How movie Toothless got his chest scar: oh no ropes How book Toothless got his chest scar: I'll save my master from this enormous ancient sea beast and survive a lethal strike of his giant claws
The first 5 books are just fun kids books where they go on a quest and shenanigans ensue and then everything goes back to normal by the end. Then around book 6 or 7 it suddenly completely changes and becomes this grand epic story of wars and prophecies and the near extinction of both the dragons and the Vikings, ending with a genuinely emotional conclusion where things will never be the same again.
They are very good, and surprisingly dark. It starts with just being afraid of predators that could easily hunt you down, to being afraid of getting killed in the war
I never read the very last book because it wasn't out yet at the time, but what baffles me the most about the original is how much Hiccup accomplishes, like with everyone there to witness it, only for his whole tribe to go back to treating him like crap by the next book.
@@noahmclaughlin7921 the books just reset everyone's views about Hiccup every new arc. It really breaks immersion especially by the end of the series when Hiccup accomplished legendary deeds that where witnessed by his people yet next book it's like nothing ever happened.
That's the joke, up until like book 8 the books are more of an episodic comedy and it's kind of hilarious how quickly Hiccup becomes a laughing stock in the next book over something completely insignificant, like being terrible at sports
Gonna be honest, I adore both. Not a competition, they do completely different things and each do them very well. Both were huge parts of my childhood.
To me one of the best parts of the original movie was the books of dragons reading scene, we only see like I think only 7 species of dragon in the whole movie but the book has way more of them and that really sparked my imagination as a kid. I asked questions like "what are these other dragons?" "Where and what are they?" "How did these battles against vikings and these dragons look like?" It was such a creepy scene for a kids movie and I love it.
the books are like that but theres genuinley an actual book of dragons that have also been published with over 206 pages and it still doesnt list all the dragons shes come up with. and also pages of that book are throughout the actual book series as new dragons are introduced, with the same stat idea that fishlegs and the movie book have
@@jacobbaker5442 Yeah I know we already know all of them but put yourself in child me's shoes for a moment, I had no idea of any of this so it was cool to have that mystery while it lasted.
all i want are long discussion threads and series reviews on the books and every time i come back to tis i get more and more upset that no one really talk about the book series
I was always sad we never got an on screen depiction of Alvin The Treacherous. I think he was at his best in books 2 and 3, would've been great to see a conniving slimey trickster Alvin who those who read the books can just tell is gonna be a villain and is a twist for those who havnt
@@zakkuthedreamer4138 yeah. Pity about his hand, lost it due to innocent curiosity. Not because his mom the witch told him to retrieve an artifact from a coffin or something
Alright, so some spoilers, but I will explain! The books start with peace on Berk, the humans use dragons as pets, hunting animals, ect. In other places people use dragons as slaves, there are also human slaves too, people don't like to talk about it. Later a war broke out, and everybody becomes slave on Berk, now the war is three sided. There's two human sides, and the dragons'. Everybody tries to murder everybody. Hiccup needs to become the king or Alvin will become one, and the dragons will go extinct. Someone close to Hiccup dies, and now Hiccup loses his memories from the trauma and heartbreak. He becomes king and decides that dragons and humans cannot live together, and with generations passing, he turns old and watches the creatures hide and dissapearing. The books also took place in our world, so there are the romans too. There are other things I won't tell, if you want to read them. There are much darker things happening, like when they torture Hiccup. Yeah
In the books strangly enough the right of passage to adult hood involved going into the already discoved dragons lair and grtting your first dragon to trian. Toothless isnt a rare dragon but the most common one in the books. Books were very differebt but not bad. Audio book is fot free on youtube
The Green Death was such an amazing antagonist. Hiccup and the other boys going up against it felt like nothing less than humans trying to fight an evil god.
The first book was one of my absolute favorites. I read it to death as a kid. I had a copy with the funky paper edges, where it looked like a cobbled together journal. :)
Dude literally just REFUSED to die... EVER.... I sadly never finished the books but I got to the last two or so with Alvin becoming the Viking king and damn that dude is a monster
I disagree, the movies tell a different story, but one that is probably one of the best pieces from the studio. While in Berserk no studio has been able to adapt well even the first arc. But the truth, compared to everything, those of Tokyo Ghoul have had it worse, not only did they not adapt the story well, they have not even tried it well.
@@alan_7390 I never saw the adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul Re: but is it bad? Like really bad? I ask because I find Tokyo Ghoul one of my favorite manga's and I think it'd suck if the ending was botched. (I'm already dreading how bad Beastars Season 3 is going to be based on S2)
Whilst I agree that the books are underaited, I would like to mention that I don't see the movies as an adaptation, but as a reimagining. That could be bad, but considering that it has a good story and Cressida Cowell seems to like it, it is fine.
I have come to love both the movies and books. I kinda just view them as two cool but completely different stories with characters that just so happen to have the same name.
Alvin The Treacherous is like one of the best villains in history hands down. He got eaten by a being who lives in the centre of the earth and survived that just because he hated a teenage boy so much he couldn't die
Dude I REMEMBER THESE! My favourite moments was when Hiccup was freaking sword fighting his opponent on top of the mast of a ship while A LITERAL SEA DRAGOn tried to eat them!
Ive been a fan of the books ever since i was 8. Its a marvellous bookseries. But, ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FILMS. the films are basically a complete different story with SOME of the characters. Lore? Changed. Characters (like toothless)? Changed. I really recommend the books. They are very cool
The books are good and all but the movies are so different from them that there isn’t really any way to compare them. It isn’t a case like Ready Player one where the plot of the book and movie are the same but the movie sucks. The HTTYD movies are almost entirely different from the books and the only similarities you can make is that they both have the same character names and they both have dragons. That’s about it though, so you can’t really compare them. That being said they are both amazing.
Yeah, I felt like the movies didn't do the books justice. I was so mad about the movie when it came out but now I'm 23, pay taxes, and work on spacecrafts. I feel so tired.
I think both the books and the movie is fantastic honestly, I'm actually glad they made the movies vastly different from the books since both stories gave us some great messages and themes. I do wish one day for a show or movie adaptation that is more loyal to the books however, it deserves it.
I just love the books so much more, sure, the movies are great, and i love them too, but damn, the books weren't afraid of getting real dark and messed up sometimes, there's a lot of suffering in it. Also, Alvin is really damn evil in it, unlike the show one, wich if i remember correctly, even comes to peace with berk?
The first few books are... not great, but once you get to eight and the true plot kicks into gear, oh boy. Books eleven and twelve legitimately have better writing than the movies.
I definitely prefer to movies, personally. I never enjoyed the books as a kid, although I only read the first two, and I recently tried reading the first again but I didn’t think it was that great. I can understand why fans of the books are frustrated by the differences, but honestly I adore the movies.
Comparing random silly still-frames from the movie to a bunch of animations inspired by the book would be like me showing action scenes from the movie and then a single instance of the word "poop" from the book.
I think you should give the full name of the book in the title, as many people don't know the full form of httyd. Might give more views and attract morepeople to the books.
I prefer the movie versions and I'm so sick of people saying that the book versions based on the movie versions are better seriously the movie versions of them have better adaptations character designs and changes.
They really were forces of nature. It's stated multiple times that, if it weren't for a virus that erased 99% of the dragon population over 200 years ago, they would have been the dominant species instead of humans.
I read most of the series as a kid, and loved every minute of it, but I never did read the final novel. By the time it came out I had grown up and moved on to other things. Judging by what some of the other comments here have implied about the ending, maybe that was a blessing in disguise?
@@sspah6870 The movies are beautiful in their own right but it's very different franchise from the books. Here's my "cynical" take: The movies cherry pick names, erase characters and themes and setup a very different message. It does not treat the books with the "respect" that one might expect in regards to the original media. DreamWorks capitalized on Cowell's names, work and universe while cannibalizing some of it's main goals, themes and characters. My more "optimistic" take: The movies take the essence of what made the books cool and puts a wonderful unique spin on things, they are beautiful works of art and do the books justice. Few other thoughts I have: The movies are a let down if you really enjoyed the book series and we're hoping for a more 1.1 adaptation. Not saying book people can't enjoy the movies or movie people won't enjoy the books. Just saying a subset of people may be sad they changed so many things that made the books interesting and great, even if the movies did have Cowell's blessing and creative input. I still feel angry about Httyd3 (probably not the only one) and how it shoehorns a the books ending onto a completely different story and hamstrings all future Httyd media in the process. Httyd3 consequently puts a damper on the whole franchise for me that I didn't have in 2018. I would love a series more true to the books but if DreamWorks did that audience would be like: This isn't the toothless I know, why is fishlegs not like fishlegs? No NightFurys?!?WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DRAGONS TALK??? LLL that's soooo childish, bad series doesn't build on the movies smh. I feel that the community DreamWorks has built is expecting a very specific thing, and when it doesn't get what it was hoping for it's often disappointed. *EDIT: added the words "I feel" "often" sorry for my overarching statement here, should have been worded differently looking back, sorry future readers. I think Rescue Riders is a great spinoff series, well done with good characters and treats it's 7-10 year old target audience with the whimsy and care they deserve, while introducing them to the movie universe in a respectful way. I think Nine Realms is a massive rushed oversight that is 3 years ahead of schedule and no one has enough nostalgia for it not to be brutally compared the AAA big budget movies it spawned from. It's clumsy and takes waaay to long for most people to have a chance of getting remotely invested in it's characters and future success. I don't think it's the *worst* show, just strangely lack luster and...oddly managed/thought out. Also the fact that if Httyd3 ending was truly respected by DreamWorks (ie not making a series afterwards that looks suspiciously like a cash grab) we would not see *any* serious Httyd media is saddening to think about if it's a property you enjoy. I'm not exactly "happy" with Star Wars being changed by new content, but at least new generations of filmmakers get a *chance* to make something cool and add to the lore. Sorry that this turned into a rant, but I did want to share why some of the reasons some might be dissatisfied (myself included) even with all the wins that both the movies and books achieve. I love how Toothless is portrayed in the books, but the movies were what I saw first and I probably like them a bit more atm._
@@NickelLight I saw the first movie when I was 5, and loved it, years and years go by where I continue watching the film, still loving it as much as the first time. It's easily my favourite movie. I also liked every other movie and tv show based on the franchise. Except the nine realms, which infuriated me greatly. I remember reading some of the books when I was younger, it was jarring at first, realising the books were so different. Although I liked them in the end. As for the httyd 3 ending, I thought it felt natural when I was watching it, and looking back on it, I still think it was a great ending. I can understand why book readers may be agitated by how dreamworks changed everything, but it's clear that the people who actually made the movies themselves cared a lot about the franchise. The movies, at least the first one, also showcased a lot of the art from the books if I'm not mistaken, so I think the creators did respect the books. I don't know that's just my personal opinion, I'm not supporting dreamworks as a corporation or anything, I know how big companies function based on greed and all that. Who knows, maybe one day we'll get a movie or tv show following the books. I just like to look at them as their two separately amazing pieces of fiction.
Being honest, if Camakazi was in the movies/animated series she and Astrid would be best friends... then worst enemies the moment it came to hiccup Also... she has a japanese term for a name so something tells me her clan studied t he blade and somehow ended up faaaar, faaar away from the norwegian coastline. Just imagine her and Astrid fighting over Touma, it would make any spat she had with Heather look like a joke and AStrid is based on Camkazi and yes im still getting her name wrong. "You're constantly being saved by Hiccup and falling off your dragon, I saved his stupid butt at least 10 times, and then I stopped counting." (sorry can't think of a good comeback for astrid at the mo someone wanna pick up for me?)
I originally wanted to say sorry to those I might have insulted with my words, but now thinking about it, I don't want to apologise for stating my opinion. It belongs to me and I cherish it for being uniquely mine. Maybe I should have used better words to express my feelings towards the movies and Dreamworks, but it doesn't matter anymore.
Fair enough. Personally I think the movies are incredible and one of the best trilogies and animated movies ever, but I can’t expect every single one of the tens of millions of people who have watched them to share those same feelings. I’ll defend that they’re great movies but It’s understandable that different people will have different perspectives on them, and I shouldn’t get mad at people even if they also get pissy about it. Haven’t read the books yet, although I think some of them are at my parents house so I might try reading them at some point. Regardless they’re both different stories and while people can argue which one’s better we should really be greatful that we got to have two different long running stories that most agree are both great.
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Movie Toothless: *goes to ocean to retrieve helmets*
Book Toothless: *poops in helmets*
Legend says Alvin has still not forgiven him
How movie Toothless got his chest scar: oh no ropes
How book Toothless got his chest scar: I'll save my master from this enormous ancient sea beast and survive a lethal strike of his giant claws
Lmao
Oh hey hiccup *shits aggressively on his helmet while the helmet was full of water*
Is Book Toothless that of a jerk to everyone except Hiccup?
The first 5 books are just fun kids books where they go on a quest and shenanigans ensue and then everything goes back to normal by the end. Then around book 6 or 7 it suddenly completely changes and becomes this grand epic story of wars and prophecies and the near extinction of both the dragons and the Vikings, ending with a genuinely emotional conclusion where things will never be the same again.
You've basically described Harry Potter.
Yes
You forgot to mention the slavery, so much slavery and genocide
so....they become a song of ice and fire
@@csto_yluoOr Alvin... just Alvin
Book Alvin is like, nightmare fuel, he's a knight of cerberus
The Books have perhaps one of the most depressing endings I’ve read in children’s books, on par with a “A series of Unfortunate Events” ending.
Ah yes, the one in which they D I E.
To be honest saying "remember all the people you depended upon and hoped the best for? Yeah they're all dead"
Depressing? How? I haven't read the last book in 7 years
@@PBI45 they probably drown
In the end Hiccup and Toothless meet after years apart, that's not depressing at all.
I cant believe people didnt realise that HTTYD was based on books. Wait till they hear that Shrek was also based on a book.
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Youre blowing MY MIND
WTF? For real?
I knew Shrek was kind of based on a book, I just didn't know the HTTYD was too
SHREK???
I've never read any of the original books, but it makes sense.
They are very good, and surprisingly dark. It starts with just being afraid of predators that could easily hunt you down, to being afraid of getting killed in the war
the books are insanely good, although some of it is a little strange and childish the overarching storyline is incredible
I remember reading the books from my previous school’s library, they’re amazing. I genuinely prefer them to the movies
I did
On my 10th 2 more to go
I never read the very last book because it wasn't out yet at the time, but what baffles me the most about the original is how much Hiccup accomplishes, like with everyone there to witness it, only for his whole tribe to go back to treating him like crap by the next book.
Huh, that’s weird. I’ve never read the books but I always liked how the movies progress and have people treat Hiccup with respect after all he’s done.
@@noahmclaughlin7921 the books just reset everyone's views about Hiccup every new arc. It really breaks immersion especially by the end of the series when Hiccup accomplished legendary deeds that where witnessed by his people yet next book it's like nothing ever happened.
@@krulesexgamer7362 actually in the last book he becomes king of the wilderwest and saves all viking and dragon kind
That's the joke, up until like book 8 the books are more of an episodic comedy and it's kind of hilarious how quickly Hiccup becomes a laughing stock in the next book over something completely insignificant, like being terrible at sports
I'm really glad they changed that in the movies. I can only imagine how infuriating that would be if it were adapted.
It's like a movie being about the "Power of Friendship" and the book it was inspired by being about a lone boy facing off against Azathoth
Nice
You described the Green Deathh in one word... amazing
Im actualy glad that the movies are diferent than the Books, Because then we got 2 Awesome stories instead of 1 with 2 Diferent versions
You've been watching alot of HTTYD videos lately I noticed
@@ilyassebenana3824 i just remenbered the franchise existed the Other Day and Got Addicted Again
@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 Me too!
@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 E eu pq do nada TH-cam começou a me recomendar
Chad comment.
You can't sleep on the fact that Fishlegs has a three headed lightning dragon that turns invisible nor that Toothless is actually just a baby giant
And that at one point, Hiccup has three legendary dragons
@@davisdf3064NO WAYYY THATS SO COOL
A baby giant who could very possibly see the future
Gonna be honest, I adore both. Not a competition, they do completely different things and each do them very well. Both were huge parts of my childhood.
To me one of the best parts of the original movie was the books of dragons reading scene, we only see like I think only 7 species of dragon in the whole movie but the book has way more of them and that really sparked my imagination as a kid. I asked questions like "what are these other dragons?" "Where and what are they?" "How did these battles against vikings and these dragons look like?" It was such a creepy scene for a kids movie and I love it.
And then the book of dragons special came out and we could finally see more dragons than ever before
They are in the Netflix show
the books are like that but theres genuinley an actual book of dragons that have also been published with over 206 pages and it still doesnt list all the dragons shes come up with. and also pages of that book are throughout the actual book series as new dragons are introduced, with the same stat idea that fishlegs and the movie book have
@@jacobbaker5442 Yeah I know we already know all of them but put yourself in child me's shoes for a moment, I had no idea of any of this so it was cool to have that mystery while it lasted.
Oh my god, finally came across a meme for the books. It's unfair how underrated they are! Thank you for making this
The Movies: The Vikings learn to co-exist with the dragons
The Books: Hiccup is enslaved for like two whole books
Mfer the dragons left in the movies
The Books were something else, man
an oddly brutal and political childrens' book series and I love it
A single person's vision is usually produces a better story than a whole team working on something I recon.
Holy shit, someone who knows it was a book series first. I always loved that part where hiccup got SOLD INTO SLAVERY!
all i want are long discussion threads and series reviews on the books and every time i come back to tis i get more and more upset that no one really talk about the book series
I was always sad we never got an on screen depiction of Alvin The Treacherous. I think he was at his best in books 2 and 3, would've been great to see a conniving slimey trickster Alvin who those who read the books can just tell is gonna be a villain and is a twist for those who havnt
You mean Alvin the poor and honest farmer, who would never do anything evil
@@zakkuthedreamer4138 yeah idk why dragons just don’t like him. He just wants to plant potatoes
We did get an onscreen depiction of Alvin but he was pretty much the exact opposite to his book counterpart.
@@zakkuthedreamer4138 yeah. Pity about his hand, lost it due to innocent curiosity. Not because his mom the witch told him to retrieve an artifact from a coffin or something
They showed Alvin a lot in Riders/Defenders of Berk
The HTTYD books are absolutely insane and I love them for that
Greetings from Russia, i've read the whole 12 books, Cressida Cowell is one of the best and based
Hello, I'm from Russia too. I absolutely agree with you
The books just have way more going on, and get downright existential at times starting somewhere around book six.
The books are amazing but extremely underrated
Its sad they only get talked about when you is comparing to the movies
To anyone who read the books, are they darker than the movies and how?
Alright, so some spoilers, but I will explain!
The books start with peace on Berk, the humans use dragons as pets, hunting animals, ect. In other places people use dragons as slaves, there are also human slaves too, people don't like to talk about it. Later a war broke out, and everybody becomes slave on Berk, now the war is three sided. There's two human sides, and the dragons'. Everybody tries to murder everybody. Hiccup needs to become the king or Alvin will become one, and the dragons will go extinct. Someone close to Hiccup dies, and now Hiccup loses his memories from the trauma and heartbreak. He becomes king and decides that dragons and humans cannot live together, and with generations passing, he turns old and watches the creatures hide and dissapearing. The books also took place in our world, so there are the romans too. There are other things I won't tell, if you want to read them. There are much darker things happening, like when they torture Hiccup. Yeah
@@KoryAnder oh ok, thanks for telling me
In the books strangly enough the right of passage to adult hood involved going into the already discoved dragons lair and grtting your first dragon to trian. Toothless isnt a rare dragon but the most common one in the books. Books were very differebt but not bad. Audio book is fot free on youtube
@@KoryAnder that's messed up
@@KoryAnder I read the books and I thought hiccup lost his memory when he bumped his head when the boat got destroyed
Loved the books as a kid; I love the movies too, but those books were just so wild I don’t think anything can compare 😭
The Green Death was such an amazing antagonist. Hiccup and the other boys going up against it felt like nothing less than humans trying to fight an evil god.
My favourite part was when the top meathead teenagers was like
YES hiccup i believe in you
Shut Up snoutlout
@@isauldron4337 Snotlout being put in his place by Thuggory was truly satisfying.
The first book was one of my absolute favorites. I read it to death as a kid. I had a copy with the funky paper edges, where it looked like a cobbled together journal. :)
Alvin was a menace in the books.
And bald like a Breaking Bad character
Dude literally just REFUSED to die... EVER....
I sadly never finished the books but I got to the last two or so with Alvin becoming the Viking king and damn that dude is a monster
David tenant’s audiobook read through of HTTYD is a childhood joy everyone should experience
Toothless is the size of Hiccup's arm in those damm books
And they say Berserk fans have it rough!
That's true, it's sad to be a book fan 😔
@@KoryAnder We're all
stragglers and outcasts
just like Hiccup/Guts!
Absolutely
I disagree, the movies tell a different story, but one that is probably one of the best pieces from the studio. While in Berserk no studio has been able to adapt well even the first arc.
But the truth, compared to everything, those of Tokyo Ghoul have had it worse, not only did they not adapt the story well, they have not even tried it well.
@@alan_7390 I never saw the adaptation
of Tokyo Ghoul Re: but is it bad? Like
really bad? I ask because I find Tokyo
Ghoul one of my favorite manga's and I
think it'd suck if the ending was botched.
(I'm already dreading how bad Beastars
Season 3 is going to be based on S2)
Books so underrated
And they are so good!!
Yupp
why are people still watching this?
Because it slaps
because its one of the few httyd book videos we have left 😔
Damn, you are right 😔
@@KoryAnder if no ones gonna start making httyd books content I'm gonna do it myself 😤
Whilst I agree that the books are underaited, I would like to mention that I don't see the movies as an adaptation, but as a reimagining. That could be bad, but considering that it has a good story and Cressida Cowell seems to like it, it is fine.
I have come to love both the movies and books.
I kinda just view them as two cool but completely different stories with characters that just so happen to have the same name.
Can confirm, hiccup stays as a loser all the time in the books, even when he does something badass
Yeah... they really have nothing in common outside of some main character names.
Ye but if i recall both were actually written by Crissa
I hope the live action films actually adapt closer to the book than DreamWorks' movies
Sadly seems like no
One of the few times Hollywood has made an adaptation that is geared for older audiences than the book. Then the book ending hits.
Alvin who existed since the second book: You do know I've been here the whole time and was a canibal from day one right?
Reminds me of when I first found out trollhunters had a book too and read it. Dark shit.
I still prefer the movies, but the books are extremely underrated
I remember being young and reading the books and my god they are so different
Alvin The Treacherous is like one of the best villains in history hands down. He got eaten by a being who lives in the centre of the earth and survived that just because he hated a teenage boy so much he couldn't die
The Eret thing killed me
Oh, so that's eret XD
@@wellidontknow1941 Eret, son of Eret.
love the books, read all 12 multiple times
Won’t tolerate HTTYD Trilogy slander
The book looks like it was drawn by Tim Burton.
Dude I REMEMBER THESE! My favourite moments was when Hiccup was freaking sword fighting his opponent on top of the mast of a ship while A LITERAL SEA DRAGOn tried to eat them!
and it wasn't even the first time a dragon tried to eat Touma...
was that the ship headded for america?
I didn’t know this was based on a book.
Neither did I until I found the actual book written by the author herself in my school library.
Ive been a fan of the books ever since i was 8. Its a marvellous bookseries. But, ITS NOTHING LIKE THE FILMS. the films are basically a complete different story with SOME of the characters. Lore? Changed. Characters (like toothless)? Changed.
I really recommend the books. They are very cool
@@sirSpookyToons they are indeed cool, but honestly I would only qualify 3 or 4 of the books as "great".
It’s kind of like how both Shrek and the Bad Guys are based off books but different from the original source material yet good.
@@ilyassebenana3824 all of them are great
This video just summed up my childhood
I read the books as a kid and the ending was so tragic lmao
Incredible series honestly
This thing is almost cursed
My favorite book series. It was the first one i read and the series that make me like read
What's better than a good book series?
Even better movies
In terms of early content, the movies are better, but towards the end, I have to say the books handle everything better.
The books are good and all but the movies are so different from them that there isn’t really any way to compare them. It isn’t a case like Ready Player one where the plot of the book and movie are the same but the movie sucks. The HTTYD movies are almost entirely different from the books and the only similarities you can make is that they both have the same character names and they both have dragons. That’s about it though, so you can’t really compare them. That being said they are both amazing.
Very much reminds me of those old medieval tapestries
Is the lore this significantly different?
You wouldn't believe how much
yes. pretty much the only thing that's the same are the names.
@@zekrom8372 YEAH. ANND SOME CHARACTERS ARE JUST... FADED OUT OF EXISTENCE
@@sirSpookyToons huh? I’m not sure what you mean
@@thestoner8382 there were a lot of characters from the books, who never made an appearance in the movies
The books were sick as hell
The books are criminally underrated, the movies are amazing too, but still
The books where wild man
Who else would like to see a proper adaptation of the books?
Yes, maybe an anime even.
@@wyvernknight560 great
As someone who read the books and watched the movies
God damn they are so far apart
The books were some apocalyptic stuff for real.
Yeah, I felt like the movies didn't do the books justice. I was so mad about the movie when it came out but now I'm 23, pay taxes, and work on spacecrafts.
I feel so tired.
I think both the books and the movie is fantastic honestly, I'm actually glad they made the movies vastly different from the books since both stories gave us some great messages and themes. I do wish one day for a show or movie adaptation that is more loyal to the books however, it deserves it.
FINALLY, SOMEONE GETS IT
I just love the books so much more, sure, the movies are great, and i love them too, but damn, the books weren't afraid of getting real dark and messed up sometimes, there's a lot of suffering in it.
Also, Alvin is really damn evil in it, unlike the show one, wich if i remember correctly, even comes to peace with berk?
Defenders of Berk series was legendary
The movies are great, but man I’d love to see an actual adaptation to the books
I hope that the live action movies use the animated movie as a basis and then start adapting the books
Doubt it
I heard they have nìgger astrid
The first few books are... not great, but once you get to eight and the true plot kicks into gear, oh boy. Books eleven and twelve legitimately have better writing than the movies.
Exactly. The movies have a better start but the books take the cake in terms of endings.
I read the books but I preferred the movies by far
I definitely prefer to movies, personally. I never enjoyed the books as a kid, although I only read the first two, and I recently tried reading the first again but I didn’t think it was that great. I can understand why fans of the books are frustrated by the differences, but honestly I adore the movies.
You just saw 1% of the story
Both are good
When you a make a movie off of a kid getting slave branded.
I need to buy de full colection and make a altar
Honestly this was the best book series i ever read i was obsessed with it
Comparing random silly still-frames from the movie to a bunch of animations inspired by the book would be like me showing action scenes from the movie and then a single instance of the word "poop" from the book.
I haven't read the books, but i will assume that the accents are on point and similar to one another(unlike the movies).
This comment makes me feel that you have no idea on how books work
@@ilyassebenana3824 I'm guessing both you and i are just joking.
@@bautistabarabino5821 i dont get your joke
@@wellidontknow1941 do you remember how awesome the soundtrack was in the movies?
Well, it was even better in the books.
@@friendlystickbug7863 sorry but i disagree;i find the soundtrack of the books very lackluster.
I think you should give the full name of the book in the title, as many people don't know the full form of httyd. Might give more views and attract morepeople to the books.
There were 12 books, good idea but I can only put the titles in the description
@@KoryAnder No i mean call it "how to train your dragon" in the title instead of "HTTYD"
Movie.
I prefer the movie versions and I'm so sick of people saying that the book versions based on the movie versions are better seriously the movie versions of them have better adaptations character designs and changes.
The books were fucking wild
Maybe the real dragons were the friends we made along the way.
Have read the first 8 books growing up, they're COMPLETELY different
I remember my dad buying me httyd book along with horrid henry during the early 2000s
The books had some really scary and unexplainable dragons and I liked that
They really were forces of nature. It's stated multiple times that, if it weren't for a virus that erased 99% of the dragon population over 200 years ago, they would have been the dominant species instead of humans.
Also the Darkbreather dragon. I imagine it to be like the Anantashesha of HTTYD and I wished we got to see it.
DUDEE I READ ALL THE BOOKS AS A KID
As someone who had the books read to him as a child, can confirm
Yep, animation smears look really weird.
I read most of the series as a kid, and loved every minute of it, but I never did read the final novel. By the time it came out I had grown up and moved on to other things.
Judging by what some of the other comments here have implied about the ending, maybe that was a blessing in disguise?
Perhaps
No read it. It will crush your soul, but it is still amazing.
This is basically Scotland Folklore vs Germany Folklore
I would like they bring the sea dragon to a movie one day
so this is where all the httyd movie haters are
Grow up
@@KoryAnder literally just making an observation because I haven't seen haters of the series before.
@@sspah6870 me neither, until now
@@sspah6870 The movies are beautiful in their own right but it's very different franchise from the books.
Here's my "cynical" take: The movies cherry pick names, erase characters and themes and setup a very different message. It does not treat the books with the "respect" that one might expect in regards to the original media. DreamWorks capitalized on Cowell's names, work and universe while cannibalizing some of it's main goals, themes and characters.
My more "optimistic" take: The movies take the essence of what made the books cool and puts a wonderful unique spin on things, they are beautiful works of art and do the books justice.
Few other thoughts I have:
The movies are a let down if you really enjoyed the book series and we're hoping for a more 1.1 adaptation. Not saying book people can't enjoy the movies or movie people won't enjoy the books. Just saying a subset of people may be sad they changed so many things that made the books interesting and great, even if the movies did have Cowell's blessing and creative input.
I still feel angry about Httyd3 (probably not the only one) and how it shoehorns a the books ending onto a completely different story and hamstrings all future Httyd media in the process. Httyd3 consequently puts a damper on the whole franchise for me that I didn't have in 2018.
I would love a series more true to the books but if DreamWorks did that audience would be like: This isn't the toothless I know, why is fishlegs not like fishlegs? No NightFurys?!?WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DRAGONS TALK??? LLL that's soooo childish, bad series doesn't build on the movies smh.
I feel that the community DreamWorks has built is expecting a very specific thing, and when it doesn't get what it was hoping for it's often disappointed.
*EDIT: added the words "I feel" "often" sorry for my overarching statement here, should have been worded differently looking back, sorry future readers.
I think Rescue Riders is a great spinoff series, well done with good characters and treats it's 7-10 year old target audience with the whimsy and care they deserve, while introducing them to the movie universe in a respectful way.
I think Nine Realms is a massive rushed oversight that is 3 years ahead of schedule and no one has enough nostalgia for it not to be brutally compared the AAA big budget movies it spawned from. It's clumsy and takes waaay to long for most people to have a chance of getting remotely invested in it's characters and future success. I don't think it's the *worst* show, just strangely lack luster and...oddly managed/thought out.
Also the fact that if Httyd3 ending was truly respected by DreamWorks (ie not making a series afterwards that looks suspiciously like a cash grab) we would not see *any* serious Httyd media is saddening to think about if it's a property you enjoy. I'm not exactly "happy" with Star Wars being changed by new content, but at least new generations of filmmakers get a *chance* to make something cool and add to the lore.
Sorry that this turned into a rant, but I did want to share why some of the reasons some might be dissatisfied (myself included) even with all the wins that both the movies and books achieve. I love how Toothless is portrayed in the books, but the movies were what I saw first and I probably like them a bit more atm._
@@NickelLight I saw the first movie when I was 5, and loved it, years and years go by where I continue watching the film, still loving it as much as the first time. It's easily my favourite movie. I also liked every other movie and tv show based on the franchise. Except the nine realms, which infuriated me greatly.
I remember reading some of the books when I was younger, it was jarring at first, realising the books were so different. Although I liked them in the end.
As for the httyd 3 ending, I thought it felt natural when I was watching it, and looking back on it, I still think it was a great ending.
I can understand why book readers may be agitated by how dreamworks changed everything, but it's clear that the people who actually made the movies themselves cared a lot about the franchise.
The movies, at least the first one, also showcased a lot of the art from the books if I'm not mistaken, so I think the creators did respect the books. I don't know that's just my personal opinion, I'm not supporting dreamworks as a corporation or anything, I know how big companies function based on greed and all that.
Who knows, maybe one day we'll get a movie or tv show following the books. I just like to look at them as their two separately amazing pieces of fiction.
I'm get so many flames for saying this, but although it's not canon Hiccami > Hicstrid.
Being honest, if Camakazi was in the movies/animated series
she and Astrid would be best friends... then worst enemies the moment it came to hiccup
Also... she has a japanese term for a name so something tells me her clan studied t he blade and somehow ended up faaaar, faaar away from the norwegian coastline.
Just imagine her and Astrid fighting over Touma, it would make any spat she had with Heather look like a joke and AStrid is based on Camkazi and yes im still getting her name wrong.
"You're constantly being saved by Hiccup and falling off your dragon, I saved his stupid butt at least 10 times, and then I stopped counting."
(sorry can't think of a good comeback for astrid at the mo someone wanna pick up for me?)
I originally wanted to say sorry to those I might have insulted with my words, but now thinking about it, I don't want to apologise for stating my opinion. It belongs to me and I cherish it for being uniquely mine. Maybe I should have used better words to express my feelings towards the movies and Dreamworks, but it doesn't matter anymore.
Fair enough. Personally I think the movies are incredible and one of the best trilogies and animated movies ever, but I can’t expect every single one of the tens of millions of people who have watched them to share those same feelings. I’ll defend that they’re great movies but It’s understandable that different people will have different perspectives on them, and I shouldn’t get mad at people even if they also get pissy about it. Haven’t read the books yet, although I think some of them are at my parents house so I might try reading them at some point. Regardless they’re both different stories and while people can argue which one’s better we should really be greatful that we got to have two different long running stories that most agree are both great.
Always pissed me off how the only similarities are the goddamn name. Films that do this like World War Z are so stupid.
I have read these books so many times...
I was re reading the books and when I got to book 7 I was surprised how dark things got
Proud owner of the whole series.
Bro had to scour the movie for smear frames to make it look bad😭
Didn't even know there were books
POV: Where snotlout?
Book 11 was the best. Snotlout's final character arc was truly amazing yet heartbreaking. He was a true hero
@@KoryAnder F you for reminding me
dude went out like a true viking, singing and everything as he fought to help hiccup escape if im not mistaken