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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9020093" data-attributes="member: 6669048">The difference is people grew up on the Star Wars prequels as it's their nostalgia. It was the movie they watched as kids because everyone else watched them. The 2000 Dungeons & Dragons movie...is not that. It wasn't a cultural touchstone the same way Star Wars is. There weren't massive marketing tie-ins with fast food and breakfast cereal and whatnot, there wasn't a huge toy line with multiple waves of figures, there wasn't a slew of video game tie-ins. Even Wizards of the Coast relegated their tie-in supplement and adventure to the pages of Dragon Magazine because they knew it would never sell if they published it on its own. Hell, you can still tell people there was a sequel to the movie and most people will be surprised because they never knew it existed. Tell them there was a third one and they'll look at you like you have two heads. "Wait, you mean Honor Among Thieves is the third film?" No, that's the fourth. Book of Vile Darkness was the third.So no, there's not going to be a redemption for the 2000s Dungeons & Dragons movie because there's no childhood nostalgia wanting it to be as good as they remember it being as kids and seeking out any positives to justify liking it. The most you'll see is a "so bad it's good" opinion which, yeah, Jeremy Irons chewing every atom of scenery makes the film at least enjoyable to mock. But no "It's good actually" narrative for that movie.</blockquote>

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