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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1407496" data-attributes="member: 6929">Dragons in the cinema suck.That's the disappointing conclusion I've come to. You'd think it would be the other way around - I'm a dracophile, and I'll see movies simply because they have scaly wings in 'em. But out of the three recent movies I've seen featuring prominent dragons (Dragonheart, D&D, Reign of Fire) only one of them has lived up to the promise, and that was Dragonheart (say what you will, I liked it). The other two movies portrayed them as dumb beasts. (I don't care what the ads for RoF said, they weren't smarter than me.) That was the big disappointment for me. It's like going to see King Kong and getting a guy in a gorilla suit saying 'ook ook' for 90 minutes while stomping on paper models of Tokyo - it's just not on.Part of what makes dragons so awesome is their cunning and intellect. Why haven't they given that to us? Why didn't the D&D scripters look at a stat block and go 'huh, this thing's smarter than all members of the film crew put together'? Maybe that was the problem - maybe they just looked at all the purty pictures, and that's why they had bleeping beholder watchdogs.Will it take PJ doing The Hobbit to make people realise how cool dragons can be? I hope not... but he'll do it right. I have faith.</blockquote>