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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8994778" data-attributes="member: 27996">Several people did amongst the youtube movie pundit channels.But they weren't "Industry guys", so naturally their opinions "don't count"...^This^It's ok to really like a movie that Flopped. I really liked 2012 DREDD. It bombed hard. These things happen.Was D&D an obvious Bomb like Shazam 2? No.Will it break even during it's theatrical run? It'll need a miracle...So it's a Flop.But is there hope for more? Mayyybeee...D&D is a Flop the same way that the 2013 Pacific Rim film flopped: The people that went to see it liked it, there just wasn't enough of them.Pacific Rim was enough of a "fan favorite" that it did well enough on the back end with DVD's and rentals that they got a sequel greenlit on a reduced budget, and an animated series. (That the sequel Utterly Bombed is neither here nor there...)A lot of what might happen with the property will depend on how much of an actual loss it takes during its theatrical run, and then what it does on the backend.I think that a lot of the Flims issues are that it just cost too much money. By all accounts it was entertaining, and the writer/directors basically delivered.I believe that things might have been different if they kept the same writer/directors, but limited them to 80-90 mil budget. Also, not releasing it a week after John Wick and before Mario...</blockquote>