How to Train Your Dragon: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon

The film opens with Gobber's house on fire and the Vikings and resident dragons getting it under control. Gobber is convinced that his old nemesis The Boneknapper Dragon, a giant, yet perfectly silent dragon (the only one with no roar) that clothes itself in bones for armor, is responsible. However no one else believes that the Boneknapper even exists, much less that it burned his house, especially when the evidence suggests that the fire was started by his underwear drying at his hearth and catching fire.

Undeterred, Gobber vows to hunt down the beast once and for all and Hiccup reluctantly decides that he cannot let his mentor go alone, so he convinces his Viking recruit comrades to join him as well. As the gang row to the island where Gobber believes the dragon lives, Gobber tells them of his past encounters with the monster, shown to the viewer in traditional animation. He apparently first met it when he discovered a group of frozen Vikings after he relieved himself on an iceberg during a family outing and he extracted a small treasure chest from the ice. As the frozen Viking he stole it from resisted by punching him in the face a couple of times, the Boneknapper appeared and chased him until he landed back in the family boat. The contents of the chest turn out to be a small bone that Gobber has since used as a belt buckle.

The stories continue, becoming increasingly ridiculous as Gobber tells of later encounters with the Boneknapper being interfered with by hammerhead sharks, a whales, a yak jumping out of an active volcano and the Norse thunder god Thor. Unfortunately, the group's attention is so occupied that they allow their boat to run aground and sink. Taking the loss of their only way home in stride, Gobber sets up a trap using Fishlegs as bait. The gang still refused to believe Gobber's claims, but unfortunately, a real Boneknapper silently comes up from behind the group and Fishlegs' attempts to warn them are ignored until it is in position to attack. At the same time, the Boneknapper makes a squeaky sound in its failed attempt to roar. Realizing that Gobber was telling the truth about the Boneknapper all along, the gang have to take shelter inside their own trap. All seems lost, but Hiccup sees an empty spot on the dragon's neck armor that exactly resembles Gobber's belt buckle bone. Hiccup realizes that the Boneknapper may simply be seeking to reclaim it from Gobber to complete his armor and be able to roar.

Gobber initially refuses to heed Hiccup's advice to placate the creature. However, he is soon seized by the beast and finally gives in. He throws the bone back at the dragon; the bone lands perfectly in the empty spot and the dragon is finally able to triumphantly roar with his armor completed. As it turns out, the satisfied Boneknapper is a friendly one and Gobber finally develops a newfound love and respect for the creature. The adventurers then ride the Boneknapper, presumably towards Berk. As Fishlegs informs the others that the dragon's roar is a mating call, four other Boneknappers appear from the distance. Gobber notes that he will definitely be believed this time.

Voice cast

Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast
Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch
America Ferrera as Astrid Hofferson
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fishlegs Ingerman
Jonah Hill as Snotlout Jorgenson
T. J. Miller as Tuffnut Thorston
Kristen Wiig as Ruffnut Thorston
John DiMaggio as Gobber's father (uncredited)
Kevin Michael Richardson as Thor (uncredited)

How to Train Your Dragon: Gift of the Night Fury

The film opens similar to the first movie, with Hiccup providing a narration about the upcoming Snoggletog festival being one to remember now that the war between the Vikings and the dragons has come to an end:

"This is Berk, boasting the kind of balmy, fun-in-the-sun climate that will give you frostbite on your spleen. The one upside is our annual holiday. We call it Snoggletog. Why we chose such a stupid name remains a mystery. But with the war long over and dragons living amongst us, this year's Snoggletog promises to be one to remember."

Hiccup is promptly woken by Toothless, making sure to grab his helmet and head out flying with his friend (almost slipping on the ice along the way). They practice a trick they've been working on for some time during their flight as the other villagers are putting up Snoggletog decorations with the help of the dragons. While Stoick proclaims how this'll be a wonderful Snoggletog, all the dragons in the village seem to hear something in the distance and suddenly take off. Hiccup and Toothless are just coming back from their ride, when the storm of dragons fly past them, knocking off Hiccup's helmet into the ocean. Although Toothless attempts to get the helmet back, Hiccup decides it is best to return home to figure out what is going on.

After landing, Hiccup is immediately bombarded with questions about where the dragons have gone, but he had no idea. Stoick calls everyone to the Great Hall to discuss further plans and Hiccup and his friends walk outside. Astrid tries to keep up the Snoggletog cheer, Tuffnut remarking how it must be nice for Hiccup to have a dragon that can't go anywhere without the rider. Hiccup looks at Toothless staring sadly out on a cliff.

The next day, Astrid has come up with a new drink called "yak nog", a version of egg nog which she hopes to become a new Snoggletog tradition. Snotlout, trying to get on her good side, decides to try some and is almost sick, prompting everyone else to shy away from the offer. At the blacksmith workshop, Hiccup is building something for Toothless, a new tail which would allow him to fly by himself. After almost yakking up the yak nog he accepted from Astrid, Hiccup attempts to put it on Toothless. After a few words, Toothless quickly takes off, leaving Hiccup saddened at his sudden departure. Hiccup tries to get to sleep later that day, hearing a rumbling outside on the roof. Thinking it was Toothless, and falling on a patch of ice again, it turns out that the rumbling on the roof was Stoick.

Hiccup tries to obtain some supplies to fish his helmet out of the sea when he runs into Fishlegs, who's been acting pretty suspicious the past few days. Observing him carrying a basket full of fish, Hiccup remarks it's enough to feed a dragon. He follows Fishlegs to a shack where Fishlegs' Gronckle, Meatlug, is being chained down to prevent him from leaving. Meatlug is chained up, but as soon as the door opens, he immediately flies out, taking Hiccup along with him to parts unknown. Fishlegs, Astrid, the twins, and Snotlout see Hiccup fly away, heading into the shack where Meatlug was being held captive. To their surprise, they find out that Meatlug had laid eggs, making "he" into a "she." Astrid has an idea to wrap up the eggs and put them in the other Vikings' homes for another Snoggletog tradition.

Hiccup eventually is taken to an island full of their dragons, quickly realizing they come here to lay their eggs. A Gronckle is seen to push her eggs into water, hatching into little baby Gronckles with a light explosion. Hiccup notices a missed one, which promptly explodes in his face, knocking him back. Commenting it's a good thing those don't hatch in Berk, he's unaware of Astrid's plan back home. They have just finished putting the last eggs and are talking about how this was a great idea, until one of the eggs explode and hits Fishlegs on his head. It doesn't take long until every other egg starts hatching and setting fire to some houses and the big makeshift Snoggletog tree.

Hiccup looks around the island for a bit and finds Stormfly (Astrid's Deadly Nadder), Hookfang (Snotlout's Monstrous Nightmare), and their own babies. He persuades Hookfang for a ride as the other dragons start following with their hatchlings in tow. They all manage to fly a little while, but the wind blows them back to the island. After a few seconds of thinking, Hiccup remembers something from when he flew to the island and gets an idea about what to do.

In Berk, repairs are being made, Stoick rants about how this is a horrible Snoggletog until everyone stops working, staring off into the distance. They see a huge cloud of dragons with Hiccup, carrying an old Viking ship Hiccup saw on the way there. The ship carries all of the dragons' hatchlings, allowing them to safely return home. Everyone congratulates Hiccup on a job well done, and reunite with their respective dragons. Soon, they are all celebrating in the Great Hall on Stoick's statement of the fact that they finally have something to celebrate considering this year's rotten luck at Snoggletog.

Hiccup looks around, smiling at the returned dragons and the babies, but still can't see Toothless amongst them. Astrid comes and sympathetically congratulates him as well, giving him a quick kiss and a hug. He asks her about Toothless just as she sees the Night Fury trying to sneak behind Hiccup. Astrid starts teasing him about how she wouldn't want be him at the moment, seeing as how he's brought back everyone's dragon, except for his. Hiccup replies sarcastically, until Astrid turns him around to see Toothless, who he promptly runs up to and hugs. He scolds the dragon for a moment (who gets distracted by Hiccup wagging his finger) until he notices something in Toothless' mouth. Toothless turns it around in his mouth a bit, then spits it out, getting Hiccup wet with drool, but revealing that he managed to find the Viking's lost helmet. Hiccup gives him another hug in gratitude as Astrid exclaims, "Happy Snoggletog!"

The next morning, similar to the opening, Hiccup wakes to find Toothless pushing his old tail and saddle out towards him in the snow. Hiccup starts saying how Toothless has a new and better tail now, but Toothless keeps persisting. Eventually, the dragon looks back at his new tail and starts smashing it into the snow, ignoring Hiccup's protests as he throws it far away behind him. Toothless nudges the old saddle towards Hiccup again. Realizing that Toothless would rather fly with him, Hiccup is all too happy to go out for another flight. The two of them perform another daring trick as Hiccup ends the story with another narration:

"Winter in Berk lasts most of the year. It hangs on with both hands hands and won't let go. And the only real comforts against the cold are the those you keep close to your heart. 'Turns out, that was the best Snoggletog ever. That year, I gave my best friend a pretty great gift. He gave me a better one."

If you like How to Train Your Dragon, then you'll like this Xmas Special (I know it's not Christmas but you'll still like it). just press the play button then sit back and relax and enjoy

Twister (1996 film)

Twister is a 1996 American disaster drama film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. Its executive producers were Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Gerald R. Molen. Twister was the second-highest grossing film of 1996 domestically, with an estimated 55 million tickets sold in the US.

In the film, a team of storm chasers try to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma. The plot is a dramatized view of research projects like VORTEX of the NOAA and the device, called Dorothy, is copied from TOTO used in the 1980s by NSSL.


The Plot:

In June 1969, a young family takes shelter from an impending tornado. The father, in an attempt to save his family, tries to hold the cellar door down, but gets sucked into the tornado and killed. Watching in horror are the man's wife and his daughter Jo, who, despite the horror of the storm and losing her father, is entranced by the funnel. The film fades into the orbiting GOES 8 weather satellite in the present day and meteorologists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) are discussing a building storm system over Oklahoma which could produce a record outbreak of tornadoes. Meanwhile, retired storm chaser Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) and his fiancée Dr. Melissa Reeves (Jami Gertz) are heading out to meet Bill's former storm-chasing team to get the final divorce papers from Bill's soon to be ex-wife, Dr. Jo Harding (Helen Hunt) who, since the day her father died, has sworn to hunt down as many tornadoes as possible, not wanting the same fate to happen to someone else. Besides Jo, the team consists of the eccentric Dusty Davis (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Robert "Rabbit" Nurick (Alan Ruck) navigator, Laurence (Jeremy Davies) photographer, Joey (Joey Slotnick), Alan Sanders (Sean Whalen) Rabbit's driver, Tim "Beltzer" Lewis (Todd Field), Haynes (Wendle Jospeher) who rides with Beltzer, and Jason "Preacher" Rowe (Scott Thomson). Jo, who is still in love with Bill, tries to stall because she does not want the marriage to end. Jo then tells Bill she wanted him out on the field because his idea for a tornado-analyzing device called 'Dorothy' has been built. They will put it in the path of a tornado to measure it from inside. Four of the so-called "Dorothy" weather machines have been built. Haynes tells them of storm activity, and they head out. Bill's rival team shows up, led by Dr. Jonas Miller (Cary Elwes) with his assistant Eddie (Zach Grenier). According to Bill, Jonas is in the storm-chasing business "for the money, not the science." Bill sees Jonas giving an interview to some local reporters and finds out that Jonas has stolen his idea for the Dorothy weather machine, building his own version called D.O.T. 3, or Digital Orphagraphic Telemeter. Bill accuses him of stealing his idea, but Jonas says it was an "unrealized idea." Bill decides to stay with the team for one day in an attempt to beat Jonas. Bill's team heads out and Bill and Jo have a frank discussion of their marriage. Beltzer notices a small tornado, an F1, touching down in a nearby field and alerts the team. Jo and Bill drive into a ditch to get in front of it, but cannot get out of the ditch as the tornado closes in. They crash into a small wooden bridge and take cover under it. Jo wants to see the tornado up close, but Bill stops her just as the tornado lifts Jo's truck off the ground. Jo's truck falls in front of Melissa, who is driving Bill's truck. She drives around it, narrowly missing a collision. Bill comforts her as Jo inspects the damage and takes some of the sensors from the destroyed Dorothy 1 machine. Jonas' team shows up but is too late to see the storm and keeps driving. Jo, with no truck of her own, manages to convince Bill to use his new truck to haul the Dorothy machines. Bill's team heads out again as Bill, Jo, and Melissa ride in his truck. Another tornado, a slightly larger F2, has touched down, and both Bill's team and Jonas's team are heading to intercept it. Bill believes the tornado will shift its track, and his team heads off on a back road. Bill soon drives onto a bridge and they are caught in some waterspouts, which spin the truck. The team arrives just after the incident and while Jo celebrates with the team, Melissa breaks down, questioning Bill's old lifestyle. The team goes to visit Jo's aunt, Meg Greene (Lois Smith), in the nearby town of Wakita, Oklahoma to rest and eat. Meg tells Jo privately that Jo's marriage with Bill ended because, "He didn't keep his part of the bargain." As the team is watching TV, it mentions an F3 tornado is active, and the team heads out. Bill and Jo drive together in his truck, and Melissa rides with Dusty in his converted schoolbus. They almost crash into Jonas' team in an attempt to beat them. Bill's team attempts to figure out where the tornado is because according to their computers, it is heading towards them on the same road. Bill and Jo realize it is over a hill, and they go through a hailstorm to find it. Upon finding the tornado, Bill and Jo try to set up Dorothy 2, but run out of time. A power pole falls on the truck, ruining Dorothy 2. The tornado then lifts back into the clouds. Jo attempts to gather the scattered sensors, but Bill, realizing that the tornado has not dissipated but is simply back-building, pulls her into the truck as the tornado drops once more. They drive to a safe distance, where Jo jumps out of the truck and again attempts to gather the scattered sensors. She grows angry about Bill's attempt to stop her, but Bill tells Jo she is obsessed to succeed with Dorothy to prevent what happened to her family from happening again. He also tells her he still has feelings for her. Melissa and Jo's whole team hear their conversation over the CB radio. Bill's team heads to a drive-in theater, where Jo signs the divorce papers, while Melissa is in a motel room across the road watching a weather report of more tornadoes nearby. Dusty is watching the radar. Both Melissa's TV and the TV at the concession stand lose their reception as Dusty warns Bill that an F4 tornado is heading right for them. Everyone takes shelter in the pit of a car mechanic's garage while Jo watches it approach, spellbound, much like she had when she was a girl when her father was killed, until Bill's shouting breaks her trance and she gets the theatre employees to take cover. The tornado obliterates the theater, destroying several of the team's vehicles and Preacher is hurt when he is hit in the head by a flying hubcap. The tornado passes, and the team emerges to inspect the damage. Dusty looks at the radar to find that the same tornado is now heading directly for Wakita - much to Jo's horror. Bill tells Melissa they are leaving to check on Aunt Meg, and Melissa peacefully breaks up with him, saying that she does not want to compete with his need to chase tornadoes. She tells him she is not at all upset about breaking up, knowing that their relationship would have ended sooner or later, and assures Bill that Jo needs him more. Upon arriving in Wakita, they find the town is destroyed, and Jo realizes there had been no warning. Bill and Jo find Meg's home on the verge of collapse. Upon entering, they find Meg pinned underneath a bookshelf. Jo and Bill rescue her and her dog Mose before the house collapses. Meg manages to escape the tornado with nothing more than "a bump on the head" and a broken wrist, and is taken to a hospital. Before leaving, she tells Jo that she needs to succeed to make sure what happened to Wakita doesn't happen again. Dusty listens to the radio, hearing that meteorologists are predicting rare F5 tornadoes. Jo comes up with a way to make Dorothy work while watching some wind chimes. She has Bill's team fabricate pinwheels out of aluminum cans, and attaches them to the sensors with screws to make them fly. Bill and Jo come alongside a huge, mile-wide F5 tornado in the countryside. They put Dorothy 3 on the road in front of the tornado and then back up, but the winds push Dorothy around, and then a tree knocks Dorothy 3 over, scattering the sensors. The storm turns toward Bill and Jo, and they attempt to drive away. They become stuck when a tree wedges underneath the back end of their truck. A tanker fuel truck is pushed along the road toward their truck by the tornado, and knocks them free before exploding. Bill drives around the wreckage through the fireball, narrowly avoiding catastrophe. Bill drives ahead of the tornado, dodging as it drops farm vehicles on the road in front of him. They end up driving through a small house that is rolled by the tornado onto the road. As Bill and Jo drive away, Jonas and Eddie ride to intercept the tornado and place their D.O.T. 3 pack. Jo and Bill, noticing that Jonas is driving too close to the tornado, warn him to change course but he ignores them. Eddie wants to heed Bill's warning, but Jonas orders him to keep driving. The tornado hurls a section of a TV tower through their windshield, impaling Eddie. Both teams watch in horror as Jonas's truck is lifted up by the tornado and thrown into the ground where it explodes, killing both Eddie and Jonas. Bill and Jo then conclude there is one last option left. They head toward a new intercept point, turn on Dorothy 4 without releasing it from its moorings on the truckbed, and then drive the truck straight at the tornado. With the truck on cruise control they jump out, letting it drive into the center of the tornado where it successfully deploys Dorothy 4. The team starts to celebrate as the Dorothy sensors work, analyzing the inside of the tornado, but then notice the tornado shifting. Bill and Jo notice it as well and flee to a nearby farm. They first take cover in a barn, but it is filled with sharp metal tools. It destroys the barn, and they dodge debris as they run to take cover in a small outbuilding. They find metal pipes inside this shelter and tie themselves to the pipes with leather belts. The tornado destroys the structure, and they are pulled upside down while anchored to the pipes. They manage to see the inside of the F5 tornado as it passes over them. It is filled with lightning and a smaller tornado in the core. Seconds later, the entire storm dissipates, and the family from the farm comes out of their underground storm shelter and observe their damaged farm. Bill and Jo debate who will run the lab and who will analyze the new data from Dorothy while the rest of the team arrives. The movie ends with Bill & Jo reconciling their relationship with a kiss, while the team celebrates their accomplishment. 

The Cast:

Helen Hunt as Dr. Jo Harding
Bill Paxton as Bill Harding
Jami Gertz as Dr. Melissa Reeves
Cary Elwes as Dr. Jonas Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dustin 'Dusty' Davis
Alan Ruck as Robert "Rabbit" Nurick
Jeremy Davies as Laurence
Joey Slotnick as Joey
Sean Whalen as Alan Sanders
Todd Field as Tim "Beltzer" Lewis
Wendle Josepher as Haynes
Scott Thomson as Jason "Preacher" Rowe
Lois Smith as Aunt Meg Greene
Zach Grenier as Eddie
Alexa Vega as Young Jo
Richard Lineback as Jo's Father

Soundtrack and Score:

Rock Soundtrack:

Van Halen - "Humans Being"

Rusted Root - "Virtual Reality"

Tori Amos - "Talula (BT's Tornado Mix)"

Alison Krauss - "Moments Like This"

Mark Knopfler - "Darling Pretty"

Soul Asylum - "Miss This"

Belly - "Broken"

k.d. lang - "Love Affair"

Nine Stories Feat. Lisa Loeb - "How"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Melancholy Mechanics"

Goo Goo Dolls - "Long Way Down"

Shania Twain - "No One Needs to Know"

Stevie Nicks Feat. Lindsey Buckingham - "Twisted"

Edward & Alex Van Halen - "Respect the Wind"

Deep Purple - "Child in Time"

Eric Clapton - "Motherless Child"

Orchestral Score:

Oklahoma: Wheatfield

Oklahoma: Where's My Truck?

Oklahoma: Futility

Oklahoma: Downdraft

It's Coming: Drive In

It's Coming: The Big Suck

The Hunt: Going Green (Featuring Trevor Rabin on guitar)

The Hunt: Sculptures

The Hunt: Cow

The Hunt: Ditch

The Damage: Wakita

Hailstorm Hill: Bob's Road

Hailstorm Hill: We're Almost There

F5: Dorothy IV

F5: Mobile Home

F5: God's Finger

Other: William Tell Overture/Oklahoma Medley

Other: End Title/Respect the Wind - written by Edward and Alex Van Halen

There are some orchestrated tracks that were in the movie but were not released on the orchestral score, most notably the orchestrated intro to Humans Being from when Jo's team left Wakita to chase the Hailstorm Hill tornado. Other, lesser-known tracks omitted include an extended version of "Going Green" (when we first meet Jonas) and a short track from when the first tornado is initially spotted.

If you want to watch Twister's movie clips go on to MovieClips.com

the website for the clips is: http://movieclips.com/hnB4-twister-movie-videos/#p=1

Fanfiction.net

FanFiction.Net (often abbreviated as FF.Net or FFN) is an automated fan fiction archive site. It was founded in 1998[2] by Los Angeles computer programmer Xing Li, who also runs the site. The first fics (commonly used shortening of "fan fiction") to be posted were two stories about The X-Files in November, 1998. As of 2010, FanFiction.Net is the largest and most popular fan fiction website in the world. It has nearly 2.2 million users and hosts stories in over 30 languages.[3]

The site is split into nine main categories: Anime/Manga, Books, Cartoons, Miscellaneous, Games, Comics, Movies, Plays/Musicals, and TV Shows. As of March 27, 2009, a new feature was added to the site - the Crossover categories. Users who complete the free registration process can submit their fan fiction, maintain a user profile, review other stories, apply for a beta reader position, contact each other via email or private messages, and maintain a list of favorite stories and authors. There are also centralized communities and forums.

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How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular

How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular is an epic arena adventure inspired by the Academy Award® nominated DreamWorks Animation film, How To Train Your Dragon which grossed approximately $500 million at the worldwide box office and was among the best-reviewed movies of 2010. This must-see arena spectacle will begin its world tour in Australia in March 2012.
In this state-of-the-art production, fire-breathing dragons will soar overhead, immersing audiences in a magical and mythical world of Vikings and Dragons. The astonishing cast of characters features 24 Dragons, some with wingspans of up to 14 metres, Viking warriors and villagers as well as world-class circus and acrobatic performers. The arena spectacular will feature unrivalled production values, projections, flying, stunts, circus performers, fire and pyrotechnics.