Meet the 'Dragon Wars' Combatants!
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It has the greatest, most literal title since Snakes on a Plane, but hopefully Dragon Wars won't be as disappointing. The South Korean movie -- which features American actors, settings and dialogue -- has already made a ton of money back home, and it's due to open in the U.S. on September 14. I shouldn't have to tell you what it's about, since the title explains all you need to know, but here goes a try: an evil, giant, serpent-like creature arrives in Los Angeles with an army of soldiers and monsters in order to find an ancient 'gift', which is located inside a 20-year-old girl, who is the reincarnation of a Korean who possessed the 'gift' 500 years ago. The 'gift' is some sort of magic that will turn the serpent-like creature into a dragon. A local reporter, who happens to be a reincarnated warrior who protected the girl centuries ago, now has to stop the ancient creatures and save her. Makes no sense to me, and so it probably makes less sense to you, so let's just say it's about what the title says: dragon wars.Anyway, if you're really curious and want to know more specific information about the crazy, hard-to-follow plot, MTV Movies Blog has some helpful visual aids that provide some background about the different creatures we'll see in the movie. There seem to all be paintings rather than screen captures, and include Dawdlers, Dragons, Bulcos, Imoogis and Evil Imoogis. The Evil Imoogie, named Buraki, is the serpent-like creature mentioned above that attacks L.A. Apparently Buraki really, really wants to become a dragon, which is shown as being similar to the long, Eastern-styled dragon familiar via Chinese mythology. Meanwhile, the Bulcos, described as mutated birds, look more like the Western type familiar to fantasy fans. The Dawdlers are the coolest looking, though, mainly because they rocket launchers attached to their backs make me think of Dino-Riders. Admittedly, I'm probably more confused after looking at these renderings, but at least I'm intrigued. Despite the crazy plot, I think Dragon Wars (formerly, and also, known as D-War) is going to be another cool monster movie from the country that gave us The Host.
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9-21-2007 @ 8:28AM
Danny said...
Said to be one of the biggest budget Movies of the year. Alot of people have already posted negative feedback about the actors dialog in this movie, apparently it's pretty stiff and confusing, one could almost imagine the Actor on set saying "Mr Shim, this dialog dosnt make any sence, people dont talk like that" and the directors responce "YOU READ, YOU NO READ, YOU FIRE!"
The CGI is said to be mind blowing, but cant help but get the feeling, that horror fans will already be familiar with the plot of a sleeping serpent (Cuthulu Mythos and Lovecraft) perhaps there is something to all that necronomicon dribble that overtook horror films by storm during the 90's.
Hollywood and the American Film industry already produce some of the not so great title's that fall into this catagory of film. Steven Segals new movie Stealth would be on par with this.
Still worth watching if you want to stick the kids in front of the television so they can have nightmares about dragons. But appart from that you might find yourself heckling the poor script.
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