Dragon Sword, Dragon Quest, Dragon Heart, Dragon Slayer, Dungeons and Dragons and Dragonheart 2! What do all these have in common? They are all B movies and/or major motion pictures. In fact if you look at what percentage of fantasy movies being made, you'll find that 90%+ percent of those movies will be about dragons! Don't get me wrong, I love the Dragon. I loved the AM's Perm series as a kid and the DnD books always gave a decent viewing of those mythical creatures... BUT COME ON! How much more can we, as consumers, take? When did fantasy HAVE to be about dragons?
Look, I get it, I really do. If you consider from a "realistic" point of view, a movie about dragons does kinda make sense. It gives you that FX effect without having to create a whole battle full of different characters, it simplifies your stories being that you don't have to create intricate storylines around multiple plotlines and it gives you that "Epic" feel. BUT what it also does is instant portray it as a complete copout. I mean let's face it, the only reason Dragons are so cool is because their ABSENCE not their complete showing-every-scene-in-every-frame. What makes Dragons so unquie is that you hear about them in whispers, you hear about their feats from survivors from the latest attack and then when you finally see them, they are great! In this, Eragon does hold some small value (if i'm assuming that's how they wrote the book because i never got through the whole thing).
The Scifi "Dragon" movie of the week isn't the greatest of comparisons but it does parallel what is a misinterpretation of the Fantasy Genre. Then again, maybe the "Dragon" thing is Fantasy's version of the "Star Trek" cliche.
-Longbow
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