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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7731308" data-attributes="member: 158">All the varied responses leads me to ask: would people rather have a D&D movie that is true to the subject matter and representative of the fun we know it is, or would they rather have a successful movie that turns off its fan base? Which would be better for expanding the brand in the long run? Because we might be forced to choose. I’d like to think that we’re not, because all these things we’re saying now about how difficult it is to make a good D&D or fantasy movie, is the EXACT kind of thing that people used to say 30 and 40 years ago about superhero movies. we had that schlocky crap like the spider-man TV movies, the Captain America movies where Steve Rogers was a surfer dude who rode around on a motor cycle, and the brightest hope was Lou Ferrigno as the Incredible Hulk (with Thor as a guest one-shot in a feeble attempt at a back-door pilot. Now we have unbelievable epic tales like the first avengers movie, the captain America trilogy, and a Thor: Ragnarok that was just a hell of a lot of fun to watch. All this 10 year old me would have found impossible to believe. It can be done - but it has to be done by someone with passion for it, the talent for a good screenplay, and just enough talent to make the budget cover it. None of these were available with the first D&D movie. The passion, maybe, but the support and the writing chops, no.</blockquote>