Dragon

A member of my family recently picked this up, and I watched it today.

Even though I'd been warned, before viewing this movie, that this was low standard, none of what I'd been told prepared me for just how poor this was. I've seen a number of low budget movies in my time, but this one has to be just about the worst one that I've yet come across.

The actors came across as being merely amateurs, many of the scenes were clumsily shot and as for plot there was barely any of it.

Despite early warning signs, I continued to watch the movie. As this is supposed to be an epic adventure production, I was sure that there would at least have to be some action worth seeing. However there wasn't even that!

The overall impression I had was that the film makers started this off with a few ideas in mind, but then abandoned most of these later.

A movie that I can only describe as being laughable at best.

I had seen a trailer of this film and just had to see it based on that. I knew from the trailer that this was no big money production with well known stars acting in it but have found quite the many jewels in smaller budget films in the past.

I was extremely disappointed -- especially so considering I was looking forward to the two future films to complete this trilogy. I can sit thru the worst films ever just to be doing but could not keep from drifting off during this one! The story line could and should be a pretty decent one but is overshadowed totally by unimaginative filming and special effects in the movie. Basically if you watch this film you will switch between the following scenes throughout the whole thing; 1)the cast walking in a single line v e r y slowly through the same woods 2) the cast stopped in the woods bickering with one another 3) one or two of the cast stopped in the woods having a vision or a dream (both located in the SAME woods and involving one or two of the other actors) 4) the cast stopped in the same woods fighting with the same dragon (NOT a very realistic one at that) and last but not least the scene you will see every five minutes throughout...a camera giving you a panoramic view of some unknown mountains that never change supplemented with crappy Celtic music.

As I said...VERY disappointed.

I'm seeing all of these negative comments about this movie, but clearly these are people who don't know the industry at all.

Actually, I was extremely impressed, given the budget. I've seen worse films that cost WAY more to make.

The negative people here are all comparing this film to films with $100 million to $150 million dollar budgets. The budget on this film was not $100 million, or $10 Million, or even ONE million dollars. It was only half a million.

I very recently saw poorer special effects on a film which had a budget of more than ten times this amount. (The budget on that one was around $7 million, so roughly 14 times the budget that this film had.) There were some problems with the film, sure, but I expected much, much less of a film with less than a one million dollar budget.

They did a great job with what they had.

Even Stargate, a show I LOVE, and which has a much higher budget per episode than this entire movie cost, had a "dragon" recently that was nowhere near as good as this one.

If you want to critique a movie, compare apples to apples, not apples to diamonds. I'm sure if this film had a budget that was 200 to 300 times higher, it would have been considerably better, but they did a hell of a job with what they had.

I'm a sucker for sword and sorcery movies, but after reading many bad reviews I was regretting renting this one. Then I watched it, and was quite entertained. With any low budget fantasy movie you have to watch with lower expectations. They usually lack in acting and script-writing, this did not. The actors and actresses gave a good performance. The story was straight forward, easy to follow, and didn't try to be more than it should be. I think the things that hurt the movie the most were the sound problems (when your shooting on location it's hard to get good sound), the integration of the CG dragon, and to a lesser extent, some of the shots were framed funny. From what I understand this movie cost a half million dollars to make. Lord of the Rings cost more than 200 million, yet was not 400 times better than this movie. So, in terms of ratios, Dragon is a better movie than LotR. Ah, but seriously, I enjoyed the movie and will watch the rest of the trilogy (if it gets made). Heck, I may even buy it if it's cheap enough.

Godawful writing, horrific acting, pathetic effects and kindergarten swordplay.

Screenplay, an attempt at old sounding English which is complete nonsense made even nastier with complete inconsistency where not only is one sentence made up of modern and "old proper sounding" (not actually correct)English but also the section of the dialogue containing this faux old English will throw in a word that is entirely out of place. Exacerbated by the fact that they drone on and on without getting on with the plot as if we should admire the skillful turn of phrase (sic).

Acting, I have never in my life seen such a terrible ensemble, the only actor who actually sounds natural while speaking has no screen presence whatsoever whilst the rest of the time you will groan at the rest of the cast while they ham it up with nasty attempts at various British accents.

Not very special effects that look as though they were downloaded from somewhere and slapped in with no actual flow into the movie with cause and effect being shown without actually showing the event, picture a truck driving down the road then suddenly cutting to a person flying through the air and now u need to imagine that the truck has hit the person.

And the coup de gras, many sword fight scenes of people trying their best to hit each others swords and then lots of "going for the kill" stabs into the earth.

I'm sorry but this rubbish truly offended me.