Pete's Dragon (2016)
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
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There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
The acting in this movie is really good.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
I really enjoyed the original and used to watch it many times. But this was a nice little update with several changes. We get the orphan boy, his sympathetic and loving dragon friend, and a community of concerned and fearful humans. It was not at all predictable and offered the same story with a different style. I rented this and enjoyed it, though it's not my absolute-favorite remake. Cinderella (2015) and The Jungle Book (2016) are tied for my favorite Disney remake. And let's hope that The Lion King in 2019 will do more justice. But back to Pete's Dragon. This was a nice update with a more modern setting. And the ending I did not see coming. Much different than the original. I don't remember the new film's ending too well, but you'll have to see it in order to believe it. I'll leave it at that.
The good ol' mythical beast and a boy story, except mythical beast is boring, the boy is boring and literally nothing happens through out the movie.For a movie that starts off with "What does adventure mean?" there's very little adventure. It feels like a satire with neverending queue of "ave" and "inspiration" moments.What a waste, how do you even make movie with dragons in it so boring?
The disappointment of a beauty, is a happiness of a tragedy. A happy tragedy is a happiness that creates an impure tragedy and it's a tragedy that creates an impure happiness.An impure tragedy, is a tragic tragedy. An impure happiness is a tragic happiness - a tragic happiness creates a tragic happiness and it creates a tragic tragedy.A tragic tragedy is a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A tragic happiness creates a happy tragedy that can be defeated and a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A happy tragedy is a force of nature that means that the ability to overcome and the inability to overcome are indistinct from each other: the need to overcome can be the need to respect, and the need to respect can be the need to overcome.Respecting an adversary is intelligence. Looking past nostalgia is intelligence: the problem with Pete's Dragon, is that the movie's nature makes the intelligence of respecting an adversary and the intelligence of looking past nostalgia into sources of antagonism.Pete's Dragon makes evolution into a genuine roadblock
It had an orphan named Pete and a dragon named Elliot and nothing else. This isn't a remake it's a new movie that copied a story about an orphan named Pete and his dragon. The pretentious Hollywood writers (who must be to young to know we didn't wear seat belts in 1983, or that if air breaks lose pressure they actually set) should've changed Pete and Elliott's name and called this movie something else. The original, that had to use a drawn in dragon, stomped all over this movie. What a disappointment.