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  • Reign Of Fire is an oft forgotten but somewhat pioneering action fantasy movie from 2002. Set in the distant future of 2020 it pits Christian Bale and Matthew Mcconaughey against an army of full on fire breathing dragons. The movie is something else in terms of scale, VFX work and action sequences. But does it hold up? We find out, that's the Caravan Of Garbage guarantee. I guess.
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  • @under-._.-score
    @under-._.-score Před 4 lety +970

    The scene where they act out Star Wars is still incredible

    • @ayderla789
      @ayderla789 Před 4 lety +36

      and the skydiving with dragons was kewl

    • @jameswhittingham8027
      @jameswhittingham8027 Před 4 lety +66

      “I’m your father!”
      And all the kids go, “No!!”

    • @caitlin228
      @caitlin228 Před 4 lety +16

      Literally the only thing I remember about this movie

    • @jona.scholt4362
      @jona.scholt4362 Před 4 lety +7

      Where do bad folks go when they die?
      Don't go to heaven where the angels fly,
      Go watch Reign of Fire and fry,
      Seem again til the fourth of July!
      That's what Kurt Cobain really meant to sing during Unplugged

    • @TheMijman
      @TheMijman Před 4 lety +34

      Every movie where someone acts out Star Wars to kids is incredible.
      Including Return of The Jedi when 3PO acts it out to the Ewoks

  • @THE_BEAR_JEW
    @THE_BEAR_JEW Před 4 lety +378

    I love this movie.
    When Mcconaughey's character gets eaten, everything leading up to that makes you think, "Holy shit, this is about to be one of the most epic dragon kills of all time."
    Then he gets eaten and you say "Oh, right, that makes sense."

    • @Kardinaal29
      @Kardinaal29 Před 3 lety +55

      100% agreed. When he jumps you have that inner dialogue, “he might actually pull this off.”
      Then he dies and you’re like, “yea, that was stupid. Don’t know why I thought that would work.”

    • @gking2709
      @gking2709 Před 2 lety +7

      I remember being so hyped for this movie for that one scene then my Friend went and seen it and told me he just gets eaten lmao. I don't think I've ever watched it, just reviews on CZcams

    • @YukonWilleh
      @YukonWilleh Před 8 měsíci +2

      oh yeah , reality ! :)

    • @stephengrigg5988
      @stephengrigg5988 Před 4 dny

      ​@@Kardinaal29some real "aim for the bushes" energy 😂

    • @stephengrigg5988
      @stephengrigg5988 Před 4 dny +1

      ​@@gking2709dude.. that would have been genuinely hilarious if you went to the movie hyped for that badass moment just to see him get eaten in half a second like nothing 😂

  • @thomaslucignano5188
    @thomaslucignano5188 Před 4 lety +474

    Crocodiles with Australian accents, when dragons arrive: “I’m just gonna go unda water.”
    That killed me😄

  • @allendean9807
    @allendean9807 Před 4 lety +449

    I heard Bale treated the Dragons horribly on set. He’s apologized for it later....

  • @MrPink-qf1xi
    @MrPink-qf1xi Před 4 lety +940

    Modern Dragons owe alot to this movie. I wish there was more movies like this.

    • @PittsburghSonido
      @PittsburghSonido Před 4 lety +44

      Love the Wyvern/Wyrm design. Always have. It’s just the absolute best for real-life dragon concepts.

    • @danielclark-hughes692
      @danielclark-hughes692 Před 4 lety +32

      I like the idea that different places have different dragons so Europe has the Wyvern, Asia has the Serpent type etc.

    • @alexmansfield3268
      @alexmansfield3268 Před 4 lety +5

      Daniel Clark-hughes actually Europe dragons have arms and legs with wings on their backs, kinda like a gargoyle

    • @linkofvev
      @linkofvev Před 4 lety +3

      ​@@PittsburghSonido Wyverns (depicted on the Kingdom of Wessex's flag) had front legs but no backlegs, whereas these have backlegs and use their wings as front legs, like a bat. We'll call it the Bat-Dragon!

    • @saintniccage2818
      @saintniccage2818 Před 4 lety +2

      Laughs in welsh flag

  • @tuschman168
    @tuschman168 Před 4 lety +975

    "Dragon apocalypse movie" deserves to be a whole genre, like "zombie apocalypse movie". And yet somehow it began and ended with Reign of Fire (unless you count really crappy B-movies) and that's a shame.

    • @zcritten
      @zcritten Před 4 lety +85

      generally, I miss unique apocalypse ideas. Like all we get is I guess a quiet place which is just "be quiet".
      I want a load of subterranean troll people or Giant mutant frogs, anything would be welcome tbh

    • @nicholastracy792
      @nicholastracy792 Před 4 lety +18

      Remember D-War?

    • @tuschman168
      @tuschman168 Před 4 lety +20

      @@nicholastracy792 I do remember D-War. My point exactly.

    • @KB8Killa
      @KB8Killa Před 4 lety +13

      Zachary Critten my man you need to be working in Hollywood

    • @Thecuriousincident1
      @Thecuriousincident1 Před 4 lety +16

      Bout time for a TV series based on this.

  • @paulsarsfield650
    @paulsarsfield650 Před 4 lety +457

    Starting a petition to have this film renamed "The Greyest Showman"

    • @themikx2939
      @themikx2939 Před 4 lety +3

      This is the greyest shooow!

    • @greggatesjr1301
      @greggatesjr1301 Před 4 lety +3

      #WeeklyPlanetPosters

    • @hellojari07
      @hellojari07 Před 4 lety

      YESSS, PLS

    • @Deadpoolsword88
      @Deadpoolsword88 Před 4 lety

      Went to the comments to post that they came so close to saying "The Greyest Showman", but didn't.

    • @4Everlast
      @4Everlast Před 3 lety

      But seriously, it is annoying to not use color when you can, BUT, we do still get black and white flicks, so what's the big deal? Pretend it's bl.&wh.

  • @audoodle9963
    @audoodle9963 Před 4 lety +138

    The bit about crocodiles really got me for some reason.

    • @IloveGorgeousGeorge
      @IloveGorgeousGeorge Před 4 lety +10

      Me too, I kept giggling about it for like another 5 minutes

    • @finbarr3636
      @finbarr3636 Před 4 lety +9

      The absolute smugness behind "It's the perfect crime"

  • @DavySolaris
    @DavySolaris Před 4 lety +697

    I honestly don't love this movie, but damn: to its credit, movies like this just don't get made today. Super risky, not based on an established franchise or source material, relatively left-field concept. Can certainly appreciate that in today's context of seemingly endless sequels, reboots and franchises.

    • @DavySolaris
      @DavySolaris Před 4 lety +55

      (I dont want to mis-characterise myself as some "movies were better back in the day" boomer, plenty of great unique movies facilitated thanks to streaming nowadays, but the fact something like this was on billboards and the side of buses and shit when I was a kid blows my mind in retrospect)

    • @PittsburghSonido
      @PittsburghSonido Před 4 lety +21

      Agreed!
      Isn’t it such an odd age of film? I cringed when I heard they were making a third Bad Boys film. Lol! Dumb movies like this made up the 2000s.
      Btw, I loved the video game of this movie. Or was it the other way around?

    • @zcritten
      @zcritten Před 4 lety +27

      As someone who's never seen this movie, it looks really cool. Sadly marvel killed these weird one-off action movie ideas so everything is a big franchise. And if it doesn't make a billion dollars it failed, not like we could just spend less money on them or anything

    • @jasonmillsom2981
      @jasonmillsom2981 Před 4 lety +4

      @@DavySolaris don't worry i did not interpret this as a boomer comment, it suprisingly is easy to tell boomer comments apart from people who are not boomers, I hope this did not offend anyone born who is from the boomer time

    • @Alejandroigarabide
      @Alejandroigarabide Před 4 lety +2

      You made a great point!!! I miss those times!
      Let's hope Tenet does well at the box office BTW.

  • @Robocopnik
    @Robocopnik Před 4 lety +191

    All I remember about this movie is a guy jumping off a building to attack a dragon with an ax, and ever since the day I saw that, I knew THAT was how I wanted to go out.
    Also, damn, those dragons look really good, for 2002.

    • @kingragnar8023
      @kingragnar8023 Před 4 lety +7

      LMAO that's only scene I remember when I think about this movie to. That shot was in the trailer

    • @Validus241
      @Validus241 Před 4 lety +6

      You should watch Corridor Crew’s VFX Artists React where they talk about this movie. Don’t remember which episode it was but it was only a week or two ago.

    • @cheeseburger12
      @cheeseburger12 Před 8 měsíci

      The good news is, it is easy to get an axe and jump off a building. However, I don't know where you will get the dragon.

  • @linnjansson3737
    @linnjansson3737 Před 4 lety +177

    So you're telling me Christian Bale did TWO movies with kid Joffrey?

  • @DimaJeydar
    @DimaJeydar Před 4 lety +67

    I need to rewatch this movie. It's incredible how much it contributed to the whole "realistic-looking dragons" in TV and cinema.

    • @DimaJeydar
      @DimaJeydar Před 2 lety +4

      I watched it again just yesterday. It’s great. Dragons here are treated as they should be: “Nukes must’ve done this” - “Nukes didn’t do that”. They’re terrifying and awe-inspiring. There’s only one shot in the movie where you can see them not from the characters perspective. The only thing I don’t really like about them is sound-design. It’s somehow doesn’t fit. But overall, gosh I love those dragons!

    • @TechnoEsoterica
      @TechnoEsoterica Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@DimaJeydarI always loved that shot where the dragon is just sitting on top of the castle sending an absolutely pulverising amount of fire down through the top of it like a chimney.

  • @Hearthian
    @Hearthian Před 4 lety +117

    "What I really appreciate about the opening is he gets some of the Dragon fluid in his eyes"
    -James, 2020

  • @WakingDreamer01
    @WakingDreamer01 Před 4 lety +288

    *_"Envy the country that has heroes, huh?!...I say pity the country that needs 'em. What are you celebrating? One dragon down, three men dead? Oh, yeah. At that rate, we might just be getting somewhere in about 320 years...So have your little...soiree. Personally, you disgust me."_*
    ~ Matthew Mcconaughey the dragon-slayer ~

    • @Wyeuca
      @Wyeuca Před 4 lety +35

      The man can lay down a monologue.

    • @josefking9216
      @josefking9216 Před 4 lety +3

      Let me stand next to your fire.

    • @robhax
      @robhax Před 4 lety +22

      McConaughey was a beast in that role

    • @veerchasm1
      @veerchasm1 Před 4 lety +15

      *Gets eaten like Quint and Samuel Jackson*

    • @AskYourMom6969
      @AskYourMom6969 Před 4 lety +1

      🤣👍

  • @AmericanZergling
    @AmericanZergling Před 4 lety +71

    Gerard Butler is in the movie too as Bale's friend who inevitably dies

  • @dootxdoot1943
    @dootxdoot1943 Před 4 lety +56

    I thought I was the only person on earth that liked this movie when it came out. Glad to know there are others out there with taste

    • @matttheking1655
      @matttheking1655 Před 4 lety +6

      It's one of my all time fav... First movie whereby I truly loved dragons...😁

    • @Isthisjoebiden
      @Isthisjoebiden Před 6 měsíci

      Nope, as a kid, me and my siblings watched this movie sooooo much😂

  • @mewwww17
    @mewwww17 Před 4 lety +80

    I've loved Reign of Fire since I was a kid. Such an inventive film.

  • @TraveltheRedRoad
    @TraveltheRedRoad Před 4 lety +20

    My heart sank when I saw “Reign of Fire” in the thumbnail- glad to see you don’t actually think it’s garbage - love this film lol

  • @josefking9216
    @josefking9216 Před 4 lety +73

    The scene after he goes to invade London, when the dragon goes back to the castle. Bales acting in the scenes along with his co is still superb to this day. One of my all time favorite movies. (edit) or the scene where they are stealing tomatoes they are not ripe and some had just barely started to grow, but the actors rush them stripping them away from the vine and eating them like they were candy. Really drove home how desperate the situation was for them; shocked you didn’t mention the fire fighting scene in the vineyard tense and ingenious with stakes. Damn this movies good.

  • @kirkbrackmann6385
    @kirkbrackmann6385 Před 4 lety +278

    Next superhero showdown: Matt vs Ben. Not in their ability to edit but in a physical battle to the death. (Plot twist, Ben is already dead!)

    • @ReservoirDolphin
      @ReservoirDolphin Před 4 lety +9

      Me vs. Zombie Ben and also Mitch is there but WHOSE SIDE WILL HE CHOOSE??

    • @cable7152
      @cable7152 Před 4 lety

      Matt wins

    • @ReservoirDolphin
      @ReservoirDolphin Před 4 lety +3

      Gabriel Leka Ah, but I AM American. And I played half-field flag football for like 2 whole years when I was a kid. So.

    • @NickBradford-ck7ry
      @NickBradford-ck7ry Před 4 lety +2

      @kirk brackmann Damn you M.Night Shamalamalama and your plot twists.

  • @rafaelalodio5116
    @rafaelalodio5116 Před 4 lety +122

    This movie is a spiritual sequel to Pete's Dragon.

    • @emperorbailey
      @emperorbailey Před 3 lety

      I hope some random hobos had legal ownership of the final dragon in this movie.

  • @Azazreal
    @Azazreal Před 4 lety +99

    I adore this movie. Cheesy bits and all. The axe dive moment is easily in my top 10 badass moments

  • @CJonesApple
    @CJonesApple Před 4 lety +25

    This was the first DVD I owned. I don't know anyone that's even heard of it. It's a solid 7.5/10, had restraint showing off dragons, consistent rules of universe, and characters were good enough. Story was good enough.

  • @djordjepetrovic4823
    @djordjepetrovic4823 Před 4 lety +25

    I've been arguing for years that these are the best dragon effects and still hold up after so many years.

  • @imjackm2174
    @imjackm2174 Před 4 lety +47

    Recently rewatched this, I was amazed at how good the dragons still look, I thought it was going to be a case of rose tinted glasses but they still hold up. The ps2 game was also lots of fun

    • @onyxsky2304
      @onyxsky2304 Před 4 lety +3

      There was a ps2 game?

    • @crnlonewolf3195
      @crnlonewolf3195 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah there was video game of this what was cool about it you can play as the dragon and as the human you can drive different vehicle

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb Před 4 lety

      More like grey-tinted spectacles.

    • @wolfthornnholtzklau4913
      @wolfthornnholtzklau4913 Před 4 lety

      The game was great

  • @focal_point
    @focal_point Před 4 lety +148

    This film had a great premise for sure, some of the execution hasn't aged well but I'm glad it seems to be getting more recognition these days.

    • @heartless604
      @heartless604 Před 4 lety +1

      Check out, the prestige and sunshine.

    • @Arcin00
      @Arcin00 Před 4 lety

      Thoughts sunshine, masons favourite movie

    • @Clay3613
      @Clay3613 Před 4 lety +1

      @@heartless604 Sunshine is overrated tripe.

    • @thewrongstuff1
      @thewrongstuff1 Před 3 lety

      @@heartless604 The first two acts of Sunshine are amazing. Then it totally falls apart in the third.

    • @susie9893
      @susie9893 Před rokem

      Yes, the plot still has a lot of potential imo. Should be a series

  • @justmike75
    @justmike75 Před 4 lety +170

    Best line: “I just got us de-monetized”

    • @y2j13
      @y2j13 Před 4 lety +4

      That whole riff was hilarious

    • @Mario_Angel_Medina
      @Mario_Angel_Medina Před 4 lety +12

      Second best line: "she never went away. What do you think? That they put her on storage untill they need her for another movie?"

  • @nOT_sURE08
    @nOT_sURE08 Před 4 lety +28

    I actually really enjoy this movie. Whenever someone says Matt McConaughey isn't badass, I show them this.

    • @craftpaint1644
      @craftpaint1644 Před 2 lety

      I think everyone that is only familiar with his later movies are shocked to see what he did for that role back then 🙋🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

  • @stefanfilipovits21
    @stefanfilipovits21 Před 4 lety +67

    Reign Of Fire’s dragons walked so Game of Thrones dragons could run. Or...fly.

    • @edenjaycollins6055
      @edenjaycollins6055 Před 4 lety +9

      Iv never heard of this film but man the dragons remind me a hell of a lot of GoT dragons

    • @stefanfilipovits21
      @stefanfilipovits21 Před 4 lety +4

      Eden Jay Collins agreed. Drogon in particular looks like it took a lot of inspiration from the bull dragon in reign of fire.

    • @linkofvev
      @linkofvev Před 4 lety +8

      Pretty much every dragon uses the bat look nowadays. The four legged ones look too much like cows with wings.

    • @austintrousdale2397
      @austintrousdale2397 Před 4 lety +6

      They fly now?!
      They fly now!!!!
      They fly... now.

    • @kennethbryant5819
      @kennethbryant5819 Před 3 lety +2

      @@linkofvev I just realized that GRRM likes wyvern-looking dragons while Miyazaki is a four-legged with wings man all the way. Wonder how the dragons in Elden Ring are gonna look?

  • @andreluizdasilva878
    @andreluizdasilva878 Před 4 lety +123

    Matthew McConaughey, looks like
    Thor Ultimate

  • @evansn79
    @evansn79 Před 4 lety +41

    This is still my favourite movie - parlty because its one of few apocalyptic movies set in Britain that really portrays how grim it is being in Britain, but mostly because its got fucking dragons.

    • @stuco81
      @stuco81 Před 2 lety +2

      Aren't most post apocalyptic British movies grim!?

    • @TheFatman118
      @TheFatman118 Před 2 lety +1

      this movie didnt decide to be grey, everything is just grey here

    • @vice.nor.virtue
      @vice.nor.virtue Před rokem

      What are you talking about the dragons practically gave the UK a makeover for this movie. It's literally every ugly duckling movie when the girl protagonist discovers make-up and hair straighteners.

  • @nicolasmontes7207
    @nicolasmontes7207 Před 4 lety +62

    There´s a Dragonheart direct to video sequel coming out THIS YEAR. Yep, they´re still making those

    • @Drforrester31
      @Drforrester31 Před 4 lety +16

      Have to imagine there's a lot of overlap between people who watch Dragonheart sequels and the people who buy little dragon-with-crystal-ball figurines at the mall

    • @wolfthornnholtzklau4913
      @wolfthornnholtzklau4913 Před 4 lety +4

      @@Drforrester31 love those little things

    • @TearfulMoon
      @TearfulMoon Před 4 lety

      Oh god.. I gotta watch it. Even if I hate it

    • @ryank8261
      @ryank8261 Před 4 lety +1

      Not like we have a lot of movies to look forward to this year. Dr doolittle is in the top five worldwide box office for 2020.

    • @Validus241
      @Validus241 Před 4 lety +1

      Dragonheart is still one of my personal favorite movies of all time... but I think I saw the sequel way back when, but I don’t remember it, and NEVER saw it again... and that was when I was a kid who couldn’t tell bad cinema from good. So that tells me something about the real quality of those DH sequels.

  • @TheMrGreenElite
    @TheMrGreenElite Před 4 lety +16

    I loved Reign of Fire. still watch it every so often

  • @FoodLaneAdventures
    @FoodLaneAdventures Před 4 lety +145

    You joke about "Dragon from Dragonheart," but his name was actually "Draco." Which...is just..."dragon."

    • @juliusblaze
      @juliusblaze Před 4 lety +5

      "Hello, my name is Hominid Human."

    • @Fyrmer
      @Fyrmer Před 4 lety +6

      Draco says his real name is unpronounceable by humans, but he gets interrupted before he can actually say it out loud, so we just have to take his word for it.

  • @eraktheviking5560
    @eraktheviking5560 Před 4 lety +25

    To be fair, if I were in a movie and my character's name was Van Zan I'd probably just go by that name for the rest of my life

  • @Kasunoske
    @Kasunoske Před 4 lety +35

    When I was a kid my mom took me to see eight legged freaks and this but after eight legged freaks my mom said "that's enough crap for one day" and we went home

    • @russellharrell2747
      @russellharrell2747 Před 4 lety +5

      Aw, but there’s always room for crappy movies

    • @tonythefox9639
      @tonythefox9639 Před 4 lety +1

      same thing happened when i went with my dad to see the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

  • @Luggi83
    @Luggi83 Před 4 lety +10

    This is such a underrated movie. Just recently rewatched it and it still holds up.

  • @RandomJot
    @RandomJot Před 4 lety +9

    I fondly remember this as the first movie I ever watched on Netflix.

  • @6thsavage
    @6thsavage Před 4 lety +7

    This film was a perfect allegory for my last relationship. First we were happy, then we were Matthew McConaughey soaring through the air with an axe at a Dragon, then it was over and left me confused.

  • @Drforrester31
    @Drforrester31 Před 11 měsíci +2

    This is a great example of people taking a B-movie premise and elevating it with effort and creativity, and they were lucky to get some lead actors who were about to break out in a major way. Also, setting the grayest movie ever in the UK is just good filmmaking

  • @mssonoma1
    @mssonoma1 Před 4 lety +4

    My family was obsessed with this movie - great actors (think about how much this would cost to cast nowadays), great premise, genuine thrills, and a fantastic dragon design that makes them menacing visceral creatures as opposed to mystical and mysterious (like a lot of other dragons). I miss movies like this, they're fun, the actors took it seriously in terms of emotion, and clearly the people behind the film were giving it their all to create a story worth telling.

  • @SkarletManuka
    @SkarletManuka Před 4 lety +11

    I remember seeing this late at night on TV some night and I was surprised I'd never heard it, it's actually super cool and it's one of my fave movies

  • @ItsTheGuy77
    @ItsTheGuy77 Před 4 lety +28

    I absolutely agree, not a great movie but it's SO fun to watch. Hella enjoyable.

  • @AnOtterGamer
    @AnOtterGamer Před 4 lety +9

    I can't believe Matt killed Ben in the Reign of Fire finale, amazing

  • @SlappyDaze
    @SlappyDaze Před 4 lety +3

    They filmed a bunch of this near where I lived in Ireland and I remember there was a big argument with the local army barracks because the set was built around old church ruins (think celtic tombs and stuff) and they were afraid the filmmakers would damage it. Then the foot and mouth scare hit and the army kept shutting the set down (due to a quarantine) and my dad who was a soldier at the time said he had to do security for it all. He saw all the actors but hadn't a clue who they were.

  • @maugdw
    @maugdw Před 4 lety +18

    I've never heard of this but still watching because it's you two.

  • @the6ig6adwolf
    @the6ig6adwolf Před 4 lety +18

    I would argue that Toothless is the most realistically accurate dragon created for cinema.

  • @Rilenz13
    @Rilenz13 Před 4 lety +3

    Idk why but the crocodile bit really got me
    Also I think it's funny we see the editors on this channel more than James and Maso... the hosts (presenters?)

  • @LifeAsaTech
    @LifeAsaTech Před 4 lety +14

    I really like this one. Not a masterpiece, but fun.

  • @tenkesh_9429
    @tenkesh_9429 Před 4 lety +4

    I saw this once at a friend's house in like 2006. I was like 90% certain it was a childlike fever dream.

  • @mamaya311
    @mamaya311 Před 4 lety +2

    I can't explain it... I just really, really love everything about this movie.

  • @katarinaaguilar1936
    @katarinaaguilar1936 Před 4 lety +1

    THANK YOU. To me, this remains the scariest, most realistic, and overall best dragon design I have ever seen.

  • @BrokeNerfing
    @BrokeNerfing Před 4 lety +9

    Jack Gleeson was also in The Dark Knight with Christian Bale 😲

    • @kymLew
      @kymLew Před 3 lety

      Wasn't it Batman Begins?

  • @peeledapples4176
    @peeledapples4176 Před 4 lety +3

    This film was amazing, super underrated.

  • @alexanderforbes1452
    @alexanderforbes1452 Před 4 lety +1

    This really is one of the most under appreciated movies of it's time, I don't think anyone's really seen it, it was a flop at the box office and hasn't gained the cult following it deserves. It's not a life changing film or anything, but it is really well done, it's a totally solid movie and those aren't as common as we might think.

  • @MrMinuteman5
    @MrMinuteman5 Před 4 lety +20

    The Hungarian title actually was '2020: Reign of Fire'

    • @russellharrell2747
      @russellharrell2747 Před 4 lety +2

      Somehow a dragon apocalypse seems better than the one we are living now

    • @Validus241
      @Validus241 Před 4 lety +1

      Russell Harrell isn’t it funny how just about every other apocalypse scenario feels preferable?

  • @stanley5745
    @stanley5745 Před 4 lety +4

    This blew my mind as a kid, I remember the dragons genuinely scaring me

  • @dearthofdoohickeys4703
    @dearthofdoohickeys4703 Před 3 lety +3

    I loved this movie as a kid. It’s a fun one-off action flick with great actors and solid special effects.
    I’m always amazed how few people know it though.

  • @paulaburrows8660
    @paulaburrows8660 Před 4 lety +1

    I always love the reactions played out by one of the kids watching the S.Wars play. He's really going for it.

  • @IrisCorven
    @IrisCorven Před 3 měsíci

    Wait. You're telling me the guy who directed the masterpiece of SoCal-meets-Wisconsin rollerblading 90's perfection, "Airborne", ALSO made the peak of Dragon schlock?...
    Incredible. I love the man.

  • @monstermanalex1313
    @monstermanalex1313 Před 4 lety +6

    Thank You for Reminding Me of My Love for This.
    You should do the Relic lol Give Tom Sizemore his moment to Shine. Or Not. It'd be fine.

  • @thekramer1097
    @thekramer1097 Před 4 lety +4

    11:39 Remember in Avatar that the orange flying lizard never looked up for it being the apex predator? I think is that.

    • @GamerGrovyle
      @GamerGrovyle Před 2 lety

      I assumed you were talking about Airbender Avatar and was frustrated I couldn't remember that episode

  • @PranavanathanYoganathan
    @PranavanathanYoganathan Před 4 lety +2

    I remember watching this in the theater and loving it.

  • @stephengrigg5988
    @stephengrigg5988 Před 4 dny

    These special effects have held up amazing. This is a rare effects driven movie that hasnt aged in the sightest. Everyone needs to just do whatever they did..

  • @JJJameson.
    @JJJameson. Před 4 lety +4

    Not many have the courage to admit, but this was the beginning of the McConaughey-sance

  • @Gamescrap
    @Gamescrap Před 4 lety +5

    Awww I was hoping you'd cover the game! It was actually pretty fun.

  • @Isthisjoebiden
    @Isthisjoebiden Před 6 měsíci

    This is one of the first movies my mom bought in the transition from VHS to DVD. Always loved it as a kid.

  • @AzureViking
    @AzureViking Před 3 lety +2

    I loved this movie so much when it came out. It was my introduction to a lot of those main actors. Seeing the helicopter halo dive scene in theatres as a kid was freaking intense! I felt like I was diving through the clouds myself lol

  • @Reevesy95
    @Reevesy95 Před 4 lety +10

    I actually really like this movie, my favourite memory of it is the Star Wars recreation 😂

  • @whiskeystone6188
    @whiskeystone6188 Před 4 lety +11

    The only movie where the poster was the prequel.

  • @danlyday7248
    @danlyday7248 Před 4 lety +2

    Such a classic. Probobly the best dragon movie actually. I remember when I was 12 and just watched anything with a dragon. If a game had a dragon. I wanted it, but this is still my favorite.

  • @keithwoodcrest
    @keithwoodcrest Před 4 lety +1

    I'm so glad you guys covered this movie. It's been one of my favorite early 2000s movies ever since I saw it when it came out on DVD. I always thought the dragons were the best I'd seen prior to Game of Thrones, their wings having holes in them was such a cool detail and always added that much more realism to me. Great content as always, fellas!

  • @kurosakid5201
    @kurosakid5201 Před 4 lety +6

    Well that just made me want to rewatch the movie more than I already did. Great editing Matt! Looking forward to next week's as I love that film even moooooooore

    • @christianscott3116
      @christianscott3116 Před 4 lety

      What is next weeks? I don’t recognize it

    • @kurosakid5201
      @kurosakid5201 Před 4 lety

      @@christianscott3116 Edge of Tomorrow. Great movie, highly recommend

  • @magnamic5614
    @magnamic5614 Před 4 lety +16

    I love this move so I could not click fast enough. I've also clicked the like button before seeing anything. I do not question quality content.

    • @ayderla789
      @ayderla789 Před 4 lety +1

      samzies

    • @allancolorado2080
      @allancolorado2080 Před 4 lety +1

      Big same

    • @magnamic5614
      @magnamic5614 Před 4 lety

      Allan Colorado,
      Hmmmm...Same Big Sandwich 🥪. I’m hungry now. I wonder I James ever have Mason a Big Sandwich?

  • @redshinoutdoors
    @redshinoutdoors Před 7 měsíci

    One of my all time favorite and genuinely enjoyable collection of plot holes ever assembled into a feature film.

  • @mickesmanymovies
    @mickesmanymovies Před 4 lety +1

    I'm about halfway through this video, but I have to pause it just to tell you that I absolutely LOVE the fact that you're giving the design and animation of the dragons as much cred as you are. Because they do look fantastic!
    I saw this in the cinema way back when, and I remember coming out of that really impressed by the dragons, and feeling that they were made for realism rather than show. The technical explanation for the fire was so natural and easy, and it makes sense!

  • @paulwalsh7134
    @paulwalsh7134 Před 4 lety +17

    "Everything's grey, why is everything grey, is it all the ash?"
    It was filmed in Ireland.
    It's funny, you showed a clip of the Road, a film famous for being set in a world that constantly has ash fall from the sky. Cormac McCarthy got the idea from when he spent a holiday in Ireland and how grey it was.

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb Před 4 lety +2

      I thought Ireland was green.

    • @jplegend98
      @jplegend98 Před 3 lety

      @@ThreadBomb south Ireland is. North Ireland is quite grey.

  • @BrokeNerfing
    @BrokeNerfing Před 4 lety +4

    I learned of this movie from G4TV in the early 2000's when they reviewed the video game based on this move. The PS2 game was pretty decent and worth playing

  • @7footJesus
    @7footJesus Před 3 lety

    This is my #1 guilty pleasure movie. Very happy to see it getting some CZcams love.

  • @kenthehobo
    @kenthehobo Před 23 dny

    I remember this was the first movie I went to see by myself. And it blew my mind! I'm glad there's more people out there that enjoy it

  • @mikecarrea7313
    @mikecarrea7313 Před 4 lety +21

    Let's get a caravan of Garbage for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword!!

  • @radox4552
    @radox4552 Před 4 lety +4

    Oh my god, I completely forgot about this movie

  • @-AtomsPhere-
    @-AtomsPhere- Před 7 měsíci

    This is one of those movies that I really like every time I’ve seen it and then completely forget the next day. The plus is that everytime I watch it it feels like the first time..and I always enjoy it haha

  • @mattbellgottaring2it961
    @mattbellgottaring2it961 Před 3 lety +2

    I really enjoyed this film I actually saw it in theatres when I was 13 years old. If I'm not mistaken it was a summer release. I'll always remember seeing this movie in theatres because a fight broke out in the audience literally following the fight scene between Bale and Matthew Machonahey. This guy was drunk and made this other guy upset and caused a scene. They were removed and the audience members including myself and my parents got free movie tickets for the inconvenient distraction. Quite honestly it added to my joyful experience seeing the film. Got me pumped for the climax lol

  • @thecoffeeisblack
    @thecoffeeisblack Před 4 lety +5

    You need to do a review of Dragonheart and all the sequels. They are still making them, they had one come out in February this year.

    • @Validus241
      @Validus241 Před 4 lety

      ... maybe just the first one. Let’s be reasonable: you want these boys to actually ENJOY making this series, don’t you?

  • @dannyblax3313
    @dannyblax3313 Před 4 lety +3

    I think you meant to say "The Greyest Showman" amiright.

  • @RomuloBarvaArt
    @RomuloBarvaArt Před 3 lety

    The best dragons effects that i ever seen. Those beasts are pure rage. This movie is good.

  • @ianwathuku1870
    @ianwathuku1870 Před 11 měsíci +1

    The big beefy men stealing food comment was so funny😂😂😂

  • @stefanfilipovits21
    @stefanfilipovits21 Před 4 lety +7

    So Joffrey was in Reign of Fire AND batman begins with Christian bale?!

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx Před 4 lety +1

      Cast him in Thor 4.

    • @linkofvev
      @linkofvev Před 4 lety +3

      @@anubusx I think he gave up on acting.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx Před 4 lety +1

      @@linkofvev
      Shame i think he could do well in other films and shows.

    • @jim405
      @jim405 Před 4 lety

      Was he in The Machinist? Is he the one he hits with his car? If so that is mind blowing.

  • @aldoesagood5316
    @aldoesagood5316 Před 4 lety +4

    I just gotta say, Reign of Fire is one of my all-time favorite B-movies.

    • @jliller
      @jliller Před 4 lety +1

      What about it makes it a B-movie? The cast, budget, and how seriously it takes itself suggests otherwise.

    • @jamstonjulian6947
      @jamstonjulian6947 Před 4 lety

      Not a B-Movie. Dumb enough to be though.

  • @Minion_Mike
    @Minion_Mike Před 4 lety

    Loving these videos! Not long discovered this channel and love these throwback commentaries to movies from my childhood!

  • @theweedishchef420
    @theweedishchef420 Před 4 lety +1

    Holy crap I'm soo keen for the next caravan of garbage, the edge of tomorrow is one of my favourite movies of all time. I'm a sucker for a time loop premise

  • @LameCorvette
    @LameCorvette Před 4 lety +3

    "the best dragons"
    cough cough, *King Ghidorah 2019* cough

  • @nOT_sURE08
    @nOT_sURE08 Před 4 lety +4

    Really thought there'd be some D&D nerds talking about "errrrmmmmmmm, it doesn't have forearms so technically its a Wyvern."

  • @timothy790110
    @timothy790110 Před 4 lety +1

    I always liked Reign of fire, underrated for sure.

  • @TechnoEsoterica
    @TechnoEsoterica Před 6 měsíci

    The whole concepts that dragons burn stuff to eat the ash is brilliant. It almost seems so logical its hard to imagine it was never done before and hasn't been done since.

  • @veerchasm1
    @veerchasm1 Před 4 lety +5

    Such a great movie, plus we get to see “Mr. Allright Allright Allright” die die die

    • @kysike666
      @kysike666 Před 4 lety +1

      🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

  • @davecantshutup7446
    @davecantshutup7446 Před 4 lety +6

    "this is the greyest show"
    Biggest missed opportunity of 2020

  • @briansmith3011
    @briansmith3011 Před 4 lety

    This was the first movie I drove to see on my own. Loved it.

  • @spartanB0292
    @spartanB0292 Před 4 lety +2

    Wild, I rewatched Edge of Tomorrow just last week.

    • @SofaKing401
      @SofaKing401 Před 4 lety

      That's what I thought that looked like, I'm surprised no in the comments is making any predictions