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<blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 1332466" data-attributes="member: 4049">Aside from the dragon in Dragonslayer, every dragon on the big-screen in a live action film has been wanting.&nbsp; Although the dragons in Reign of Fire looked cool, the execution of the film drained their impact.&nbsp; That, and you see them from the start.&nbsp; Same problem in Dragonheart (well, one of many problems.I've always felt that a dragon should be handled like the shark in Jaws.&nbsp; You see very little of it through most of the film, but its presence is palpable and you get powerful glimpses from time to time.&nbsp; Indeed, this is one of the reasons why Dragonslayer worked so well (that and the fact that the film largely made sense).&nbsp; Besides Dragonslayer, the only dragons I've liked are Smaug from The Hobbit and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.&nbsp; I've not liked a single anime dragon I've seen to date since in every case, they're cells rather than animated (like in Record of Lodoss War.As for books...&nbsp; Well, the only dragons I've liked were those in LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle, the one dragon we meet in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, and that's pretty much it (well, I already mentioned Smaug).&nbsp; In these appearances, the dragons are clearly larger than life, but also incomprehensible to mortals... Essentially, they're presented in the way I would write a dragon.&nbsp; With the exception of the powerful appearance of Onyx in Dragonlance Chronicles I: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the dragons in the Dragonlance Saga weren't all that impressive.&nbsp; And I can barely read anything of Salvatore to try and track down more dragons from his books.&nbsp; Beowulf's is pretty cool.Anyone else have great dragon sightings in books?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Serge, post: 1332466, member: 4049"] Aside from the dragon in [i]Dragonslayer[/i], every dragon on the big-screen in a live action film has been wanting. Although the dragons in [i]Reign of Fire[/i] looked cool, the execution of the film drained their impact. That, and you see them from the start. Same problem in [i]Dragonheart[/i] (well, one of many problems. I've always felt that a dragon should be handled like the shark in [i]Jaws[/i]. You see very little of it through most of the film, but its presence is palpable and you get powerful glimpses from time to time. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why [i]Dragonslayer[/i] worked so well (that and the fact that the film largely made sense). Besides [i]Dragonslayer[/i], the only dragons I've liked are Smaug from [i]The Hobbit[/i] and Maleficent from [i]Sleeping Beauty[/i]. I've not liked a single anime dragon I've seen to date since in every case, they're cells rather than animated (like in [i]Record of Lodoss War[/i]. As for books... Well, the only dragons I've liked were those in LeGuin's Earthsea Cycle, the one dragon we meet in Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, and that's pretty much it (well, I already mentioned Smaug). In these appearances, the dragons are clearly larger than life, but also incomprehensible to mortals... Essentially, they're presented in the way I would write a dragon. With the exception of the powerful appearance of Onyx in [i]Dragonlance Chronicles I: Dragons of Autumn Twilight[/i], the dragons in the Dragonlance Saga weren't all that impressive. And I can barely read anything of Salvatore to try and track down more dragons from his books. [i]Beowulf[/i]'s is pretty cool. Anyone else have great dragon sightings in books? [/QUOTE]

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