Festive New Year's list: Shanghaiist's top 10 movie dragons!
10. The dragons from Dungeons & Dragons. Yes this movie's so heinous that Moses should have shipped on smiting the Egyptians' first borns in favor of showing them the film's first ten minutes. But boy do the dragons kick ass! Not so much due to their CGI (the dragons from Dragon Tales were more 3-dimensional) but because of the amount of dragon-ness this flick provides. You've got an army of red dragons duking it out with an army of green dragons above a castle in a hellish-looking crimson sky, a dragon whose blood converts a river into fire, and a dragon devouring an overacting Jeremy Irons whole (then presumably crapping him out faster than the screenwriter did the movie's script). Nonetheless these dragons scuff the bottom of the list, because while the movie has scores of these mythical beasts with all the dragon trappings - flying, fire-breathing etc. - the realism (yeah we know, they're mythical creatures) is a little lacking even for the year 2000.
By Benjamin Cost
What better way to celebrate the Year of the Dragon than to countdown the top ten greatest movie dragons! Yeah, we couldn't think of anything either. Our criteria for which dragons make the list is pretty loose - basically encompassing dragons that either boast the most ass-kicking powers, have the best design, or leave the longest-lasting impressions. This list is by no means official, so we apologize if we leave out some of your favorite on-film fire-breathers.
And before you go on harping about how barely any Chinese-style dragons were on the list, as opposed to European Welsh-flag style dragons, keep in mind that CGI is expensive. The Chinese film industry will have to get on the dragon wagon with some decent candidates for our list, before we reorder the next movie dragons list in 2024. Clock's ticking!
Filed in Arts & Entertainment and tagged Chinese New year, dragon, dragon movies, dungeons and dragons, how to train your dragon, jabberwocky, king ghidorah, mushu, smaug, year of the dragon
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