“There She Blows Fire! A Tail Like a Snow Drift! ‘Tis Moby Dragon!”
A fantasy version of Moby Dick where a crazy Danny Glover is hunting the giant white dragon that killed his family? I’ll give Age of the Dragons a shot. I mean, it looks pretty awful, really — the presence of Vinnie Jones and two bland, utterly unknown leads don’t do much to help — but it looks like it could be entertainingly awful. Really, as long as insane Danny Glover gets the lion’s share of the screentime to what seems to be him channeling the spirit of Jack Palance at his goofiest, Age of the Dragons can’t be all bad. (Via io9)
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