Dragon movies
Mar. 28th, 2012 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartI bought two dragon movies while in Vienna on 15. March. The one is Dragon Hunter - if you click on the link you can read an excellent review on the VideoVista website. It says just about everything I thought of the film. Even though I liked some aspects of it - namely Darius and the evil, scheming village sorcerer - it was quite a disappointment. More so when I realized that I could have bought it back home (where it was offered under a different title) for half the money. Ah, well.
The other one is Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles. Again, the link will take you to a review with which I mostly agree. I read a better one two days ago but can't find it again. In any case, it is another fairly weak film, despite Amy Acker and John Rhys-Davies starring in it. I also liked King Augustin and the Queen. The other characters - alas, also the so-called main hero - were rather on the forgettable side.
As for the CGI, the idea that the two dragons not only used fire and ice as weapons but were actually made, at least partially, of fire and ice, was an interesting one, but the execution was fairly crude. Still, for a fiml made in Romania...
But boy, has Amy Acker aged since her time in "Angel"! Making her play a princess in her late teens probably wasn't the best choice.
The other one is Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles. Again, the link will take you to a review with which I mostly agree. I read a better one two days ago but can't find it again. In any case, it is another fairly weak film, despite Amy Acker and John Rhys-Davies starring in it. I also liked King Augustin and the Queen. The other characters - alas, also the so-called main hero - were rather on the forgettable side.
As for the CGI, the idea that the two dragons not only used fire and ice as weapons but were actually made, at least partially, of fire and ice, was an interesting one, but the execution was fairly crude. Still, for a fiml made in Romania...
But boy, has Amy Acker aged since her time in "Angel"! Making her play a princess in her late teens probably wasn't the best choice.
