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So have any of you watched Dragon Rider before? Because I was booooored
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Awesome video!
I watched it and liked it, and also hating it is harsh and calling it a “How to Train Your Dragon” ripoff because it has a guy riding on a dragon in it is stupid.
i definitely have watched it before when it first released
That's not hiccup and toothless. That's belch and toothy
I’d say it’s Tom and Thunder.
More like Barf and Cavity lol
More like Hurl and Tooth Rot
@reviathan3524 that's actually better take my upvote
More like Fuckup and Gormless
Unfun fact: Cornelia Funke, the author of the book this was "based on", disowned this movie and had no creative control over it. The sad part is that she wrote the book because she was hoping it would be turned into an animated series, she even drew her own character designs and everything, only for them to throw all of her cool concepts and sketches out the window for this abomination. Her original designs for the silver moon dragons were great, heck, the book covers were great. Why they felt the need to turn Lung/Firedrake from an elegant mix of western and eastern dragons to Barney the light grey dinosaur voiced by Julian Bam (in the German dub) is beyond me.
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Aw, thats quite sad :( Its hard to happen but I wish she eventually gets the adaptation It deserves
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That is really sad. :( I LOVED the book as a child, it was one of my favorites
Man, that's awful, cornelia really deserves a better adaptation of her work
I still remember the book this movie was "based' off of. The book deserves SO much better.
I thought it sounded familiar, but I wasnt sure it was actually supposed to be based on that book 😅
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Same. The book has been a huge part of my childhood, as much as How to Train your dragon books... and to be honest - I'm sorry that we never good the HTYD that sticks to the books. I like HTYD movies, but it's far from the book.
Same for The Dragonrider. Oh well. Maybe one day.
I saw the thumbnail furry first I was like 'holy shit that's sorrel'
@@Sachmeris Same. I love both the books and the movies, but I really dislike the fact that the movies were supposed to be based on the books. They completely rewrote the entire story including some of the best characters, like how they swapped Kamikaze with Astrid and how they made Tuffnut have a twin (Ruffnut). It's like they just wanted to use the title of the books for their movie series with little care for the actual book series in its entirety. it's a little insulting TBH
I just want to point out that Brownies (broonie in Scottish folklore and brundaidh in Irish folklore) are an actual mythical creature. They're basically non-malicious hobgoblins. They wait for you to fall asleep and then come out to do odd chores that weren't done during the previous day, although sometimes they would rearrange the room slightly as a joke. You could leave cream and bread out for them, but if you ever made them a little suit they'd disappear forever.
Huh, guess that's why they're called "Brownie points" (I knew about Brownies the creature before since Dragon Rider was one of my favorite childhood books, but I didn't know about what they did.)
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When I was in girl scouts we earned "brownie points" for cleaning without being asked to and similar nice chores. I guess that's the origin!
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It's also important to point out that originally Sorrel (Schwefelfell) was a Kobold, which can also be translated into goblin.
I guess they changed her to a brownie because german goblins tend to be more furry (in the book she's described as looking like a cat) than what english speakers would picture…
I hate this movie so much more than most people just because I read the book this movie was “based” on in middle school and loved it. I haven’t read the book in years, and even I can tell that they’ve butchered all the characters arcs.
Twigleg’s arc especially was butchered. He went from a reluctant spy who was struggling with his growing attachment to Ben and the gang and the fear of his master killing him if he betrayed them. And also Nettlebrand being an actually intimidating villain is replaced with jokes about him making a social media profile, which is both stupid and makes absolutely no sense because he’s freaking metal dragon!
True, the golden one was completely terrifying in the book.
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I read the book twice and I remember everything the movie completely ignored. Firedrake couldn't fly unless he was in full moonlight, because he's a silver dragon. He CAN breathe fire, it's blue and has healing abilities. Ben wasn't a jerk at all, he was an alright kid and his previous identity as the Dragon Rider was interesting. Nettlebrand only followed Firedrake and friends undetected until the very end of the book, and he never used a submarine to travel underwater because he could already swim. And how did they get directions to the Rim of Heaven? From a talking rat in the city, I think I remember his name was Gilbert Greytail. Nettlebrand was a lot more menacing than how the movie showed him to be. And how he died, was that Firedrake finds a female silver dragon named Maia and they melted Nettlebrand with their fire into a giant puddle of molten gold.
Exactly. The movie was clearly made to attract people who watched Httyd.
If you make that many changes, why bother licensing to use the book.
Well dragon fire and brownie spit.
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@@pokemonsdoom Yeah, I remember that. I was just naming major changes from the book to the movie. Also, I figured that Nettlebrand would look more like a menacing monster, not some giant pile of metal.
The fact this movie even TRIES to connect itself to the Dragon Rider book should be considered a crime. I loved that book as a kid, this isn’t even slightly similar to it. The character designs are so utterly butchered it’s unreal. How do you mess up THIS bad?!?
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When I read the original _Dragon Rider_ years ago, I was like, "Wow, why hasn't anyone made a movie of this yet?!"
Now I know why.
It's so sad because they had all they needed to make a good movie with the story, and the HttyD movies and such already proved it was a genre worth investing into, and yet, they decided to be cheap about it and barely adhere to the story they were given.
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This poor author can't catch a break with her work, first Inkheart now Dragon Rider.
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@@catandrobbyfloresplus The Thief Lord
The book this was based off of was great, but the changes they made for the movie and the character designs just aren't good at all.
It used to be my favorite book growing up. I could not stop rereading it
@@thesylph4336 SAME! It took me until he mentioned Sorrel's name to realize that this was supposed to be an adaptation.
It would've been so much better if they were more faithful to the book rather than just trying to mimic the success of How to Train Your Dragon.
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I had no idea this film existed, but as soon as I saw the characters on the thumbnail I went "Don't tell me they made a shitty Drachenreiter adaptation..."
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Oh, for crying out loud. I loved this book as a kid and I'm disappointed to see this is the direction they went with it. Cornelia Funke's books were such a staple in my childhood, and if I remember correctly, her most well-known book, Inkheart, also received a crappy movie adaptation. Her stories deserve better.
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Agreed! The Inkheart book was so good! The movie was disappointing.
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I was a voracious reader of quality fantasy as a kid, and Inkheart was her only book I read. I found it to be pretty mediocre at best. The plot was winding and odd with some pretty serious pacing issues. The writing wasn't great either.
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it was actually made by a fan! It's really cool and well animated, you should check it out
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Browny is actually the name of a type of Faery in old English and Celtic lore.
As soon as I heard the name Sorral, my heart sank. It's THAT book? They adapted it?? And it's so bad?? I'm actually heartbroken. I love that book. Was one of the few things they could get me to read back in school. I have it still in storage. Haven't read it in years.
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Iam so sorry
Same, my friend
I know a lot of people are disappointed with Ben or Firedrake, but personally I find how they handled Twigleg to be heartbreaking. Twigleg was my favorite character from the book as a kid- not only did he introduce me to the idea of a homunculus in the first place (which, given their classical description as miniature humans grown by alchemists, he actually is quite accurate to!), he was a fascinating character, morally grey but extremely clever and quick witted and very slow to trust due to the mistreatment he faced at the hands of Nettlebrand and his alchemist creator, and a MAJOR CHARACTER to boot, and what did they do to him?
Turned him into a snivelly, annoying little cowardly gag character who catfishes his boss during the final battle. A huge waste of a fascinating and complex character.
Ikr it's devastating 😭 I love Twigleg so much he's so well written and his friendship with Ben is so sweet. I was devastated when I saw how the movie destroyed my favourite character....
@@blankspace8707 I realized they totally gave his character arc to Ben, worst of all- a character with selfish motivations who joins the group for their own benefit but eventually grows attached to another member of the party and has to work to regain their trust after admitting to his initial deception? That arc belonged to Twigleg, not Ben! And the person he latched onto was Ben, too!
I have never heard of this film, but when I find out that Constantine Films was involved, I was not surprised by this. This is the same company that butchered every. Single. Fantastic Four movies ever (including the unreleased Roger Corman one) before FOX was bought by Disney.
How did Constantine Films even manage to get involved with every single Fantastic Four film?
@@allenmurallo3730 Because they co-aquired the movie rights from Marvel from 1986 until 2019
I remember watching Dragon Rider and I turned it off 5 minutes in 🤦♀️
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I fell asleep trying to watch it twice
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THERE IS NO WAY THE RUINED MY FAVORITE BOOK SERIES. Dragon Rider is the reasons I like dragons so much. I have so many memories reading the book late at night when I was supposed to be sleeping imagining what the different places and things that happened. It was so unique because it was a true journey there was almost to no battles if I remember correctly and when there was IT WAS INTENSE
Also Dragon Rider was written a good bit before how to train your dragon. Like almost 20 years
When I read this book, I LOVED IT. And seeing… this abomination, feels offensive sorta.
...Can you call a solitary book a 'series' though?
@@Jwsponkythere are like 3 books in the series, but the sequels suck ass IMHO
The original book isn't a HTTYD ripoff, but as someone who enjoyed the novel, I can confirm that the movie looks like shit, as unfortunately is the case with most book to movie adaptations
I have that book (Dragon Rider) and its quite good (i haven't finished it yet). Is so sad that that this film should give it a bad reputation. When it's even older than the HTTYD books.
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The dragon on the book cover has a much more appealing design than what they went with for the movie ...
Everything in this movie literally just bad parody from the book version and ruined the book's reputation so much
The verlabase parody with you and miss heed at 1:12 is absolute insanity.
Is that a real thing? Or just for a joke?
He really likes miss heed go to his shorts and you will see it or go see video about the villains
Well, a Brownie is an established creature in fantasy lore, and I think even real life people who believe fairies really exist have categorized them as “real” things.
The first fantasy creature that is revealed in The Spiderwick Chronicles is a Brownie.
Love that book. Plenty of usual fantasy creatures that populated other media depicted in very unusual and exotic way. Goblin for example, instead of normal humanoid with strange ears they appear as toad or anglerfish like monsters, elves have vibrant skin colour and plant like protrusion above their head not cliched Lord of The Rings esque style of elf, and so on. And in the field guide edition present the ilustration of cockatrice and unicorn that look like if they appear from speculative evolution works due to how unusual but also plausible are their look (if magical abilities are omitted)
So...the only saving grace is that this movie has... a deer girl?
I find that incredibly ironic. Of course the best written character in this shameless movie was someone they most likely stared at the most whilst making it
I thought you were gonna say it looks suspiciously like Pete’s Dragon for a second there.
I've looked up the original german version of the book, just out of curiosity. And in the German Firedrake was actually called Lung and he was a Silverdragon, with Nettlebrand being a Golddragon.
And the fox-deer-sidekick is described as a Kobold.
I know nothing of the book, but I just think it's an interesting fact.
And I would love a Lost in Adaptation-style video now
In the german Book, Nettlebrand is not a dragon at all, but a alchemistic being / construct, created by an alchemist to hunt dragons.
"Nettlebrand was once created in 1424 by the alchemist Petrosius von Henbane from a creature whose name no one knows, from fire and water, from gold and iron, from hard stone and the dew that the lady's mantle catches from its leaves and with power the lightning brought to life."
@Hatze288 I know it's a German book. I greew up with Cornelia Funke, eventhough I've never read the Dragonrider books.
But it literally describes Nettlebrand as a golden dragon on the authors homepage in the blurb or the book.
Nettlebrand wasn't actually a real dragon species like the silver dragons, he was a golden metal killing machine forged by an alchemist in the general shape of the dragons he was meant to kill. Far more gold than dragon. That's a big part of why he was a scary villain in the book.
@@agingersopinion4820 Nettlebrand had the form of a golden dragon in order to make it more capable of killing other dragons, but ultimately it was nothing more than the creation of a madman through alchemical processes
The Kobold thing certainly explains why Sorrel looks so catlike - I had never heard of a brownie being described like that before but just figured the author was taking some artistic license there.
If anyone feels compelled to read the book, I highly recommend it. Most of the things that seem nonsensical in the movie are thoroughly explained in the novel. Every character is much more likable (Barnabas Wiesengrund is basically the same but older). Lung (Firedrake’s untranslated name) is more of a gentle giant, stoic, curious, and a total sweetheart. Ben actively, rather than hesitantly, joins the fantastic creatures so he won’t be lonely as an orphan boy anymore, and he’s very noble from the start.
If you liked Sorrel in the movie, you’ll love her in the book. She has a shitty attitude and hates everything. Also Saber, you do know that she’s a minor, right?
I’m disappointed that I’m only hearing about this book now as an adult and not when I was a kid. I think it’s a book I would have liked. I’m not exactly in the age range anymore.
@@blueflare3848 But is that all that hinders you to read it? Don't let your age stand in the way of reading a good book. Even I read a series of childrens books because the story was good. So give it a try, even if you're "too old" for it
@@Kyuubi9110 I just worry that I won’t enjoy it as much since I’m an adult. That the writing will be simple and “childish” since it’s for a younger audience and won’t keep my interest. Though I’ll still consider it. I just wish there was a way I could preview it first.
@@blueflare3848give it a read, or listen to the excellent audio book read by Brenden Fraser. Honestly, all of Cornelia Funke’s books are a lot of fun and not dumbed down for kids in the way you’re worried about. More all ages fantasy than children’s fantasy if you’re familiar with the difference.
@@katieeshaw So kind of like Wings of Fire? Or even Harry Potter? In the sense that it’s technically intended for a younger audience, but older audiences can enjoy it too?
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Cornelia! She wrote my favorite childrens (YA? idk) trilogy Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkheath!
The book was my favourite book when I was a child (I'm from Germany, just like the author and book, I really enjoyed a lot of her books), but what they did with this _movie_ ?! Like. Why not just take this amazing story and turn it into something on it's own?!! Ehy make it a rip off 😭😭😭
"Dragon fine... human bad" this can apply to any situation..
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what? im not biased
I remember this book. It was actually really good. Too bad the movie turned out the way it did
Dragon Rider, the book, is something I read when I was a kid. And the movie has VERY little to do with it. The book is a pretty classic hero's journey and it's really good! The movie is.... disappointing on so many levels. They changed everything, including the names!
In the book, "Firedrake" is called Lung and he eats moonlight. "Sorrel" is called Sulfur Fur and she's a Kobold. The book is about the dragons having to flee from the humans invading more and more on them. Lung, Sulfur Fur and Ben all go on a journey to find the ... edge of the sky, I think? Nettlebrand is actually not a dragon but a horrid monster without wings who eats dragons, he's the reason the dragons have fled and hidden away from him at the edge of the sky.
It's a very good story in my opinion and was one of my favourite books growing up.
Cornelia Funke is an accomplished author, probably most well known for the Inkheart trilogy. She just seems unlucky with movie adaptations because Inkheart had one as well and it's also kinda bad... It's sad to see.
I think your talking about the German version, either the German version of the movie or book but I literally have the book and that's not what they are called.
@@starlarose2216 I am talking about the German version of the book. It's Lung and Schwefelfell and Ben and Nesselbrand. Idk if the translation is different.
@@kaniyaru117 oh wow, why did they change it? I understand obviously in different languages they don't sound the same but I thought they would atleast keep their names and give the translated version, thanks for that!
@@starlarose2216 What are the names in the English book?
@@kaniyaru117 just Firedrake and Sorrel 😂 that's why I'm like, why would they change they names but is lung firedrake in German? I feel stupid for asking I could probably just Google it
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holy sh- something inside of me just broke while watching this video lol - 10-year-old me probably build their whole personality around the Dragonrider book - I was obsessed with it.
I now remember why I never wanted to watch this movie and it seems to be even worse than I thought omg. To cope, here are some plot facts from the book, that make the story 1000 times more compelling:
Firedrakes name in (at least the original German version of the book) is Lung and he is described as this really majestic silver dragon living on moonlight, breathing blue fire and only being able to fly at night.
The furry sidekick is called Schwefelfell, which I would translate to brimstone-fur (?) and she is a Kobold, which are these tiny, furry, and probably quite smelly, cranky creatures that live with dragons and love to forage for stinky mushrooms and complain. I think its suuper weird how curvy/girly her design is in the movie- she is supposed to be a tough little creature, you know?
The city in which they crash is Venice in the books and there are some cool scenes about sneaking through the canals at night.
Ben is a homeless orphan who decided to join the other two on their journey because he admires the dragon and would love to help (he is like this really pure and adventurous type of guy that learns to stand up for protecting the magical wildlife)
Nettlebrand and Twigleg are both homunculi in the books, there were all created by some evil alchemist to hunt dragons / serve Nettlebrand (and there were some nice hero/villain parallels between the silver dragon and the evil ginormous artificial golden dragon). Who was one of the most intimidating villains of my childhood btw.
Arghhh. this movie robbed everyone of so many great arcs and scenes and characters. There was this whole infiltration/spy thing going on with Twigleg and an Aviator-Rat, who rode a tiny biplane. The explorer and his family they meet in the desert were actually well written and had some really nice takes on protecting (magical) wildlife and giving Ben a new family in the end.
There were more dragons in the Himalayas at the end (yes, Lung gets a love-interest + baby dragons in the sequel)
And the finale had some awesome creative takes on how to defeat the indestructible golden dragon (because Lung could spit fire the whole time, Nettlebrands Scales were just too tough)
gosh, I love this book and its two sequels an unnormal amount and I wish they had done them justice because they would have made a great movie-adaptation.
Just one correction, the city they land in and find Ben is implied to be (then outright stated in the sequel) Hamburg, Germany. Unless it's different in the original German, you're probably confusing it with the Thief Lord, another great book by Cornelia Funke that does take place in the canals of Venice.
@@jsax01001010 and I was wondering why there are two books that take place in venice lol (because I also remembered the Thief Lord) I think because they just imply it my brain just jumped to it *also* being Venice lol and then I never questioned, that they don't confirme that haha - thank you for that explanation though :)
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I do agree that the film’s poster and marketing does make it feel similar to _How to Train Your Dragon_ but it’s actually based on a book by Cornelia Funke.
As for the movie, it was alright, but nothing Fantastic and it doesn’t help that the Rat Characters who help out our heroes including Lola Graytail, were entirely written out in the film so it’s best to just stick with the original book.
Cornelia Funke ended up having no creative input in the making of the movie and literally Disowned the movie in an interview. She HATED how they mangled her story.
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6:06 The bad dragon line killed me 🤣
In a future video, I'd love to see you cover shows that were cancelled despite having good ratings. Cartoon Network is littered with them with Megas XLR, and Sym-Bionic Titan.
Still a little hurt by Thundercats 2011 getting cancelled so quickly
I know I already posted this in the Shorts, but I'm gonna say it again. I remember my dad read the book to us when my sisters and I were kids, and I reread it again years later when I was in a “xenofiction journey story” phase due to writing my own. I reread it and really enjoyed it. I never saw the movie, but I heard from the author, Cornelia Funke herself, that it was awful, and she had zero creative control over what they did to her story. They couldn’t even get the Pakistanis right and just turned them into offensive stereotypes.
I hate Firedrake’s design here. He looks nothing like the majestic silver dragon on the cover and instead looks like one of those Dino (pronounced as "dee-noh") toys. He wasn't a pathetic loser who couldn't breathe fire at all, he *was* able to breathe fire, and BLUE fire at that, in the book and he was only able to fly at night under a full moon because he was a silver dragon. They did Nettlebrand dirty and turned him into a joke, and Ben was (if I recall correctly) a lot younger in the book, and he wasn't this selfish jackass who wanted money. Also, why is it even set in modern times? Why do they all have smart phones and IPads? The book was set seeimingly around the same year the book was published. Twigleg was able to communicate with his master by magic images in water if I recall correctly. And where the eff are the rat characters Lola and Greytail? The dragons never went to war with the humans, they hid themselves and waited for Firedrake to return. Lola was the rat who warned the dragons that the humans were coming, while Gilbert Greytail provided our heroes with a map to the Himalayas where the Rim of Heaven was.
It sucks because book-to-movie adaptations are rare. When you’re a writer, chances are very slim of your comics, graphic novels, or books getting a film or TV show adaptation, and a faithful one at that, since most people working in the film industry nowadays, whether in Hollywood or streaming services, don't care about respecting the fans and the vision of the original creators, apparently. I imagine it's every writer’s dream to see one of their books or comics, a piece of art that they’ve slaved over for years, get adapted to film or TV.
So as an aspiring writer myself who may not ever get to see one of my WIPs adapted to screen (if I ever finish and publish them), it pisses me off whenever a talented or world-beloved writer or novelist gets their book adapted to a movie or TV show, only for the people or studio to lack any respect for their creativity and vision. Instead, they shit all over the source material and change everything about the characters, from physical appearances to personalities and/or backstories, they change the lore, the worldbuilding, the messages, and just do whatever the hell they want because “It’s OUR movie, not YOUR book”. Um, okay, then what’s the point of making a film adaptation of a book if you’re just going to write your own crap instead??
Ugh. Some artistic creative liberties may be necessary for formatting a book or comic to a different visual medium, but not to the point when the characters and world, themes, messages, and story end up resembling the source material *in name only.*
There was a dark fantasy animated film called “Dragon Riders” (also called ‘Battle Oasis’) made by the guy who also made the 2020 Asylum film “Homeward” and the 2023 animated “Little Mermaid” abomination.
As someone who writes and who loves animation, something that I am genuinely afraid of is that one day all my dreams might come true, and I'll write a book that gets adapted into a film...only to then have my intellectual property stolen from me and turned into complete garbage by greedy people who value profit over good storytelling. I know it might seem arrogant of me to think this could happen at all. Realistically I'll be lucky if over a handful of people even read any of my writing. But in the dream/nightmare scenario it's really terrifying and I think that regardless of how successful any of us ever actually become, it's a thought that stops a lot of creatives. We all want to be successful, but we're afraid of becoming too successful because there are a lot of companies that don't actually value artistic vision and who will take something that someone is really passionate about and turn it into something nobody cares about. Or even worse, something everyone hates. And it's so sad, because so many book adaptations that get butchered come from books that are very good.
I agree and relate to this so much.
Also know IF you are under contract ANYTHING you do make belongs to the company that hired you.
It's terrifying that even Cornelia Funke falls victim to this.
"How to Tame a Dragon" was the Dutch title of "How to Train Your Dragon".
If i had a nickel when spark made a DreamWorks ripoff movie video like a httyd shameless ripoff, i would have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
This movie is the only reason I can't honesty call Raya & The Last Dragon the worst animated dragon movie of 2020
Raya wasn't a bad movie?
@@ExtremeMadnessX Not compared to this SHIT
Bad Dragon, e6... My man's just giving in to the allegations now, huh?
Honestly after Sir Patrick Stewart was the poop emoji.....I assumed nothing was off the table for roles he would take.
I honestly don't know why movie makers do this to book authors. Like why the heck would you take something than make a movie whinny about another more successful series? Lessons to be learn here if you a author. Do your research of movie companies asking to do your book. Be part of it and if they say no to you. tell them to buzz off.
I remember reading Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke. Around 2005 I think. I don't remember the plot, but the cover art was gorgeous enough to leave an impression.
Funke also wrote the Inkheart series.
To be clear, the book was great! I loved it as a kid and this movie is an absolute disgrace to the book. Infact, the "can't breathe fire or fly" thing just straight up wasn't in the book at all. I imagine it was just added in because the writers knew there was no reason for firedrake to car about the human boy in this bastardized plot
The book is good, and it's sad to see how it got butchered. Nettlebrand's origin story was much better, too - iirc, he was created by a sorceror/alchemist to kill dragons because their body parts made extremely potent magical ingredients, and he hunted them to near extinction (he might have killed his creator, too, or just outlived him). I don't think the dragons were all "Let's go to war with the humans!" either, more "eh, they can't find us, and even if they do, we can deal with it" and Firedrake was the only one willing to actually leave to search for the Rim of Heaven. I think Ben was just straight up a street orphan, and he went with Firedrake and Sorrel because he also wanted to find someplace he could call home.
That's pretty accurate.
OFC they made the furry sidekick THICC for some reason (we all know the reason).
Could Somone get rid of the bots that say “My FaRtS are bEtTeR ThAn SabErspArkS,” and, “my cOnteNt is bEtTeR.” It’s annoying af.
took the time to find every single one and reported lol took about 40 mins
@@Xeonryuthank you, I usually give up halfway there's just so many
Me: Mommmm I want to watch HTTYD
Mom: We have HTTYD at home
HTTYD at home:
I loved the book as a kid, so when I found this… thing on Netflix, a part of me died.
Seriously, Cornelia Funke's writing is so good, this movie doesn't deserve to be connected to it.
God, what did they do to my boy Lung!
Though I do have to agree that Nettlebrand's design is quite well done. Why did they give him an Ipad though…
This movie adaptation... is TERRIBLE! It is an insult to the book, which was very good! I hate every bit of this movie! And actually, the dragon in the book was called Lung, not Firedrake. And Nettlebrand... He wasn't a dragon made of rusty metal. He was a wingless dragon with golden scales! I say, read the book and ignore the movie. This is the best you can do! Sorrow... is avtually named Sulphur Fur (I go with the german names, I don't know how they are named in english) and she is a goblin, not a brownie. All in all, the characters are so out of character, it hurts! There is so much wrong with this movie, god I am ranting again...
Man I haven't seen Desolation of Smaug in years. Forgot how cool Benedict Cumberbatch was in that movie.
They look so derpy. It makes me chuckle.
I swear. Patrick Stewart is on a job to be in as many movies he is overqualified for as possible. He is to animation what Tim Curry was to live action.
I'm glad so many people appreciate the original book. I still have my signed hardcore. I got into Funke's books in my twenties. The Inkheart trilogy is my favorite, of course. I feel so bad for her that her great book was turned into this crap fest of a movie. At least with the Inkheart movie, Cornelia was heavily involved. So even though it's not a perfect adaptation of the book, it's still incredibly fun with a great cast. My fiance has never read the book, but he really likes the movie.
For anyone interested, another decent film adaptation of one of her books is The Thief Lord. Definitely read the book, though.
Ngl, the brownie looks cute!
The brownie is so adorable
Having very fond memories of listening to the amazing audiobook by Cornelia Funke as a wee lad, this one hurts my soul
Cornelia Funk was my fave childhood author! Still is since I still really like her books just I haven't re-read them in a long while. I feel like I heard of this one but I read Inkheart, Inkspell, (there's a third one Inkdeath but I haven't read it yet), and the thief lord. Her writing is very good and I suggest anyone to pick up her books.
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Brownies are in fact a thing in mythology. According to google they come from Scottish and English folklore. They are creatures who reside in barns or houses and well, were like little housekeepers who did chores in secrecy to humans. Their appearance varies from my understanding, sometimes they look like little hobgoblins, but in some illustrations I've seen they do in fact look like furry animal like humanoids.
Mythology experts correct me If I'm wrong.
Brownies is also the name of a British girl scout equivalent group for girls aged 7 to 10.
@@abbyelectric cool
Dragons animation be like
My farts are better than Saberfart’s farts 💨
@UTTPNewEnglandPatriots you are adopt it
@@ddylan436 ....adopt it? do you mean adopted? you seem too young to be on youtube.
What does that even mean?
And the number of R34 fanart for this movie immediately skyrockets. Thanks Saber.
The redeeming quality of this movie adaptatation based on a 1997 novel was that Cosgrove-Hall stalwart, Jimmy Hibbert voices Twigleg.
Shout out to the Chronicles of Eidolon for also ripping off Dragon Rider. Boy named Ben, dragon, cat with healing licks, and another fairy critter with "twig" in the name. Cornelia can't catch a break :(
It kind of reminds me of what happened with Carnosaur, Roger Corman's Jurassic Park ripoff. Carnosaur was (very loosely) based on a book that came out six years before the book version of Jurassic Park, but the movie adaptation was made purely as a Jurassic Park cash-in.
Yeah it reminds me
Dragons animation be like:
Robots above, report.
To be fair the og HTTYD is absolutely *nothing* like the HTTYD books, the storyline isn't even close to the books
How the heck did they see that dragon on the cover of the book, and then end up with that goofy ass ugly shit of a dragon in the movie?!
That joke is too late.Have you seen miss Kobe Ashley's dragon maid?They made that joke alreand we don't know i'm talking about that's an anime
I'm here to stop anyone from saying the "bro fell off" joke.
This movie honestly is a falier in every way. Including art direction.
Way did they make Firedrake so darn round? He has no spines, the riders are just going to get ripped off his back with the littlest amount of wind. They actually bring up the fact that Ben and Sorral have to tie themselves to Firedrake's spines so they don't full off.
Also making Firedrake basically a child. Firedrake is a young dragon. But he is not a child. He is smart and confident, but also quiet and contemplative. He is naive of the world, and the other magical creatures within it. But he is not childish.
Ben is a orphan that fate brought together with Firedrake and Sorral.
He willingly helps them out, and even trys to buy them time when the building they are hiding in is about to be demolished. But Firedrake can not bring himself to abandon the boy, and so scares the construction workers off.
From there Firedrake gives Ben the choice to join them if he truely has no one that will miss him.
And from that point on Ben is in it to help his friends. Including putting himself on the line to ask the Dijin about the location of the Rim of Haven. As the other two could not ask being other magical creatures.
Sorral is amazing and hilarious in the book. She is a grump who loves her mushrooms, and eating in general. She hates hights and flying but she loves Firedrake, so goes with him to help him on his silly quest. And she plays an important role in bringing down Nettlebrand.
If I had a nickel for every time a great book about dragon riders got a bad adaptation, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice!
I dunno when this movie came out but I saw it on TV last week and immediately thought "this is awful... why hasnt saber talked about this?"
And here we are
I remember loving the "Dragon rider" book as a kid I was really dissapointed with the movie. Maybe its memory serving me wrong but I recall the story more magical, not full of the technology stuff in the movie, really caught me off gaurd. I also remember the trials with the jinn and creatures being big learning and bonding moments for the characters and I think Ben was younger in my mind so I forgave him for making so many mistakes and acting immature, the movie makes him look like a teenager though. It's a shame when adaptations make these changes that don't improve the source material in anyway, it could just be my memory being hazy since I read it so long ago but I'm 99% sure tinder wasn't in a childrens book XD
Oh god, CONSTANTIN?! The same company that made all of the live action Resident Evil "adaptations"?!
Patrick Stewart voiced a poop Emoji, believe it or not, this is a step up.🤨
The book was better. Despite it being long and the format of the paragraphs being close together.
This movie, despite me watching somewhat of it, took liberties for sure and shorten stuff from the book. Although I haven't seen thr full movie I didn't see the mouse plot and how they got the info to find the Himalayan to mountains. Or wasnit the Tibet Mountains...? Then there was the whole thing of there being an... archeologist dad...
Yeah stuff was missing and this movie was an abridged version that became it's own thing. Just without the important things and became a... generic movie? Yeah. Movie-wise, I guess a rip-off? Book-wise it was its own thing.
This movie was basically the Eragon film all over again.
Two thing:
1. The poster also says "By Fireworks"
2. All the Human Characters look like they are from that Cryptoland Add or point of the mask is with little eyes
10:57: The Wyvern from Sonic Frontiers isn’t exactly a dragon, but it’s way more badass
The book is Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke. It’s pretty good. Too bad they didn’t stay true to it.
SABER not you naming the Monosodium Glutamate site! GASP!!
This movie felt like HTTYD's Kung Fu Panda 4 if Nine Realms didnt exist.
Love how much further into the proverbial..uh.. rabbit hole that saber is getting into
Don't care how shameless this movie is, I ain't pulling out of Sorrel.
Well I've seen people go after weirder things
Real.
Did you have to say it so weirdly
Imagine if your parents saw what you type
There is also a Rippof of How to Train Your Dragon called Dragons Rescue Riders.
I think thats just a spinoff series for kids
@@sourstudiosmadethisvideo Done RIGHT.
This unlocked some long forgotten memory of Dragon Rider being one of my favorite books. I read it so many times as a kid. I loved it so much. Sad to see how much they butchered this movie. Loved Dragon Rider books and How to Train your Dragon books, but sad to see how much they butchered this movie.
There was also a girl dragon in the book that looked like firedrake. I was upset she didn’t show up.
And yeah….that inflation scene was so not needed…only good thing in this movie was the song in the end credits
I get the Manscaped ad
But you missed the opportunity for a Bad Dragon one (plus, I would've like the sale, I just like collecting them because of their uniqueness, but have never used one)
Wait… I read this book as a child and they made a terrible movie out of it?!
Patrick Stewart might want to switch agents. This is the second time I have seen him roped into a sub-bar kids animated movie.
1:53 Actually he was King Goobot in Jimmy Neutron movie, in case you forgot
1:15 how much did that animation cost?
hopefully not 50K!!
I read that book in elementary school. This movie is sad...
I read and loved this book when I was a kid. I actually checked the book out of the school library the following school year and ended up just holding on to it to the point I owed late fees, lol. I am quite disappointed with this movie, despite not even have seen it yet, these clips alone were enough to frustrate me. If you want to know how far away from the story they actually got, I do recommend the book, it is leagues better than what I've seen of this movie already. It's not a terribly long book, but it makes the story make so much more sense.