this movie will always have a special place in my heart because it is the first movie I saw in theaters. I was five years old and went to the tiny one screen theater and had a smartie lollipop.
Fun fact about Sean Connery “phoning it in”. His opening narration for Highlander was recorded in the bathroom of his Spanish villa. Producers approved it because it was played to them over the phone.
I watched this movie so many times on VHS as a kid. My parents taped it off the TV for me. With that said, having rewatched it about a year or two ago, I agree that it has not aged well at all, though it still holds a lot of nostalgic value for me. Nowadays, I classify it as the poor man's "How To Train Your Dragon."
More Sondheim references please. On a more relevant note, I saw this movie around the time it came out. I must have been 6 or 7. Anyway, it really made itself a permanent home in my memories because for years it randomly would just pop into my head and no one knew what I was talking about if I brought it up to my peers. I figured I must have made it up because while I could remember that there was a fight in the woods and that Sean Connery was involved somehow, I couldn’t tell you much else other than “a prince gets a dragons heart and then he’s mean”. But then Harry Potter came into my life and I saw David Thewlis on screen for the second time in my life and I instantly knew he was bratty prince boy! Anyway this episode just affirmed that I really didn’t remember this movie well at all because in my mind the dragon was in the castle the whole time and the forest battle thing was basically the whole movie. Great episode!
"Yikes!" seems like a good medieval term! I don't like those tropes either but you're looking at a movie that's 23 years old ; they were more original then.
I remember watching this movie in the theater. I also remember watching Ladyhawke roughly a year before and thinking that Dragonheart would only extend my new enjoyment in fantasy films. Sadly, the humor of Dragonheart was lost on my younger self. Now that I am watching it again, I realize that I was correct. Maybe if the dragon didn't talk at all, it would have been better. The only humorous part is watching it again from the perspective of the old leather couch. You two make me laugh, and for that I am grateful.
This and Ferngully are the movies that I loved as a kid, but when I rewatched as an adult I realised where deeply flawed. XD At least Ferngully had Tim Curry singing.
Honestly I feel like a LOT of 90s movies are like this. They just don't date well, (with a few exceptions of course)... and while I also loved them as a kid, they felt simplistic and tropey on rewatching. Mighty Ducks, Hook, Free Willy... even a lot of action movies like Braveheart etc are meh. Like the 90s Bond are arguably the worst Bond movies (sorry Pierce Brosnan)... but I remember loving them at the time. I feel like maybe the 90s was the start of major tropes for us that have become over done and hokey at this point... but at the time were not so over-used. Now we see them as proof of bad story telling but before we didn't really have that perspective. I mean, after all, Ebert gave Dragonheart four stars! Four stars!
I liked Dragonheart when it came out and have it on DVD. It was popular enough to warrant a sequel, a prequel, another sequel in 2019 and talk of a remake.
I saw this movie as a very young child and the scene of the guy in the dragon's mouth, with his sword in the roof of said mouth, was locked in some deep recesses of my mind. Very strange.
Streets of Fire: "I loved every inch of this movie! it's nothing but all of the coolest stuff in the world that you romanticized as a kid stacked on top of each other. And that's probably also why it was a disaster. If I seen this the day before or the day after I probably would have thought it was the worst movie ever made." Craig...this mirrors, almost exactly, my feelings about Sucker Punch.
I remember my sister used to love this movie when we were kids. We had some weird dragonheart painting game on PC in the 90s too. Yet I don't remember the film at all
I would have been about 12 when I first saw this in theatres, and the end made me bawl like a baby. I also recall that, Jurassic Park notwithstanding, it was one of the most impressive displays of CG I'd seen at the time. Watching it now, it's a little hard to look at. I think the story still holds up, but everything overall seems to lack just a tiny bit of extra oomph that could have made it great.
I believe the scene in which Rambo uses gunpowder on his wound, lights it on fire, and we see flame coming out of both sides is from "Rambo III" and not "II", but they all kinda run together.
I like the idea of the evil king character. I thought he was going to be a generic wimpy kid that is actually the chosen one, but instead he grew to become the thing he was meant to stop, still being somewhat frail, a good swordsman with intense eyes, and was willing to kill his own family. A person that would usually be a conniving right-hand man or wizard. I don't know anything about either actor that played him, but they both seemed right for the part, just poorly directed with a bad script
I still love this movie...even though some parts haven't aged well. haha Draco is the best movie dragon! No contest. The music in the movie is beautiful. I have that Hobbit book! Bought it in an airport during a delay. I call it my "Hobbit Size" copy of the The Hobbit. :3
If you watch my reaction when he brought out the dvd case, you'll see the face of someone who thought for a moment it was Dragonslayer. God, I love that movie.
@@craigjohnson6423 When the dragon blasts Galen in the cave, they shot that practically (pre CGI) and, because it was a close-up, they put Peter MacNicol behind a fiberglass shield and fired a custom propane rig at him. When he asked the effects guys if it was safe, they said "probably". The terror on his face is fully real
I never thought of Fido as a period piece. I always looked at it as more of a Fallout-esque world where people got complacent with technology & culture.
I thought it was set in the future. I figure the community is some sort of compound founded by the warlords who managed to fend off the zombie hoards. When they planned their city state they made it a theme park version of the nifty fifties as a way to stay calm.
It's only a few decades after the zombie war as all the adults were kids when it happened. So future, yeah, but not _distant_ future. And even though it's not specified, it's implied that there are multiple ZombCon Secure Communities around the country.
@@aestevalis0 I should clarify; FIDO's not trying to be a "period piece," exactly; rather, it's trying to mimic the aesthetics of the Lassie *movies* (from that period) specifically.
Yet, I think if they had not fired the director who wrote it, the problems with the movie might have never happened. I like Dennis Quaid, but I agree Neeson would have been better
Q finally goes mainstream. Do The Stuntman, you guys, for like the 3rd time in 5 years... (It plays to both your strengths in big ways. And you both might possibly HATE it!) And Peter O'Toole.
this movie will always have a special place in my heart because it is the first movie I saw in theaters. I was five years old and went to the tiny one screen theater and had a smartie lollipop.
"Hi, I'm Stoney, everyone's favorite pillar..." - Craig, you've outdone yourself this time - such hilarity.
I laughed pretty hard at that one.
I saw this in the theater with my dad as a kid. I cried in the car all the way home! T_T
I was thinking about this film just the other day. A childhood film that I saw far too many times.
Fun fact about Sean Connery “phoning it in”. His opening narration for Highlander was recorded in the bathroom of his Spanish villa. Producers approved it because it was played to them over the phone.
Is that why they made his character Spanish?
@@jamstonjulian6947 He's not Spanish , he's Egyptian ! ua-cam.com/video/QbvbIN0nN7A/v-deo.html
I'm pretty sure he's a Spanish peacock. Pretty sure.
I watched this movie so many times on VHS as a kid. My parents taped it off the TV for me. With that said, having rewatched it about a year or two ago, I agree that it has not aged well at all, though it still holds a lot of nostalgic value for me. Nowadays, I classify it as the poor man's "How To Train Your Dragon."
More Sondheim references please.
On a more relevant note, I saw this movie around the time it came out. I must have been 6 or 7. Anyway, it really made itself a permanent home in my memories because for years it randomly would just pop into my head and no one knew what I was talking about if I brought it up to my peers. I figured I must have made it up because while I could remember that there was a fight in the woods and that Sean Connery was involved somehow, I couldn’t tell you much else other than “a prince gets a dragons heart and then he’s mean”. But then Harry Potter came into my life and I saw David Thewlis on screen for the second time in my life and I instantly knew he was bratty prince boy! Anyway this episode just affirmed that I really didn’t remember this movie well at all because in my mind the dragon was in the castle the whole time and the forest battle thing was basically the whole movie.
Great episode!
"Tona's crying"
She’s entitled to cry.
I’ve never heard such a hellish rebuke as when Matt accuses Tona of crying at a bad movie 😂
Hey man don’t mock my childhood till this day I still watch movie and to me is still one good ones
"Yikes!" seems like a good medieval term!
I don't like those tropes either but you're looking at a movie that's 23 years old ; they were more original then.
Right when I wondered “I wonder when they’ll upload the new episode?” I got the notification for this
I remember watching this movie in the theater. I also remember watching Ladyhawke roughly a year before and thinking that Dragonheart would only extend my new enjoyment in fantasy films. Sadly, the humor of Dragonheart was lost on my younger self. Now that I am watching it again, I realize that I was correct. Maybe if the dragon didn't talk at all, it would have been better. The only humorous part is watching it again from the perspective of the old leather couch. You two make me laugh, and for that I am grateful.
This and Ferngully are the movies that I loved as a kid, but when I rewatched as an adult I realised where deeply flawed. XD At least Ferngully had Tim Curry singing.
Honestly I feel like a LOT of 90s movies are like this. They just don't date well, (with a few exceptions of course)... and while I also loved them as a kid, they felt simplistic and tropey on rewatching. Mighty Ducks, Hook, Free Willy... even a lot of action movies like Braveheart etc are meh. Like the 90s Bond are arguably the worst Bond movies (sorry Pierce Brosnan)... but I remember loving them at the time. I feel like maybe the 90s was the start of major tropes for us that have become over done and hokey at this point... but at the time were not so over-used. Now we see them as proof of bad story telling but before we didn't really have that perspective. I mean, after all, Ebert gave Dragonheart four stars! Four stars!
I always cried at the end when I was little. Thanks for watching. 😊
I have loved this movie since it came out when I was a kid and you guys are friggin hilarious XD Thank you 👏
Insouciance - casual lack of concern; indifference
Can confirm. My source: Being Quebecois.
I love Fido. It is one of my fav Zombie movies. It has so much personality and comedy.
I saw this movie in the theater (and many times after) and I have nothing but nostalgia-goggles love for it.
I have that same version of the Hobbit! It was my dad's and was my introduction to JRR Tolkein
I liked Dragonheart when it came out and have it on DVD. It was popular enough to warrant a sequel, a prequel, another sequel in 2019 and talk of a remake.
I saw this movie as a very young child and the scene of the guy in the dragon's mouth, with his sword in the roof of said mouth, was locked in some deep recesses of my mind. Very strange.
9:29 Matt quoting one of their old videos, "Caught Red Handed" whaaaat lol
Still one of the greatest dragons on film. The CG has aged well after over 20 years.
I'm very late for this, but "insouciance", is french for... Err, like a "don't worry be happy" state of mind.
Dragonheart was the movie I would constantly rewind and watch over and over as a kid. My little brother's movie to watch over and over eas sand lot.
A classic of watching movies on Mexico City Channel 7 in Christmas time.
"Hi, I'm Rocky, I was everyone's favorite pillar until Stoney took away my title... Damn you Craig for rubbing it in!"
Awww. I used to love this movie, back when I was under 12. Also, at 4:10 and 5:50 I almost choked on my tea.
Thanks Matt & Craig 😂😂😂
That Lew Zealand reference.
You guys should check out "Dragonheart: A New Beginning" starring that kid who plays Francis from malcom in the middle
I saw Dragonheart in the theater twice. I get that people don't like it, but do I care? Nope, in fact I'm quite insouciant.
Streets of Fire: "I loved every inch of this movie! it's nothing but all of the coolest stuff in the world that you romanticized as a kid stacked on top of each other. And that's probably also why it was a disaster. If I seen this the day before or the day after I probably would have thought it was the worst movie ever made."
Craig...this mirrors, almost exactly, my feelings about Sucker Punch.
Craig should be a bit more insouciant about not knowing what insouciance means
Craig ! Y'all gotta do Into The Woods now !
I just remembered this show was a thing and the first one i see that i missed i was HOPING youd do!
Is David Thewlis ever not good?
Holy crap. You guys are still a channel. Was watching Disney+ and it reminded me I used to watch Chad Vader way back in the day. So cool.
Not only are they still around but they're still making quality content.
@@DeathBlackWish I love that! Can't wait to check back and see.
Dragonheart: the real regicide was the friends we made along the way.
Pete Postelthwaite was incredibly moving within In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day-Lewis.
I had that version of the hobbit.
Stoney and Stu need to have a sitcom
I challenge anyone to find a movie from the 80's that Matt and Craig didn't watch on cable
War Bus
Secret Honor
The last film they did, Night Of The Creeps
Aw man this is my fav. movie and you guys shat all over most of it v.v
That makes 2 movie gifts of mine on Seen It. I'll get one on the show yet, mark my words.
MARK MY WORDS!!!!
I absolutely love Dragonheart...despite that it's very dumb, but also fun.
how do i stop reading the "what would zatoichi do?" sign?
What he wouldn’t do is read that sign.
Blind yourself. Then you'll "know" what Zatoichi would do.
@@oaf-77 That made me LOL for real.
What would Zatoichi do?
RIP Peter Postelthwaite
12:22 Matt's inner Baby Cookie is comin out
Insouciance is a French word meaning "carefree".
There you go!
I remember my sister used to love this movie when we were kids. We had some weird dragonheart painting game on PC in the 90s too. Yet I don't remember the film at all
Y’all should watch Dragon Heart 2. I remember watching that one a lot when I was a kid.
GoatGirl117
Same mate. It was actually the ONLY Dragon Heart movie I’ve seen and in retrospect it’s soooo weird
@@GoatHeadWalletProdt I was shocked when I was a kid and found out this movie existed, I thought it was the sequel.
Alexander Forbes
I was more shocked when in Dragon Heart 2 the villain (spoilers) BECOMES A DRAGON!
There aren’t nearly enough dragon movies.
I misread the title. I thought they were doing Dragonslayer, which is a pretty good one.
Jamston Julian, wishful thinking, I too was briefly excited to hear their opinion on Vermithrax Pejorative.
6:15
I will use them in my bidet
... (think me not) too gay.
Oh good lord. Lmao. 🤣🤣🤣
Coming this Fall: Stoney and Stu!
I think both the actors that played Lucious Malfoy and Remus Lupin are in this movie.
Dragonheart is my favourite film ever first time I ever watched it was 12
Have the lads seen Joker yet? I would love to know their thoughts
My mum read to us from the same edition of the Hobbit when I was a child
I would have been about 12 when I first saw this in theatres, and the end made me bawl like a baby.
I also recall that, Jurassic Park notwithstanding, it was one of the most impressive displays of CG I'd seen at the time. Watching it now, it's a little hard to look at.
I think the story still holds up, but everything overall seems to lack just a tiny bit of extra oomph that could have made it great.
Oh my god, that ending was brilliant.
This story is based on a short story I read in high school.
Matt, getting gut shot is about the worst place to be shot. It's not immediately lethal, so you'll die a slow lingering death.
I liked this movie
21:34 - the best part of this entire episode
I believe the scene in which Rambo uses gunpowder on his wound, lights it on fire, and we see flame coming out of both sides is from "Rambo III" and not "II", but they all kinda run together.
This movie kind of has the same energy as Legend, but with less Tom Cruise in miniskirts.
Aye, tis a shame. Too many cars, too few mythical beasts.
Continuing my campaign since episode 1 for Flight of Dragons...not Dragonheart, Flight of Dragons!!!
Rankin-Bass. Classic.
It was Rambo III.... and it was awesome!
I think that Candice Bergen is the sexy Candice Bergen....
Am I weird?
Please tell me that you two have watched Alphaville, and also The Trial. Just a couple of classics in my opinion that are often overlooked.
I like the idea of the evil king character. I thought he was going to be a generic wimpy kid that is actually the chosen one, but instead he grew to become the thing he was meant to stop, still being somewhat frail, a good swordsman with intense eyes, and was willing to kill his own family. A person that would usually be a conniving right-hand man or wizard. I don't know anything about either actor that played him, but they both seemed right for the part, just poorly directed with a bad script
I believe the Rambo scene they metioned is from Rambo 3, not 2.
Yikes! Great episode. BTW - In the constellation, Draco "became" the star named Kuma (Nu Draconis) still waiting for them to name a star Quaidy.
I was expecting this to be better...
Not sure what kind of movie this wanted to be...
I completely agree.
I still love this movie...even though some parts haven't aged well. haha Draco is the best movie dragon! No contest. The music in the movie is beautiful. I have that Hobbit book! Bought it in an airport during a delay. I call it my "Hobbit Size" copy of the The Hobbit. :3
When I saw the video title, I was so excited until it started and I realized I was thinking of Peter MacNicol in Dragonslayer
If you watch my reaction when he brought out the dvd case, you'll see the face of someone who thought for a moment it was Dragonslayer. God, I love that movie.
@@craigjohnson6423 When the dragon blasts Galen in the cave, they shot that practically (pre CGI) and, because it was a close-up, they put Peter MacNicol behind a fiberglass shield and fired a custom propane rig at him. When he asked the effects guys if it was safe, they said "probably". The terror on his face is fully real
...But have you seen the sequels....
I totally had a brain fart on I Can Dream About You until I listened to it again.
Rambo 3 not rambo 2
3:57 Got me in a Dinklage double take.
Craig says dragon in a weird way.... like dreygon.
I never thought of Fido as a period piece. I always looked at it as more of a Fallout-esque world where people got complacent with technology & culture.
I thought it was set in the future. I figure the community is some sort of compound founded by the warlords who managed to fend off the zombie hoards. When they planned their city state they made it a theme park version of the nifty fifties as a way to stay calm.
It's only a few decades after the zombie war as all the adults were kids when it happened. So future, yeah, but not _distant_ future. And even though it's not specified, it's implied that there are multiple ZombCon Secure Communities around the country.
No, Craig's right. It was 100% intended as a satire of Lassie movies, specifically.
I'm not arguing that, Jubs. That's readily apparent.
@@aestevalis0 I should clarify; FIDO's not trying to be a "period piece," exactly; rather, it's trying to mimic the aesthetics of the Lassie *movies* (from that period) specifically.
I'm sad that you didn't like Fido. Still love the show
You guys really don't have much luck with medieval fantasy in the Basement!
Is Craig's mic not working? He sounds like he's far away...
It's been a while since I've seen it but I liked Prince of Thieves on the whole.
insouciance is a French word for carefree, no idea why the critic used it.
When I was young, I used to confuse this film with Braveheart
Insouciance, pretty!❤
It was Rambo 3.
Yet, I think if they had not fired the director who wrote it, the problems with the movie might have never happened. I like Dennis Quaid, but I agree Neeson would have been better
Q finally goes mainstream. Do The Stuntman, you guys, for like the 3rd time in 5 years... (It plays to both your strengths in big ways. And you both might possibly HATE it!) And Peter O'Toole.
Yay!
Driegan
Seen It: Prince of Darkness. Little-seen John Carpenter classic
Obligitary it was Rambo III comment.
I'm only here for the thrills
And spills
ah those john wicks.....herrro
In Sue See Ance
Casual lack of concern
Nonchalance or insouciance, which is more French?
England or a reasonable facsimile
Was a decent movie, To Wong Foo was better