RoLW was a lot of fun, but it is a bit of mess from a storytelling perspective. It was inspirational as hell, but my goodness it was poorly directed, the writing was questionable, and the story made little sense at times. I mean I guess it is possible the anime I watched like 20 years ago was incomplete but it jumped all over the place with little to no explanation and lots of guesswork required.
I am with you on the deceptive trailers thing, but a good indication is when they start to include new footage in trailers rather than reshuffle the same scenes. There was a lot more Hugh Grant in this footage release and it seems to hold up with the other released footage, plus the new creatures as well. These are good signs. I imagine the dragons, being huge CGI effects are still being worked on right up until they ship the film. We shall see, only 4 months until release.
That is probably true, but it wasn't just the CGI. The red is bloated and fat and the metallic (I haven't stopped to verify which one it is) looks oddly wide-eyed. Finally, I love black dragons, but I don't really like the 3e+ skeletal head, so I am a bit disappointed that is one of the more prominent ones it seems.
They cleverly decided to have zero people from the previous films involved this time around.
Sweat pea still is, but pretty much only to collect “go away” money.
