broomstick

Sherilyn Connelly

*Pew! Pewpewpew!*

~Y

Upsilon

broomstick

Silver_Back

Prest0

You know, sometimes, things are shitty and other times things are sweet-smelling mulch with fresh compost!

That clip has turned this movie into from what I thought would be the former into the latter...

Dragons versus choppers! How can you not like that? Don't tell me, you never sat through Reign Of Fire, and thought the whole Dragon War would have been a much better movie...!

radio1

Turael

Also: "OK, that thing's got a reach of about 100 feet, so be sure to stay inside that circle."

rdosser

When battling dragons in military helicopter, use missiles first.

Jim_in_Buffalo

The evil bad guy wizard person is going after the other good guy wizard person who works in a warehouse in downtown LA, and he's walking down the street towards the warehouse, and there's this tiny little grandma lady tottering along opposite him. He gets to the big green iron gate where the good guy lives, and then kind of just walks through the gate, and you watch the little grandma lady just turn and try to walk right through the gate and bounce off. It's brilliant.

VoxExMachina

Cacafuego

Wait, JC was a wuss? Seriously? Since when?

Bob_of_Mars

EBone

Cacafuego

Silverfuture

For years I've maintained that you can add bacon to anything and make it better.

Dragons could have saved the third Matrix.

DCI Gene Hunt

Can we request the dad from That '70s Show ordering 'mass intestination' as a found video clip?

DCI Gene Hunt

B

B

Although, to answer the question you pose, "Dragons vs Helicopters: Who Wins?", I think the answer is both obvious nd paradoxical. All of us, and yet none of us.

Gopherit

Gann

This movie might feature in one of our bad movie nights in the next few months, but it's no Prayer for the Roller Boys.

Gopherit

femto

B

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AlfaCharger

PVIII

1. Highlander
2. Mortal Combat
3. Fortress
4. Beowulf.

You rock for being the other person who has seen Beowulf.

zenpoet

Spakkenkhrist

Ghede

Mouser_UK

@Cantonkid: Yep, The Host leaves Dragon Wars wanting.

mellomutt

"Ignorance never settles a question." WITH DRAGONS
"A pleasant surprise is in store for you." WITH DRAGONS
"Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded." WITH DRAGONS
"You like participating in competitive sports." WITH DRAGONS

Dragons...they go with everything.

CarolynG

Still for recent Korean Sci-Fi/Fantasy cinema I liked 'The Host' much better.

Cantonkid

shehanum

Think about it. What movie wouldn't be improved with the addition of a few dragons.

The Matrix...WITH DRAGONS
Die Hard...WITH DRAGONS
Kindergarten Cop...WITH DRAGONS

It just works!

CarolynG

vagittarius

Inkymonkey

Inkymonkey

As a Welshman, and son of an RAF pilot, I'm so god damned confused, do I cheer the dragons? I'm going to cheer the dragons, but Apaches ... argh, super cool tech, or dragon and a saddle? Human minds weren't meant to decide such things.

Bal-Cleric

I should mention that Burroughs, for you young guys, was a medium bad writer, who had the happy gift of creating archetypes that lasted for decades. Tarzan and John Carter of Mars created the heroic fantasy genre, and Conan was to some extent a reaction to John Carter's nobility of spirit and general wussyness.

I always liked "The Moon Maid," a minor work, but much better than the rest of the books. The first Tarzan is way cool, but they get formulaic after a while..

That's what you get for half a cent a word.

And now i read that Pixar is working on the John Carter of Mars project, so there is joy in the world.

codydog

My favorites were the "Land of Pal-on-don" Tarzans and the Mars book with the headless guys. I think i spelled that wrong. But technicolor triceratops... Weeee...

Hardback books with faded red covers and no dust jackets, thats me.

codydog

Bob_of_Mars

SF Guy In Korea

Loserface

femto

Ask me about "Ruff and Ready"

Yes the list is endless. And retarded.

Actually, i was such a book worm, i got imprinted with my dad's Tarzan and Tom Swift and Edward Stratemyer books.

and when your TV is the size of a dinner plate, it's not so overwhelming.

My daughter was raised in a rural area without even "Sesame Street" She learned to read real books by the time she was six.

She seems to have coped.

codydog

I can't understand how you were imprinted with Rocky and Bullwinkle and not Speed Racer as well since R&B is an older property...

I'm thinking you missed out, and i'm wondering just waht else passed you by...

Johnny Quest?, Get Smart? The Six Million Dollar Man? ( both movies and series, Battle of the Planets?, Land Of The Giants? Time Tunnel? U.F.O?, Space 1999? The Invaders?... the list is endless... lol

dOk

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

In their defense, "Maria" by Blondie was apparently the national anthem of South Korea for a few years.

Rus

JCMasterpiece

Alright, maybe it should have been better for a major studio release, but if you think about it as a the greatest made-for-television movie, it's freakin' awesome!

I don't know why, but it ranks up there with Torque and Half Past Dead as my favorite movie to catch on cable.

DCI Gene Hunt

B

B

Annalee Newitz

And the Reign Of Fire dragons would have destroyed the helicopters, 'cause they were that badass. But the jumpsuits were almost as sweet...

DCI Gene Hunt

Jamie

Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz

codydog

though its funny how at the end the power that makes a dragon celestial looks just like the smash ball from SSBB.

kadaj_sama

I will tell you a secret, that has kept hack writers and film makers, musicians and cartoonist is business for centuries. "What ever you can sell to a 12 year old, will be loved by that person for the rest of their lives, no matter how horrible it actually is."

For example, i'm just to old to be influenced by "Speed Racer." to me, it's nada. But i had to go see "The Bullwinkle Movie" because i was programmed as an innocent child.

People who grew up on Star Wars or Star Trek will love it until they die. Same with the Harry Potter kids.

It does not matter that the best actors, i want to say the only real actors in Star Wars were Chewie, and R2D2. Don't matter, you're hooked.

Some kid who is ten now, and sees SW 1-6 in order might well love Jarjar, and wonder why the quality drops off so bad after III, and there is nothing to be done.

Suck it up. If they made a movie of Commander Cody, starring Ovaltine, i would have to go see it. And it would suck, because it was a lot better when i was ten.

Unfair to innocent youth, but that's how you ell the Coco Crispies.

codydog

You want to see how helicopters can take on dragons, you need a bald Matthew McConaghy and his jumpsuited army buddies!

DCI Gene Hunt

Tim Faulkner

mrrobotanger

BlacklistedJoe

BlacklistedJoe

BlacklistedJoe

Tim Faulkner

Annalee Newitz

There never was a single agreed upon model for dragon, and considering it is mythological, we can't do DNA tests to verify what is really a dragon. Pick up a book of classic dragon stories, preferably the dark ages, as they were the most varied. There were snake-dragons that spewed poison, aquatic dragons, flying dragons, burrowing dragons. Pretty much anything large, lizardy, and physically impossible is a dragon.

So... enjoy the new name, Bob.

Ghede

Sturm Truppen

Mister Adequate

Good try, but everyone knows the The Empire Strikes Back is the true gem of the original Star Wars movies!

At least the "non-Madness Of King George messing up the dialog version" is.

dOk

dOk

That way we might not forget the First Commandment.

As for Dragon Wars, we only saw the last half, and had no problem hypothesizing a plausible (enough) back story. Got your dragons, your guardians, your virgin, her boy friend, and more dragons. Oh, yeah, and your evil wizard.

Was i close?

Waddyawant, Hamlet?

codydog

Annalee Newitz

... I might make a version with all plot removed. Just scenes of draconic destruction. Hmmmmmm.

Ghede

Annalee Newitz

And I generally love such stuff.

Plague

dOk

codydog

Annalee Newitz

extracrispy

Annalee Newitz

dOk