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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theburningman" data-source="post: 259026" data-attributes="member: 1006">Irysangel wrote: I don't know, it seemed pretty obvious to me that it was something they had done successfully a number of times, but this time there was a screw-up.  The guy that was supposed to plant the 3rd vertical was unable to, thus throwing the entire trap off.Plus, just because a leader knows that he must put his men in danger and they may very well die, that doesn't mean he can't grieve over it.  What seemed to me to 'disgust' him was the fact that they were celebrating, like they had won the war against the dragons.  To Van Zant, it was a minor victory at best (since he had already killed over 200 dragons, I believe it said), plus it was tainted by the loss of men who should have made it if everything had gone off as planned.Irysangel wrote: I would just assume that although they are hungry, and always in danger of starvation should their food supply be, say, burned up, it would serve them better in the long run to keep their horses alive for breeding purposes and for transportation.Irysangel wrote: Good point.  I'm not gonna touch this one.Irysangel wrote: Since they were Americans, from the many armories that dot the continental United States.  With civilization on the verge of being wiped out, I imagine they could just help themselves to the spoils of some underground facility.I also kind of pegged Van Zant as a former military man.  Maybe not, but it seemed to fit to me (all except for the obviously not-according-to-regulations grooming and hygiene <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).Irysangel wrote: Probably the same personality types who sign up to run into skyscrapers that have had airliners smashed into them.  There's always someone brave enough.Irysangel wrote: Again, I won't touch this one.  It seemed like a plot contrivance to me too.Irysangel wrote: This also seemed like a plot contrivance.  But it also paved the way for a sequel, I think.  All it would take is for Quinn and his crew (or a group in another part of the world entirely) to discover that there was another bull (or more logically, at least dozens more) and off they go on another merry adventure.I won't say that I didn't have problems with the film, but I felt like it was a labor of love that grew out of a very interesting idea.  Unlike the D&D movie, which sucked from the get-go.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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