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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:01 pm
by Paul
My daughter is into dragons, so while browsing YouTube for dragon videos I stumbled onto this D-War promo.
Looks like the kind of movie I'd watch a lot if it were on cable.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:55 pm
by Leisher
Looks to be a real flick.
Notice the warehouse manager from The Office is in it?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:48 am
by GORDON
Lord of the Rings sure opened the door to fantasy in Hollywood.
Prediction: anything but an R rating will suck.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:53 am
by Malcolm
Lord of the Rings sure opened the door to fantasy in Hollywood.
Prediction: anything but an R rating will suck.
I went w\ my buddy to see "Mirrormask." He was really excited about it cos, "No one cares about good fantasy movies anymore." I replied, "Maybe they just haven't made enough decent ones for anyone to care." Lo & behold, "Mirrormask" turned out to be subpar. Damn, I'm tired of being right.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:31 pm
by GORDON
Official trailer.
http://www.dragon-wars.com/
1. Rated PG-13.... see my prediction, above.
2. If the cgi already looks sucky in a tiny internet video, won't it suck harder on a big screen?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:32 pm
by GORDON
3. Also, it opens in less than a month... has anyone seen any marketing for this, outside of the internet?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:09 am
by Paul
If it was good it'd have been released earlier. Next month is the "filler" time of year. In a little bit we'll also get the Academy winner wanna-be's. Right now we're at the tail end of the good summer movies.
That dragon movie is going to be a fancy version of Anaconda.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:41 am
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:3. Also, it opens in less than a month... has anyone seen any marketing for this, outside of the internet?
No, but shit can spread thru the net at an irregular rate.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:28 pm
by Leisher
The trailer doesn't look half-bad.
However, a September release with no marketing...that screams "box office bomb".
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:22 pm
by GORDON
Here's a clip.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=36721
I have a feeling the clip is deceiving, because it doesn't show wackiness. Judging by the trailer that was already released this movie contains wackiness, and that's why my early call is that it will suck.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:23 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:3. Also, it opens in less than a month... has anyone seen any marketing for this, outside of the internet?
I think G4 & Sci-Fi have been pushing the trailer for this film. G4 seems particularly heavy. This is a niche nerd film, & I believe they know it.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:04 am
by Leisher
I have no idea who the hell this film was targeted to appeal to, but it certainly isn't females of any age, adults, teens, or kids. Maybe that's why it was a fall release and a box office bomb.
The story is cliche overkill involving some ancient dragons (the Chinese kind, NOT the English type), one evil and one good, that battle for dominion over man and blah blah blah. Every 500 years some hotchie is born with a dragon birthmark and at the age of 20, she is the key in a fight between the two factions with the winner getting their way.
The writing only gets worse from there.
Worse yet is the direction. Everything is just scattered and random. Some shots take too long and the pacing of the film is horrible at best.
The actors don't do the film any favors either. From the Tom Cruise imitating male lead to the overacting female lead and supporting cast, nobody puts in even a mediocre performance.
Too violent for most women and all kids, too childish to appeal to adults, and too stupid, boring, and cheesy to appeal to men, this film is for nobody.
It does have some nice special effects though. Some.
2 out of 10.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:30 am
by Malcolm
You see, if you include dragons into the realm of possibility, even I think I could write a 5/10 script. Seriously, if you give me dragons, I could pull some entertaining shyte. & I fucking know there are writers more competent & imaginative than I.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:56 am
by GORDON
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:02 am
by GORDON
GORDON wrote:Lord of the Rings sure opened the door to fantasy in Hollywood.
Just wanted to point out this observation from 2 years ago. There's been a shitload of fantasy movies out there... and almost all of them involve a "young child who finds out they fulfill a prophecy/have a destiny." Be great if more of it were geared toward grownups. Ambiguous moral decisions and such instead of "you were destined to be the last dragon rider." Yawn.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:48 pm
by Malcolm
Can you remember the last fantasy film geared towards adults that didn't suck? They simply don't exist much.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:55 pm
by GORDON
LotR
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:47 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:LotR
Anything besides that? Excalibur, perhaps? It's a short list.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:10 pm
by GORDON
Marybe Dragonslayer?
But you're right, these movies are mostly geared toward kids, which is also what I said a few posts back, so I'm right too.
But the big one, LotR, was not a movie just for kids, a point that has been lost in most of these new ones. Wasn't a single child in the extensive cast of main characters, in fact.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:20 pm
by TPRJones
Stardust was no LotR by a long stretch, but I wouldn't classify it as directed towards a childish audience, either.