Dragon (2006)

as much as we can all appreciate the time and effort that goes into film making, this movie could do with a lot of improvements and a story etc to fit the budget. seeing as it is part of a trilogy they would have been better to roll them all into one film and have a bigger budget.there is far too much talking in this movie. it is too easy to get bored waiting for something to happen. the shots fail to meet even basic film making techniques and i know first year students who have made a better job than this. the dragon does not even look rendered and more represents the early attempts at King Kong (and i mean terrible mechanical stuff about as scary as jaws). the props have all been taken from other movies. the elves look like bad attempts at making black people look like lord of the rings creatures.i cannot give a correct review as i skipped past more than half of it as it was so hard to keep watching. not a movie i recommend seeing unless you are looking for how not to make a movie. I'm shooting from a lower position than those who made this film but i am sure i can at least produce a dragon looks rendered or at least in colour.

OK, first let me say that I love terrible movies. Attack of the Griffin was a recent favorite. It was so chock full of terrible acting, hilarious special effects and just all around poor quality that I loved it. My friends and I were laughing and cracking jokes the whole way through.I rented Dragon hoping for a similar experience. I was actually pretty excited. "How can they go wrong?", I thought. "It's a low-budget fantasy film and it's made by Asylum, it's got to be hilarious." Boy was I wrong. There was absolutely nothing funny about this train wreck of a film. We were actually reverting to making jokes about Attack of the Griffin while watching it, because this one gave us no material whatsoever. The acting wasn't funny, it was just bad. The actors made me want to cry rather than laugh. I felt embarrassed for them. Oh, and the direction... Leigh Scott needs to understand that things happen in movies. One of my friends jokingly suggested that a fifth grader could direct a better film. It's a funny suggestion, but unfortunately it's true. I would rather watch a screen adaptation of a ten year old's diary than sit through this rubbish.I can safely say I have never seen a more poorly conceived film. There is literally no plot. They never do anything in this movie. They stand around and talk. About what, I couldn't tell you, but they do it for hours on end, in between sparse and uneventful "action" scenes. I am seriously disgusted. No B movie has ever left me feeling like this. Leigh Scott should drop the camera and walk away. Right now.

My daughter and I were about 15 minutes into this movie when we began laughing uproariously at the corny lines and special effects. We're all major fans of LOTR and this makes you appreciate how important great actors, sets, costumes, direction, scoring, scripts, make-up, lighting, scoring are to a movie. A director getting flack about going over budget could use this movie as a warning of what can happen when a studio cuts too many corners. The basic story and script actually had potential and the actors were attractive, but something has gone terribly wrong here. We haven't laughed so hard while watching a film in months. We described it to my sons the next day and they insisted on seeing it for themselves. Soon all four of us were in stitches, even my daughter and I, who were seeing it for the second time. If you share our sense of humor over a truly bad low-budget movie, make sure you also see the blooper reel, featurette, director's commentary, and other special features, which are priceless and better than intentional spoofs (or are they intentional spoofs?) I had to visit this website to see if this movie was on the level or a purposeful takeoff on the fantasy genre.While the movie is pretty awful, I have to admire the "can do spirit" of the cast and crew here. They love film making and are proud of their ability to do as much as they do with the budget they have. Many of the problems with this film have already been described by others here, but a few of my favorite gems are these: 1) There is sequence in the middle of movie when the princess suddenly seems to have a head cold or an allergy as she delivers her lines, then it suddenly goes away. 2)The character of Garth has what I call an "Irish surfer dude" accent 3)In the director's commentary, he explains how he chose his location in part so that the production company could stay at his parents' Ramada Inn to conserve costs 4)He also proudly tells how his cast got to choose any costume they wanted from the costume warehouse 5)He plugs the White Castle restaurant near the Renaissance fair where the cast picked up some of their props. I could go on and on but I don't want to spoil your fun. Keep your finger on the fast forward button to get through the repetitive aerial shots of Wisconsin scenery.

And a bad one for that matter. The level of acting is so bad that it over power the poor visual effects. The scenery and the make-up complete this miserable attempt at film making. I did not expected to watch a masterpiece or academic show award classic, but come on, there should be a limit to what studios are distributing as a movie, But at least, I thought to myself, there is Amelia Jackson-Gray. A lovely lady by all means. (You can see some of her pictures here on this web page)., I thought, it worth to watch the film just for her sake. But even that minor expectation was robbed of me. But somehow in the process of making this disaster, they have managed to ruin this as well. (You will not recognize her in the film by the pictures that are on the web site).Casting unknown actors does not mean that they will have to over act, and law budget films does not mean that putting some black color on an actor face, makes him look like a dark elf. The audience is stupid and expect a little more.