Dragonheart (1996)

About this episode

The hosts discuss the 1996 film Dragonheart and its impact on their childhood while rambling about various related topics.

We don't know about you guys but we could use some silly escapism. This month, the manatees are checking out 1996's Dragonheart! Directed by Rob Cohen and starring Dennis Quaid and the voice of Sean Connery, Dragonheart was one of our hosts' favorite movies when he was a child. But does it hold up to an adult audience? (Of course not.) But it does prove particularly rich springboard for ranting about Dungeons and Dragons, Patrick Stewart, the differences between accents and speech impediments, the differences between house flipping and scalping (hint: there are none), and recent peer-pressured forays into the Romantasy genre of smut novels (have you all heard about that one yet?). It's been so long since we talked that we ramble on for about six hours. Might get more than one night out of this one!

Topics covered

• Dragonheart
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Patrick Stewart
• Romantasy genre
• smut novels

Keywords

• escapism
• film analysis
• nostalgia

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Dragonheart

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