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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8701918" data-attributes="member: 19857">So from my perspective, since I was a young man in my 20s at the time...Years before the movie coming out TSR had gone bankrupt. A lot of us had thought that the hobby was at its lowest point then.  Wizards had rescued D&D from the bankruptcy and had come out with a new edition of D&D. They were also kinda-sorta promoting the D&D movie that was coming out later that year - the game books for the new edition started dropping at the end of summer IIRC and the D&D movie was a December/January release I think.  The stuff we were seeing about the D&D movie did not make it look good - even shown in its best light the bits we saw looked cheap.  However we knew that finally a Lord of the Rings movie was on the horizon - it was already starting to be hyped even though it wouldn't be out for another year IIRC.I think we all knew that the D&D movie wasn't going to be good but I remember thinking it was worse than I had thought it was going to be. The plot was nonsense, the acting was terrible - Jeremy Irons chewed as much scenery as he could but he couldn't bring any life to the rest of the cast.  And Marlon Wayan's character Snails - oof. The best i can say about the D&D movie is that everyone seemed to agree to just forget it ever happened. I remember thinking it disappeared really quickly from theaters. I don't think any of us thought it would damage the hobby at all - after the roller coaster of bankruptcy and new edition D&D felt like it had momentum to spare - but it definitely felt like a squandered opportunity that wouldn't have happened if Wizards hadn't been contractually obligated (that's how the promotion that Wizards did felt too - contractually obligated. At least it helped to somewhat set expectations for the movie).That's how I remember it anyway - I'm sure others have different memories.</blockquote>

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