Relative to its budget it was considered sort of a box office failure, from what I’ve heard. Maybe I’m mistaken. It was probably my favorite movie of the past few years for what it’s worth, wasn’t trying to bash it.

From what I remember it was considered kind of a failure for the budget it had. I personally loved it, to be clear. As far as I know, I’m not retarded, although people who interact with me socially might disagree.

It’s way harder to do on screen. Works for print.

Well they tried that with arguably the most well known fantasy world in existence, D&D, and it flopped because too many people need their worlds spoon fed to them.