Talk:Dragon Wars: D-War

I guess you do like bad movies. Great work with the page. - Gunmaster45

Thanks. But bad movies or not, at least this movie belongs on IMFDB. More than I can say for some of the other entries on the site. Some of them have just one vague entry of some unidentified gun with no screencaps. Prime candidates for deletion in my book. :) MoviePropMaster2008 04:16, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Holy shit, this has got to be the biggest turd I've ever watched. Props to you MPM for going through with this movie... --Warejaws 06:42, 5 July 2011 (CDT)

How to tell this movie wasn't made here...

Holy crap - were they even trying when they tried to mock up that Crown Vic? That's hilarious. ----Clutch 03:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

That CVPI in the background is CGI'd too. Laqueesha (talk) 02:48, 27 May 2022 (EDT)

Actually it was a Korean movie half filmed in SK and half filmed in Los Angeles

Well yes, That was a Second unit insert shot just prior to an effects shot of the Dragon troops destroying the cop cars. But except for a few insert shots, the filmmakers didn't try to make Seoul into Los Angeles. There are too many scenes where it's OBVIOUSLY Los Angeles, plus the IMDB page has a listing of the filming locations in Los Angeles where they filmed the battle. MoviePropMaster2008 04:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

What's surprising is that I didn't know they had so many of those fake M1 Abrams tanks. The photo on Army Trucks.com's web site only shows three of them, but it looks like there are ten in that shot of the armored column rolling through L.A. It's even more surprising this film's budget was big enough they could afford to rent that many of them - I'm guessing that one shot alone probably took a big bite out of their funds.

On the other hand, the U.S. soldiers wearing woodland camo BDUs and PASGT gear is anachronistic, even for 2007... -MT2008 04:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Plus the crews of the Abrams and the fake M113 APC are wearing incorrect uniforms as well. They're wearing infantry-issue gear when they should be wearing Combat Vehicle Crewmen coveralls and helmets (look at the shot of the Abrams in War of the Worlds (2005) for an example). This goof appears in Jarhead as well and makes me wince each time I see it.

"Where the hell are your CVC's, soldiers!?"

Orca1 9904 05:41, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

They didn't have that many fake tanks, look carefully. Only the first two are real; I guess they wanted real tanks heading up the column to keep the fake tanks distant so the CG wouldn't show. There's no way they'd put more convincing-looking Abrams at the back of the column unless they weren't real and would look inferior close to the camera. As well as that, you can tell from the way the exhaust smoke of the two real tanks is visible at the sides of the road but in no way obscuring the tanks behind; in particular, the rearmost tanks turning into the street in the second shot look like they're in front of the smoke. And I notice every other shot is blocked so that no more than two tanks will ever be in it. Evil Tim 05:10, 4 July 2011 (CDT)

If you want an inverse of this, check out Art of War III: Retribution . Set in South Korea but very clearly filmed in Southern California. Laqueesha (talk) 05:23, 21 July 2022 (EDT)

Death count

Just stopped to think of the 'body count' of this movie and just realized that, though we don't see most of the deaths onscreen, literally thousands of people are killed by the dragons, either soldiers, or pilots, or cops, or car passengers or people in destroyed buildings or people getting blown up in the streets of L.A. Also the 'bad guys' are maddeningly 'bullet resistant' whereas any 'biologic' would be affected by 20mm auto cannon fire. Of course the "MAGIC" element explains a lot as far as script plot holes. If there was no "Magic" involved, then the battles would make even less sense. MoviePropMaster2008 00:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

S&W Model 58

This doesn't look like a S&W 58, which was AFAIK available only with 4" barrel. The revolver in the film looks like a Nambu Model 60 Airsoft. LJ (talk) 15:42, 29 May 2022 (EDT)