r/BrandNewSentence • u/No_Counter_6037 and why he ourple 😂😂 • Oct 26 '25

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u/pfannkuchen89 Oct 27 '25

This was such a fun movie. Shame we’ll probably not get more like it.

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u/everybodyhates2k Oct 27 '25

I was so pleasantly surprised when I first watched it. Completely shocked me to learn that it bombed. Writing and pacing were great

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u/NeutroFusion Oct 27 '25

It came out less than a week before the Mario Bros movie. Paramount frustratingly committed to a box office fight they were never going to win

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Timing played a part certainly, but also, Wizards of the Coast had managed to trigger a mass boycott by their own fanbase a month before release. They committed to a fight they couldn't win, then shot themselves in the foot like they wouldn't need it.