Best movie of this year hands down!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Blistering performances.

This takes the premise that dragons one existed alongside humans and creates a 'documentary' of those long-lost creatures. It treats the subject matter seriously...but in a way that the viewer knows that the film isn't actually describing any true history. It's a creative work, describing the habits of various types of dragons (Chinese, frost, etc.) and how they interacted with their environment, hunted, nested, and how humans affected their futures. Obviously it's all pure fantasy, but it's incredibly fun to see these magnificent beasts treated as if the legends were true and they once existed (and that we knew something about them). The special effects, while a bit dated now, still stand up well without detracting from the experience. This is perfect for people to who'd be interested in the subject matter (dragons or myths) or for anyone looking to see an alternative to the usual film style (neither strictly a documentary nor a narrative fantasy or adventure story). It's safe enough for children (if they're old enough to see a lion hunt down a zebra in a nature documentary, then they can handle this!), and would probably interest a child who doesn't normally like non-fiction, since it straddles the line.

This "fiction-documentary" was kind of weird,I first saw it in Discovery Channel with my cousin.But i had to change the channel to E! because the Choise awards were in motion, but anyway when it finished I switched to Discovery Channel but the "fiction-documentary" had already finished.So I rented it.When I first saw the movie i really liked it!But that is because I thought it was real!I couldn't believe it,they had actually founded a real dragon.But then i stopped to think..If it is real why hadn't I heard from it before?So i started a web-search,and then I found out that it was a fiction story really.First i felt weird, as if i had been tricked,then i felt stupid and finally as many of you I felt anger. They had tricked me with they're stupid advertisement which was "Dragons,a fantasy made real".They had never said that it was fake.Anyway, I totally agree with Iggimarco.I would like to sue them.But what the F^%$^...Anyway, the movie has really good camera effects.Thats why a 7/10 is the most suitable rank for this movie.But I really hated the movie to be fiction.If I had been warned that the movie was a "What if..." fantasy I would have liked it much more.Still I was left with one question.."How is it that the Aztecs,the Nordics,the Greeks,the Chineses and much more civilizations talked about the same creatures when there was no way they could have related to each others??"(this question was mentioned in the movie)..Well,I guess it's one of those questions which makes the world a little more interesting and exciting.Anyway,if archeologist's one day discover a Dragon,It wouldn't be the first time that the Miths came real.Let me remind you that some decades ago a giant squirt was found which some years earlier was considered a Greek Myth.There is one chance in a million that the dragons did exist, and if they did eventually we will know.

This film is wonderful as a science fiction spoof documentary but I am appalled that it would be shown on a documentary channel. It is deliberately misleading to do so. Children, and a large majority of adults would not recognise this as a spoof and the narration does not imply clearly enough that this is a "what if" film. Why Animal Planet or the Discovery channel would choose to utilise such sensationalising tactics I do not understand. We watch those channels to broaden our knowledge base and do not expect to spend vast amounts of time counseling our children because they have been misled. This alone made me furious enough to spoil what would have been a fun film given in the right context.

The Carpathian Mountains of Romania: hikers exploring this fabled range have stumbled onto a unique find, one that requires an official investigation. Paleontologists arrive to find an ice cave in a glacier, revealed by unseasonably warm weather in the region. Inside, they find the corpses of several 15th century knights and make an amazing discovery; a frozen, yet perfectly preserved body of a creature once thought to be only a myth: a dragon.So begins the latest foray from the BBC and the Discovery Networks, "Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real", with effects by Framestore, the same company that gave us "Walking with Dinosaurs". The story takes a simple concept - what if dragons were real - and runs with the idea, using science to explain how these animals might have existed.I'm a big fan of the dragon, perhaps the most powerful and inspirational beast of myth, legend, and literature. As a fan of these spectacular beasts, I was practically salivating when I first saw the teaser in January for this program on Animal Planet and have been checking out their website since. It was an exciting thought to think that I would be seeing wyverns taking on T-Rex and winged drakes soaring over snow capped mountains. Dragons were coming to life in the real world.Personally, I enjoyed the program I saw on Animal Planet, narrated here in the US by Patrick Stewart. Stewart is an excellent narrator, and even he apparently got caught up in the action of the program, actually missing a cue at one point. His narration will be missed when I get the actual program, which I hear is narrated by Ian Holm. The program transitions smoothly between the dragons scenes and the scenes involving the investigation into the dragon corpse. Even the autopsy scenes are done well; I wasn't tempted to go look for a snack during these scenes.This program is not without it's faults. While I can believe how an animal that can get to be 900+lbs took off, I'm not quite as sold as how they breathed fire. I can see why the writers and producers went with this method - ancient manuscripts describe the dragons' fire in this way - but I prefer the "Reign of Fire" method. I'm also a little wary about how dragons warmed their eggs; somehow, the idea of dragons "cooking" their eggs doesn't appeal to me, but again, according to most ancient literature, this is how it was done. I also felt that the program should have paid more attention to the aquatic and marine dragons, the fabled "wingless" dragons of China.Perhaps my favorite scene was the mating dance of the mountain dragons, inspired by the rituals of eagles. To see these dragons grasping their claws together and free falling is a sight that anyone would have been awestruck to witness. I was also impressed with the scenes involving the dragon corpse, which actually looked real in many scenes. Usually, when Framestore uses latex models, they somehow can't seem to make them look like anything other than rubber puppets; this was not the case here. In a program where the majority of the dragons were CGI productions, this is a plus.I would recommend this program to anyone who is a fantasy aficionado, or someone who likes dragons and a good story. I've read one reviewer's comments that maybe that this should have been on the Sci-Fi Channel instead of Animal Planet, but I disagree. As one producer said, this is the ultimate animal, one that is known by nearly all human cultures, from the Inuit in the north to the Aboriginies of Australia. It would have probably been more at home on the Discovery Channel, but considering that the BBC has a contract with Discovery's parent company for programs like this, I'm not complaining. And one must remember that while it is done in the style of a documentary, it is a story; but then, isn't that what a documentary is anyway?