Yeah it looks amazing and "subverts expectations" but that's about it. To not be a spoilsport, I stayed quiet and watched it with my 11 year old niece. Even she can spot the bs plot. Here's what she said not verbatim. "It was pretty ballsy of them to do the blood disguising trick RIGHT ON TOP of the dragon's lair and saying stuff out loud that would give away the ruse. And how does the dragon know that a generation has passed and it needs 3 princesses again? It doesn't go out and keep track of who's who by the looks of things".
My thing is, you have to judge each movie by what it's attempting to be and what it is. This film is attempting to be a YA fantasy fiction story aimed primarily at young girls. If you look at other movies in this same vein; Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Divergent, The Maze Runner etc. you'll find similar and sometimes even more egregious plot holes and inconsistencies. So I personally don't hold many of these story issues against it because you can give a silly answer to them that you may not like, but it's child's fiction so it can get away with them. Like the dragon not knowing when a generation has passed, you can easily say that considering the dragon is of quite high intelligence, it has a concept of time and therefore can generally track the passage of generations. Plus, there could have been an agreement on the number of years we did not see since the agreement was handled off screen. It's things like this that at least make the time passable. Now I'm not saying this movie is the next greatest thing, I'm not saying it's going to become a classic in the future, I just think people are judging it a little too harshly due to the fact that if they scrutinized their own childhood favourites in a similar way, they would find just as many inconsistencies. I'm sorry your niece didn't love it, it's a shame when things like this don't hit for them, but I have seen many say their child loved it which is worth something, in my opinion. Thank you for watching anyway, I appreciate it :)
@@zacharybryant9881 Dude, I did say non verbatim. 11 year olds with access to the internet are pretty smart and critical these days. I summarized what she said because she attacked me with dozens of unanswerable questions (why did they do the ritual on top of the cave? what if the dragon sees and hears them doing the fake sacrifices? won't the entire court get cooked? When can the dragon expect the sacrifices? what if the current king and queen did not have daughters immediately? does the dragon keep up with the latest news?)
I watch it and love it and wish this was made when i was a kid instead of watching animated princesses needing saving
Yeah it looks amazing and "subverts expectations" but that's about it. To not be a spoilsport, I stayed quiet and watched it with my 11 year old niece. Even she can spot the bs plot. Here's what she said not verbatim. "It was pretty ballsy of them to do the blood disguising trick RIGHT ON TOP of the dragon's lair and saying stuff out loud that would give away the ruse. And how does the dragon know that a generation has passed and it needs 3 princesses again? It doesn't go out and keep track of who's who by the looks of things".
My thing is, you have to judge each movie by what it's attempting to be and what it is. This film is attempting to be a YA fantasy fiction story aimed primarily at young girls. If you look at other movies in this same vein; Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Divergent, The Maze Runner etc. you'll find similar and sometimes even more egregious plot holes and inconsistencies. So I personally don't hold many of these story issues against it because you can give a silly answer to them that you may not like, but it's child's fiction so it can get away with them.
Like the dragon not knowing when a generation has passed, you can easily say that considering the dragon is of quite high intelligence, it has a concept of time and therefore can generally track the passage of generations. Plus, there could have been an agreement on the number of years we did not see since the agreement was handled off screen.
It's things like this that at least make the time passable. Now I'm not saying this movie is the next greatest thing, I'm not saying it's going to become a classic in the future, I just think people are judging it a little too harshly due to the fact that if they scrutinized their own childhood favourites in a similar way, they would find just as many inconsistencies.
I'm sorry your niece didn't love it, it's a shame when things like this don't hit for them, but I have seen many say their child loved it which is worth something, in my opinion. Thank you for watching anyway, I appreciate it :)
The events or Damsel are more likely to have happened than your 11 year old niece saying any of those things.
@@zacharybryant9881 Dude, I did say non verbatim. 11 year olds with access to the internet are pretty smart and critical these days. I summarized what she said because she attacked me with dozens of unanswerable questions (why did they do the ritual on top of the cave? what if the dragon sees and hears them doing the fake sacrifices? won't the entire court get cooked? When can the dragon expect the sacrifices? what if the current king and queen did not have daughters immediately? does the dragon keep up with the latest news?)
Terrible pacing. It felt as if the director suddenly realised there was only ten minutes to go and had to cram 30 minutes of plot in!