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Sci-Fi: Dragon Storm
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Truth Seeker
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Dragon (UGH) Storm...
I rate it on a scale from 1 to 5, a 1.5 rating. I would go 2..just the for Dragons, their special attack was interesting.
Nightfall said:
I rate it on a scale from 1 to 5, a 1.5 rating. I would go 2..just the for Dragons, their special attack was interesting.
Darrin Drader
Explorer
Given the fact that this is a B movie the rating automatically goes to, say a 2 or less on the big budget scale. So, given that it will be a 1 or a 2 to begin with, if you have to break that out from 1 to 5, I would give it a 3.5.
Why so high, and why would I rate it higher than the D&D movie?
The dragons were done right, except for the fact that they were from space. They could have come up with something better than that. I suppose they were trying to answer the question of why dragons weren't everywhere if they were native to Earth. Still, they could have done better than that. Notice that they leave the door open to a sequel by showing another dragon egg hurtling towards Earth. I actually predicted that before they showed it. Very formulaic for a B movie.
JRD definitely gave a better performance than the rest of the cast, but I suppose that is to be expected. Heck, he was better than Jeremy Irons in D&D. I would say the ranger gave the worst performance. He was a likable enough guy and he played the rebel well enough, but as has been pointed out already, he did not know how to hold a bow and the way he delivered his lines was just awful.
I enjoyed the monk and the wizard (yes, he was a wizard, he just couldn't cast spells). They were fun enough characters. Other than the wizard I had no problems predicting who would die. This movie had a serious case of red shirt syndrome.
I liked how they brought the movie to a climax with a fight to restore the proper king to the throne while dealing with the dragon.
In other words, it delivered what it said it would deliver for a B movie. I certainly have no desire to sit through it again, but it was fun enough while it lasted. If only every movie with a dragon in it could do them the justice that this one did.
Why so high, and why would I rate it higher than the D&D movie?
The dragons were done right, except for the fact that they were from space. They could have come up with something better than that. I suppose they were trying to answer the question of why dragons weren't everywhere if they were native to Earth. Still, they could have done better than that. Notice that they leave the door open to a sequel by showing another dragon egg hurtling towards Earth. I actually predicted that before they showed it. Very formulaic for a B movie.
JRD definitely gave a better performance than the rest of the cast, but I suppose that is to be expected. Heck, he was better than Jeremy Irons in D&D. I would say the ranger gave the worst performance. He was a likable enough guy and he played the rebel well enough, but as has been pointed out already, he did not know how to hold a bow and the way he delivered his lines was just awful.
I enjoyed the monk and the wizard (yes, he was a wizard, he just couldn't cast spells). They were fun enough characters. Other than the wizard I had no problems predicting who would die. This movie had a serious case of red shirt syndrome.
I liked how they brought the movie to a climax with a fight to restore the proper king to the throne while dealing with the dragon.
In other words, it delivered what it said it would deliver for a B movie. I certainly have no desire to sit through it again, but it was fun enough while it lasted. If only every movie with a dragon in it could do them the justice that this one did.
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Truth Seeker
Adventurer
The Setup.
Here is a better one, did you see the movie before that one, with Dean Cane...thus the low rating.
And yes, the DRAGONS were done right....
Here is a better one, did you see the movie before that one, with Dean Cane...thus the low rating.
And yes, the DRAGONS were done right....
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Darrin Drader
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Truth Seeker said:
No. I was too afraid to. If he can't be in anything good, I would prefer to remember him as Superman.
Tsyr
Explorer
Myeh.
JRD was hands down the best actor there... he actually managed to deliver a good performance despite the horrible script.
The actor who (I think?) played Bre'Tak (Spelling?) in Stargate did a fair job, too.
I'm getting just a wee bit tired of the "plucky, kick your ass becuase I'm better than you, and do everything you do, and basicly be like a man except I've got breasts" women characters in fantasy and sci-fi movies lately... I'm not being sexist, it's just getting to be very tired and old... It's not "refreshing" or anything anymore. And these were badly done plucky females, to boot.
And this is particularly bad in a movie supposedly set in the "real world".
How did that woman get ahold of that super-balista? Did she build it? If so, how did she build "the best balista ever" in the time since the dragons came?
The monk made me groan. He was a very sterotypical "Fear me, for I have 1337 asian powers!" character.
JRD was hands down the best actor there... he actually managed to deliver a good performance despite the horrible script.
The actor who (I think?) played Bre'Tak (Spelling?) in Stargate did a fair job, too.
I'm getting just a wee bit tired of the "plucky, kick your ass becuase I'm better than you, and do everything you do, and basicly be like a man except I've got breasts" women characters in fantasy and sci-fi movies lately... I'm not being sexist, it's just getting to be very tired and old... It's not "refreshing" or anything anymore. And these were badly done plucky females, to boot.
And this is particularly bad in a movie supposedly set in the "real world".
How did that woman get ahold of that super-balista? Did she build it? If so, how did she build "the best balista ever" in the time since the dragons came?
The monk made me groan. He was a very sterotypical "Fear me, for I have 1337 asian powers!" character.
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Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
Sigh. It's a shame there hasn' tbeen a great dragon-slaying movie since Dragonslayer.
The woman with the super-ballista was the daughter of the man who had designed and built it. He and his sons (the woman’s brothers) were killed by the dragons, which was why she was so gung-ho on dragon-slaying. I did notice how pretty much it was the NPCs getting killed off (the aforementioned “redshirt syndrome”), and was surprised to see her die as she was somewhat of a PC in the movie, but then I suppose once the super-ballista was destroyed she didn’t serve much of a purpose and she attained “instant redshirt status.”
I liked the movie - not a classic by any means, but not bad for a B-movie, and they did an excellent job on the dragons, which was my number one concern. I didn’t even mind the fact that they were from space, although considering that they were “born” in the skyfall to Earth they were laying eggs of their own awful darn fast!
Johnathan
I liked the movie - not a classic by any means, but not bad for a B-movie, and they did an excellent job on the dragons, which was my number one concern. I didn’t even mind the fact that they were from space, although considering that they were “born” in the skyfall to Earth they were laying eggs of their own awful darn fast!
Johnathan
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