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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Actually I believe the movie did pretty badly. It was reviewed fairly well by critics and fans who actually went to go see it, but unfortunately it was squeezed between a couple of other popular IP's at the time (I think it was John Wick and the Mario movie). But hopefully it helped them with streaming or something.

I think I ended up watching it on Paramount+ in the hopes that it'll encourage them to make more in the future. Plus it was wholesome enough I thought it might be able to go into my comfort movie rotation with Princess Bride and Stardust. (Although now that I think about it, I should just buy a physical copy.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would have seen it by now if Hasbro had not made me viscerally hate the idea of supporting them in any way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fair. I was going to not see it but they reversed so hard on the OGL thing I decided to reward them with my $15 lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'd have ended my boycott of Hasbro after they backed down had they not immediately sent armed, hired mercinaries to threaten, harass, and bully an MTG player over an order mixup that was the seller's fault. That happened so soon after they backed down on the whole OGL 1.1 thing. I genuinely thought Hasbro learned a lesson with the OGL backlash, but this Pinkerton thing made it clear they hadn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

it was squeezed between a couple of other popular IP's at the time

That, plus coming immediately after the whole licencing debacle. Many have speculated that part of the reason they were so quick (in the end) to capitulate and throw out the Creative Commons licence as haphazardly as they did is that they wanted to get fans back onside so they wouldn't boycott or review bomb the movie.