Your First Viewing of the Movie?

[blackrose108]

This was inspired by a board over at KataangForever (a forum for Avatar: the Last Airbender).

So, basically the title says it all. What was your first viewing of the movie like? Did you see in theaters, IMAX, or on DVD? How did you hear about it? What did you think before you saw it and afterwards?

For me, I saw my first trailer of the movie while watching Avatar in theaters, and it was this trailer.

To be honest, I wasn't impressed. My mother asked me if I wanted to go see that and I just said it looked like another stupid dreamworks movie. It wasn't until I saw a tv spot months later (maybe about a week before the movie came out) that I thought, okay, maybe it isn't that stupid. Mainly because the tv spot featured a lot about the romantic flight and I thought the scenery was amazing.

So, I went on the internet and looked up the trailers, and the sneak peeks that they had and I think it was the final theatrical trailer that made me say "yeah, I wanna see it". So I saw it the second day it came out in 3D (which I actually didn't want to see it in 3D but that was the only way they had it at the time) and I just was so pleased with the whole thing. It was pretty much the best movie going experience I've ever had. So much that I went to go watch it again the next weekend and continued to watch it bootleg until they released it on DVD.

So...what's your story?

[toothless11]

Oh wow it's surprising how a topic like this had never been made .

Well I found out about the movie via trailers. Pretty much the first few times I kinda thought it looked dumb. Until I actually noticed Toothless . IDK why, I just thought that he looked very cute, and somehow liked him xD. That's what made me want to watch it. My dad's job gave theater tickets to watch it, and we went there On May 1st (wow quite sometime from the release huh?) we watched it in theater, and just loved it. I was feeling kinda depressed when the movie was coming to an end though . I was all like "Wow, just wow" as we were leaving. Lol also, in the ending scene when they're all flying, everyone was already getting up including my mom, dad and sisters. But i was all like "Wait it's not done!" xD.

So yeah...*sigh* memories . Hard to believe that was almost 2 years ago

[blackrose108]

Haha, really everyone started getting up? That's odd at my movie theater (both times I went, actually) everyone stayed until the credits and clapped after the movie was finished. Also, it was dead silent during the part where everyone thought Hiccup was dead (excuse the "dead silent" pun). There wasn't even a cough or a whiny child, just silence, I looked around and everyone was just watching so intently. I mean, it was obvious that he was gonna live but still. They were also silent during the ending where Hiccup wakes up with a missing foot and during the "you're not my son" conversation between Hiccup and Stoick, though a little girl did scream "No!" when Stoick knocked Hiccup down, but that was it

[toothless11]

Haha a girl screemed that? Lol how cute . Well not EVERYONE got up. But most of te people . Don't remember how everyone was at those parts you mentioned. But I was feeling the same xD

[blackrose108]

I kind of wished I would've been more surprised when Hiccup woke up with his missing foot, but I stumbled upon a spoilery review by accident and my eye just landed on the words "when he wakes up and his foot was missing" and I was just like "NOOOOOO!" other than that, I knew nothing about what was going on the movie past what the trailers told me. I did go "whoa" when Astrid kissed Hiccup at the end, though. Idk why I expected the cove kiss but not the ending kiss.

And yeah, that little girl was so into the movie the whole time, she sitting in the row across from me, she must have been about six or something.

[toothless11]

Haha lol I actually was surprised whe I saw his foot.

Lol cute Wouldve loved to be there xD

[Varðr]

It was a late afternoon in summer 2011, I was bored so I was fooling around in IMDB... I caught the movie cuz it had a pretty good rating, So went to pick it up... Never watched trailer until afterwards which sucked : )

I've always been interested themes like dragons, vikings, ancient lore.... I'm a history nerd so I naturally I found the movie interesting.

[Sunny]

Am I going crazy or was there already a topic like this? Probably going crazy. XD

Well a friend and I were going to see it together but she couldnt go. I still went and thought it was great. We saw it in one of the HUGE cinemas too. there are 10 and two are bigger. Not in 3d though. Makes my mum motion sick. XD

EDIT: Nope, im not insane. www.howtotrainyourdragon.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=movie&action=display&thread=499

[blackrose108]

Hmmm, interesting. I looked to see if there was a thread like this already and didn't find that one.

Oh well, that thread's probably pretty inactive and it would be kind of silly to just terminate this one >.>

[IcelandicEel]

Is... this... continuing.....? Okay, I guess it is now.

I didn't see HTTYD when it was in theaters. I completely missed it because I don't really see movies, ever. I think the last movie I saw in the theaters before HTTYD was Harry Potter. That is, Harry Potter #6.

I saw HTTYD for the first time on an airplane. My family and I were flying to England, which is a pretty long flight. So they had individual TV screens, which is always good. I was skimming through the list of movies when I saw "How to Train Your Dragon" and I was like, "Well, that's interesting." So I ended up watching it. About six times, there and back (I think -- I haven't done the calculations). By the time we got back I had a good chunk of the movie memorized. I think I got one weird look from the person who was serving us pizza-in-a-box, but other than that no one noticed that only one movie ever played (and played constantly) on my screen.

So I never really got to see the reactions of the people around me. Except when there was turbulence and someone spilled their meat goop. But they weren't watching the movie.

[toothless11]

^Interesting stories, both of ya xD

Lol about a week after I had watched it, I had already had the idea of searching for a HTTYD forum . But I kept o forgetting, and didn't search for one until the end of Nov. That year, when this place was strangely completely dead (the last post was made several days before) so yeah

[quazie89]

I don't remember when I first saw HTYD, but I know I checked it out from the library first, because I had heard such great things about it and it looked like something I would like, but I had to buy it later because I loved it so much! I just watched it for the second time awhile back and I had to watch the commentary not too long afterwards, so I've seen it three times, overall, but I still love it as much as I did the first time I watched it.

[airbusjack]

okay I'll shoot.

I've never even heard of how to train your dragon before. My first time seeing the film was from a trailer which was a "coming soon trailer" showing the scenes from the main movie but without hiccup on the "unknown dragon".

(Please don't flame me for this) when i saw the title i thought it was gonna be horrible, until i saw the television commercials nearly a month later, which made me do research.
the species of dragons and how they looked was really appealing. then i saw clips on youtube and "gobber's training secrets" segments, the 2010 winter Olympics depicting unknown (at the time) characters riding a guy name bob, using him as a bobsled (hehe >.<) there was one clip that caught my eye, the Flying scene. when hiccup and toothless soar the skies above berk and the ending where toothless pwned the little terror. That sealed the deal and i went the next day.I brought popcorn and soda for the show, but the show was really eyecatching. i sat there eyes glued to the screen. the story, the music, the dragons... i cried in the end realizing toothless and hiccup were meant to be together- forever. :')

[CelticTomboy]

My story is kind of funny actually...
I'm a psychology and anthropology major and one of the prerequisites for my degree is classics. My classics professor at the time was talking to us about films depicting mythological creatures, gods from various regions and local legends during class one day. She suggested that we watch How to Train Your Dragon (although there isn't a ton of mention of the Norse gods during the movie) for the entertainment value and because it sort of fit in with the topics we had been discussing.

My boyfriend, sister, her boyfriend and I were planning on seeing a movie that night anyways, so we went to the theater planning on seeing a completely different movie (the name eludes me at the moment), but it was sold out, so we decided to see HtTYD instead. And so, there we were sitting at the theater, watching Hiccup and Toothless and loving every moment of it!

And that's the story of the first time I saw what has come to be one of my favorite movies.

[Unitedmoviemaker]

Alrighty then...I guess I should share my story

My story starts when the tv spots and such were coming out. I (like a few others) thought it was going to be another dreamworks movie (now, don't get me wrong. I like dreamworks. I like what they do. I just didn't want it to be another Shrek-esqe film. ). I didn't really see the tv spots. All I saw were the (what I thought were) "weird" or should I say cheesy channel specific promotional spots (they were either on CN or Nick, I don't remember). I then started to see the TV spots (given, the sorta 'lame cut' ones aimed at 5 year olds or whoever). Even with the TV Spots that take the movie kinda out of context, I became interested in the black dragon they showed throughout the adverts.

I went to my Grandma's house one week (I'm guessing during the springtime.) and she let me and my siblings go see a movie. I think we all agreed on HTTYD and all wanted to see it in 3D. My Dad (who saw the movie too) was kind of skeptical about paying extra for 3D (even though my Grandma was paying for it ). Throughout the movie I was paying attention to the 3D effects. I really liked the effects during the flight scenes and the end part with the falling ashes. I can't say I instantly became a fan of it the first time I saw it (maybe because I was too focused on the 3D ), but when I got it on Blu-ray for Christmas (I think not even asking for it), I then started watching it over and over again.

That was the story of my life.

The End.