Reign of Fire <<spoilers>>

[Tsyroc]

This movie is sort of so-so but I just love the part where Mathew McConaughey's character dies.

I so expected the film to cheese out when the big buff American hero dude goes flying dramatically from a tower at the airborne dragon. Nope, he doesn't even get a shot in. The dragon chomps him in midair.

[Kuja]

That ending was so cop-out. Where'd all the females go? Oh, they died within a couple months? Laaaaaaaaaame.

[LordShaithis]

A bit boneheaded, but a fun flick. I like the bit where the guys do the "I am your father" scene from ESB as a play, then tell the kids they wrote it.

[Kuja]

A bit boneheaded, but a fun flick. I like the bit where the guys do the "I am your father" scene from ESB as a play, then tell the kids they wrote it.

Yeah, that was one of my favorite scenes.

[haas mark]

A bit boneheaded, but a fun flick. I like the bit where the guys do the "I am your father" scene from ESB as a play, then tell the kids they wrote it.

Yeah, that was one of my favorite scenes.

lol, one of mine, too. I liked the mass destruction of the people in the crop fields, too.

[neoolong]

A bit boneheaded, but a fun flick. I like the bit where the guys do the "I am your father" scene from ESB as a play, then tell the kids they wrote it.

Woot? Damn I gotta see this movie now.

[haas mark]

A bit boneheaded, but a fun flick. I like the bit where the guys do the "I am your father" scene from ESB as a play, then tell the kids they wrote it.

Woot? Damn I gotta see this movie now.

Yes, it was a good movie....not much of a plot, and an ending sucky as all hell, but a good movie nonetheless.

[Shadow WarChief]

The implication was that all the female dragons were dieing of starvation. Still doens't explain why they weren't seen for months...but Oh well, you just need to stretch your brain a little bit and just accept that they were only trying to eat each other...

Y'all have to admit though, the dragon's kicked ass. They're worth the price of admission.

[Edi]

Yes, and there had actually been someone who knew something about science involved with designing the dragons for the flick, none of the classical six-limbed stuff, but front legs as wings, the same way a bat would have, but still usable for moving around on the ground too. Given how the dragons were also supposedly evolved instead of just magical creatures, this was perhaps the the single most impressive thing in the movie.

The plot wasn't much, especially the ending, you could drive several trucks through the holes side by side, but it was still an enjoyable movie. Can't say I'd grade many movies with comparable plot quality anywhere this high. I mean, Scorpion King had comparable plot quality, and was good for laughs, but that was all it was good for.

Edi

[Laughing Mechanicus]

I thought this movie was pretty poor, it had cool and realistic lookingCG dragons but it had an awful ending and a pathetic plot (and where the hell were all the Apaches and tanks from the advert? I wanted to see dragons fighting Apaches and tanks dammit! the best we got is big dragon blows up tank without it getting a shot off. They just stuck some random military vehicles on the poster to make you think the story was going to be more action orientated than it really was).

What put me off the most though was the way they tried to explain the dragons, for a start their rate of reproduction was totally implausable, the single male dragon would have to fly over vast fields of eggs continuously litteraly raining seamen on them for miles and miles in order to fertilise enough to maintain the rate of reproduction they quoted in the film (another annoyance, for dragons to be as advanced a species as they were in the film, they certainly would have to have more than one male, but its a plot device I guess).

The point I thought was the most retarded of all however was the fact the dragons ate ash, now think about that, how do you make ash? You burn things, and what does burning do? It releases the chemical energy stored in the material as heat, which is the very reason we eat things in the first place, because they contain chemical energy to fuel our bodies! The dagons would have to eat a fair few hundred tonnes of (very energy inefficient) ash every day to give them just enough energy to move around let alone actually flying.

Another completely impossible feature was the way the single male dragon went to hibernate in an underground cavern, yet in real hibernation much smaller animals (mice and such) that would require far less food than our dragon die of starvation during a single winter, yet this dragon is supposed to have slept there for millions of years with no fresh food or water entering its body.

The one thing that I did like was the explanation for the fire, it seemed pretty sound, but again it annoyed me by showing dragons shooting huge continuous streams of flame for long periods of time, it would have been more realistic if they only had a very small amount of the fuels to use, plus it could have been used interestingly by having the main characters trying to coax the dragon into spewing flame at them until it ran out of fuel, they could then attack it more easily.

Normally these sorts of filmic pseudo science don't bother me I just ignore them and concentrate on the plot, but the flaws in this were so glaring and so pointless (wouldn't it have been far scarier if the dragons liked eating people/animals instead of ash, because then the fear of getting caught in the open by a dragon would have been far worse) and the plot so terrible that there was really nothing good to concentrate on, and the scenes with dragons, although fanastic, were far to few for a supposed action film.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Sure, it's a corny B-movie, but B-movies can be good! I'll have to check it out for myself.