Sep 2 2008'Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles' Trailer Finally Gets Down to What Dragons Are Doing (Fighting Each Other)
God, what have dragons been up to these days? I swear, it's like no one has been chronicling anything to do with those guys in forever. Until Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles, that is! Not to be confused with Dragons: Fire & Ice, Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles sets up more of a Boa vs. Python scenario, with John Rhys-Davies (of course) recruiting an ice dragon to fight off a havoc-wreaking fire dragon. It's the kind of genius you can only get from the director of Catwoman, a man known only as Pitof.
I don't know what's most astounding about this trailer. That it's somehow not a fan film (by fans of fire or ice dragons)? That it's seven minutes long? That its being seven minutes necessitates opening credits? That it reveals the deaths of two main characters? Nah. What's most astounding is how much I want to see it. I mean, seriously, fire versus ice? We've got to see how that one plays out.
Reader Comments
1. zach - September 2, 2008 4:29 PM
i thought they stopped giving away the entire plot of movies in the early 90s?
2. Jason - September 2, 2008 4:35 PM
Good Lord that looks bad.
3. Zyclonis - September 2, 2008 4:42 PM
Woah, in what year was this filmed? I'm usually very open minded about movies in general, but this looks, I mean, it looks... made for Sci-Fi channel doesnt quite nail it. It looks like a follow up to The Blade Master (1984). Possibly the worst movie ever made... also the funniest, though not intentionally.
4. Zyclonis - September 2, 2008 4:43 PM
http://www.videodetective.com/?publishedid=1690
watch at your own risk (it's SFW, just really really dumb).
5. Chris - September 2, 2008 4:47 PM
Dude, my money is on ice, and I don't mean my accounts are frozen.
6. D - September 2, 2008 4:57 PM
I like the blatent 'Gladiator' background music ripoff
7. JBoogie - September 2, 2008 5:06 PM
Sweet Jesus... This movie is going to suck balls!
8. John - September 2, 2008 5:11 PM
BOOOOO!!!....you can't be serious.
9. DrNecropolis - September 2, 2008 5:40 PM
Looks to me like 2 weird godzillas got it on with stingrays and had babies in some crap-tastic alternate timeline. But its got dragons, couldn't be much worse than well, every movie that isn't dragonheart or reign of fire, right? maybe?
10. Hodor - September 2, 2008 5:57 PM
Seriously, WTF. This is making everything Icey and Firey look really, really bad.
Wait til HBO comes out with George RR Martin's "A Song od Ice and Fire"....it will rule all!
11. changbaby - September 2, 2008 7:05 PM
I'm sorry, but I think this looks like a sweet ass movie.
*Pulls out a firearm kills self.
[this is the shittiest trailer i've witnessed in perhaps 2 years. I'd rather get my hands cut off than see this.]
12. Elmo - September 2, 2008 7:28 PM
eww fuck- that animation makes me wanna-
*pulls out a firearm and kills self*
gross
13. serene - September 2, 2008 10:22 PM
Wait. That wasn't the entire fucking movie I just watched??
14. K - September 2, 2008 11:32 PM
Seriously, with as many superhero movies as there are out there, is there anyone out there even TRYING to make a decent dragon movie? Oh wait, that's it...if it doesn't come in comic book form first, it involves too much creativity to not fuck it up, right?
15. Randy Rick - September 3, 2008 12:54 AM
Was that Billy Zane or Kevin Costner playing the king? And was the hero guy Keanu Reeves? Is this a commercial for that Fire and Ice restaurant chain?
Oh, I guess I should mention that I'm legally blind.
16. K lee - September 3, 2008 1:02 AM
Oh, Sallah.
17. Mat - September 3, 2008 5:06 AM
terrible, just terrible......
18. dpjax - September 3, 2008 9:27 AM
I already rode this ride...
Islands of Adventure @ Universal Orlando has a 2 coaster ride called "Dueling Dragons" featuring the Fire and the Ice Dragon.
19. FakerHater08 - September 3, 2008 12:04 PM
No Way this is going to theaters. It looks like a Poorly filmed Sci-Fi channel movie with some decent Real Actors. How did Arnold Vosloo & Amy Acker get wrapped up in this???? But the filming style, horrible diamond shaped Dragons with just wings and a head, legs or no body, the blatantly ripped off music from the Galdiator Soundtrack which Ridley Scott and Hans Zimmer would NEVER stand for, make this a blatantly obvious and shameful piece of total shit. How they have gotten away with using the music in the trailer is beyond me. I was thoroughly convinced this was an elaborate fake until I saw it on IMDB. I love how the ENTIRE trailer is just one lobg run on mix of tracks from Gladiator with no gaps. Even when the music doesn't even remotely match the mood of the scene it is playing in. This is sooooo bad.
Total waste of Money. To Make OR See.
Crap too.
20. FakerHater08 - September 3, 2008 12:07 PM
Ok. Just watched it again to see if I was just totally off base. I would rather bang my nuts with a spiked bat, slide down a slide of razor blades into a pool of lemon juice, get dowsed in Kerosene and lit on fire than see this.
But I would do all that for a Klondike Bar though.
21. wendy - September 3, 2008 3:58 PM
ohhhhh it's sooooo long I can't imagine anyone actually sitting through a full length version of that.
22. Thandrale - September 4, 2008 3:16 AM
Okay. A simple rule for dragon movies. The dragons have to look really cool. A flaming turd with wings is not cool looking.
23. orb205 - September 5, 2008 11:26 PM
This looks like something an NYU film student made as their thesis with the couple $100,000 their parents gave them because they're totally going to make it into all the festivals and be the next big director. The animation kind of reminds me of Clash of the Titans, which is awesome for a movie made in '81.
24. m1gu3 - September 6, 2008 1:57 AM
looks chepaly made, over acted and pretending to be something else that's not. A future piece of crap I'd say.
25. kissarmy - September 15, 2008 4:34 PM
Bad dates.
26. Nick - September 15, 2008 4:56 PM
I was going to say that the only way this could look worse was if it didn't have Arnold Vosloo and John Rhys Davies in it, but they look like they didn't even really wake up for shooting.