Cool flick. I like it. But I have some issues.
Guns don't kill dragons, but a harpoon and Ol' Duke's of Hazzard arrows do?
While I liked the movie for the characters and the dragons - the plot makes some major leaps of reason.
Problem 1. The military can't figure out how to get the dragons, but some bumpkins do?
Problem 2. Where did all the adults go at the castle? One minute you have all of them partying and the next its just two and a bunch of kids.
Problem 3. The movie posters show Apache Longbow attack helicopters... I was expecting to see a couple Apaches dancing with the dragons. Didn't happen. Disappointed. The only chopper is a "Slick" with no guns. Lame.
Problem 4. Kill the boss dragon and all the other little dragons just evaporate? There was thousands of them. Where did they go?
Problem 5. Dragon's eat ash? Or Meat? I thought they ate virgins.
Problem 6. Where did these cats get all the fuel for the bird and the trucks and a Chieftain tank? These guys can't even grow anything but some tomatos and cabbage - but they can distill booze and evidently fuel at will.
Problem 7. The big daddy dragon is almost as big as a castle and has the wingspan of what looked like the buckingham palace or what ever that is, but then conviently shrinks down to easy archery targets for Hazzard County arrows.
Problem 8. Gabriel survived 8 years as an "Archangel" jumping missions like that? Where did he go if he is that baddass?
The head scary bald guy in charge - You could get the feeling that he cared about his men. That's good. A good quality for a leader. But the man has no skills as a military commander. His battle plans were a little retarded. He lost EVERYONE in 1 single pass by 1 single dragon? Yeah, they musta been good troops. It's a wonder they made it as far as they did. And for a dragon that can turn a Chieftain into slag with one blast - how come it didn't get Quinn who just ducked behind what looked like a garbage dumpster?
Anyways, other than those notes... Here is another:
Dragons are pretty tough beasts.
Yet I think .50BMGs would do well against them if they had hit one with them. So would LAW rockets and Bofors and Recoiless Rifles, and 105 & 120 Smooth-bores... Even 40MM from an M203 would do just fine.
In those cases - how come the Military and Police didn't kick Dragon Arse?
Oh, that's right... They were in England. Evidently we kicked there arses here in the states, ran out of Dragons to hunt, and had to fly over to England to get a few more trophies.
Leave it to the Brits to hang on long enough for Americans to come and bail there arses out.
Give it a couple more years and we Yanks would have the dragon issue sorted out...
The only problem we would have after that is dealing with that Aussy nutcase trying to get bit by one for his TV show...
"Crickey! This Dragon is REALLY PISSED NOW!"
I think we TFL'ers would have made short work of Dragons and we would all be wearing Dragon Hide Leather Jackets, Boots, Belts and Holsters. Heck, just the Utah Chapter of TFL would have made MINCE MEAT out of them Dragons. Heck, Correia alone could take one on head to head... taunting it "Get in me Belly!" And then when the dragon swoops down, Larry would pump 20 rounds of .308 AP through it's eye sockets. Done. There's one Dragon down. Then we have Pvt Pyle - who would snipe them out of the air. I think we would be grilling some Dragon meat before the sun set. Breathing fire? Feh... we have Utah Summers. We're used to the heat already. You guys could order TFL / MOLONE LABE Dragon Leather swag by the month's end.
