Dragonfyre

Good movie!

Love this movie ❤️💯

Good movie!

source: Dragonfyre

Sort of wondering about the legal implications of using what is clearly a slightly altered (in the hilt) or knock-off version of the LOTR licensed Sting sword. Clearly there's some fandom going on, including dialogue references to LOTR, so maybe it's all in good fun, but they even showed the sword in the end credits, with clearly visible Elvish script and all. However, have to give props; the practical make-up was pretty darn good, almost as good as the digital fill-ins were bad, and the voice acting at least was on the verge of stirring at times. Given the budget, good effort.

The idea of the film is pretty fun: there are gateworlds between the nine realms and they open pretty much whenever it suits them. At the gate to Earth there is a wizard standing guard to preserve balance. The wizard is an old man with a lot of guns, though, and his magic is gun powder. When he dies trying to protect the last elven princess, a soldier coming back from Iraq takes his place. The rest of the film is people shooting orcs and dragons. The problem is that the idea was completely lost on the filmmakers. They try to make it slightly fun and campy, but the bad acting, the clichés, the myriad inconsistencies, the plot holes, they all work together in making the movie a failure. Unlike another Arrowstorm film "Shadow Cabal", which I thought was awesome, this one has lame visual effects, lame battles, lame dialogues, lame everything. I reiterate that this idea had a lot of potential, pitting experienced modern war veterans with experienced medieval war orcs, with magic thrown in for good fun. Instead it felt like one of the bad sequels to Tremors, made by Asylum.

I know this is a movie that about 10 people will see but in my opinion that's far too many. Upon seeing the trailer for this movie I thought to myself "wow that looks awful. But it also looks kind of fun." I was expecting a movie like the Room or Birdemic, A movie that's bad but enjoyable in how bad it is. I mean the trailer shows a Lord of the rings Orc pointing a gun at someone. it looked bad but the good kind of bad. So let me tell you know that scene is the only entertaining part of the film and its about 10 seconds long. You may have noticed that i'm putting off actually reviewing this movie and that's because I don't know how to review this movie, I mean what can I say? I can say the acting is atrocious the effects are Asylum level bad and the whole thing looks like a low budget porno. Everything about this movie is wrong. also as a side-note the poster is a huge lie there is no huge scale war in the movie it all boils down to like 13 people hitting each other with plastic weapons. this is less of a review and more of a warning to anyone thinking of watching this movie. Orc wars is not fun or enjoyable in anyway it's just boring there is nothing in this movie of any worth or value. never watch this movie no matter how drunk you are this movie is impossible to enjoy.

This movie features a large body count. With all the mayhem it's easy to overlook characters that stayed engaging, some funny lines and the beautiful Texas scenery. This is an action movie and every human in the film is either an action hero or a horror victim. There are some satisfying plot culminations, and the action hero subverts a trope through a poker bluff, which takes some mindful writing. Each character who lasted more than a scene had development. Is this movie original? I've never seen a US Marine type guy fight off a horde of Orcs before, and the gun loving human side of me enjoyed the fantasy of a heroic battle an old D&D foe. The movies I'd compare it too have a tragic historical connotation of imperialism such as Zulu. There are too many movies with white protagonists slaughtering hordes of dark skinned people. As this takes place in Texas, it's impossible to separate borderland narratives in the real world from the story of this man protecting a boundary between worlds. This movie is not alone, LOTR sets the standard. This is my gripe with fantasy overall and is not specific to this movie. This movie is a mishmash of genres but is mostly a Western with Fantasy elements. It is very violent, around 1/4th as violent as Rambo 4. There is one scene that is like a tribute to Friday the 13th movies, but generally the violence is Action in nature and not Horror. There are two pulp scenes. There was no sexual violence.

"Orc Wars" (aka "Dragonfyre") was like watching a recording of a LARP event. And personally I am not one to enjoy the whole LARP scene, and I surely wasn't impressed by this movie. The orcs, well they looked like something that was copied and pasted right out of something from the Tolkien universe. So whether or not that was good, well that is debatable. Sure, the costumes and armors were great, but it was just lacking originality, because it had all been seen in the "Lord of the Rings" movies. But they get an effort for trying and for putting this much effort into the costumes. For the story, well just don't get your hopes up here, because the storyline was just downright embarrassing to witness. It was as stupid as it was uninspiring. The acting was fair enough, just don't expect anything groundbreaking or overly innovative here. As much as I enjoy sword and sorcery fantasy, then "Orc Wars" was just bad entertaining and a waste of time. And truth be told, then I actually fell asleep during this and had to get up and turn it off to find something else to catch my interest and attention. I got no idea how it ended, because I gave up about half way into the movie or so, and even there having missed out on a lot of it from falling asleep...

Yeah, ORC WARS isn't too bad for what it is: a really cheesy and unbelievable action-packed B-movie that happily rips off the look of the orcs from THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. I mean, the orcs in this film are EXACTLY the same as in those Peter Jackson movies: so much so that if I worked for Weta Workshop I'd be tempted to sue. The orcs are the most entertaining part of this movie, but I'm not too sure about their presence in the real, contemporary world. I mean, seeing orcs interacting with modern-day human characters, farmhouses, and vehicles is just plain odd and realism is never going to be a priority in that situation. Still, given that this is a B-movie with the usual problems (absolutely fake looking CGI fire, fake looking black blood clouds for the orcs, rubbish acting and a non-existent script) it's actually quite entertaining by the standards of the sub-genre. ORC WARS incorporates an absolute ton of action into its running time, particularly in the second half which involves a running battle between humans and orcs. Sure, a lot of it is repetitive, but they even manage a dragon in the budget, which is quite impressive. By the standards of normal film this is a complete waste of time, but as a B-movie you can do much, much worse.