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Movie Review: Eragon
By Colin MacLean Dec 14, 2006, 10:24 GMT
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i read the book, and if ur a person who often has dreams of leading a better life, being really popular in school, or running away to some grand adventure to get yourself away from the oppresive lifestyle your living now... GO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!! Or... GO READ THIS BOOK!!!
Im serious, this will be the best one you have ever seen. It will actually make you want eragon to succed and you will be delighted in every instance that brings him happiness or make him stronger. Yes i know this is what all supporter's of any book or movie say, but this one, it actually will.
okay, as a whole the movie Eragon is alright/good, mostly for people who haven't read the book...
*If you haven't read the book either read it befor seeing the movie or don't read the next paragraph/s (aka spoiler).
We (my friend and I) have read the first and second books, myself multiple times. And for us the Eragon movie turned out to be a big let down.
When comparing to the book it has multiple inacuresies, the time line it messed up with, they move the story-line along to quickly and miss out minor characters and events which turn into major characters and concequences in the second book. Some of these are;
1. Roran leaving - in the book he left for an apprenticeship so he could earn enough money to support a house and a woman/girl he was/is in love with. In Eldest this is the reason he convinces the whole village to eave their homes to go fight with the varden. Becuse he wanted to rescue Katrina who had been kidnapped by the ra'zac (no they are NOT killed) and he did not want to abandon the vllage.
2. To many ra'zac (their were only two and their parents who come in in the second book)and they did not get killed.
3. Arya was unconcious (self indueced coma to extend her life and because she was going to get taken to galbtorix).
4. Brom told him about the dragons when he went to ask , gave him the sword earlier on, died before they rescued Arya, was not insistant on Eraon going to the varden, gave eragon the chocie of what he wanted to do (which was to pursue the ra'zac to get revenge on his uncles death), they went to Terim to get help from one of broms friends Joed who helps Roran and the villagers make it to the varden in the second book, Joed also helps them find the ra'zac's lair, saphira new about brom being a rider befor eragon, eragon found out about brom being a rider just before he died. he told his story when the traders came to carverhall.
5. Saphira did not tell eragon her name, he gave her a list of names and she chose it. She did not grown up so quickly. She did not have feathers. Her scales were more saphire than the blue-white colour they are in the movie. she breaths fire to early. she waits untill night to catch up with eragon and brom.
6. Eragon met Angela in Terim. Angela did not talk about herself in thired person. They missed out solumbum's advice which will be major in the future, in fact they missed him out completely. Eragon does not tell brom about the fotune. angela only offered to tell his future using the dragon nuckle bones because solumbum talked to him (solumbum is a werecat btw) and angela talked about a woman with the same name as his mother whome solumbum also spoke to. solumbum knew about eragon being a rider. they missed out her being with the varden who plays is a major part in the battle in eldest. shes much more cheerful. they missed out the bit about the toads, wait sorry frogs.
7. The dwarves. enough said.
8. The twins don't exist in the movie.
9. Murtagh did not want to go to the varden. He reveals himself to eragon. they do free him for the battle. (also there were no humans in the battle against the varden, only urgals... wait kulls... hang on both)
10. Za'rocs gem in the hilt was ruby NOT saphire.
11. eragon was captred and imprisoned, then rescued by murtagh and saphira which lead him to saving arya from the same prison. Eragon's dreams were wrong. The battle between eragon and durza was different in th book (saphira wasn't there). arya left with eragon in eldest so he culd continue his training with the elves. he was 16 not 17, aka brom was correct.
12. galbatorix is only mentioned in eragon and eldest (the books) not seen. He wanted eragon and saphira alive, we find out in eldest that the reason is because saphira is the last female dragon know to be alive.
13. Durza had red eyes ALL the time. he never made a shadow beast.
14. the star saphire.
15. they were underground for the final battle, in the mountian.
16. they had days to prepare for the battle.
17. they missed out the politics (becomes important in eldest)
18. missed out the dwarf king and orik who becaome major characters as well in eldest.
19. Brom's trainng.
20. Du Vrangr Gata.
Okay thats enough i guess.
a; we're tired
b; thats all we can think of, pretty good considering its around midnight.
Congradulations if you've managed to read it all, if you really love the books we suggest waiting for it to come out on DVD.
Oh yeah. We would like to know, did the makers of the movie actually READ eldest or eragon?
oh an to add to our reasons to go....the other person(i'm not the above writer) is spelling worse an worse :P an no i wont leave your bad spelling an grammer alone....they dont need to know ok??
Wohoo!!! almost a thousand words! (other person now) we’re nuts aren’t we…..
Just to add on to what very very annoyed said.
*WARINING THERE ARE SPOILERS PAST HERE*
1.Brom didnt have to die in the movie, as in if they had done it right he should have been in a situation where there was not hope of him being saved, like in the book, but as I remember Arya was there when Brom was dying. So as an elf she can use magic, and she is over 1000, maybe more, times more powerful than Eragon at this point, so she could have easily saved broms life.
2.Saphira didnt have some of the cosmetic things the thought she would have, and had some extra things. Anyone who has seen the COVER of Eragon knows that she has spikes lining her spine, which also marks where Eragon sits on her back if memory serves me correctly. She didnt have hair coming off of her head nor did she have a beard of spikes, OR feathers, shes not a bird shes a dragon.
3.Angela wasnt supposed to look like a gypsy and she was supposed to be an herbalist not a fortune teller, i mean she was a witch but thats not how she made her living.
4.The Urgals had horns and were supposed to look as if they were trained for battle since, pretty much, birth. Not these fat guys, and all sweaty and stupid marks on their faces. Complete disappointment when there were no Kulls, considering they play a kind of big role in the second book.
5. I thought Elves had pointed ears, where as Arya didnt, also the elves werent supposed to be able to grow facial hair, or any hair not on top of thier head for that matter, and I beleive one of the elves in the beginning had facial hair.
6. The Varden didnt just steal the egg in the beginning, if they didnt in the movie, then the beginning was done really bad with the narration because thats what it seemed like, they had the egg for a long span of time before it ever reaches Eragon, and they were ambushed while transporting it from the Varden to Ellesmera.
7. Arya wasnt supposed to tell Eragon that she was a princess, he findout in the second book, and she wasnt supposed to be so nice to Eragon, nor show any sort of affection for anything, she was really cold in the books, at least until the go to Ellesmera.
8. what was up with the army recruiting, im sorry but you ruined anychance for a good sequal, when you had the army take away Horsts kids, and Sloan was all wrong, where was Katrina, he was supposed to hate Eragon.
9. I notice that Galbatorix didnt have a gem in the hilt of his sword like all Dragon riders, its there for a reason, they can store magical energy in the gem.
10. The sword training session, should have been sessions, had Eragon progress to quickly in swordsmanship, and he was supposed to break his wrist so he had to train with his left hand and become ambidexterious.
11. Saphira didnt have to learn how to fly she knew how inherantly, and Eragon found out about communicating with her with thought as soon as she hatched pretty much.
12.Im sorry but the soldiers in the beginning just ruined this movie for me, i think it deserves to be mentioned twice. Shouldnt have been there, no relevance to actual story, and probably ruined all chances for a good sequel.
13.Their journey from Carvahall to The Varden was all wrong, I saw no desert in this movie.
14. They didnt start their journey with horses, thy got them later, and the horses actually had a kind of big part in the books, at least snowfire does considering he ride snowfire from Gil'ead to the Varden, and then from the Varden to Ellesmera.
15. Eragon didnt know how to read, he learned how in Tierm.
Overall big disappointment, as every minute passed in this atrocity, it made me want to walkout more and more. At the end I wanted Saphira to die, it was that bad, just so I knew there would be no sequel, but no I know they are going to make a sequel, and try as I may to not go see it, I know I will just because I have to see how tey tried to save this movie, and make it into something decent. I thought I had seen all of the worst movies, and now I know I have. So please save your money and go buy the book instead, unless you already have it then just dont go, and read Eragon, its infinately better than this movie.
This movie was COMPLETELY and UTTERLY butchered! It was so obvious the movie had very little funding, because they skipped over everything, and what they did manage to include was done WRONG. The entire political battle was removed, so anyone who did not read the novels was completely lost in what was going on. It was so fast-paced that they may not have even done the movie. Almost all of the characters were done incorrectly. This movie was immoral; it failed to do the book and author justice. The creators of this film mocked, ridiculed, scorned, disrespected, tortured, and plain out DESTROYED the novel and the author. It is by far so plainly obvious that Christopher Paolini had practically nothing to do with the creation of this film. They took advantage of a young but talented author and ruined his books. I am enraged and disgusted by this film. It was a waste of time and money, as well as months of excitement. Paolini deserves much more than what was done; this film was an abomination.
The story of Eragon was butchered and mangled beyond recognition. One wonders whether the script writers have even read the original books, they definitely had no appreciation for the masterpieces they are. This movie was an atrocity and a shameful representation of the life’s work of Christopher Poalini. There was absolutely no character development, major pieces of the novel were skipped over, and important characters were left out or twisted into dull lifeless shadows of what they should have been. They got many many facts from the movie wrong, didn’t follow descriptions of the characters even in the slightest, and showed many things out of sequence. It was in one word TERRIBLE. A total waste of time and money …
i have probably read eldest and eragon both 5 times each so listen to me when i say this movie is a complete disgrace to such an amazing series. these books had the potential to make better movies then even LOTR itself. all i want to know is who the hell made this movie because i want to take a ninja star and cut off their ears.
All right people im hear to hate on this movie. There were many things wrong with it but i will name a couple that went allready mentioned.
1. Brom was nicer to Eragon in the book, sort of like Obi-Wan not like a Han Solo
2. The geography was screwy. Aglesia wasnt all mountians like in the movie.
3. Galbatorix didnt have the Bour mountians with the dwarf cities on them with his maps. Thats why the Urgals were there, to look for it.
4. Murtag lies to Eragon about his past when they first meet in the movie, which dosnt happen in the book.
5. The skiped Tierm enterly which puts the sequal and even this movie in deep trouble
6. The whole swamp village was a poor attempt to fit half the book into 15 min. And it fails miserably.
7. The dwarves, if the movie had any, didnt make saphirras armor in 2 hours but it was left over from the Dragon Riders Era.
8. The dragon riders had become corrupt, but the were not eduring multiple warlords vying for power.
8. Trojhiem volcano was so small compaired to the books description. It was more a small vally than a volcano
9. If not for me reading the book, i would have been lost half way through the movie. It jumps around and skips so many importiant parts that the movie is almost unrecognisable.
These things and many more led to a 1 1/2 star movie. I have no comment on the acting but the one part i will say was done decently was Shaphira, she looked almost, with a few minor details, like i expected her to. Hopefully the Author and the writters will realize they screwed up bad and not even thing about a second one. 'May your swords always stay sharp'-Brom
Ahhhhh... No No No... I've read the books and loved them, but this movie is inexcusable. I understand some cuts and mistakes but this is rediculous. Where is the werecat of Angelas, where is Isidar Mithrim. So much anger at this mockery of a great book. Sigh... And another major thing...the destruction of afore mentioned crystal and the death of Durza...
Okay some frustration out, but simply if they plan on a sequel they better remake this one first...
Personally I think whoever wrote this review could not possibly have seen the movie. Speelers and Malkovich delivered their lines in such a fashion as to put the plastic reindeer in my front yard to sleep. Saphira is acceptable in her graphic performance, however her voice is reminiscent of the credit card commercials where husky men speak like old british women. The battle scenes were unresolved, especially in Farthen Dur where the scene wasn't even introduced correctly. One of the most dissapointing parts of the movie was the final battle between Eragon and Durza, in the book the battle ends in a crescendoing crash of Isidar Mithrim's fate and Saphira breathes her first flame of the book at the very end, in the movie it ends in an anti-climactic stab through Durza's heart and a fall... All in all Stefen Fangmeier and the writer's vision of the movie contrasts so much with Christopher Paolini's that one could almost go as far as to say that it is a different story within itself. I admit I anticipated this movie with great zeal and expectancy, but having just returned from viewing it I must also admit that I wasted $10, and decidely question my viewing of the sequel upon it's release.
i posted diappointed and i just rememberd that when they showed Eragon her armor, its not the same armor she is wearing when the battle starts, just thought i would point that out
to all you disapointed, you have the right reasons, a lot of thigns were left out that took out the very essence of the story, the graphics were amazing yet that is about it, i am very disapointed in this movie, huge letdown, ive been waiting for over a year and a half and getting this made me so sad, so all i have to say is...just hope there is at least 2 hours of deleted scenes on the dvd
something is terribly wrong with this movie (we've read the books):
1. sapphira didn't grow up in two seconds people!!!!!!!!!!!
2. roran leaves in the first five minutes of the movie, that's wrong
3. brom doesn't burn the house down
4. the raa'zac aren't worm-covered-people, they're bird-people
5. where is Solumbum Angela's wercat?
6. how did their journey to the varden become 2 seconds long?!?
7. the varden city is supposed be inside the mountain, not on it
8. brom is nicer in the book
9. what happened to Dras-Leona, where the raa'zac confront Eragon
10. once again, how did the varden journey become 2 seconds?!?
11. Morzan isn't revealed enough, at least not enough to introduce Murtagh
12. you're supposed to learn Eragon's family background
13. Brom is supposed to meet Murtagh
14. Brom tells Eragon of Dragon Rider-ship
15. Arya is supposed to be an elf, no evidence of that in movie
16. Eragon was supposed to be captured by Durza
17. he was supposed to kill Durza beneath Isidar Mithrim
18. the twins weren't mentioned
19. so much for dwarfs
20. Arya had brown hair
21. Durza had red eyes
22. he's supposed to be at the varden for at least a week before the battle
23. once again the varden journey is not 2 seconds! arg!
24. he's supposed to go with Arya at the end
25. sapphira has no feathers, or hair for that matter
this movie was a total let down compared to the books
ps- the varden journey isn't 2 seconds long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whether you like the book or not, they did not put any work into this movie at all, and it showed. There were a lot of loop holes; Eragon gets his hand magically bandaged in the beginning of the movie, Arya automatically gets better once they reach Tronjheim, Saphira turns into a full-sized dragon in a matter of seconds without any real explanation besides the fact that they wanted to cut costs and time. (And I thought the book went fast.)
The actors were horrible, but I give the ones that played Murtagh (sp?) and Brom kudos. Sadly, Brom dies near the middle of the movie, and Murtagh doesn't have much of a part to play, so we're stuck with the hollow, stiff actors and that voice of Saphira that talks and talks about... nothing!
And don't you love how they screwed up the characters? I understand that movies can never be exactly like the books, but Angela turned into some half-blind, nose-ring fortune teller freak that hit on Eragon almost as soon as she saw him, Arya was a slut, and the rest of the characters are shells of what they used to be. Which surprised be, because I thought they couldn't get worse.
(Obviously I'm not a fan of the book.)
To make my point short, the movie was horrible. I'm not even really sure why they made it, if they didn't put any effort into it. It had such great potential, but it's obvious that the people who worked on it really didn't care.
Well... I'm not that surprised.
iam just about to go see the movie... but i mgiht reconsider and watch cxasino royale cause o what u guys said... meh ill still watch it to make my own hate speech here :D .
I have only walked out of a movie theatre this disgusted/disappointed one time before Eragon and that was when I went to see Lady in the Water.
If you haven't yet seen Eragon, don't waste your money on it. In fact, don't even bother to buy it on DVD.. if anything, wait for it to come out on TV. The only part that I enjoyed about going to see this film is the fact that my friends were there to heckle it with me.
First off - the only actor that I think did well was the man who played Brom. Although he was the same guy who did the voice for Scar in the Lion King. I just wanted to bust out into the, 'Be Prepared!' song everytime he appeared on the screen. Galbatorix wasnt shown in the book at all, so you think the least they could do was get a decent actor - but no, they get a guy who sounds as if he's reading his lines off of a cue card. It also didn't help that near the end, Durza looked like the Sith Lord off of StarWars.
Second - the movie didn't follow the book at all! They cut out main characters like katrina and the twins. Oh, and dont forget that girl that Eragon/Saphira bless in Tronjheim - she becomes a major plot point in the second book. They only really focused on Brom, Eragon, and Saphira for the part.. for the rest of the characters, like Murtagh and Nasuada, they just through in there and gave their name. Then, they killed off the two worm people who were supposed to be the Ra'zac! They were supposed to kill Brom, and then in the second book, were supposed to come back to kidnap Katrina, who wasn't even mentioned, and that would make Roran go chase after them to get her back..
I was going to list off more things.. but then I realized that this is just making me angry. So in short, the entire making of the movie was a total waste of good money and a complete disgrace to Paolini's book. Once again, I'll repeat myself: If you were thinking about seeing this movie - don't. I can guarantee you'll regret it as you walk out of the movie theater feeling even more ignorant than you were when you bought your ticket.
Just got back from this movie & had to vent. Arrghhh!!
There were numerous things that bothered me to near sickness about this movie. Overall, I understand that in the interest of time & making the movie more applicable to those who haven't read the book, some things have to be cut out.
Anyway, the 4 things that bugged me the most (there were hundreds of others):
- So... Saphira flies away as a tiny dragon & flies back 15 secs later as an adult w/ horns & can talk? Come on people!! Give your audience more credit! I can't even see a 7 yr old buying that one. I should've just walked out at that point (as I wanted), instead I 'booed' & stuck around for more pain.
- Arya - What kind of elf is she supposed to be? Where are the ears? Where's her magic? Where's the mystical factor? Horrible character development & physical appearance with her (drawves, urgals & razac too, but I digress). I can't help but wonder if they'll give Eragon his 'elf-like' transformation where he gains additional power in the next movie, considering Arya the elf looks like a regular human.
- Where was Orik??
- Where was the werecat? I even heard young kids complaining about him not being in the movie.
If you've read the book & watch this, unfortunately you WILL be disappointed, even if you try to have an open mind.
watchin eragon was like having bamboo stakes driven under the fingernails. The cast was awful, save one (brom), and the one thing it had that the book had was that Eragon found an egg. The rest was destroyed just to make it 'cute' and 'cuddly'. I for one am so disapointed, I wouldn't go see it again if someone paid me a large sum of money.
that was possibly one of the best movies i have ever seen! all the actors were soooooo hot, it just made my day! i would give my right arm just to see that SWEET battle scene again that so closely resembled the book. Angela was just like i imagined (i did read the book), and for all you who say brom was the only good actor, shame on you! I think he totally ruined the movie, because he wasn't very cool. Eragon was soooooo hot, it doesnt matter that he doesnt show emotion, because his rediculously good looks just make up for it! YAY!
The movie was appalling, but just one comment on someone's criticism:
'5. I thought Elves had pointed ears, where as Arya didnt, also the elves werent supposed to be able to grow facial hair, or any hair not on top of thier head for that matter, and I beleive one of the elves in the beginning had facial hair. '
If you've read the second book, you will know that elves in Paolini's fantasy world can take on any form they consider beautiful (even that of animals). Lack of facial hair is likely more of a Tolkien feature.
Another anomoly? Eragon didn't acquire the sight of dragons - he became ONE with Saphira in the book, to the point that he viewed his own body as if he WAS Saphira.
Christopher Poalini is only a teenage writer, but the movie is a totally disappointing rendition of its namesake. The movie completely annihilated many of the concepts and characters from the book. The casting was awful, the directing appalling, but most of all, the script writers should be hung by their toenails. We were so utterly disappointed. It felt like a warped version of Pokemon! I have never seen so many people spontaneously walk out of a movie theatre before the movie was even over. The only commendation I can give is to th CGI team, although more research into what they should have been creating would have been a good idea (eg what Saphira and the Ra'zac REALLY looked like).
Storylines are always different in movies. You can always pick out tons of differences in books and movies.
This movie was fair, it was nothing amazing, nor completely a waste of time. Though it was not worth the 8.50 to see it.
If you are inclined to watch this movie, I would probably suggest reading the book first, as it will help you follow the storyline better.
Though it is a copy of LOTR or Star Wars, keep in mind the book is a copy of LOTR or Star Wars too, just a lot more detailed so it doesn't seem that way.
The Eragon movie was an abomination and I was hugely disappointed with it. I love the book, it's verry good, but the movie was disgusting and vile.
Woops still not done venting.
I'm not really wanting to add to the already long list of things that previous reviewers have found wrong with the movie but... I THINK I WILL!!!
1)Did anyone find Brom to be a bit of a coward?
2)I thought elves had pointed ears?
3)Dwarves? What dwarves? Not in this movie.
4)Was there a character named Joed in the book?
5)Wasn't there a werecat in there too? By the name of Solembum?
6)Sence when does Saphira have feather scales?
7)The trip to the Varden? What trip. It wasn't in the movie.
There are many, many more things I found wrong with the movie but remembering them gives me a large headache so i'll put this simply.
Save yourself the time(and the headache as well as a strong urge scream) and don't bother seeing the movie. As I said before, it is disgusting.
If anyone sees this movie, trust me, you'll regret wasting your money on it. I definitely do. I read the book and they completely butchered it. The producers and writers ESPECIALLY should be very ashamed of themselves. The acting was horrible, the plot was massively murdered, and they paid absolutely no attention to the book whatsoever. Somehow I doubt anyone that worked with the movie even read the book. They were just told the names and went with that. The only good part was Saphira, and they even tried to kill her by having her grow in a nuclear bomb blast. So yeah, in conclusion- it sucked so bad.
This movie was an absaloute disgrace.I truely believe that the writers of the movie didnt even read Eragon.I was so disappointed in the theatre it was becoming harder to watch every second.Everything in the movie is different from the book.Some of the characters were ok,but they left way too many people and places out.The end was completely different from the book, and I dont know how they will fix it in the next movie.I just read Eragon recently and it was clearly my favorite book of all time.I was completley looking forward to seeing this movie, which i now regret.Here are some examples.If you havent seen the movie then dont read the rest of this if you dont want to,
1. The ra'zac we're supposed to be more bird like,not made of bug like things like in the movie.They werent supposed to get killed because they play a very important part in Eldest.
2.The urgals were supposed to be more minotaur like,not men.
3.Tronjheim was much smaller then it was supposed to be and the battle looked kind of pathetic seeing as the land they battled on was so small.
4.Durza never flew on a magic beast and Saphira wasnt supposed to get that close to dying.Arya was supposed to fly down on Saphira and break the crystal in order for Eragon to stab Durza in the heart.
5.Eragon's dreams about arya were all wrong.She never told him where she was, he found her after he was imprisoned in the same place as her.He never scryed her during the movie which i thought was an important part.
6.Brom died too quickly and he was supposed to die from the ra'zac not a spike from Durza.
7.Arya could have easily saved Brom in the movie when Eragon was too weak.
8.They left out Orik and Solembum which i thought were very important characters.Especially Orik seeing as he plays a big part in Eldest, which leads to my next point.
9.The end was horrible.Eragon, Arya, and Orik are supposed to set out from Farthen Dur to go to Ellesmera where Eragon finishes his training.
These are only a few of the stupid mistakes that i found.I want to find out who wrote this movie, because they wrote it horribly.This movie could have been excellent,i believe it could have followed the footsteps of the Lord of the Rings movies.I wish Peter Jackson had directed Eragon because he would have done a MUCH better job.As a fan of Eragon and Eldest my advice would be to either just read the book, or just see the movie and then read the book.When u read the book first and then see the movie it ruins the movie.Im absaloutley disappointed.Ed Speleers was great.The actress who was Arya was good too.I also like Brom and Murtagh.As for the other characters i have nothing to say.Im very disappointed in these movies and i wish i could apologize to Christopher Paolini.These people have ruined his masterpiece.This movie doesnt even begin to do Eragon justice.Im sorry to Christopher Paolini and all Eragon fans around the world.This was an utter dissappointment.
This movie was bad. It was really really bad. It's like they used the general storyline (boy finds egg, egg hatches, Ooooh, it's a dragon, omg, omg... boy becomes an overnight success) and cut out all the goodies from the book. Le-sigh... what a waste of almost 2 hours on my day off...
If you have never read the books you'll probably enjoy it. If you have, you will hate this movie with a passion unseen before on this earth.
hi, one of the people back from the first page, second post.
over the past couple days i've though of something no ones seemed to mention. sure the movie was a disgrace and all. But now that i think about it its not just Poalini you have to feel sorry for, its his family and everyone wh helped him make the book what it is. Also his sister. If you read the acknowledgments at the back of the book you would know that Paolini portrayed his sister as the herbalist/witch Angela, and look what they turn her into, some freaky gypsy with barely any profile.
Another thing I have noticed: Eragon will Flop!
It will not sell enough for the makers to want to make a sequall, unless they are very lucky. Be thankfull for this. I am.
Where is Solumbum. He has to be in the movie. This is for the producers- Read the book. Before making the movie. Solumbum isn't in the movie. He is the most important character in the second book. If Christopher Paolini is reading this. I have simpathy for you, and empathy, and anything else that might comfort you.
I hate you producers. you are a shame to movie making. You need to read the book. A drawing of a horse would go into you and it would look like a camel when it came out again.
I didn't like the book because it was underdeveloped, derivative and needed a really good edit and rewrite. But, I thought it would make a good movie.
However, the movie was a botched job. In order to compress a massive book into 140 minutes, the director forced teh watcher to make ridiculous leaps of faith, and inserted some really bad continuity errors.
To whit:
1) Eragon leaves home with nothing but the clothes on his back; yet shortly thereafter, he possesses a bow and arrows.
2) When Eragon is flying and Brom follows on horseback, the second horse is not shown; yet shortly thereafter, the second horse is being led by Brom.
3) Eragon goes to rescue the girl, and he has a sword. Yet, he had no sword prior to this. (And I'd really like to know how he learns to be such a good swordsman with no training. Yeah. Riiiight.)
4) Eragon throws his sword during the fight, never picks it up. Yet, later, he has it back. (Telekenesis? I think not!)
5) Dragon armor 'helmet' is full-faced in the armory; yet when Saffy is all geared up, her armor covers only the upper portion of her face. Also, they made the armor overnight (Riiight. When making plate armor for a human took a year or more. I think, for a multi-ton critter, NOT.)
There were more continuity problems, logic holes and other fatal flaws. But the film is visually beautiful, and should make money because kids are not likely to be too worried about illogic when stuff gets blown up by dragon fire.
A book made into a movie does not mean you get the exact book as a movie. Get that into your disappointed little heads, kids, because it's a FACT OF LIFE. The movie stank, but not because they didn't follow the book. I actually figured it would be better because it couldn't possibly follow the book. The book was BAD; and yet, somehow, the movie was WORSE! Oh well, there went ten bucks to go see it.
BUT PLEASE...DON'T GET MAD BECAUSE THE MOVIE ISN'T EXACTLY LIKE THE BOOK. You were wasting your time even hoping for that. It's an entirely different media and they don't directly translate. Sorry.
the film was a total cock-up. I mean the screenwriters....what a bunch of wallies .The number of important plot details missed out were too numerous to count. Jesus christ. Whoever wrote the script for this film needs to be burned, along with all of the screenplay and the director. Alot of the points have been mentioned above, and I stand by the fact that this movie was a total waste of time. Its impossible to think of how the sequel will be any better....not with the details missed out in this film. It wasn't just plot details that they missed out, but entire characters, and cities?!?!?!?!?! Wat the hell is wrong with these idiots. To add yet another criticism to the millions above, Brom DID NOT die while riding Saphira. Nor was Brom killed by Durza. If i carry on, it'll just be repeating more of the same.
For those of you wishing to see the film........DON'T
For those thousands if not millions of dissappointed viewers who watched this abomination, may you take comfort in pleasant imaginings of the movie's screenwriters being burned at the stake.
For CP: those idiots ruined a masterpiece with the potential to overcome evne the greatest of fantasy films.
For the screenwriters: you really are a bunch of wallies
Concentrate on the books evry1
Oh my eyes burn and i hear nothing but screeching when watching that tarnation of a book adaptation. First off start of film missed out many characters such as horsts kids, horst IS NOT THAT DEPRESSED! and why did roran leave so soon and where was Katrina?
Secondly half of the book was missed out, where on earth was the revenge on the razak and why didnt eragon have a bloody crutch. where was jeod and teirm all together?
Since when was arya at broms funeral,and mughart or whats his name was there, been a while since i read it. broms revelation was when he dies ,timeline messed up and the last third of the book was shortened into 10 MINUTES! Where was the DWARVES!
On the whole the film was beautiful and if youve read the book you should watch it and to prepare to rip your own intestines out and eat them. this film is that bad.
Enjoy!
Simply disappointing. The books are wonderful and full of 'life'. The movie was boring, disjointed (bad editing), and didn't even attempt to follow the books. I won't be buying this when it comes out on dvd. 3 out 10
All right yall im back from my first post [pg. 1] to say how this movie stank (I had the Unfortiute displeasue of seeing it opening night) How the wrighters and the producers and editors even let this movie out of the cutting room is beyond me. And as last time, i have a list.(Everyone loves lists in this forum)
The top 5 worst parts of this Movie from psycotic to scuicidal
#5. Psycotic: How they combined half the book into a 15 min. scene is one event that could be understandable but in this case not excusable.
#4. Split-Personalities: The characters in this movie were horible. Its as if the Writers put their rays guns on Medium Well and POOF! out came Arya, Eragon and Brom. While Eragon did ok, Brom had good acting if his charicter was done correctly. And Ayra... sucked!
#3. Meglomaniac: The Dragon growing scene... need i say more
#2. Scuicidal: The races, or lack there of. The Dwarves were only distiguishable from the Varden by their skin color. The Elves and Urgals were non-existant
#1. Someone who actually liked this movie: The Geography was horendous. It was worse than that of Narnia. The worst part of the stroy that helped bring the rest down.(not that it needed any help)
Allright, i am now offically a Hater of anyone who likes this movie.
I really like the movie but it missed out so much stuff! It made Christopher Paolini's work look like dribble! They missed out so much stuff that if they plan to make a second movie ... theyd have to explain so much that the movie would be soooo long! It misses out everything! grr What happened to the big stone that smashed as arya and sapphira come and save eragon from the shade! brom is so much nicer in the book! I have been waiting for sooo long for this movie to come out and ....(it was a good movie for someone who hasnt read the book but if you've read it ..its like WHAT!) i was so dissapointed some of the best bits were left out! grrrr...Ill still buy it on dvd tho hehe ...
A complete dissapointment (sorry for spelling. They added in so many mistakes and took out marvelous parts that effect the whole story. For example Teirm! There Eragon learns to read and finds where the Ra'zac are. THey made it seem as if all the movie was, was eragon getting to the varden. In the book he is tracking the Ra'zac, they also left out solumbum. Great details were skipped, did anyone notice that Eragon's house was still intact in the movie.Garrow was supposed to die a Horst's house. They also forgot all about katrina which is Eragon's *desitiny* to save her for Roran in the end of Eldest! Also Roran was supposed to leave to work as a miller not run away from the military (or join it my memory is fading,i saw when it first came out). Many other mistakes. I feel very bad for Paolini, he wrote a fantastic tale, but it was stripped from any greatness in the movie.
PSthe movie seemed rushed, the acting was horrible, wand the diolauge that was great in the books was also forgotten :( i am deeply disapointed. By the way they did this they can't make a second one without changing the complete sotry....
I read Eragon just before seeing the movie and just finished reading Eldest today. I've talked with many of my students about the books and movies. We're all wondering the same thing...how will Eldest be made into a movie when Eragon isn't in the slightest true to the book. Roran is not set up to be an important character at all, Angela is more tramp than herbalist and she has no werecat, Arya seems to love Eragon, Murtagh is alive and with the Varden, dwarves aren't really important,...the list goes on and on. Where would an Eldest movie even begin since there isn't a single major element correctly in place for the storylines involved?
A student mentioned that Paolini wasn't involved in the making of Eragon according to something she'd read online. I hope there's a way his people can insist on greater involvement in Eldest. I'll see the movie, out of morbid curiosity, but I just can't see how this rated G approach to a rated PG 13 book can have any kind of future. It's such a disappointment to the readers who love this genre. Hopefully teachers can use it in classes as a way to teach students. The lack of plot development in this movie was terrible, though I did warm up to Eragon's portrayer and loved Durza's performance (flawed as the writing behind it was).
Too bad Peter Jackson can't remake Eragon and get it right!
I thought that the movie was done the way that they could it would have been a six hour movie and to tell you the truth some of the politicals arent interesting on film. They had to use the main points of the story so that people who haddent read the books would be able to follow the story better and not be so confussed by all the trivial side stories. Bottom line the movie did what it was ment to do bring the story to people that don't read. I missed some of the characters but I dont think that the movie would have been dynamic enough to hold a crowd unless they had read and understood the books.
eragon: you can only describe it as...brilliant! ok, so if your a technical person you'll say its too much like star wars-but star wars did'nt have the exact thrill of adventure,the rush of excitement...or atleast not as much as eragon.
to me, star wars was a serious, dramatic...boring movie-with some dull adventure.where as eragon is exciting right from the off-kick.
read the book, watch the movie and play the game...harry potter has met it's match.
two words (lame brain!)i mean seriously cant the writer think of anything better THE OLD CLICHE DRAGONS,NIGHTS,EVIL WIZARDS,MAGICAL CREATURE.HE IS an exelent hat i have to give him but stillcant he come up with anything els besides romanes and a bit of an adventure.but still atleast they chose a hunk eragon.anyway i'm out later.
i have to agree with the 'very anoyed' dudes/dudets. i say thanks for going through all the flaws thus saving me the trouble. i hav'nt watched the movie but i hav been told about it in detail by my cousin. i have read the books,though- eragon end eldest-countless times and if the movie is truly as unimformed as i am told then i wonder how eldest is going to unfold.
thats the movie- as for the the book...its apsolutely fizzzzan!!!
amazing imagination- you go chris
and as paolini would say: may your swords stay sharp!
thank you...
I went to see Eragon wth a couple friends. We hate the books, as a side note, but hoped to see at least a well-constructed recreation of the first.
Needless to say, we were very disappointed.
Now, others have already spouted all of the errors in the film, but I'd like to ask the screenwriters something. As in, WHY did Durza NOT SLASH ERAGON ACROSS THE BACK?! It's a key factor in the second book and they've gone and cut it out. Maybe Speelers didn't want to play out a seizure? The world may never know.
Another thing. You know one of the shots in the beginning where Eragon is sitting somewhere facing a sunset (the sun is in front of him at an XLS, he's at the extreme left and we're almost at an over-the-shoulder shot)? That shot was freaking stolen from Star Wars. Luke sitting down facing the dual sunset on Tattooine? Remember that?
On a side note, Bless the Child, Argetlam has disappeared. Whoo. Eragon, for all we know, currently has an Ancient Language vocabulary of five words: whatever it was for eye, skulblaka, brisingr, the word for tree and the word for branch. Seems like Brom neglected his training.
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For those of you who would rather focus on the movie and not its relation from the book:
Horrible camerawork. I couldn't tell what was going on in most of the battle shots, too many vertigo-inducing zooms along unrelated landscape, some bad 'stunts'--like the one where the red-cloaked guardperson jumped over the bridge like a rabbit, weird special effects for the smoke (the fire is just blue smoke. what the heck?), and Durza looks like Darth Sidious. His death (which appeared to be an anticlimatic explosion) could have been done by my friends with a Motion program (Mac users, props to you guys).
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Geh. As a whole, this movie was less than mediocre. Brom's death was the climax rather than the slaying of the Shade, Murtagh has about 5-6 minutes of screentime. And those were the two best actors. Sheesh.
I can accept a movie branching off from a book, but to make it such a horrendous deviation was a big mistake. >neck-slitting noise< for the next movie. (Good luck, Fangmeier.)
I thought the movie was GREAT! All these negative reviews honestly surprised me. Yes, it was a bit disappointing to me that there was a lot left out according to the book, Solumbum for one. But you can't put everything in or you would have had a 6 hour movie! And you can't say that Christopher Paolini copied his ideas from Tolkien or Lucas. That would be like saying Ann Rice copied Bram Stoker because he wrote about vampires FIRST! Sheeesh! Don't you people realize that there hasn't been an original thought out there in centuries, hence the reason 'retro' is so popular. We just keep re-using and re-making the same 'ol crap. This book was about a boy and his Dragon, NOT about the return of the King or the return of the Jedi..... So lay off Eragon. It was a fabulous book, written by a talented 15 year old and the movie, for the most part, was equally as entertaining.
okay, say the book sequence goes something like a-b-c-d-e, the Eragon movie sequence goes a-c-b-square-Potato-Blue-e. I'm just wondering how much hate mail the director is getting from psychotic Eragon fans like me.
Indeed, the movie was butchered and mutilated to a mere shadow of Paolini's book. Yet, it was by no means an utter waste of money. While the scenes are largely innacurate and diluted in relevance to the book and the acting mediocre, the movie itself was not a total abomination per se. If you disregard the connection that exists between the book and the movie, you will find that the latter is actually quite enjoyable by itself. The plot is a mangled corpse, but the action and scenery is rather decent.
The acting wasn't terrible if you weren't expecting much in the first place. Eragon was so-so, no academy award but his acting wasn't too troubling. Saphira proved to be a pleasant surprise; I had expected her to be some sort of fiendish disgrace brought on by low budgeting, but that wasn't the case. Brom's appearance contrasts sharply to his portrayal in the book, but I actually found him to be the highlight of the movie, next to Saphira. In my opinion the best actor in the film. Arya definitely wasn't the one Paolini created. She differs from the book in so many ways and I found that somewhat disappointing.
Overall, not a bad movie as long as you aren't expecting something great. Don't be disappointed by the lack of adherence to the book. Every book-based movie must sway from its foundations, and it is impossible to please everyone. I found it to be worth seeing simply because it was so amusing. I was literally grinning from beginning to end, save for the serious scenes. Several times I had the urge to burst out with inappropriate laughter. But it IS worth your money believe it or not. Don't listen to all the haters, just laugh with/at it and it will all be enjoyable.
I don't care what people say about this movie it was one of the best films I had ever seen! At first I knew noahting about it then when I saw it I was blown away. When I saw it a second time I went to the nearest book shop and bought the book. I am half way done reading it and so far it is amazing! I will admit that okay there are stuff that didn't make it in the film but, I saw the movie efore reading the book and I loved both of them and I don't care what you people say. For me Eragon was a great fantesy movie!
I don't care what people say about this movie it was one of the best films I had ever seen! At first I knew nohting about it then when I saw it I was blown away. When I saw it the second time I went to the nearest book store and bought the book. I am half away done reading it and so far it is amazing! I will admit that okay there are stuff that didn't make it in the film but, I saw the movie efore reading the book and I loved both of them and I don't care what you people say. For me Eragon was a the best fantasy movie and I am SO buying it on DVD.
Gosh where do you start? We live in Gods own Middle Earth (NZ) and while we loved LOTR this movie is just horrible. I read Eragon to my older children and we loved every minute of the book. The movie was an extreme let down. There were so many scenes, characters, places missing it's hard to know where to start! I think this movie could have been a great epic much in the vein of LOTR but sadly misses the mark. The character casting was great, with new kid on the block Ed Speelers and an impressive line up of talented actors however not even they could save the movie from poor script writing and direction. Maybe I'll give Peter (Jackson) a ring and ask him to make the other two!!
This is probably pretty redundant by now, but I'd just like to say that while I'm a big fan of the books, I will never go to see the second movie. If there is one, with the way they left out every character and plot line important to Eldest.
The movie itself was somewhat OK if you had never read the books, but the main thing that had me (a die-hard fan of the books) peeved to the maximum was the development (or lack thereof) of Murtagh's character. He was my favourite character in the book, because he was so complex and mysterious, but the movie gave him like 5 minutes of screen time. WHY?!?!?!?! Granted, the actor did an excellent job in those 5 minutes, but WHY did the writers have to cut down the best character in the book? Murtagh's a better main character than the main character himself, for heaven's sake! And how are they ever going to do Eldest with so little of his background revealed PROPERLY? I don't think I even want to know.
Bottom line: fans of the book BEWARE. Steer clear. But for those of us poor unsuspecting die-hards who have already seen this butchering, we'll have to resort to comfort food, and the desperate hope that someone (Peter Jackson, anyone?) will do a remake in a few years. Hopefully, with much better development of a certain amazing character.
this movie flat out sucked i was all excited and everything to go see i waited 1 month and wasted $10 on a stupid movie i hope there is no sequel, no wait i do because no one will go see it the people who made this movie will hopefully go broke and never make another movie again. thats my view to be honest this movie is the worst movie i have every seen and i have never wanted to leave the movie so bad in my life i expected 2-3 hours of lord of the rings type stuff but ass always the producers mess up and make me want to gauge out my eyes in the theater they wasted 1 hour and 30 minutes of my life that i will never get back
Ok, since everyone else has pointed out the obvious, I'll try and mention things that were subtler but of huge importance that they missed, also, I would like ask. Were the producers trying to get Eragon called Lord of the Rings and Star Wars copiers? Seriously, it's called that enough, we really didn't need their help in that sitiuation. I've read the book about 10 times and this movie disgusted me. Mostly for the reasons I will list below. Now thinking about it, some aren't so subtle.
1. This is what annoyed me the most, everyone's personality was completely messed up! Saphira. Ok, they missed her and Eragon's fondness of each other, their protectiveness and her seniority and sometimes vanity. She was not always patient and NEVER was perfect. But apparently the high and mighty directors did not agree with me.
2. Another character, Eragon. He wasn't messed up as much, but his personality should've changed a little over the journey, this book was written in a way I call Hero's Journey, the main character moves through a series of events and adventures and becomes a stronger person, in this case so do him and the dragon. (that's another point)
3. Completely missed the growth and maturing of the dragon, the way she grew up so fast made us miss some of what made Saphira Saphira. She changes a little over the book as she and Eragon grow together, a very important part of the book (I thought it was, though it was small) was when she pinned him down and challenged him for getting into trouble and said he wasn't a dragon rider. They were pushing each OTHER, get the point director? I wonder if they even read the book.
4. I don't think the actors portrayed their characters that well.
5. BROM, Brom is not MEAN as he is in the movie, just impatient. Seriously, he was so mean in the movie I could not understand at all why Eragon was crying when he died, since he was that mean I seriously would have been rejoicing.
6. I couldn't believe they SERIOUSLY took out Solembum and Teirm and messed up Angela that much. They missed some minor characters that become MAJOR. The movie was way too fastpaced, at least the Lord of the RIngs were long because their books were. This one didn't even try to match the book's length. Not to mention they made the books boring.
7. The whole go back to get Arya thing, Arya could have saved Brom because she is an elf.
8. Completely messed up the importance of the twins and Du Vrangr Gata.
9. WHERE DID THIS WHOLE ERAGON ALMOST DIED THING COME FROM? Was that supposed to be THRILLING? I actually found the entire movie dull, including this part.
(Spoiler)
10. Murtaugh and Eragon are BROTHERS, shouldn't they look alike? One looks like Snape from harry potter and the other one has soft, blonde, curly hair and is handsome.
11. Where'd the whole final battle come from, and the DWARVES? You just can't take them OUT like that, they're one of the most important parts. Not to mention the whole how the people found Farthen Dur. An entire army that huge could not be massed in less than a few days.
12. I know the book like the back of my hand and was still confused on so many parts, great job movie people, you really botched that one up.
13. The end of the movie where a huge black dragon was hiding behind a MAP? And the map was SLASHED? Yeah, right. I'm assuming that was supposed to put me in suspense for the next one? Bad job of it.
14. The sets did not remind me of what I thought the sets were in the movie at all, except when they were in mountains. That wasn't difficult to do though. Green grass, mountains. ESPECIALLY Farthen Dur.
15. If dragons could be made from magic, why don't all the king's cronies have a dragon? Why doesn't the shade use one at all times.
Overall I thought the movie deserved less than one full star and I honestly wonder whether book sales will go down after people see this movie.
I was waiting for this movie for a pretty long time and when i saw it i was pretty mad and saw like a b'jillion things wrong with it i read both books and really liked them so much that i read them again. I didnt see any dwarves, and what happened to the whole sequence where eragon tracks down the Razac. Also wasnt Eragon supposed to learn how to read and how to fight with both hands.
I didnt see any dwarves or Urgals(even though they said they were i dont believe it because arent they supposed to look like beasts and have horns and be hairy)
Overall i give this movie a 4 out of 10
sorry just not done as well as several of the people that read the book thought it would be
I've read the book Eragon, and I like. Christopher Paolini has a creative and rare imagination. Just like J.K. Rowlings with her Harry Potter series. Those two are very rare to find in authors. After I read the book, I had just found out their was an Eragon movie, in fact, i was really excited about. I was a little disappointed when they left out some of my favorite scenes, but besides that, I liked the movie alot. I couldn't wait for it to come out. And for the DVD to come out, too.
*My mom loved the movie, too, expecially the scene at the ending with Shruikan.
eh, I too, think it could have been better in many ways. They left out a lot of things from the book. But other than that I liked it. They could have done better but I liked it.
Everyone said it in the post's above. All of the holes in the story. All of the plot mistakes and how this movie is so far away from the book. I was truly disappointed. And I loved the books, because despite the haters on the comments before mine, they need to acknowledge Paolini wrote this in his late teens. I am a writer, and let me tell you, there are people in their 50's still trying to write their hero epic and get it right. Imagine what this young man could do as his skill matures and he experiences more in his own life.
I don't think the people at Fox even read the book, except for maybe Cliff's notes and even that would have included key points for the story. The three things that clinched my utter hatred of the film were 1.) the end - the battle between Eragon and Durza - the wounding of Eragon is a must in order to move on to the next book. He suffers with that wound through most of the second book, and it is key for his tranformation later. 2.) the characters of Arya and Angela - um, they were just a tad bit far from my perception of them in the books. Arya is too mushy eyed at Eragon, and in the book, she makes it quite clear how strong, mysterious, independent and mature she is, not some doe-eyed damsel in distress. Angela was nothing more than a dressed up Psychic you could pay $25 for your fortune downtown next to the used car lot and Chinese take out. Her humor and oddness was missing, not to mention the werecat. 3.) The dwarves were shown for about 10 minutes, and they were so richly described and so much a part of the battle and the book itself. The only thing I will give credit for is how the animators interpreted Saphira. She was pretty close to how I saw her based on Paolini's descriptions. Just not enough of her and Eragon's growing relationship. Sigh. And by the way, to everyone who is mad because Paolini used Star Wars themes for his characters: Some archetypes go beyond the movies. Study mythology. Lucas borrowed some of his characters from classical mythology. The hero journey. The quest. The transformation. The downfall of evil is often pride. The mystic, guide or teacher. The oracle or prophetess. So, before we all start hating on certain writers, keep in mind most fantasy, even sci-fi, has elements of classical mythology in it. The fantasy genre did not start with 'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..'
Agreed, Genevieve. Though the problem writers, especially fantasy writers have is that they must say something new while borrowing from older (well-known or unknown) pieces of literate. I think Paolini fails to do this and therefore his books lack an intellectal persona which is greatly needed in todays fantasy writing.
whoever made the comment with the subject 'very very annoyed' is [are] RETARDED!!!!!! IF U R TRYING TO BE FUNNY, U DID NOT SUCCEED!!! butt i du agree with ur opinios. 'bout the movie
Hi im just going to go ahead and state all that was wrong bout the movie
1.it must be illegal to be as hot as Eragon!
2.Arya was neva uncon.! wuts up^ wit dat?
3.brom neva burned the house like a total maniac!
4.Murtagh neva acted DRUNK in the book!!!!!
5.Saphira is not a bird, thus, she's not suposed 2 have feathers!!!!!!
6.SHES A DRAGON YO!
7.NOT A BIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8.Saphira not suposed 2 grow up in two maybe three seconds!!!!
9.brom wasn't killed by Durza!
10.Murtagh had a masive scar on his back, not a puny 1 on his arm!!!
11.Where did the desert go?!?!?!?!?!?!
12.im not dun
13.i guess the dwarves got obliterated!!!!!
14. poor dwarves ):
there was a lot more than that..... but im tired BYE BYE
Just a note to all the people that read abbys comment above. This is what happens when you are drunk after seeing a horible showing of Eragon and you try to write a post. It just like Eragon when he gets buzzed, it aint good. And as for me, i just hate the movie, love the book.
Well, these books were never exactly the most origional of fantasy books,or most well written, and mostly go on the fact that 'oh boy, he started writing it at age fifteen!', so they never had the potentia to match par with LOTR, or Starwars, but still htey are a fun light read, and I'm looking forward to the thid, and there was no excuse for this abombination of movie. It's lack of faithfulness to the book has lready been covered, but even without the book it was bad. It was drab and short, with for the most part terrible acting. The action scenes were close-up, rushed and blury, and the battle of Farthen Dur was maybe two minutes worth of clanging and hard-to-see din before Eragon and Durza hae their weird little aerial battle.
After the amazing Lord of the Rings, Narnia and even Harry Potter movies this was a disgrace. The book will never make its way to stand among the remembered greats of fantasy literature, but the movie could have been infinitely better.
Here goes my comment. I have read the book, and like it. It is the work of a teenager whose talent is still developing, not is masterpiece yet i believe.
For the people who have read the book, the flaws in the story line are more than obvious. Key characters, and key events where completely erased, certain actions that never took place where introduced. These are the ones that upset me most:
- Katrina, Jeod, Solembum, Orik. Key characters that didn´t appeared.
- The attempt to kill Eragon, when he was wanted alive. Essencial in the plot.
- Roran under developed character. In the 2ş book he is very important
- The final battle. The giant beast shouldn´t exist and Eragon should have been slashed by Durza, HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
There are much more mistakes, i just mentioned these.
Afar from the errors with the story line. The movie it self was poorly directed.
- The main character, is a 'pretty boy in leather pants' not a farmer. Not the best choice for Eragon.
- In the entire movie not even a single solid building appeared, there were supposed to be cities, the cenarios are poor. Everything was build in wood, or graphically placed.
- Brom was supposed to be a teacher, not someone who drags the hero around.
- The movie is too trampled. Egg hatches, uncle dies, runaway with brom.... There doesn´t seems to be a calm moment to actually create a story. As the action goes so does the story.
- The final battle is supposed to be the meeting between 2 army´s, and their leaders. Instead you have on one side a bunch of ugly people, and on the other, ten guys on a wooden platform with bows.
Resume: Bad adaptation of the book to the movie, Bad main actor, Very Bad directing.
What is wrong with the people how mad this move. Did you read the book. If any one tries to make a sequel to this book I hope you die a gruesome death. to the rest of you people
do not whatch this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am simply amazed at how badly they butchered this 'could-have-been-better-than-LOTR-movie'... I agree with all comments before this and have another thing to add:
Eragon was supposed to get the shit kicked out of him by Durza and have his back laid open, and have mad spasms when he overexerted himself. Galbatorixs' army wasn't even supposed to BE at the battle of Farthen Dur! It was straight Urgals and the dwarves / humans were getting hammered! When Durza died the Urgals all killed each other! I was waiting a long time for a great movie and got this B.S...
Only one thing to say:
START OVER AND GET PETER JACSKON TO DIRECT WOOOOH!!!
1) Im sorry i though arya was an elf!
2) Hrothgar was the only dwarf and he was taller than most men!
3) Durza's smile (?) when he has an ARROW sticking out of his FORHEAD!
4) Saphira nearly dies from a wound given by durza's dragon?
Overall, Paolini should sue because they put the name and (some of) the characters of his book on thier shoddy film!
I didn't really have many problems with the movie, besides the fact it was rushed, and just sort of all over the place. Bam! Some little messed up scene with Roran (Roran? that was Roran?) leaving, with something about the military. Bam! Saphira grows up in 10 seconds. Bam! Some weird little fight thing with blue fire, and people wearing capes. Bam! Murtagh in a cage. Bam! Some weird little love scene with Eragon and Arya, and then the move ends.
Two things I had problems with is that I'm fairly sure Sloan wasn't fat in the books, and Arya had black hair, not red hair. Stuff along the lines of 'In the Wizard of Oz, those are supposed to be silver shoes, not ruby shoes.'
The only thing that really seriously SERIOUSLY bothered me was Angela. I literally couldn't look at the screen or listen to what was said during that entire scene with her. It was just horrifying to see that character butchered so badly. Just...Horrible. That 'actress' needs to die.
The only thing that really made this movie worth watching for me was Durza. Not even the actor who played him could ruin the character of Durza for me.
I am so disappointed in his movie, it had the potential to be amazing and it was completely ruined. I feel bad for christopher paolini, he must feel as if he sold his soul to the devil. To see someone's life's work (an amazing series) depicted as a children's movie and an abomination of the story is just sad. I went with my boyfriend who hasn't read the books and he left the theater without even knowing that Arya is an elf!!! And how hard would it have been to dye her hair black?? Not only did they pay no attention to small details, they completely changed the story and to be perfectly honest, I feel that I deserve my money back, it was a complete waste of time.
That movie...I don't know what to say. I had so much hopes for it, that it'll be like harry potter , even better , and my harry potter fan friends would start reading Inheritance. The book is no doubt a masterpiece. But the movie !First of all , its too short. It should've been 2 and half hours or more to bring in every detail of the book. Thats ok time, isn't it? But they cut the big details lik no solembum and Angela(Joss stone) wasted. I guess no one will read Inheritance if the see this movie. I feel so disapointed. Although Saphira was the only saving grace...alhough she looked quite different...
I have read Eragon and Eldest several times and have enjoyed both of them imensley and I was looking forward to this film for so long. When it came out i got tickets to see it straight away... and i was utterly disapointed. Yes it's ok but hardly anything like the book. It misses LOADS of really important things out and to be honest isn't nearly violent enough as Eragon and Eldest are very violent, full of chopping and slashing and burning and getting eaten by Dragons. It should have been a 15. I am impressed though with the work done on Saphira as i(and always will) love dragons and love to see a brilliant dragon on the big screen. So not all bad but i would like to see improvement in Eldest and (this may be asking a little too much) but a remake including more and a bit more gore would be fantastic :)
So not all bad but not all good i give it an unfortunate 2 stars
And to add on to my previous comment (cant edit post -_-) i wasd being a bit over fair there, i could have said so really nasty stuff there and am keeping my comments to myself
oh my god what movie was there huh? I've read the book and can honestly say that the movie bears little resemblance to the book. What was fox playing at anyway, making a movie like that without Peter Jackson? My dog could have made better movies. This is for fox: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT MAKING ELDEST A MOVIE!!! Not that you could even if you wanted to.
Juuust to add on to my other comment, even the Harry Potter movies were better.
Hey yo, i have read the book Eragon like a four maybe five times, and it really makes the time fly. And i was all excited when the movie Eragon came out. But here's the thing, when i saw the movie, it was nothing like the book. I actually think that if they made the movie just like the book, page for page, then maybe it would have made more money and would have been a better movie period.
Yep, I agree. Movie all well and good for people, such as my sister, who haven't read the book but a HUGE dissapointment to those of us that have. The only good things were Jeremy Irons and Robert Carlisles performances.
1: Where were King Galbatorix's soldiers?!?!?!
2: Angela? I'm sorry, did she just die or something?!?!?!?
3: Did twins just become illegal or something?
4: Nasuada? How r u meant to take over the Varden if we've hardly seen u?
5: Wot was with rushing the film? Where was Teirm? Where was Jeod? That
movie could have been made by a four year old during their lunchtime.
I haven't got time to write any more (Luckily for u 20th century fox)
so goodbye.
Yours dissapointedly:
Dissapointment in human (or dragon) form
P.S. I rate it 3/10 and I'm being nice.
they missed the most important part of the movie... Eragon gets PARALIZED after he kills the shade... nuf said
Wow. I don't think you can do much worse at turning a book into a movie than the creators of Eragon. As said before, one wonders if the screenwriters read the book. I wonder if they even opened it. I don't think i need to list again all the things wrong with this movie, but these are four that i hated the most.
1. Saphira. Her wings were too far back, and the basic anatomy of the dragon was way off. It was good special effects, but lacked real thought about her anatomy.
2. The Razac. What were they thinking? The Razac are not just a bunch of bugs put together. That was totally wrong, and really, once again, did they open the book.
3. When Brom died. No more needs saying. He didn't jump in front of a spear for Eragon like that. They weren't in Durza's lair, rescuing Arya from him. No. Enough said.
4. The final battle. I won't even start ranting on that topic, because i believe that is enough said and I fear i won't be able to stop once I start.
That is where i will stop. I won't even mention the rest of the things wrong with this movie. I will stop by saying that they cannot now make Eldest right because they have messed this movie up so badly.
K first i want to say that yea Eragon the movie was a little disappointing, um ok alot. But on the other hand it was still good. IT's one of my favorites. Sad thing is they only showed like ten minutes of Murtagh, not enough battle scene, and they kinda of didn't show the Ra'zac and they barely even showed Angela. Still it was good but they will have a hard time making the second movie if they do make one bz they left out some pretty important stuff. But all in all i hope they make another one. =D MURTAGH ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
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