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3 Wishes Week 6 (Part 2) and How To Train your Dragon Review
15 years ago
General
Good Evenin' folks!
So first thing's first I need to give some shout outs to
Kris_kazerhas ( came up with an error when i tried to link it)
and
for their awesome donations!! It's much appreciated you have no idea!!
3 Wishes is posted for FREE
However to help support me and my efforts some donations for the sake of the comic are very much welcome!!
If you wish to make a donation, please send your donation to donryujin[at]hotmail.com on paypal! Please include your FA name ( so I can give you proper shoutouts)
Thank you so much for following the comic!!
Current page:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3641815
First Page
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3468144
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How To Train Your Dragon
So yesterday I went with
and 
to see How to Train Your Dragon.
So while I'd love to hate this movie, i really can't say I can. But in all fairness it wasn't a great movie.
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
The movie is very uneven. From the production design style to the storytelling styles. It's like visually and story wise it's 2 different movies and they NEVER harmonize at ALL. Chris' design of Toothless, while adorable ( and I'm sure you could all see the physical and behavioural characteristics shared with stitch) he doesn't fit in with all of Nicholas Marlet's designs So you have a mixture of Kung Fu Panda with Lilo and Stitch, both movies, genius in their own right, but don't mix very well together...
I wasn't a big fan of the narrative exposition ( may as well have a maid walk in with a feather duster, cheesy British accent telling us what's going on) and I wasn't too fond of how they would continue to fall back on convenient conventions.
You had 5 kid characters that you barely got to know, while, if explored and you got to see what personal relationship or how they were related to Hiccup Really i didn't even care about what was going on there, I cared more about the relationship between Hiccup and toothless. Their bond and how it formed was AWESOME! All the shots and everything in regards to that were remarkable!! But when we got back to cartoony Vikings, I just simply didn't care.
I would have opened the movie without the narrative, but instead with the opening credits, have him pouring over the book filled with dragons, this putting an understanding on the culture and give you a nice ease in to what's going on, and once he's poured over all the dragons you see there, you hear a rumble and it's the dragon attack you see at the beginning. Then him handling the situation the way he did was awesome and would have been a great lead in to his relationship with the villiage.
To close it off, I would not have, again, used a narrative but really just simply used the scene where Toothless helps Hiccup to get used to his artificial limb ( which almost made me wanna cry ) and end the movie with them walking out the door. Then using the closing credits with a silent montage showing the villager's new found friendship with the dragons...
Anywho.
It's an uneven movie, but a fun movie regardless. I'm just a pickie bastard.
So first thing's first I need to give some shout outs to
Kris_kazerhas ( came up with an error when i tried to link it)
and
for their awesome donations!! It's much appreciated you have no idea!!3 Wishes is posted for FREE
However to help support me and my efforts some donations for the sake of the comic are very much welcome!!
If you wish to make a donation, please send your donation to donryujin[at]hotmail.com on paypal! Please include your FA name ( so I can give you proper shoutouts)
Thank you so much for following the comic!!
Current page:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3641815
First Page
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3468144
___________
How To Train Your Dragon
So yesterday I went with
and 
to see How to Train Your Dragon.So while I'd love to hate this movie, i really can't say I can. But in all fairness it wasn't a great movie.
(SPOILERS AHEAD)
The movie is very uneven. From the production design style to the storytelling styles. It's like visually and story wise it's 2 different movies and they NEVER harmonize at ALL. Chris' design of Toothless, while adorable ( and I'm sure you could all see the physical and behavioural characteristics shared with stitch) he doesn't fit in with all of Nicholas Marlet's designs So you have a mixture of Kung Fu Panda with Lilo and Stitch, both movies, genius in their own right, but don't mix very well together...
I wasn't a big fan of the narrative exposition ( may as well have a maid walk in with a feather duster, cheesy British accent telling us what's going on) and I wasn't too fond of how they would continue to fall back on convenient conventions.
You had 5 kid characters that you barely got to know, while, if explored and you got to see what personal relationship or how they were related to Hiccup Really i didn't even care about what was going on there, I cared more about the relationship between Hiccup and toothless. Their bond and how it formed was AWESOME! All the shots and everything in regards to that were remarkable!! But when we got back to cartoony Vikings, I just simply didn't care.
I would have opened the movie without the narrative, but instead with the opening credits, have him pouring over the book filled with dragons, this putting an understanding on the culture and give you a nice ease in to what's going on, and once he's poured over all the dragons you see there, you hear a rumble and it's the dragon attack you see at the beginning. Then him handling the situation the way he did was awesome and would have been a great lead in to his relationship with the villiage.
To close it off, I would not have, again, used a narrative but really just simply used the scene where Toothless helps Hiccup to get used to his artificial limb ( which almost made me wanna cry ) and end the movie with them walking out the door. Then using the closing credits with a silent montage showing the villager's new found friendship with the dragons...
Anywho.
It's an uneven movie, but a fun movie regardless. I'm just a pickie bastard.
i wanna see it nao. :3
the boys were more cardboard than characters, that's right. a pity, if you ask me... btw, the twins reminded me of Tank Girl ripoffs. as if Jamie Hewlett designed them... :) and the fat guy repeating the dragon's stats was so D&D!
not a bad movie. a decent one. I'll watch it again in 2D I think, too many details get lost when you stare straight at the silver screen. :)
personally I simply overlooked them. but I have seen worse CGI movies where you were constantly thinking about where you've seen it before. I think one of them was that first movie with CGI-rendered "actors" which were more cardboard than anything else. with a very foreseeable story, too. resident evil, maybe? dunno.