the only supporting characters i really liked were mr. pricklepants and the peas (I STILL NEED THEM IN MY LIFE, JS.) completely agree with everything you said, tdit. i mean, i know there have to be supporting characters, but, i dunno, they made such a big deal out of them and then they all had names and it was like there were /so many/ of them. and they couldn’t all just have some personality, & in the end i felt like there were so many they detracted away from the story, which is /always/ the most important thing. i have never, ever felt that way about a pixar movie until this one. and this is getting kind of out of control, so i’m going to stop now. /endrant
asdfghjkl; i feel like this is the part where i shamelessly insert a random gif to break the tension, so.
But again, there were a few minor characters from TS3 I liked such as Pricklepants and Trixie, so it’s not all bad. It’s just unfortunate that they were not distinctive enough to really capture my attention.
And that scene from HTTYD is one of my favourite moments not only from the movie, but from cinema of all-time. It’s as epic as ‘Define Dancing’ from Wall-E (which another scene, ‘Romantic Flight’ comes pretty close to as well).
I love the whole movie, but that’s one of the 3 scenes that made me cry. <3 I love that screencap! Anyway, yeah. They had way too many, even if some of them were enjoyable. I like Buttercup, Pricklepants, and, Chuckles. That’s it to my memory.
i legit cried like a baby when toothless came to rescue hiccup and then hiccup was trying to get him to leave but toothless wouldn’t because he was trying to protect him, and then you just hear hiccup yelling at everyone not to hurt toothless and asdfghjkl; i can’t even. I WAS LIKE A SOBBING WRECK, GUYS. LIKE, YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.
I know… Stoick was such an @#$hole for not listening to Hiccup… it tore my heart when Hiccup commanded Toothless to stop attacking his father and Toothless obeys and gives his wide-eyed look of innocence before they clapped the chains on him.
EJE: Did you read this fanfic called Survival of the Sheep? It’s a really interesting and unconventional POV fanfic from the movie.
Guys, it seems to me… when TS3 first came out and I had seen it, I bombarded it with praise and hailed it “best movie of the year”. I was blinded by nostalgia goggles! In hindsight, How To Train Your Dragon proved to be WAY more impressive when comparing the two films, especially considering it was made by Dreamworks, who I didn’t think could make a memorable, heartfelt movie until HTTYD. To me at least…
TS3 is a good and enjoyable movie, but… HTTYD is, in my opinion, better.
gets guns, swords, and other weaponry pointed at me
Hey, take it easy, guys! We’re all friends here, right?
I think that’s what got most people, at least here. You were expecting an average movie from an average studio and got an impressive movie.
With Toy Story 3… well, you were used to Pixar’s perfection. You were expecting an impressive movie from an impressive movie and got exactly that, an impressive movie. And when you get what you’re expecting you aren’t surprised.
Now imagine How to Train Your Dragon were a Pixar movie. It had a very good script, if somewhat predictable and nice animation (if an unsatisfying character design I hope Pixar never uses). Well, besides that, it looks like a plausible Pixar movie. If it were, it would lost the surprise effect that was “Dreamworks actually made an awesome movie!” and would got something like “Well, another marvelous film by marvelous Pixar…”
To me, that was what made most of the trick (there are other reasons, of course, that I can list some time).
P.S. I know this kind of post that makes some fellow members think I’m an extremist Pixar fan. I’m not. I’m a good films fan. Pixar just happens to make good films. Dreamworks has made a couple, so I’m a fan of those too, but I still like the former more.
Oh, okay. I understand. I bought HtTYD a week after it was released, and I’ve watched it about 200 times since. I usually do that, since I can’t get Blu Rays. But, you know, maybe you could get Dragons at a used book store, for cheaper.
I’ll see what I can do IV. I’m trying to save some money so I can pay what I can for college. The TI Blu-ray money I spent was stuff I was saving for a long time. So it was something special to me. But I’ll see what I can do.
Well, I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do with their cash. I wouldn’t do that ever. I’m just saying if you would really like to have the movie while paying less, I usually hit up the local used book store(in my case, McKays)
I wouldn’t do that ever. I’m just saying if you would really like to have the movie while paying less, I usually hit up the local used book store(in my case, McKays)