
Dragons. Are there any cooler creatures in all of mythology? Unfortunately, in the world of celluloid, these great creatures of imagination have not really gotten their due. (At least, not in live-action cinema; why I have not yet seen How to Train Your Dragon is still beyond me.)
Is there any live-action film in which dragons have truly come off as cool as they deserve? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wasn’t too bad, but the dragons aren’t the stars. As I impatiently await the day when Peter Jackson brings his vision of the ultimate dragon, Smaug, to life in The Hobbit, I think about other dragon-themed movies that I have enjoyed in the past. None of them are deserving enough to be called “great”, but I’m very forgiving of movies I want to like. In one of these cases, I was the perfect age to see a dragon with real presence brought to life on the big screen – even if the movie he inhabited was far from perfect. Without further adieu, I present, in ascending order on my Flickchart, my picks for Guilty Pleasures starring dragons.
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How would you rank it amongst the best animated movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #2829 |
I never got a chance to see this in theaters. Does it end with a pop song and big dance scene like every other DreamWorks Animation movie? I firmly believe that’s the main reason DreamWorks (Sony and Fox’s animation studios are guilty of this too) will never make a truly great film.
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How would you rank it amongst the best movies based on comic books of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #8515 |
The biggest turkey of the year. Sad, considering there’s probably a good movie to be made with the source material.
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How would you rank it amongst the best dramatic films of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #9237 |
Read Ebert’s review. There’s a reason he won a Pulitzer.
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How would you rank it amongst the best movie comedies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #8470 |
Edward Norton in a dual-role as a set of wildly different twins. Or as I call it, cinematic bliss.
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How would you rank it amongst the best thrillers of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added |
The original Lost Boys definitely deserves to remain in the public’s consciousness. I’m pretty sure these DTV sequels do not.