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Frank
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Oh man, you are SO right! I wished to slap the producers, the director, the "artists" and don't forget Mr Poalini for this stupid NONSENSE.
More of this movies will kill the fantasy genre, they are a shame... no, did I say "they"? This movie is ALONE in its idioty on a high summit. Even dungeons&dragons looks good next to it (ha, Jeremy Irons in it as well, he seems desperate for money)
I want my money back as well!
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Julio
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I wouldn't criticize the book Eragon because it has many similar elements of Lord of the Rings. It is a very unfair and inaccurate exageragion to say that it is another LOR/Stars Wars but with dragons. The LOR triology was incredible and left many wanting for more, so having another story that's somewhat similar would make me very happy instead of hating so much like a lot reviewers. What we need to criticize is the movie. It is disapointing and a complete abomination of Paolini's great work. Bad acting, horrible script, does not follow the book. Saphira is one of the greatest disapointments. They gave her bird wings instead of dragon wings and her face looks more like that of a dog than a reptile. Also, in the film her skin is dull and dark when in the book her scales look and gliter like magnificent saphires. Paolini describes dragons as beautiful while in the film Saphira is plain ugly. The book was great; why couldn't they follow its storyline and descriptions?!! Peter Jackson should have directed this film. Only him could make this triology a masterpiece like his LOR triology.There somebody had to come and destroy one of the best fantasy stories I've ever read.
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Julio
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Yeah, slap em and kick em too! We should have a strike and make Peter Jackson redo this film and trow the current one into the Movies Hall of Shame.
How could Paolini allow this to happen to his great book? Someboby egg him for me pleaaaase!!
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Siaynoq
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You know, it's funny how people who stick up for this film/book can't even be bothered to type properly, use paragraphs or even spell correctly. Who are they to judge a work of literature? I wish critics would be even more harsh with Eragon, as it was written by a fifteen year old boy and published by his parents. How wrong is that? So now he's milked thousands of pounds out of people who can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy, and children with one-digit ages.
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Sly
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GO SEE ROCKY BALBOA INSTEAD!!
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Robin
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AMEN
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Jordan
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This day has finally come!!! I've been waiting for this day since the beginning of October , for I've read both Eragon and Eldest and I've been waiting for the final touch to the Inheritance trilogy.Get more info & photos.
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Sindri
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I have to agree with you on a lot of things. They turned a good book into a horrible, horrible movie...
If' you've read the book, sitting trough this movie, is as you said,
will drain you of your will to live.
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KevinB1989
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This movie is a disgrace to the novel. They slaughtered the storyline, with misplaced events and cititcal parts that were just left out all together. The twins, the Urgal horns (not a key point but still, come on) BIRD WINGS?!?! the fact that the Varden was housed by dwarfs! not a 5'10" guy with a beard that looks kinda dwarfish. Durza Never had a shadow dragon (or whatever the hell that was suppose to be) and the Varden and the city was more than 50 people in a couple of FREAKIN HUTS! The Great city carved from WHITE MARBLE! IN a moutain. so much for the dragon hold. So much for elves having pointed ears, so much for the Great empire witch in the movie was a dark room with a curtain (witch is the perfect place for a king to hide his DRAGON!) dont see this movie, the trailer has the only good parts then the rest is filled with mindless dialoge that has about as much to do with the story as the desert did with the movie.
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Liana
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Quote: "Much of the dialogue might as well be 'blah blah, blah blah blah, my liege.'"
Most of your review may as well be written in "blah's" as well, considering the language you wrote it in is most certainly not English.
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Evan
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It really pisses me off how horrible this movie turned out...the book may be a carbon-copy of Lord of the Rings...but it had some good writing, and I think Paolini deserved better than what was given to him.
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doodle
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Great book, shitty movie. Also, to the people who say the book has just another Star Wars or Lord of the Rings plot line, you obviously didn't read it and are basing your knowledge on the stupid movie which did just about everything wrong. The books content and story are so much different from Lord of the Rings, sure it may have the same old person on a quest for good and all that but that's what the romance and fantasy genre is. The Eragon sounding like Aragorn comment... complete **** . Even if their name does sound similar the characters are so much different, like what does that comparison prove except the foolishnes of the person writing the review. Please don't trash a good book you probably didn't even read... and if you say you did read it and said it was was bad why would u finish it, it's 544 pages common. Yes we know the Lord of the Rings was a masterpiece but don't trash other books that have tiny similarities here and there just because you don't think any books other than tolkiens are worthy of praise.
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Jack
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The book was great; I Loved it although it did have resemblence to LOTR. Then here's the movie; NOT FOLLOWING DETAILS, QUOTES, STORYLINE, OR ANYTHING! I wish I hadnt seen this movie, it made me want to give up on the trilogy forever... Do not see it if you don't want to see a ludicrous attempt of an Eragon movie.
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Hugh Hill
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I agree. I like the story as Paolini writes it. The movie, to do justice should have been 3 hours, not an hour and half, and its more plagerizing Star Wars than Lord of the Rings. I thought the actors could have been good if they had gotton a chance to actually perform in a major motion picture.
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Lindsey Fleeman
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I agree with this review. The movie was horribly done. The character development was rushed, and the imagery was not allowed the time of day to flourish. Besides not staying true to the book, which can hardly be expected of any book based movie these days, it was not even a good movie movie. It was like watching a low budget film. I hope that Christopher Paolini is thoroughly appaled by what has become of his story. Grant it, there might be some similarities between Tolkien and His own writing, the book itself was unique. It is a shame that a movie had to go and ruin the original story.
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Ryan
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I completely agree with the comments of doodle, KevinB1989, and Julio, and am pleased to discover that there are others who gave the subject as much thought as I have, and who feel as robbed as I do after watching the brutal raping of such a wonderful story. I am one of those people who, despite having gone through all of the enormous amounts of reading involved with undergraduate and graduate school, does not have a complete love affair with reading. However, I have always loved reading wonderful stories such as LOTR, the entire DragonLance series and spinoffs, and now the Eragon novels. Basically, I'm a closet geek when it comes to fantasy stories and movies. I don't find Eragon to be a rip-off of LOTR, but rather a great story working within the confines of the world of fantasy. It's hard to give news rules and find a new take on old standards (i.e. magic, fantasy races, etc.); and I truly feel that Paolini created an orignal story within those confines.
I just finished watching the movie about 45 minuts ago, and some of my friends (who haven't read the book) were making fun of the way I was ranting on and on about the disaster of the cinematic interpretaion we had just suffered through. The other friends who HAD read the book were as motivated as I was with their own criticism. We were all in agreement that, based soley on the premise of a screenplay, the movie COMPLETELY SUCKED!
If I ignore the fact that so many events were out of order and every detail was looked over (which is unforgivable, really), there was no plot or character development! Unless you had read the novel, you would not understand the TRUE underlying motivation for events and decisions during the story! For instance, Roran's story is all but completely missing from the movie, and his story has a lot to do with Eragon's early decisions, decisions that form what Eragon becomes. The twins are missing, the dwarves are missing, Jode is missing, and the werecat? That's right, missing...along with what seems to be everything else, and what I found to be the true heart of the story.
I guess what I am most upset about is people who have not read the book being turned off to the book before giving it a chance because the movie was such a steaming pile of crap! The screenwriters and director should be ashamed at what they did to this outstanding story.
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KevinB1989
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And is it just me or did they take Falcore from The Never Ending Story, claded him in some scales and slaped some bird wings on em for Saphira? why did she look like a dog!
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Evan
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I could cry, I could kill! but im sad that such a great book was destroyed by a movie, any of us could have directed the movie better... did the director even read the book??? and if so why did he make such a crappy version? its horrible! power rangers has better special effects!
What about Eldest? the director of Eragon killed any chance of the sequel being better than this pile of crap, when he trains with the elves??? and becomes half elf himself? that wont happen because he doesnt even acknowledge the elves, how are Eragon and Roran supposed to leave and hunt down the Ra'azac? they killed them!!! ahh i could go on forever! but ill stop its early and my typing is bad! but one last thing....
it's almost seems as if the director didnt care, the movie was rushed nothing is true to the story, from now on when making a movie from a book they need a fan on the book to either sir beside the director or dierect the movie all together! becuase this movie was just flat out "Not Good, at All!"
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Lola Lapatra
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I loved this movie. It was the best film of 2006. It should be nominated for some academy awards.
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Ringo
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Julio wrote: I wouldn't criticize the book Eragon because it has many similar elements of Lord of the Rings. It is a very unfair and inaccurate exageragion to say that it is another LOR/Stars Wars but with dragons. The LOR triology was incredible and left many wanting for more, so having another story that's somewhat similar would make me very happy instead of hating so much like a lot reviewers. What we need to criticize is the movie. It is disapointing and a complete abomination of Paolini's great work. Bad acting, horrible script, does not follow the book. Saphira is one of the greatest disapointments. They gave her bird wings instead of dragon wings and her face looks more like that of a dog than a reptile. Also, in the film her skin is dull and dark when in the book her scales look and gliter like magnificent saphires. Paolini describes dragons as beautiful while in the film Saphira is plain ugly. The book was great; why couldn't they follow its storyline and descriptions?!! Peter Jackson should have directed this film. Only him could make this triology a masterpiece like his LOR triology.There somebody had to come and destroy one of the best fantasy stories I've ever read. I can come to terms with your hate of the movie, but you seem to like the worst book in history. The plot is EXACTLY the same as star wars! Farmboy, living with uncle, never known his parents, finds item of great power, learns that he is part of great, now destroyed order, destroyed by one of there own seeking power, ect.....
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