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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8996258" data-attributes="member: 6988941">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.</blockquote>