Great choice. This is also one of my favorite movies with dragons (or such). It’s fantasy to that extent, but the post-apocalyptic elements are also pretty cool. It’s just a fun ride.
one of McConaughey's best roles, and one of the most convincingly created dragons ever. of course Isabella Skorupko has balls of iron - she's a former Bond girl! and as for human weapons and armies... what can they do against a wave of dragons constantly burning everything in their path to feed? civilization would collapse rather quickly in such an environment. scary and quite convincing plot.
Theuly said that they repaired a C5, a plane that the US uses to transport 3 tanks at a time or a couple hundred troops. The tank they've got is an old British Chieftain, so they may have found it in the UK when they arrived.
@@732ReviewCrew They didn't even have to make up that they flew to Europe, honestly. The US has >50 military bases with over 100.000 soldiers stationed in Europe. In some countries there's probably more American than native tanks. lol
Thanks Joe, Mike & Mikey! 🐲 I love this as a popcorn movie... and I'm so glad I saw it on the big screen... twenty-one years ago?! Kudos to director Rob Bowman, too.
Plotholes is usually just a lack of imagination. A story where everything is statistically likely is a really boring movie, just as a story where everyone is always acting rationally.
Worked in a cinema when this came out - we used to call them 'shoulder season' B movies (movies that are released after the summer blockbusters but before Halloween or after the Awards/Valentine's but before the summer blockbusters). There was definitely a golden age of them in the very late 90s/early 2000s but it seems like the big studios now sink everything into chasing expanded universes or franchises.
Another thing I wanna add is how this era also had films with either tie-in games or tie-in cartoons. The Reign of Fire video game wasn't that bad and was pretty fun. Really awesome playing as the Dragon or taking on the Bull-Dragon with a tank.
Joe, you're a wonderful man. I watched this way back when (seriously, it was a 'new release' video rental) and really enjoyed it. Before watching it, I read the premise and thought it looked amazing. It was nothing like I thought it would be. I assumed the movie would be the dragons beating humanity down, with the story ending with the few heroic survivors having figured out what would turn things around. I was initially disappointed that we skipped the part of the story that had me the most intrigued, so instead I just 'went with it' (I'd spent good money on it after all, and it had to be back at the store the next day!) - and having given myself permission NOT to look for plot holes, had a blast. It's been so long since I've seen this (see 'video' comments above) that I don't think I knew who Matthew McConaughey was - NOW I do, and I absolutely agree with Mike - he should be bald (and buff) in more movies. On (an almost) completely unrelated note - Matthew McConaughey, along with Woody Harrelson, stars in the first season of True Detective - highly recommended tv viewing reaction/watching. Cheers guys 😚
I love how The Expanse has allowed you to run free with crazy conspiracies. Then with this movie, once you get started, Joe says: "just watch and enjoy it."
Oh geez, the Expanse brought me to you but this is one of my favorite sick-day go to movies! I love the twist on both the dystopian post-apocalypse and the dragon-fighter genres!
Something I just realized. Those archangels I believe they were called are a poor man's ODST's. I haven't seen this movie in a while and should find it again.
For what almost passes as a direct to DVD movie there are a lot of big name stars. There must be a story behind that. It feels like some producer got his hand on what seemed to be the basis of what was hoped to be a blockbuster, special effects film. But somewhere along the line financial backing fell through so they did what they could on a third of the budget. Or maybe one of those they couldn't settle on a script so it got reworked and reworked. Still, with this cast and some menacing dragons, the thing still managed to be enjoyable. This cast could deliver a riveting take on the phone book. So if there's any blame to be named, it has to fall on the script. A movies are hard to write. If you're ever in the business of looking into more off radar but classic B films I can recommend a few: EATING RAOUL. It's a campy, unapologetically raunchy comedy. It is OUTRAGEOUS and yet innocently sweet at the same time. It's the sort of movie you wouldn't want your mom to walk in on you while watching it because she. just. would. not. understand. No. If you react to that, you'd really be separating your channel out from the pack. Let Mike watch it and let him decide. And on the Sci-fi end of the spectrum: PRIMER. A shoe string budget indie film about a group of suburbban tech nerds who invent a time machine in their garage. It works but things go horribly off the rails. And for a low budget production the story builds and builds. At the end you just go, "Damn. That was really good." MOON. A higher budget Sci-Fi indie film staring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. It has the visual aesthetics of the Alien films, but without the aliens. Well intended movie but the plot holes make the storya little comical where it intended to be dead serious. All this reminds me of my favorite not even a D, B movie. Andy Warhol's BAD. I saw it at a college art film festival. Warhol fronted the money but he didn't have a hand in it really. Anyway, the story is about BAD people doing BAD things. At one point someone did something so unexpectedly, shockingly bad the audience went dead silent. I was sitting with my friends Neil and Diane, we had just met and were getting to know each other. I was startled for a moment, processing what just happened and then I burst out laughing at what I just witnessed. All I could do was laugh. I was the only person in a packed theater laughing. Roaring laughing. Tears streaming down and cramps in my stomach laughing. Neil and Diane both looked at me in horror. I am surprised we ever became friends. -I would say what the scene was but given there's a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance any of you might see it, I won't spoil the fun. I really don't think it would make any of you laugh. Speaking of laughing... Two more stories and I will quit. I remember watching SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. A pretty popular comedy when it came out. I'm in the theater again with Neil and Diane. The audience is loving it. And we just don't get. Everyone is 'ha,ha,ha,ha,ha. And the group of us?... crickets. When at some point one of the actors breaks the fourth wall of the movie and makes a derisive comment about the film. We all ROARED laughing. And the audience? Crickets. No one found it funny but us. And the final one... My good friend Florence and a group us are taking our Episcopal Priest, Father Kearney out to celebrate his birthday. Now Florence is in her 60s and is a social worker for kids. Somehow the idea comes up to do something wild so they decide 'we should go see a porno.' So there are 5 of us sitting in a dingy theater sparsely populated by a few appropriately dressed men in trench coats. The 'film' is set as a western and at some point one of the extras turns out to be Chill Will, an old 1950s character actor from a slew of old B Western films. We found this hysterically funny. The five of us are crying laughing. Which really killed the mood for the rest of the audience. It was a moment that has to rank as one of the strangest things I've ever experience. Watching a bad porno with my Priest. Maybe that is why the Archbishop of Canterbury once gave me the evil eye??? Hmmmm? That's another story. Sorry to go off on a tangent like that. It's a slow night.
You're fine! Love long comments like this. Maybe one day we will get to those b movies, I for sure want to keep a good mix of great movies and movies that are so bad they're good. Some cringe is good.
As far as I understand this plot, it is due to the high fertility rate of the big "dragon daddy". He just overwhelmed Earth with his millions of dragon offspring. It's an "I kill you with insane numbers" - thing. It does make some sense though. I mean, as far as fantasy plots go, of course. edit: had to chage mom to daddy... my bad
@@dnocturn84 I can picture a lone jet or helicopter dog-fighting swarms of dragons before getting overwhelmed. I imagine it's like Starship Troopers, except the enemy you're fighting are all flying and breaths fire. The game sorta showed what it probably was like fighting the dragons during the peak of their conflict. Just swarms of them everywhere.
@@Razgriz_01 Yeah, sure, but I think they don't neccessarly directly fight jets and helicopters in dogfight battles. It's more like they destroy human settlements and infrastructure pretty efficiently with fire and numbers. And this infrastructure is needed to man, reload, fuel-up and maintain jets and helicopters. If our fantasy-helicopter-squad starts its mission to fight swarms of dragons, they might head south and be pretty successful in their battle and kill dozens or hundereds of them. But when they return, their base is gone by another attack by another swarm of dragons. This will also destroy jets and helicopters over time.
24:13 - I'm pretty sure they got the tanks and helicopter in England and didn't bring them. But even if they did, military planes can carry such loads + over a hundred of men. Bigger question is the fuel. Gasoline stops "working" after about 6 months to a year. Something tells me that 20 year wait affected aviation fuel as well.
Dear The Review Crew, Thanks for reacting to this movie. I waited for the long time for someone to react to this cool forgotten sci-fi movie and I thanked you for this. I recommend watching the ending credits of Reign of Fire. There are two rock songs (soundtracks by rock band "Mad At Gravity") which played in the ending credits. Please, listen to them, you guys will enjoy them
New subscriber and new to your channel. “Reign of Fire” is one of my most favorite films, so underrated. Gerard Butler made me cry and Bale and McConaughey were peak 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😎
Yaaay, wyvern... lol sorry Im a fantasy nerd & artist, technically its not a dragon, but a wyvern with "dragon abilities" 😜 For whatever reasons dragon just sound cooler to most, which I can agree on but wyverns deserves recognition to! 😁 I remember when this came out, got a lot of sh*t from critiques but its a pretty cool movie!
I love this film. Absolutely enjoy the whole thing. But if i was to be critical. This film doesnt hold up and is really easy to tear apart Its why i think it make a great remake in the form of a show/mini series. The film was trying to do to much for its run time But absolutely had a great premise, world building and a few good scenes
Fun popcorn movie and fun reaction/discussion. LOL, you know that the McConaughey character is going to die at the end the moment you meet him. Love he died in the most over-the-top way possible, accomplishing almost nothing. The dragons (or wyverns, thanks Camilla) are well done and the horse lived and that is enough to make the movie fun. Forgot Rob Bowman directed, I recall him from directing multiple X-Files episodes including one of my favorites Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
Yep. Its also very easy to emulate if you can't find a copy of it for the PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube. Currently replaying it on my SteamDeck. The Dragon missions are still fun, even if the controls are sorta janky.
@@Razgriz_01 So sick! Yes the dragon missions were always the highlights of that game, I remember just sitting there for hours messing around so I could play as the dragon hahaha
Why keep questioning the supplies? With so few people still around and less still concerned with smoking or driving, there should be a lot of unused cigars and gas for example.
This was a see-once, for me. 😀 Modern weaponry would've taken out most of the dragons without much trouble, absolutely, after everybody had recovered from the initial surprise. Watch Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy to see how to make fantastic films on no money. (At least the first two; "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" had some bucks.)
The movie actually covers this aspect. When Gwynn is narrating the history, he says that they were too late to identify them and their history. At that point, the male had spawned millions of dragons. If they'd have killed the male quickly, grand, but you're trying to convince people that somewhere in the world (which you've got to find after it flies away) that there's a dragon... who knows what they thought of it, what its capabilities are, what its reproduction rate is like... it spawns hundreds of thousands to millions within a very short space of time. Its way too late.
Great choice. This is also one of my favorite movies with dragons (or such). It’s fantasy to that extent, but the post-apocalyptic elements are also pretty cool. It’s just a fun ride.
one of McConaughey's best roles, and one of the most convincingly created dragons ever. of course Isabella Skorupko has balls of iron - she's a former Bond girl! and as for human weapons and armies... what can they do against a wave of dragons constantly burning everything in their path to feed? civilization would collapse rather quickly in such an environment. scary and quite convincing plot.
A C5 Galaxy can carry all those tanks and around 200 men. It is the biggest transport in the US arsenal.
Theuly said that they repaired a C5, a plane that the US uses to transport 3 tanks at a time or a couple hundred troops. The tank they've got is an old British Chieftain, so they may have found it in the UK when they arrived.
Ah a British tank makes more sense but also thank you for clarifying
@@732ReviewCrew They didn't even have to make up that they flew to Europe, honestly.
The US has >50 military bases with over 100.000 soldiers stationed in Europe.
In some countries there's probably more American than native tanks. lol
Thanks Joe, Mike & Mikey! 🐲 I love this as a popcorn movie... and I'm so glad I saw it on the big screen... twenty-one years ago?! Kudos to director Rob Bowman, too.
Plotholes is usually just a lack of imagination. A story where everything is statistically likely is a really boring movie, just as a story where everyone is always acting rationally.
Worked in a cinema when this came out - we used to call them 'shoulder season' B movies (movies that are released after the summer blockbusters but before Halloween or after the Awards/Valentine's but before the summer blockbusters).
There was definitely a golden age of them in the very late 90s/early 2000s but it seems like the big studios now sink everything into chasing expanded universes or franchises.
We don't get many movies like this anymore I feel, unless they're all straight to streaming and that's why
Another thing I wanna add is how this era also had films with either tie-in games or tie-in cartoons.
The Reign of Fire video game wasn't that bad and was pretty fun. Really awesome playing as the Dragon or taking on the Bull-Dragon with a tank.
Yay!! I love this film...one of my fave fantasy/sci fi movies. I feel it's an underrated film. Hope all three of you like it!!!☺💚
Joe, you're a wonderful man.
I watched this way back when (seriously, it was a 'new release' video rental) and really enjoyed it. Before watching it, I read the premise and thought it looked amazing. It was nothing like I thought it would be. I assumed the movie would be the dragons beating humanity down, with the story ending with the few heroic survivors having figured out what would turn things around. I was initially disappointed that we skipped the part of the story that had me the most intrigued, so instead I just 'went with it' (I'd spent good money on it after all, and it had to be back at the store the next day!) - and having given myself permission NOT to look for plot holes, had a blast.
It's been so long since I've seen this (see 'video' comments above) that I don't think I knew who Matthew McConaughey was - NOW I do, and I absolutely agree with Mike - he should be bald (and buff) in more movies.
On (an almost) completely unrelated note - Matthew McConaughey, along with Woody Harrelson, stars in the first season of True Detective - highly recommended tv viewing reaction/watching.
Cheers guys 😚
i like the modern twist on the old dragon rampage setting, but these are def wyverns, dragonkin yes, but not outright dragons, looked cool tho.
I love how The Expanse has allowed you to run free with crazy conspiracies. Then with this movie, once you get started, Joe says: "just watch and enjoy it."
Every TV show we watch we are in expanse mode!
This movie : earth died, couldn't defense itself
Also this movie ; harpoons kill dragons
Great movie, the dragons/wyverns are some of the best in cinema I believe, they’re grounded and plausible yet absolutely terrifying
Oh geez, the Expanse brought me to you but this is one of my favorite sick-day go to movies! I love the twist on both the dystopian post-apocalypse and the dragon-fighter genres!
Campy yes.
36:10 the double explosion is _so_ satisfying
Something I just realized. Those archangels I believe they were called are a poor man's ODST's. I haven't seen this movie in a while and should find it again.
For what almost passes as a direct to DVD movie there are a lot of big name stars. There must be a story behind that. It feels like some producer got his hand on what seemed to be the basis of what was hoped to be a blockbuster, special effects film. But somewhere along the line financial backing fell through so they did what they could on a third of the budget. Or maybe one of those they couldn't settle on a script so it got reworked and reworked. Still, with this cast and some menacing dragons, the thing still managed to be enjoyable. This cast could deliver a riveting take on the phone book. So if there's any blame to be named, it has to fall on the script. A movies are hard to write.
If you're ever in the business of looking into more off radar but classic B films I can recommend a few:
EATING RAOUL.
It's a campy, unapologetically raunchy comedy. It is OUTRAGEOUS and yet innocently sweet at the same time. It's the sort of movie you wouldn't want your mom to walk in on you while watching it because she. just. would. not. understand. No.
If you react to that, you'd really be separating your channel out from the pack. Let Mike watch it and let him decide.
And on the Sci-fi end of the spectrum:
PRIMER.
A shoe string budget indie film about a group of suburbban tech nerds who invent a time machine in their garage. It works but things go horribly off the rails. And for a low budget production the story builds and builds. At the end you just go, "Damn. That was really good."
MOON.
A higher budget Sci-Fi indie film staring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. It has the visual aesthetics of the Alien films, but without the aliens. Well intended movie but the plot holes make the storya little comical where it intended to be dead serious.
All this reminds me of my favorite not even a D, B movie. Andy Warhol's BAD. I saw it at a college art film festival. Warhol fronted the money but he didn't have a hand in it really. Anyway, the story is about BAD people doing BAD things. At one point someone did something so unexpectedly, shockingly bad the audience went dead silent. I was sitting with my friends Neil and Diane, we had just met and were getting to know each other. I was startled for a moment, processing what just happened and then I burst out laughing at what I just witnessed. All I could do was laugh. I was the only person in a packed theater laughing. Roaring laughing. Tears streaming down and cramps in my stomach laughing. Neil and Diane both looked at me in horror. I am surprised we ever became friends. -I would say what the scene was but given there's a 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance any of you might see it, I won't spoil the fun.
I really don't think it would make any of you laugh.
Speaking of laughing...
Two more stories and I will quit. I remember watching SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. A pretty popular comedy when it came out. I'm in the theater again with Neil and Diane. The audience is loving it. And we just don't get. Everyone is 'ha,ha,ha,ha,ha. And the group of us?... crickets. When at some point one of the actors breaks the fourth wall of the movie and makes a derisive comment about the film. We all ROARED laughing. And the audience? Crickets. No one found it funny but us.
And the final one... My good friend Florence and a group us are taking our Episcopal Priest, Father Kearney out to celebrate his birthday. Now Florence is in her 60s and is a social worker for kids. Somehow the idea comes up to do something wild so they decide 'we should go see a porno.' So there are 5 of us sitting in a dingy theater sparsely populated by a few appropriately dressed men in trench coats. The 'film' is set as a western and at some point one of the extras turns out to be Chill Will, an old 1950s character actor from a slew of old B Western films. We found this hysterically funny. The five of us are crying laughing. Which really killed the mood for the rest of the audience. It was a moment that has to rank as one of the strangest things I've ever experience. Watching a bad porno with my Priest. Maybe that is why the Archbishop of Canterbury once gave me the evil eye??? Hmmmm? That's another story.
Sorry to go off on a tangent like that. It's a slow night.
You're fine! Love long comments like this. Maybe one day we will get to those b movies, I for sure want to keep a good mix of great movies and movies that are so bad they're good. Some cringe is good.
What I want to know is, how did the dragons defeat human armies with MANPADS, and heavy machine guns.
THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!!! IF A HARPOON CAN DO IT WHY CANT MANPADS OR CIWS
Joe said just enjoy the movie!!!
-Mikey
@@732ReviewCrew I love the movie. Just getting the annoyance out of the way. 😆
As far as I understand this plot, it is due to the high fertility rate of the big "dragon daddy". He just overwhelmed Earth with his millions of dragon offspring. It's an "I kill you with insane numbers" - thing. It does make some sense though. I mean, as far as fantasy plots go, of course.
edit: had to chage mom to daddy... my bad
@@dnocturn84 I can picture a lone jet or helicopter dog-fighting swarms of dragons before getting overwhelmed.
I imagine it's like Starship Troopers, except the enemy you're fighting are all flying and breaths fire.
The game sorta showed what it probably was like fighting the dragons during the peak of their conflict. Just swarms of them everywhere.
@@Razgriz_01 Yeah, sure, but I think they don't neccessarly directly fight jets and helicopters in dogfight battles. It's more like they destroy human settlements and infrastructure pretty efficiently with fire and numbers. And this infrastructure is needed to man, reload, fuel-up and maintain jets and helicopters.
If our fantasy-helicopter-squad starts its mission to fight swarms of dragons, they might head south and be pretty successful in their battle and kill dozens or hundereds of them. But when they return, their base is gone by another attack by another swarm of dragons. This will also destroy jets and helicopters over time.
24:13 - I'm pretty sure they got the tanks and helicopter in England and didn't bring them. But even if they did, military planes can carry such loads + over a hundred of men. Bigger question is the fuel. Gasoline stops "working" after about 6 months to a year. Something tells me that 20 year wait affected aviation fuel as well.
Dear The Review Crew,
Thanks for reacting to this movie.
I waited for the long time for someone to react to this cool forgotten sci-fi movie and I thanked you for this.
I recommend watching the ending credits of Reign of Fire. There are two rock songs (soundtracks by rock band "Mad At Gravity") which played in the ending credits. Please, listen to them, you guys will enjoy them
New subscriber and new to your channel. “Reign of Fire” is one of my most favorite films, so underrated. Gerard Butler made me cry and Bale and McConaughey were peak 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😎
Great Choice!!
Yaaay, wyvern... lol sorry Im a fantasy nerd & artist, technically its not a dragon, but a wyvern with "dragon abilities" 😜 For whatever reasons dragon just sound cooler to most, which I can agree on but wyverns deserves recognition to! 😁
I remember when this came out, got a lot of sh*t from critiques but its a pretty cool movie!
One of you seems to be ALOT slower to catch on than the other two!! Time to fade him out...
I love this film. Absolutely enjoy the whole thing.
But if i was to be critical. This film doesnt hold up and is really easy to tear apart
Its why i think it make a great remake in the form of a show/mini series.
The film was trying to do to much for its run time
But absolutely had a great premise, world building and a few good scenes
A modern TV version would be amazing!
10:34 - :)))) "Ocean does!"
Fun popcorn movie and fun reaction/discussion. LOL, you know that the McConaughey character is going to die at the end the moment you meet him. Love he died in the most over-the-top way possible, accomplishing almost nothing. The dragons (or wyverns, thanks Camilla) are well done and the horse lived and that is enough to make the movie fun. Forgot Rob Bowman directed, I recall him from directing multiple X-Files episodes including one of my favorites Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
They had actually made a video game to this back when it first released! It was a ton of fun!!
Yep. Its also very easy to emulate if you can't find a copy of it for the PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube.
Currently replaying it on my SteamDeck.
The Dragon missions are still fun, even if the controls are sorta janky.
@@Razgriz_01 So sick! Yes the dragon missions were always the highlights of that game, I remember just sitting there for hours messing around so I could play as the dragon hahaha
so what happends if there was a second male born they didn't know off als hundreds of dragons that can live thousands of years
Why keep questioning the supplies? With so few people still around and less still concerned with smoking or driving, there should be a lot of unused cigars and gas for example.
Why comment about the size of the plane when apparently you know nothing about them!?? That was an embarrassing moment to learn from
This was a see-once, for me. 😀
Modern weaponry would've taken out most of the dragons without much trouble, absolutely, after everybody had recovered from the initial surprise.
Watch Sergio Leone's "Dollars" trilogy to see how to make fantastic films on no money. (At least the first two; "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" had some bucks.)
The movie actually covers this aspect. When Gwynn is narrating the history, he says that they were too late to identify them and their history.
At that point, the male had spawned millions of dragons.
If they'd have killed the male quickly, grand, but you're trying to convince people that somewhere in the world (which you've got to find after it flies away) that there's a dragon... who knows what they thought of it, what its capabilities are, what its reproduction rate is like... it spawns hundreds of thousands to millions within a very short space of time.
Its way too late.