How to Train Your Dragon.

Naegling · Nov 09, 2009 3:16 PM

New movie comming out. Its not the spyro movie but I belive it deserves some atention as it does concern dragons. I stumbled upon this trailer while surfing the IMDB website.
heres the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUhygdAZIw
This movie follows the tale of the protagonist "hiccup" as he is assigned to take down a dragon to become a man. When the time comes to finally slay the dragon he changes his mind and lets the dragon go. He decides to train the dragon and gets into some trouble with his people.
What is interesting about this movie is that the movie buisness is taking a new stance about dragons and how they are not "evil". In the trailer Hiccup says "Everything we know about them is wrong".
This movie is being produced by dream works fom the creators of shrek and kung fu panda. This movie is loosely bassed on a book by Cressida Cowsell. Im guessing that this movie will be popular bassed on the other movies that dreamworks has made and their popularity. It is also marked as a comedy.

I want your opinion on this movie and whether it is going to be a huge success or an epic fail.

Stormy · Nov 09, 2009 4:46 PM

I'd assume this movie will be good since Shrek and Kung Fu Panda were both good. Looks like something I'd be interested in seeing, but I don't know if we can assume "huge success" or "epic fail" just yet. tongue

I'm not as big of a dragon fan as some people here, but that dragon does look kind of cute. XD

Aceedwin · Nov 09, 2009 4:52 PM

Well it's definitely decided to screw the books. In the books, Astrid doesn't exist, toothless is tiny and toothless, every viking has a dragon as a pet, Hiccup is the rightful heir to the tribe, and there's not even a mention of Hiccup's best mate, fishlegs. So it has gone for the whole, change the entire world, but keep a few characters and elements intact for old time's sake.

Still it looks pretty good. I guess it's silly to judge things on what they're based on.

Stormy · Nov 09, 2009 4:59 PM

^ It's based on a book? I did not know that.

Might have to read the book before watching it then.

Aceedwin · Nov 09, 2009 5:03 PM

Based extremely loosely. I have most of the series, though it's really too young for me. They're by Cressida Cowell, they feature a young Viking named Hiccup who befriends dragons. I expect they just read that far and then twisted its arm off. They left out Camicazi and everything (the most awesome Viking princess ever, who for once in the life of literature, doesn't have a romantic side-plot with the protagonist).

Apoc · Nov 09, 2009 7:28 PM

Hiccup, why Hiccup? Wierd people. Looks good, but I can't say for certain. I'll still go and watch it

ratchet · Nov 11, 2009 6:47 AM

I read the book a few years ago when i never really liked reading and i imensely enjoyed it. never thought it would be made into a movie

Apoc · Nov 11, 2009 12:01 PM

I wonder if they're going to try and make a game after this movie.

Aceedwin · Nov 11, 2009 4:48 PM

No, I bloody well hope not. I've had enough of this idiotic idea that every child's movie should become a game. It's starting to spread to more adult movies, like Saw. How long till we end up seeing "Marley and Me: The Video Game". Put your foot down now says I.

Naegling · Nov 11, 2009 6:17 PM

I agree. Most movies made into games are really boring and have no replay value. Im anxious to see what happens when a video game is made into a movie.

Aceedwin · Nov 11, 2009 9:02 PM

It's generally pretty good, but only when the game is really brilliant. Groundbreaking sort of thing. Advent children was fairly good, and so were the tomb raider movies, and the resident evil movies. I believe they're planning an assasin's creed movie, of the second game. That might work, Ezio is certainly a more interesting character than Altair, and I've heard the plot rolls better.

Apoc · Nov 12, 2009 10:18 AM

Although I like SAW and I want to see how good(or bad) the game is, if it sucks then, bollocks! But why don't they learn their lesson and stop making movie games cuz they all blow

Naegling · Nov 12, 2009 1:30 PM

I think that I saw that the saw games were pretty good.
And they will continue making movie games as long as people keep buying them.

Rurikredwolf · Nov 12, 2009 2:07 PM

The Saw game was actually not that bad. Just a bit repetitive and bad combat system. If they had fixed that, it would have been the best movie game.

But yeah, the only reason I want to see this is becuase the people from Superbad are in it

Naegling · Nov 12, 2009 3:04 PM

Im probably going to end up seeing this wherther I want to or not. Because my parents always want to take me to things like that.

Apoc · Nov 12, 2009 3:56 PM

Do you guys like SAW? I loved SAW 3

Swaffy · Nov 13, 2009 11:02 PM

By the looks of the dragons, a more appropriate title shall be used.
"How to tame a flying fish."

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But it's about dragons. Hell, I'm going to see it whether or not it sucks.

Apoc · Nov 15, 2009 6:04 PM

It looks like it would be average

Sir not appearing here · Nov 15, 2009 6:58 PM

I saw that trailer a little while ago and I'm definitely going to see it. I don't like how the dragon looks like a catfish but at the same time I think it makes it look cute.

Apoc · Nov 15, 2009 7:30 PM

Like I said, average, but you never know I might like it

Cesna · Nov 15, 2009 10:11 PM

the book is definately different than the movie...but they are NEVER the same. it still looks good, im definately seeing it.

Apoc · Nov 16, 2009 10:40 AM

But the movies are always different from the books

Cesna · Nov 16, 2009 11:51 PM

lord of the rings was pretty close

DarkMaster · Nov 17, 2009 1:32 AM

I watched the trailer for that about 5 minutes ago, it looks awesome

Apoc · Nov 17, 2009 6:57 AM

Cesna wrote:

lord of the rings was pretty close

True, although you watch Eragon and read the book and they messed that one up too. Harry Potter, same story, in the Goblet of Fire he was supposed to fight a Griffin in the preliminary rounds, they just skipped that and moved onto the first challenge

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