This is one of the LAST things I expected!
I agree that the original film was a bizarre mix of awful and fun. When I watched it years ago, I remember feeling that
Dragon Wars was a huge missed opportunity: they clearly had the budget to make something great, but the script was absolutely AWFUL. What helped was that the action sequences were a ton of fun and I absolutely
fell in love with the villain, Buraki.
Yeah, for most of the movie Buraki is a pretty standard giant monster, but by the end I found myself rooting for him and he totally won me over with the film's last few scenes. By the time the movie introduced the "good" dragon, I was firmly on Buraki's side - I saw pretty much no reason to root for a "hero" we'd only been introduced to in the last 5 to 10 minutes of the movie. I
really hope they bring Buraki back.
Also, 1969? The Moon race? I'm...intrigued.