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Things I learned watching Dragon Wars...


Gosh there are so many things, where should I start?

1.When you're a news reporter who has his own cameraman, it's always a great idea to have your own digital camcorder, not to mention it shows just how respectful you are to your cameraman.

2.Faking a heart attack by way of an overdone expression of indigestion is the absolute best way to create a diversion.

3.A ten year old boy has no problem whatsoever in comprehending the long epic Imoogi legend, which takes his wise old friend close to twenty minutes to explain.

4.If you happen to see an evil warlord walk right through a gate, you should always try it for yourself.

5.Bars in LA, or wherever the city was, don't have a problem with 19 year old girls drinking beer.

6.If you ever find yourself about to be beat up by three guys outside a bar, there's always a chance a man might sneak up behind them, knock them out, then walk away without saying a word to you.

7.If a dragon has landed in your backyard and you get frightened, and you then run in the other direction where a not-so-scary human warlord stops you, always turn around and run straight into the dragon's mouth.

8.Always take the elevator instead of the stairs when a giant dragon is causing a hospital to crumble.

9.If you aim a gun at a warlord with a shield, point your gun right at the shield, fire slow and carefully, so that all your rounds can successfully be deflected.

10.If your best friend/cameraman has just been zapped on the forehead by a warlord, who is then hit by a car, make sure you leave him unconscious lying next to the unconscious warlord. If his name his brought up minutes later, just respond, "I'm sure he's fine."

11.If you've been zapped on the forehead, the best way to heal it is a small band aid on the right side of your head.

12.Apparently news reporters aren't harmed a bit after they've been shot.


I know I've covered alot, but please chime in with anything you folks have learned.

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I don't have a big problem with reposting things because people who are visiting the board for the first time today aren't going to go digging 5 pages back into the archives, but I assure you that we have all learned these things, and acknowledged it.

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Well you covered most of them echo . Good call about the reporter having his own camera lol. Didn't realize that. Well, I talked about this movie endlessly for weeks now, so I have a few more.

13. Its always nice to know that whenever a centuries old legend from some other country might show up in the U.S., that the FBI has an 'sophisticated paranormal unit' that keeps up on all these things and well prepared in case it appears one day. Fox Mulder would be proud .

14. That the beaches in L.A. are the most romantic in the world because just a few hours after meeting someone, you instantly fall in love with that person and kiss for no reason at all.

15. Apparently having a HUGE birthmark that looks like the tatoo of a dragon for some reason is something you never think to get rid of.

16. The ability to shape shift into different people is sooo cool, you constantly do it over and over again for no apparent reason.

17. Computers apparently have the ability to track down a girl in L.A. named 'Sarah'....oh, with a dragon tattoo to narrow the search. Whew!

18. The F.B.I are always on the move to kick ass the second they leave their office drawing the guns while still in the building.

19. Journalist are apparently immune to any contagious diseases as they are allowed into quarantine area's to question witnesses.

2o. The U.S. media has gotten REALLY lazy as there is no other journalist, camera's, networks or anything to capture a picture of a 300 foot dragon terroizing L.A.--anywhere. In fact, it seems to have the ability to completely disappear altogether after it loses chase of the heroes.

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it!

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21. The media in the US are treated with utmost respect. They're allowed to simply walk right past police lines to uncover a dead body that is being carted out. Showing a press pass will also get hospital personnel to tell you everything about a patient you've never met. Heck, members of the press can even walk right into a police station and interfere with a witness interrogation.

22. Women who die heroically get to wear cool robes in the afterlife.

23. Castles still exist out in the middle of nameless deserts.

24. Reporters have the ability to get home from said castles even though they've been shot, have no change of clothes, no food, no water, no phone, no car, no money and no map.

25. People in L.A. are so involved in their own lives that they don't notice 1000-foot snakes wrapped around hospitals.

26. Dragon scales are a harder substance than diamond, but still not hard enough to deflect bullets fired by the US military.

27. Journalists and 19-year-old women and both so strong that they can jump out of helicopters, fall several dozen feet and not be injured in any way whatsoever.

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28. LA police all shoot at chest level, so just hold your little shield in the same place as you march toward them.

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29. An FBI agent having a sudden epiphany of good and evil and making a plot turning decision to murder his fellow officer and long time partner deserves some amount of our caring even if he has absolutely no backstory.... or more than two lines.

30. The best way into your girlfriend's pants is by playing with her aloof and hospitalized roomate's lingere.

31. Is is a common misconception that there are only knowledgeable and connected black gentlemen who can get anything you need in prison. These are also very common in the media profession.

32. Tapeworms have no regard for the culture of a city in their indiscriminate rampaging quest for Dragonhood, AKA legs.

33. Even if you are a mighty tapeworm complete with an evil army, and the amazing ability to track your prey to its exact location, sealing the deal is STILL REALLY HARD!

34. When the purpose of an entire army is a single girl hidden in one village, the best approach is to destroy said village around her and pick her out of the rubble.

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I watched the movie, and the way I saw it, he did not have a spontaneous revelation which caused him to shoot his partner.
He did not know what his partner intended to do origionally, and by the expression on his face, he was against it from the moment the idea was revealed.
The man shot one person, was about to shoot another, and his partner did the only logical thing.


That's my two cents, anyway.

The first post was the best one by far, as it was the most realistic.
Your posts are picking at small things which have been used in moves FOREVER to make 'em interesting.

For example, ever notice that if someone falls into quick-sand, they will sink quickly to their chests, then stop sinking altogether, or begin sinking at an extremely slow rate?
S'just how it is.

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Hey, I said on my main post that I may have missed some things and invited anyone to correct me. I'm not perfect. By this point in the movie I could not see very well because my eyes were melting from the sockets. However, I can completely see your point of view about the agent, accept it, and will strike it from my list of complaints....

That having been said. Please recognize these posts with the humor in which they were intended. The POINT is to over analyze for the entertainment of others.

:)

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you sooooo missed the point of these posts. +_+

"I have come here to do two things: kick @ss and chew bubblegum..... and I'm all outta bubblegum"

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the code for giant snake climbing building is 3

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Lol. "All units report to (locaton), we've got a Code 3." I was like "WTF"!!

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Giant panoramic advertizements can make animal sounds.

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35. HEAVENLY GOOD GUY TUTORIAL: When you live in Heaven, and are part of a whole bunch of powerful good guys and there's just one bad guy amongst you that wants to get his hands on something that's yours the ONLY and BEST solution is to hide the stuff on Earth and sit back hoping that the bad guy just doesn't notice. Then you send just one guy and a kid with no reasoning whatsoever to protect the stuff instead of you and your heavenly and powerful buddies; also you watch all the other poor humans whom have nothing to do with you, trying to deal with it. You never help or even pay a cent in repairs even if the humans somehow survive.

36. When you are a good guy, always show up at the end to pick the fruits of other people hard work. Just do it in style.

37. The concept of an army is only known to the evil side. The good side is either severely retarded, severely arrogant or severely underfunded.

38. The only way to extract Yuh-Yi-Joo from it's female container is to tie her with a bit of rope on a stone altar inside a desert castle. You must NEVER, EVER attempt to extract the said Yuh-Yi-Joo under ANY circumstances, even when you are face to face with the helpless girl on several occasions for log periods of time. NO, on those occasions you must do your best to hiss and roar as loudly as possible while basically doing nothing.

39. When you are a lonely girl with no family, and a giant serpent wants to extract Yuh-Yi-Joo from you, run for your life and don't give it to him. However, if two such serpents show up, and one of the is good, the don't run for your life, just give up and give them what they want because they waited 500 years for it for no apparent reason.

40. All women have the ability to control the movement of the Yuh-Yi-Joo sphere through the air from the exact moment the sphere gets out of them.

41. ULTIMATE HEAVENLY GOOD GUY TUTORIAL: When you are the good guy, you show up at the end to fight the bad guy and loose poorly then just lay perfectly still on the ground for a few moments, hope the girl will realize she can move the Yuh-Yi-Joo ball through midair and then just open your mouth at the last possible moment.

I am quite sure that the Korean folklore is immensely more accurate and free of all these plot holes. This is definitely not meant to mock hte Korean culture, but still I have to say that this movie had these posts coming.

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There is a reason why this movie is found under the "Fantasy" genre.

I don't remember reading that dragon scales could stand up to depleted uranium shells fired by 30mm chainguns. Probably would have been more interesting watching them accurately dump a few Hellfire missiles down the throat of the evil imoogi.

My problem was using helicopters to dogfight airborne lizards. I think A-10 Warthogs or AV-8 Harrier jump jets might have been better suited to the task.

I find it interesting that someone calls these dragons "tapeworms." That is funny. Unfortunately, it isn't accurate. The celestial dragon at the end of the movie does resemble dragons/phoenix that I have seen around the palaces in Seoul.

"You Americans are a mystery to everyone but yourselves."
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I don't remember reading that dragon scales could stand up to depleted uranium shells fired by 30mm chainguns. Probably would have been more interesting watching them accurately dump a few Hellfire missiles down the throat of the evil imoogi.>>>>>>>>>>>>

No, it wasn't interesting. In fact, nothing about the movie was interesting.

Earlier in the movie it is mentioned that the hardest substance in the known world is the diamond. They then state that the recovered organic scale is harder than a diamond -- yet the stupid snake is still shot down by bullets. Wow.

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Earlier in the movie it is mentioned that the hardest substance in the known world is the diamond. They then state that the recovered organic scale is harder than a diamond -- yet the stupid snake is still shot down by bullets. Wow.


Haha! That's hilarious. Perfectly put, and you made me laugh as well. "stupid snake is still shot down by bullets." hehe. Man this movie was bad, huh?




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Wait... so dragons hang around palaces in Seoul?

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35. When you come home and your roommate is sitting on the couch,
pretending that she is in immediate danger, from which only korean
scrolls hanging on the wall can protect her, it's probably because
she needs a couple of beers and a boyfriend.

36. CGI does not carry a whole movie.

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37. Whenever you have a nightmare immediately call for an ambulance cause well, um they are pretty scary.

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I am not gonna search al the post but I believe her calling the ambulance was due to her dragon mark burning. kinda like Harry Potter which is probably where they got the idea.

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35. As a policeman in the US, you are ready for anything. A giant snake crawling up a skyscraper is a: "Code 3"

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loving this list . my script : yes captain we have a code for this,really officer.really sir we have a code for fantasy things.and it's only a number 3 instead of 1003 .things that actually occur ageta lower preference for murder,robbery,etc.
lol

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35. Because you know someone for a day, you should let thousands of others die so she doesn't have to.

36. Bad lizards have huge armies and can go anywhere, good lizards have one guy who can shape shift.

37. If you run or drive really fast from an evil lizard, it will chase you very quickly. If you are cornered or slow down, it will also slow down. Which is very convenient when you're trying not to get eaten by said lizard.

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Your #35 is what I thought through this whole movie. I just kept thinking, "How many people have to die for this b**ch?"

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35. Because you know someone for a day, you should let thousands of others die so she doesn't have to.

Your #35 is what I thought through this whole movie. I just kept thinking, "How many people have to die for this b**ch?"


Because if the bad snake gets to have her and becomes a dragon it destroys the world - and EVERYBODY dies (which makes you wonder why the evil army wanted to help).

If they kill her to keep her away from the bad snake we have to go another 500 years without a good snake turned dragon to protect us. So keeping her alive was important within (what there was of) the story. That good dragon could keep a lot of people from dying in the long run.

On the other hand, I learned...

- For some reason, a guy learns at 10 that the fate of the world depends on him finding a girl with a dragon tattoo so that he hangs on to the medallion he needs for it and remember every word of a 20 minute explanation of his quest...but he won't make any attempt to locate her (want ads, chat rooms, internet forums, whatever) until the very last minute.

- Two customers can just walk back into the kitchen area of a LA coffee shop, one get a gun from the other one in plain sight and no one who works there will mind at all....

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Last night, I was lying back looking at the stars and I thought...where the *beep* is my ceiling???

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it started with never ending story , now every year there's another magic book movie.

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35. I was not aware that there were dragons with rockets launchers in ancient Korean, nor was I was aware that these rockets are homing rockets that never seem to miss any target.

36. when two dragons are fighting it is best to supply one of them with a power up orb to aid in the fight.

37. You cannot outfly a dragon while you are in a helicopter, no matter how many close calls you have.

38. it is customary to have a flashback within a flashback as seen in the first 20 minutes of the movie.

39. Palmdale is a great location to build an evil castle.

40. a 300 foot dragon can sneak around LA for two days barely being noticed.

41. this movie is what it sounds like when the doves cry

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42. As head of a 500 year old evil army you must not kill the "hero" while he is unconscience but bring him to the middle of no where and must tied him up using thin robes in hope that a random light will come down and completely destroy your army.

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41. ROFLMAO!!! That's the funniest thing I've ever read in a movie review! Awesome.

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35.When 500 year old Korean rockets come up against depleated uranium anti tank shells. The 500 year old rockets win hands down. As is displayed in the city when the military gets bought in.

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I learned that you can totally make it as a television reporter in LA even if you're a stubble covered long-haired douchebag who dresses like you're going to a disco bar. you can even go right on the air looking like that.

(probably been brought up before, but I'm not gonna read all 17 pages to find out!)

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"22. Women who die heroically get to wear cool robes in the afterlife"

Unfortunately, the robe looks like something borrowed from Queen Elizabeth or maybe some girl from Gone With The Wind. It didn't look right at all.

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re: 26. Hardness v. bullets. If you believe hardness = bullet proof, take your best (x)'s diamond ring and hit the diamond with a hammer or shoot it with a .22 . Be prepared to buy a replacement diamond. :)

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About nr.19: Wasnt it the old guardian (Jack?) shapeshifted into a doctor who let him in?

Either way this movie was by far the worst movie I´ve seen this century.

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"5.Bars in LA, or wherever the city was, don't have a problem with 19 year old girls drinking beer. "


People don't need to be 21 years old to drink alcohol in most of the civilized world.

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But you do in the U S of A.

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^^BINGO ;)

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it!

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yeah, us US AMERICANS do. Maybe not those in THE IRAQ and the people in the rest of the world who don't have maps...

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Seriously? You called the country of Iraq, "THE IRAQ"? Please tell me you were joking, because I laughed my ass off when I read that.

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Yes, its a joke michael,

The poster was referring to good ole Teen pagent Miss South Carolina who I personally believe would never watch DWAR as is it's from one of those poor countries as is Russia and why DWAR would be better if we were all given maps of where warlord CGI land was at the end of it to make sure the children of the world could get home .

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it!

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okay i'm 18 and in the uk. i can drunk whenever i want

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That would be fine if the movie was not set in LA. But since it was, the law is 21. Her friend could have picked up beer and brought it to her, that could have played out. This didn't. lol

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All these goofs... but then again, why bother?
If any viewers are looking for things that shouldn't be normal, good luck.
By all means, this movie is about something that will never happen in the real world. (or is it? You'll never know. You might really see a dragon in LA one day. =p)
Everyone is talking about things that are inconsistent with reality, but the most unrealistic thing about this movie is the appearance of mythical creatures and races.
People, this is only a movie.
Just enjoy... and move on to the next movie.

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Here's one I haven't seen:

Mexico = Korea

Don't believe in any religion, believe in Oogami cause apparently if he eats your loved one you get a vague promise of being together 4eva.

If faced with a difficult decision, don't face logic, just die.

If you know someone over 500 years old, always call them "old friend" if they happen to turn to sand when you turn around after losing a loved one.

If a loved one is about to be eaten by a big snake, yell there name realllllly loud with a small indication of confusion... just in case your necklace creates a supernova.

If your a giant snake, don't just stare, get to the point.

Evil dragons have ADD and really bad timing.

Sidenote: Who was the lady in the station wagon? I couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Hell they should of used the black nurse from the hospital, at least I would have recognized her.

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Mexico = Korea ?????

What? could you explain that to me?

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Because when they were running, I was assuming that they were running to the only thing that could save them (the good dragon) which was in Korea, yet they proclaimed "We've gotta go to Mexico!"

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If memory serves, the lady in the station wagon was another form of Jack's shape-shifting. It seems like her reflection in the rearview turned into Jack. I could be wrong, and I sure as heck ain't watching the movie again to find out.

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Yes, the lady in the station wagon was the old man shape shifting. Again, WHY, I have no clue lol.

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it!

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You've totally missed the point.

We're not criticizing the fantasy aspect of the movie. We're criticizing the fact that the acting, plot, script. scenes and setup were all completely ridiculous. No one cares about the reality. This is only a movie, but it's a very BAD movie. It was possibly the worst movie I've ever seen -- and I've seen Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama.

Film flubs are one thing, stupidity is another.

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Yeah ... this movie, is like, Mystery Science Theater 3000 bad. It spends it's whole time on ripping off special effect shots from other movies (Matrix, LOTR, King Kong) and steals every cheesey fantasy plot point of the last decade. It is BAD. It is a crappy Korean production trying to rip off already crappy American productions. So, it really is crappy.
It is a great movie to talk throughout and make fun of, though. I highly suggest going to a late night viewing with some friends and talking through the whole damned thing. Having something to drink or smoke ahead of time helps too.
So, on that level, I guess I found this movie fun as hell.

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Apparently, the LAPD has a code for giant dragons crawling up buildings....It's a code 3...:D

--Toilet seat assistance in row number one, thank you!

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agree!

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My favorite: Instead of hospital staff and doctors assuming that the perfectly formed symbol of a dragon on Sarah's shoulder is a mere birthmark (as it apparently was) or even a tattoo, they come to the conclusion that it is a sign of a "contagious" disease that warrants putting the poor girl in quarantine. :P

Also: An evil overlord, in command of a legion of dragon and demon soldiers, working for an evil dragon that is hundreds of years old decided to walk into an oncoming, speeding SUV. And then, if that weren't enough, gets hit by a fake-wood pannelled station wagon shortly thereafter. Lol!

Having said that, I loved this movie. It was so bad, it was good. My friend and I thought it was a very funny film! I'll probably grab it from the bargain bin to watch with friends while drunk. It was entertaining enough and the things the people in this movie say make for some hilarious parody opportunities. :P

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#80 : despite what people tell you about the CIA/FBI in Bourne Trilogy, the CIA/FBI could NOT trace keyword "Sarah Daniels" in cell phone conservation.

AZN!!!

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Some things to add:

Always use your Apache weapons as close as possible, preferable at point blank.

You can shoot through the Apache's bulletprove glass with a .38 from the inside.

A shower of 30mm shells doesnt bother you.

No matter how fast a dragon can go you are always faster on foot and can reach the top of high buildings even faster than the dragon can climb.

Its a nice thing to leave your friends behind. Twice.

Cars hurled over 100m by a dragon almost stay intact except broken windows.

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How things work in the Hyung Rae Shim universe.

Women never fight. Ever. Not even if they are one of three hospital workers in the room. Even if said woman was a Power Ranger in another series.

Women are never in any position of power. No female FBI agents, reporters or doctors. The only exception is Elizabeth Pena, but she's just gives exposition, and her rank isn't clear.

Though a woman can't fight, she can hold a gun to her head and commit suicide any number of ways. This is considered noble.

And when it comes to dating.

While on a long walk on the beach, it's always nice to bring up your college professor. This will get you a kiss.

ty

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echo, you sir made me laugh harder than i have in years, ty


Personaly thought this was a very very badly made movie, looks to me like they spent the whole budget on cgi and they got ripped off. Ive seen more realistic explosions watching nickelodeon with my kids.

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If you are walking on a beach with a cute girl who's friend recently died and the girl doesn't know, Don't tell her. That could ruin your chances of scoring.

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THIS POST RULES!
D WAR TRULY STINKS UP TO THE HEAVEN.

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*If you ever have to run from an insanely large snake/dragon/whatever, make sure you use a car. You will outrun the bastard EVERYTIME.

*Gigantic Castles noones ever seen will randomly appear for no apparent reason and without explanation.

*If the insanely large snake/dragon/whatever has you cornered, it will try to stare and/or bore you to death instead of for ex.. eat you. Not necessarily in that particular order.

*Maybe you never thought it possible, but it is very possible to make an even crappier movie than "Alone in the dark". And considering that AitD is an Uwe Boll movie, that alone is remarkable.

*Weapons from acient civilisations are much more advanced than weapons used in the 19th century.

*DO NOT LOOSE YOUR FUGLY MEDALLION, it could mean the difference between life or death if you were to participate in a swordfight with an evil lord.

Charlie - "It's the five best moments of my.. sorry excuse for a life.. My greatest hits."

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* Old, bearded Asian martial arts masters grow old and become middle aged white men running the worst antique store ever (10 dollars for that ass kicking dagge? How the Hell does this guy stay in business?).

* Pasting weird, yellow papers with weird, Asian characters on them all over your house will not freak your best friend out at all. She'll act like you're just coming down with cold or something, and treat you to beer.

* The average 19 year old girl in LA keeps books with weird, yellow papers with Chinese characters on them, and not just toss them out the window.

* If an anonymous old guy just beat the crap out of three football players in front of you and left without even saying a word, you probably should call the cops, instead of just walking away like most people would.

* If you see a giant snake munching on an elephant, the first thing you should do is run down to the nearest police station and rant about it for fifteen minutes straight like an ADHD afflicted kindergartener, then get pissed off when people think you're crazy.

* Leaving your magic pendant behind when you most need it, for NO *beep* REASON, seems a logical thing to do when you're a star crossed lover.

* L.A is secretely Mordor from Lord of the Rings.

* Never believe anything old Asian guys tell you. For example, when they give you a magic pendant and tell you it'll protect you from any danger, they're lying, because such a pendant would logically stop the plot of this retarded movie in two minutes. Not that logic exists in Shim Hyungrae-verse.

OH! OH! OH! LICK MY LEG! I'M ON FIIRE!

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This was absolutely the worst movie I have ever seen, I felt like vomiting after watching this. A few movies came close to reaching a negative score, but life would be better if this movie was never released. I feel like I should be compensated for my time and money. Garbage, absolute garbage. Yuck, rubbish movie.

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When it is possible to bring together: Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla, Reign of Fire, Transformers, Power Rangers(and please add your own list here) and make the title of the movie sound like G-spot it is certain that you are the worst director/writer that can exist.

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I thought watching this was absolutely pointless ..

now i congratulate myself ... without doing so i wouldn't have laughed so much at reading this :)

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* when you store a gun in your car its enough to load it with 3 bullets. this amount is sufficient to give the idea of a bullet proof guy

* helicopter crews are trained to put their hands up 1 second before they hit an object

* shooting requires you to rattle the pilot stick

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I don't regret watching D-War. I've had so much fun, reading its reviews!

But just sad that it was made by a Korean.

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"* helicopter crews are trained to put their hands up 1 second before they hit an object "

Good call, the throwing up of the hands cracked me up every time

"Gazizza my dilznoofus!"

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