30 DoM: Day 26
Dec. 26th, 2010 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenswept26. A movie that you love but everyone else hates
I don't know if everyone hates it, but despite it's rather large backlash, I throughly enjoy Dragonheart.
I'm not really sure why it gets trashed as much as it does. It's not perfect, sure, but it's still a decent summer fun movie. I admit the effects aren't always the best, a little stilted and unexpressive at times, but you can only do so much with Dennis Quaid (zing!). I though Draco was, and still is, pretty good CGI; and he's voiced by Sean fucking Connery, that automatically makes him several degrees cooler than most. As well as a younger (and honestly, fairly fugly looking) David Thewlis (Harry Potter's Lupin, for the uncultured heathens out there) as a badguy so bad he'll even kill his own mother (himself, no less). The only one who seems kinda frivolous on is the love interest, and more of the writing's fault. You could lose her and miss nothing; the same could be said of the battle-savant monk, but at least he plays the role of comic relief (to varying degrees of success).
Although, looking it up, Dragonheart was a book first, and the seemingly tacked on romance was actually at the forefront in the book. So... yeah.
Whatever, I still enjoy it. Good action, Sean Connery as a dragon, a dragon with a decent design, I'm still calling it good.
I don't know if everyone hates it, but despite it's rather large backlash, I throughly enjoy Dragonheart.
I'm not really sure why it gets trashed as much as it does. It's not perfect, sure, but it's still a decent summer fun movie. I admit the effects aren't always the best, a little stilted and unexpressive at times, but you can only do so much with Dennis Quaid (zing!). I though Draco was, and still is, pretty good CGI; and he's voiced by Sean fucking Connery, that automatically makes him several degrees cooler than most. As well as a younger (and honestly, fairly fugly looking) David Thewlis (Harry Potter's Lupin, for the uncultured heathens out there) as a badguy so bad he'll even kill his own mother (himself, no less). The only one who seems kinda frivolous on is the love interest, and more of the writing's fault. You could lose her and miss nothing; the same could be said of the battle-savant monk, but at least he plays the role of comic relief (to varying degrees of success).
Although, looking it up, Dragonheart was a book first, and the seemingly tacked on romance was actually at the forefront in the book. So... yeah.
Whatever, I still enjoy it. Good action, Sean Connery as a dragon, a dragon with a decent design, I'm still calling it good.
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on 2010-12-27 01:18 am (UTC)I dunno why Dragonheart gets such a bad rap, honestly. Then again, fantasy movies in general weren't taken seriously until LotR.