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Nambroth wrote:
I saw the movie but it was pretty bad. I enjoyed the CGI of Saphira- I’m a nut for good dragon design, but other than that left feeling quite like I had wasted my money. I was also a little disturbed that Saphira seemed to fly like a fighter jet and broke the laws of physics often- anyone else notice that in the ‘flying through the canyon’ scene?!
YES! Uch, I hated that.
Its alright, i havent read the books yet and i know they are sooooo much better than film.
The film has its good bits but then it gets let down by something stilly.
Watchable though 😀Greater Basilisk wrote:Nambroth wrote:I saw the movie but it was pretty bad. I enjoyed the CGI of Saphira- I’m a nut for good dragon design, but other than that left feeling quite like I had wasted my money. I was also a little disturbed that Saphira seemed to fly like a fighter jet and broke the laws of physics often- anyone else notice that in the ‘flying through the canyon’ scene?!
YES! Uch, I hated that.
What stood out so much about that scene?
Her wings were folded in/cupped for the entire length of the canyon after she dove down. While her velocity would be enough to keep her airborne for a few seconds, she should start to loose speed, therefore lift, and therefore altitude after a distance. But she flew and maneuvered the entire canyon length that way. I’m just nitpicking!! 😉 The only reason it bothered me so much is that I’ve spend so much time studying flight.
That and instead of normal air rushing noises, it sounded like they added a subtle sound track with a turbine engine at speed 😉
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My art: featherdust.comAhhh! Ok. I will have to watch it again and check it out. I can understand nit-picking movies. I tore apart Blackhawk Down and another movie that had a Blackhawk crash in the ocean at the very beginning. The outside was a Blackhawk but the inside was an Apache. The average observer would not notice or care, but I was irritated. 🙄
Ooh, thanks for that pointer, Ski! Black Hawk Down is my favorite movie of all, but of course I couldn’t know that. That’s why the book was even better. 😛
Im a pilot and it all looked ok to me, i mean nothing jumped out that made me think hang on i cant do that in my plane its wrong lol. I’ll have a look if i watch it again 😀
In film it’s called ‘continuity’ and it’s the script supervisors (the Stage Manager counterpart in the film world) job to watch that, though sometimes they use the outside of a something and a different inside of something cause it works visually. Most houses that you see on TV or film have insides and outside that are from different houses. and sometimes things just slip through. It can be really fun to watch things and play spot the continuity errors! For horses, they try to use horse that look similar but some of them are trained to do different things, there is actually such a thing as a stunt horse 😛
wolflodge100 wrote:just like in horse movies they use 4 or 5 different horses. Only a horse lover can tell! 😆
Also the “Historically Acurate” movies that use horse of modern breeding that have only been around for 100/200 years or isolated completely from that part of the world if they existed longer. Oddly enough Lord of the rings where as a fantasy and in no way “historically acurate” and A Knight’s Tale which kills that title for itself also used horses which were more Contemporary and accurate. 😕
Movies that drive me nuts: one or more of the Harry Potter you could hear Hedwig’s wings flapping – she’s an owl so you shouldn’t have been able to hear her.
The Green Mile – they kept changing the mouse. The last one was a long haired variety and looked nothing like the other ones.
Andre the Seal – they used a SEA LION!
And when I pointed out that the teeth were all wrong on Stuart Little, the animated mouse, a friend pointed out “but the fact that he is talking is ok.”
Griffiness wrote:Im a pilot and it all looked ok to me, i mean nothing jumped out that made me think hang on i cant do that in my plane its wrong lol. I’ll have a look if i watch it again 😀
I meant flight as in flight powered by tissue and muscle, not turbo props or jet engines. XD
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