>Dungeons & Dragons' popularity is at an all time high
>Baldur's Gate 3 was a massive success
>Genuinely a good movie reminiscent of early 00s adventure movies
Why did this absolute kino flop so hard?
>Dungeons & Dragons' popularity is at an all time high. >Baldur's Gate 3 was a massive success
the poster looking fricking ridiculous is a good start
Unfortunately it failed not on its own merit but by circumstance. Wizards just pissed their community off royally and it was released the week between John Wick 4 and Super Mario (should have been a christmas release probably). It's really too bad, hopefully it generated enough positivity in home release to get a sequel.
They released it around the same time as Super Mario Bros
Everyone remembers the pretty old shitty D&D movie. Everyone thought it would be the usual shovelware 20% RT score unfunny Scary Movie level comedy from the trailers. Just unfortunate because it was genuinely comfy and deserved to make more than any shit Marvel flick.
it was marketed terribly. I never would have thought for a second it was good until I heard buzz for it long after it was out of theaters, everything about it looked terrible, and D&D movies have a bad track record.
Pic related, plus all of the articles where the creators ramble on about "hell yeah we emasculate our male lead, haha I bet a bunch of people are gonna whine about it too! Frick you audience!"
ASTOUNDING that people having figured out that insulting people makes them not like you
I really enjoyed the film actually, and didn't notice any of the things you're talking about, but now that I've visited Cinemaphile, I hate this movie! It stinks!
The heavy emasculation of the white male character in all the trailers, especially if you're familiar with 5e to know that speak with dead is a bard spell but not a wizard (cleric and bard in previous editions cleric only) yet they give it to the wizard because they were terrified of the subject of their hate actually doing something
Becasue it was bad.
And BG3 was shit too, btw
It was kino.
Doric a cute
I thought it was fun. Couldn’t get past act 1 on baldurs gate though. I hate tabletop gameplay in video games and turn based action was only fun in Pokémon and the South Park games but that was mostly endured to play a South Park game
It came out BEFORE BG3
If they released it after it could have capitalized on it.
I knew jack shit about dnd lore until bg3 and only saw the movie during a flight after. I clapped when they said baldurs gate and that alone would have made this movie very popular.
I finally watched it.
It wasn't terrible but had everything working against it (girl-boss barbarian... yawn... tiny little girl who becomes killing machine giant monster... yawn... just every checkbox). But the writing was what a D&D movie needs. It had s dungeon, it had a dragon, it had an elaborate puzzle a DM thought would make him the cleverest autist in the entire county only to be undone by his players being a little too straightforward in their thinking, and it jammed in a lot of lore from a setting with which players are familiar.
Because they released it in March against SMB Movie and John Wick 4
Paramount is moronic
I really enjoyed it.. snake man was best man.
so many nons, where do they even find all these mutts. it's like they breed them specifically to shove them in popular media, unwatchable
This movie was actually a little under the radar. It will be a cult classic in years to come. The fat dragon was fire
The entire plot of the movie is to save the main characters black wife and mutt mulatto child.
Trash
I’m a simple man, I see fat dragon I upvote
All I see is ESG slop
The movie bombed because it was bad. Objectively. Don't give me this zoomer "yooo the far dragon was fire frfrfrfr" bullshit.
>yooo the far dragon was fire frfrfrfr
This but unironically.
It literally made millions of dollars you gay little moron.
It made many more less millions of dollars than it costed. Sorry shill, gotta find real job lol.
>Budget: 150 million USD
>Box office: 208 million USD
Cope
So a flop. BvS cost $200 millions and when it made 'only' $800 million Warner Brothers psnicked so hard they cancelled what they had and damage controlled until 2023.
No one is expecting a D&D movie to have the same returns as a Batman movie from a well known director like Snyder.
Now include marketing (at least 50% of the production budget, often 100% or more).
Now adjust for the share of box office gross that makes it to the studio (usually 50% domestically, 40% global, 25% China)
btfo
Edgin was a great character though
Browns, reddit humor, le girl power, are all indicative of bad writing. I didn't even give it a chance, and I won't.
The Black folk in a fantasy setting.
>absolute kino
>D&D is for high IQ males
>High iq males do not like the current movie industry and its anti-white anti-male shit
>High iq males torrented the movie and enjoyed, expecting it to suck
>They were pleasantly surprised it was a fun movie
simple as
Might I'll watch the sequel in the theaters. Then again... there was that mary sue black character who has perfect just because... he was black. Guess I'll pirate the next one for now lol
I saw a bunch of Black folk in the trailer and decided not to watch it. I also saw a bunch of posters here saying it was full of feminist messaging.
too many Black folk and women
Because we already got the best DnD movie back in 2008. Pure kino.
>average Cinemaphile poster
I didn't know it existed till I saw it scrolling on my mom's Netflix. Figured it would be shit because it was a movie based off of a videogame. I was shocked at how good it was. I can't thing of any other movie based off a game that was any good.
Love to see a sequel with some of the BG3 characters in. Neil Newbon could easily play live action Astarion, same for Devora Wilde as Lae'zel. Fill in the rest with dubbed cosplayers.
it was a homosexual comedy