don't have much intention of watching it even on streaming. It's existence doesn't offend me. It's designed for a younger crowd and fans of Mario not critics.

Last movie i watched was Jurassic World Domination on Amazon. That was a stupid movie then checked the reviews. Fair enough glad I didn't pay money (at the box office) for it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I can understand and respect some people saying DDHaT is not perfect or it could have been better, but I don't feel confortable with any opinions because it seems as if they wanted it was a flop.

It is not going to be a star superhit, but the movie is enough good to help the brand to earn more value. This is a movie to "swop", not to "reap". The other movies have made more money because they are in the "season of reaping". This is right production to be in the season of sow.

If the people know this is a funny movie, then they will be willing to watch more like this.

I would rather to await. Maybe in the next month, or before the end of the year the things can be different. Maybe fandom starts to say DDHaT is funnier than last productions by other companies.

 

[Horwath]

Budget $150M
Box office $158M

since you need 2,5X-3X the budget in boxoffice to make any money, the movie is a complete flop.


That said, I like the movie.
There were some issues, but it was above my expectation.
Characters ware mostly good.

Edgin was good, he could have been portrayed as more competent than he was.
Xenk the paladin is great, he should have gotten more screen time.
Doric is good, little overboard with wildshapes in city chase scene, but it was for power showoff so it's fine.
Forge is a good antagonist,
So is Sofina.

Letty... I mean Holga was so-so. Maybe Michelle is not the right cast for the role. Gwendoline Christie might be a better choice. Or some fighter from MMA, Ronda Gousey, Gina Carano or someone. Just to make the barbarian part more believable.
Also the whole halfling lover is pure cringe scene.

And Simon, a sorcerer, a class that is based of charisma. Played as a character without any charisma or a bad actor without any charisma.
Flaw of a sorcerer should be too much self confidence, not to little.


maybe they missed the opportunity to have some ranger character and some battles in neverwinter woods, but hey, you cant have everything.

it's a good comedy and represents complete chaos and somewhat incompetence of a D&D party.

 

[guachi]

I really like the movie. Saw it twice in the theater, which is one more time than I was in a theater in 2022. It's still, disappointingly, a huge flop.

I saw the reviews and thought it would do well and hit $300-400 million globally, but I doubt even good numbers on streaming can save this movie for a sequel.

The best thing the movie has going for it is that it's good so people might check it out because they heard it's good.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Well it's really a shame this movie hasn't been more successful, because while we can perhaps monday morning quarterback the release timing, or nitpick around the details of marketing or the actual content, this seemed like the most likely version of a D&D movie to be a hit in 2023. While it's not perfectly to my tastes, most things in it not perfectly to my tastes seemed calculated to make it fit better what movie-going audiences seem to like at the moment, and overall I really loved this movie. If you don't like it, fair enough, but I assure you whatever you preferred would have probably been a bigger flop, as this seems pretty pitch perfectly "like other highly-successful movies but also charmingly and distinctly its own thing" which is basically the precise formula for major theatrical success.

Having a something terrible like the 2000 D&D movie be a flop maintains the dream that it could be done right one day. Having a D&D movie that seems to have everything going for it pull in lackluster numbers means that it probably just isn't viable, and that fantasy with this basic tone just isn't viable (which to me is a bigger bummer). We're not only probably not going to get sequels anytime soon, but we'll get fewer attempts at movies in this vein.

 

[Maxperson]

It’s going to be another woke flop like the MCU phase 4. It will have a good first weekend and than it’s going to flop harder than Antmen: quantomenia.
Shame really, they’re had The best chance to launch a franchise and they ruined it for some personal idiotic agendas.

I've seen the movie twice now and I didn't get even a hint of that when I watched it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well it's really a shame this movie hasn't been more successful, because while we can perhaps monday morning quarterback the release timing, or nitpick around the details of marketing or the actual content, this seemed like the most likely version of a D&D movie to be a hit in 2023. While it's not perfectly to my tastes, most things in it not perfectly to my tastes seemed calculated to make it fit better what movie-going audiences seem to like at the moment, and overall I really loved this movie. If you don't like it, fair enough, but I assure you whatever you preferred would have probably been a bigger flop, as this seems pretty pitch perfectly "like other highly-successful movies but also charmingly and distinctly its own thing" which is basically the precise formula for major theatrical success.

Having a something terrible like the 2000 D&D movie be a flop maintains the dream that it could be done right one day. Having a D&D movie that seems to have everything going for it pull in lackluster numbers means that it probably just isn't viable, and that fantasy with this basic tone just isn't viable (which to me is a bigger bummer). We're not only probably not going to get sequels anytime soon, but we'll get fewer attempts at movies in this vein.

Might actually be a problem copying the GotG formula. That was ten years ago grown stale MCU seems to be in the doldrums as well.