#reign of fire 2002

[superioraxolotl]

I always think about how Quinn and Creedy were only teens when they found Jared(when Quinn found Jared). They were teens when they were drifting together, only teens when they joined the castle. Like it makes me so emotional. Maybe time for a rewatch idk

[mellpenscorner]

Mellpen’s Hidden Gems 2022

I watched 21 movies during April, May, and June of 2022, and these are my top picks:

April - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) May - Casablanca (1942) June - Reign of Fire (2002)

Part 2 of 5

[theconjurervfx]

Reign of Fire (2002) dir. Rob Boman

[oldgamemags]

'Reign Of Fire' cinema ad.

[nerteragranadensis]

[image description: ten gifs of Christian Bale in Reign of Fire. Each gif shows a close-up or medium close-up on his face, and he wears a variety of costumes. end description.]

Christian Bale as Quinn Abercromby REIGN OF FIRE 2002 | dir. Rob Bowman

[talesfromthecrypts]

Reign of Fire (2002) dir. Rob Bowman

[blueiscoool]

Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died

Excavations north of Mount Vesuvius revealed Roman ruins buried by the eruption in 79 C.E.

After decades of excavations in Italy, archaeologists have discovered a villa that could have belonged to Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.

Since 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo have been exploring Somma Vesuviana, an archaeological site north of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that extinguished the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Recently, these excavations revealed a structure destroyed by the same eruption.

Researchers think this site could be Augustus’ lost villa. According to the team, Roman sources say Augustus died in a villa north of the mountain in 14 C.E., but the building’s location has never been verified.

“There is a description that [the villa] was consecrated … but its existence has not been identified to this day,” says Mariko Muramatsu, leader of the university’s Somma Vesuviana excavation project, in a translated statement. “In recent years, our excavations have uncovered parts of buildings that were buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. This means that for the first time in this area, a building contemporary with the villa of Emperor Augustus has been found with scientific support.”

The ruins in question actually include two separate villas: one buried in the 79 C.E. eruption and another built on top of it later, reports All That’s Interesting’s Amber Breese. Until recently, researchers had only been aware of the newer structure.

In the older villa, archaeologists identified four rooms containing portions of wall, roof tiles and other ruins. In one chamber, researchers discovered 16 amphorae—tall ancient Roman jars—which were used to transport and store wine. In another, they found “large amounts of charcoal and ash” from a fire they believe was used to heat water for a private bathhouse, “indicating that the villa belonged to a person of great wealth and influence,” per All That’s Interesting.

In the mid-second century, people began constructing new buildings atop the site of the buried villa, using its footprint as a guide. The new construction featured a grand hall filled with brick arches, marble columns and marble statues. Around the fourth century, the site transformed again, becoming a large-scale wine production site. This villa was preserved by another eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 472.

Historians previously thought the damage from Vesuvius’ 79 C.E. eruption at this site was “minor compared to the southeast of the mountain,” but the older villa’s ruins suggest “there was also a destructive impact in this area,” reports La Brújula Verde’s Guillermo Carvajal. Researchers think the structure collapsed due to pyroclastic flows—dense, fast masses of ash and gas expelled by the volcano.

The researchers theorize that Augustus could have once occupied the older villa. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, the young man was granted the name Augustus—the “exalted one”—by the Roman Senate in 27 B.C.E. While Augustus didn’t use the title of “emperor” in his lifetime, he was a pivotal figure in Roman history who more than doubled the empire’s size during his 40-year reign.

Researchers from the Somma Vesuviana excavation project hope to expand the scale of their digs. As Muramatsu says in the statement, further exploration could reveal “another Pompeii,” helping historians “trace the achievements of Emperor Augustus and the beginnings of the Roman Empire.”

By Sonja Anderson.

[mimeticspace]

maquette for dragons in Reign of Fire (2002) by Miles Teves

[nerteragranadensis]

[image description: ten frames from the film Reign of Fire. They are, in order: The title screen. Two men re-enact a sword fight in a small candlelit room. A dragon stands in rubble with its mouth open. Quinn (Christian Bale) and Creedy (Gerard Butler) look left in profile. A magazine cover shows dragons flying over a burning city, with the title "The End?" in all caps. Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) holds up a dragon tooth. A dragon flies through grey clouds. Van Zan looks down in profile, his face shadowed. A man rides toward a funeral pyre, between rows of metal crosses. A dragon flies over rubble, its bat-like wings outstretched. end description.]

Reign of Fire (2002)

[steelbluehome]

Trigger Warning: American Politics

Why is anyone voting for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party?

The New Republic

"In fact, no Green Party candidate has ever won federal office. And Stein’s reign has been a period of indisputable decline, during which time the party’s membership—which peaked in 2004 at 319,000 registered members—has fallen to 234,000 today."

Slate

"Mohamed Almawri ...decided to become part of a bloc of Arab voters and cast a “conscience vote” in Michigan. For him, that means voting for Jill Stein.

“We’re going to make history as the Muslim community standing against a U.S.–funded genocide,” Almawri told me. “We’re holding this administration accountable,” ...“The value of defeating the Democratic Party makes Trump a price we’re willing to pay,” he said"

New York Times

"“We are not in a position to win the White House,” another speaker, Kshama Sawant, a former member of the Seattle City Council, told a crowd of about 100 inside an Arab American cultural center. “But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan.” ...“I like her very much,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Stein at a rally in June. “You know why? She takes 100 percent from them.” ...figures with ties to Mr. Trump and Republicans who have worked to help Ms. Stein secure ballot access.

In Wisconsin, a lawyer who was previously involved in lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election results represented the Green Party. In New Hampshire, a veteran Republican operative submitted signatures for Ms. Stein.

Jay Sekulow, who defended Mr. Trump at his first impeachment trial, has worked on behalf of the Green Party in Nevada, a rare battleground where Democrats have successfully thwarted her.

“We have never knowingly received help from Republicans,” Ms. Stein said, a claim that Democrats find ludicrous. “Now, they might have done this once or twice, having kind of snuck in under the radar.”"

U.S. News and World Report

"Stein is ...targeting voters like me – progressives, and especially Arab Americans. In the battleground state of Michigan, there are at least 206,000 registered Muslim voters ...Stein recently asserted that “under Democrats, the anti-war movement goes to sleep.” On the contrary, the anti-war movement – led by progressive organizations like ours, Common Defense – successfully pressured President Joe Biden and the Democratic establishment to end the forever war in Afghanistan; advocated for Congress to reassert its War Powers Resolution authority; and has called for a cease-fire since the war began in Gaza last year. What has Stein achieved for the anti-war cause? Nothing.

Trump has never engaged with progressives or Muslim Americans, and that won’t change if he’s elected again. When he first campaigned in 2015, he called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” When he became president, he signed an executive order banning people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., blocking desperate families of refugees seeking asylum from wars and repressive governments in the Middle East and North Africa. At home, he boosted distrust and hate of Muslim Americans, repeating false claims that “thousands and thousands” of Arab Americans in New Jersey cheered on 9/11 as the twin towers came down.""

USA Today

""All you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious," AOC said. "To me, it does not read as authentic. It reads as predatory." ...The Green Party selected Stein as its presidential nominee in 2012, 2016, and 2024, ...Stein also ran unsuccessful third-party campaigns to become Massachusetts's governor in 2002 and 2010."

[prozac]

In a timeline perpendicular to our own, magic and science exist as a co-binding force of the Universe.

On Earth, with a history which crosses through Ours for a few hundred years, an influx of magiactive material has reigned havoc on the magical ecosystem of the planet. With this material powerful countries have begun to make nuclear weapons, using the cover of technological & magical progress as excuse. The Soviet Union & The United States of America are in a tense and quiet standoff wherein tensions have begun to bloom a flower of magiactive Armageddon.

Four games follow this timeline...

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i MURDERS OF SAN FRANCISCO

The first game takes place in the midst of the standoff – 1983, San Francisco. A detective named Maximillian Talon gets him, his unwanted partner (Sophi Sophie), and his secretary (Fair Jackson) fired for looking into a serial murderer plaguing the area and targeting “Spellbound” (those who practice spellcasting - witches, wizards, sorcerers, etc) communities, their magical items stolen. Talon and his 2 associates continue to look into the murders as the wealthy daughter of one of the victims pays them handsomely – though they have to keep their operation as under wraps as possible.

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ii DAYO FLAVIEN’S OFF DAYS

Just a couple years after the war had ruined both The Soviet Union, the USA, and the rest of the world, the small town of Newgull, Wyoming has found itself relatively unbothered – for the most part. The summer of 1993 is when Dayo Flavien, his fellow student tutor (Delilah), and her best friend (Vanni) decide to look into the unsolved case from earlier that year in which one of their very boring teachers suddenly went missing. They end up breaking into his house and discovering a chip of a “Ghost Rock” , a stone that is made of the pure hardened Soul. Before they all head off to college after the summer ends, they want to figure out what a powerful magical artifact is doing here, and who could be after it.

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iii GHOSTIES!

As the world continues to recover, Tai’s little brother goes missing in the year of 2002. In 2003, their parents decide to move houses. An aspiring paranormal investigator themself, they decide to do a small “investigation” into the house their parents are buying; to their surprise, they discover a rip in reality made by a stuck Soul. Both them and the Soul fall into The Below (the supposed Afterlife). Now stuck away from Earth, Tai and their new ghost friends (Payton & Niall) decide to help them get back to Earth, and maybe even get back themselves – but in order to do this they have to avoid hungry Souls who would love to become living again.

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SUNRISE (HIGH) AND THE EXPERIMENT 203

In 2013, an Unknown Person wakes up in the historical museum and library known as The Sunrise, in the infirmary wing. They do not know who they are and where they are from. Not too long after their wake, they are accepted into a large friendgroup that revolves around two troublemakers and Archivists-In-Training, Seymour and Scotty. Their appearance at the museum begins a chain of events that will rewrite the nature of reality as we, and they, know it.

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...After the third and final Failure.

[superioraxolotl]

Quinn from Reign of fire makes me so emotional?? He takes care of everyone?? Plays reenacted star wars for the kids??? Cares about everyone in his Lil castle? Rides a horse?(which has nothing to do with my point) cooks??? He just wants to take care of everyone :''')

[joekabox]

I don't think enough people talk about the fact that Reign of Fire (2002) almost definitely changed how dragons are depicted in film from that point onward.

That film is a post-apocalypse movie where the world is ravaged by the return of dragons, which had hibernated since ancient times (unclear exactly when, as it suggests they wiped out the dinosaurs, but probably also inspired actual dragon sightings, but famously didn't wipe out the people in those times, so who knows), and by being set in the real world with the idea they are real animals, chose to portray them as realistically as possible.

They are wyverns (two wings, two legs), their fire breath is a combination of two chemicals that mix in the mouth.

I feel like most dragons in film and television, that try for a realistic approach, have directly copied this style, and I never see anyone talk about it.

The movie itself is good, but not great, but is mostly known for its dragons, which as mentioned, seemingly changed cinema, and I'd love to see more people talk about it.

[moviestillsforthesoul]

Reign of Fire (2002)

[gaykarstaagforever]

...Disney still expects us to pay $4 for 2002's Reign of Fire? The movie about secret underground dragons causing the Apocalypse, and bald Matthew McConaughey fighting them with tanks, a helicopter and an axe??

Yes it's Disney. I think. It was Touchstone Pictures, that thing Disney invented to distribute movies like this so they could still make money from them, but then didn't have to admit it. It's defunct now for some reason involving DreamWorks? I don't know.

I have no idea who owns this library now, and I actively refuse to research it. Whoever it is, they want a $4 rental fee for us to watch it through a peculiarly random assortment of streaming services.

Guys. This is the very definition of the old "Sunday afternoon TV movie." No one would seek this out. It's okay as an action movie, but everyone saw this because it was just on one time somewhere. For free. It's that kind of movie. Read my synopsis above. What are you doing?

...It might be a metaphor for climate change? Maybe? If you squint? It's that kind of movie, where it isn't if you don't want it to be.

The dragon animations are good and it's certainly a plot no one else has ever tried, because it sounds like a joke movie. It's worth seeing for the sheer fun novelty of it...

...Assuming you aren't paying for it. This is the Tubi-est movie there has ever been, yet it isn't on there. What the hell are we doing, guys?

And don't you little thieves Google to see if it's free for download on Internet Archive! Because I have a feeling it certainly is, and if you do that and download it to your phone to watch with the VLC Player, that's illegal stealing! And I don't condone that! YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR..!

[talesfromthecrypts]

Oh, he's a Dragon Slayer. I suppose that would make you King Arthur does it?

Reign of Fire (2002) dir. Rob Bowman