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    1. _PrismMist on

      Actually, they are Wyverns, but you are totally right about its massive influence on modern dragon designs

    2. Lost-Klaus on

      Wyrm you say?

      *garou pointy ears perk up*

      They surely are purely bent on destruction so I suppose you have a point.

      (‘The Wyrm’ is the main antagonist of Werewolf the Apocalypse ttrpg game by whitewolf set in the World of Darkness).

    4. DerSisch on

      Dragons with 2 legs and 2 wings always existed, you just have to take a look at medieval coat of arms and crests.

      This whole “But if it has only 2 legs, it’s a Wyvern!” shit is just a false narrative and I am not 100% sure when it started – the base rules for a Dragon is a giant, flying lizard that usually breathes fire, sometimes not even wings required, looking at chinese dragons as example.

    5. SolBreeze_ on

      Finally someone says it. Best dragon design in cinema history and nobody gives it the credit it deserves

    6. Crispy1961 on

      Wait, that was a real movie and not just some weird fevered dream I had when I was a kid?

    7. Vehement_Vulpes on

      All I remember from that movie is the dude jumping off a tower to swing an axe at a dragon in midair. Absolutely based.

    9. Emergency_faceplant on

      I prefer the wyrm look, as its more in keeping with the four limb basis for most larger creatures. Nobody looks at a housecat and a leopard and says “damn, must be the same because they have the same limb structure”

    10. IAmMagumin on

      It’s the better design for me. I used to prefer the four leg + wings look, but I find the two legs + claw wings to be more grounded and beastlike. I guess for the talking, wizard sort of dragons, the other design is more appropriate, but I like ’em to be less personified personally.

    12. BosPaladinSix on

      I freaking love that movie and I never hear anyone else talk about it. It looked awesome and everyone completely killed their roles.

    16. Wasabi_Hammurabi1 on

      I bet it was loosely inspired by the Fell Beast in LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. But yeah, either way it was monumental artistically.

    19. Outcast_Outlaw on

      The only movie I can think of before reign of fire that has a wyvern is the 1981 movie dragonslayer. It was a good movie for its time and the wyvern looks huge by comparison

    20. DrVonPoopenfarten on

      Our idea of a “shitty B-movie” used to mean a competently made, tightly written action script that is basically Mad Max with dragons. How did we let contrarians on the internet convince us this movie was bad?

    22. Dark-fry on

      They have great vision in the day….. And they have even better vision at night…… But in the failing light they can’t see, magic hour

    23. finnishduud on

      Pretty sure one of the behind the scenes things from game of thrones dvds mentions that they just straight up copy pasted reign of fire wyverns to make the ones in got (or maybe it was a youtube clip from an interview or something, was years ago and cant remember anymore)

    24. Beneficial-Donut8440 on

      that movie is criminally underrated, Matthew McConaughey fighting dragons with axes deserved an Oscar

    25. Big-Independence-684 on

      For me my first “movie wyvern” is Norbert from Harry Potter 1, 2001

    26. floydymoiyte on

      Dragon is just an overall name for the species in general. It’s like how all seagulls are birds but not all birds are seagulls

    27. Tripdrakony on

      Want another interesting “recent media from the last 20 years, influenced a whole genre”?

      Weeping Angles aka statues that only move when you don’t look at them, where introduced in Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 10. This episode came out on June 9th 2007.

    30. SnakePlissken1980 on

      I really liked that movie. I didn’t see any trailers or anything for it when it came out, the first I heard of it was when I saw it in the New Releases section at Blockbuster. I rented it but it was one of those nights where I couldn’t find anything that looked good and just grabbed something I wasn’t particularly excited about. I was in college and it was a weeknight where there was nothing going on so I got my movie and some beer and went to my apartment to watch it. I wound up really liking it but I didn’t watch it again for many years, until a Rifftrax came out for it and now I watch that one a lot. The movie by itself doesn’t warrant as many rewatches as I’ve given it but the movie combined with the jokes (many of them deserved) is top notch.

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