ERAGON [movie review]

Plus a book review (well a little).

Yes - this was made in 2006... I just saw this. Here are my rants.... that's right - my RANTS. Plus RAVES of the book.... along with a lot of explitives & spoilers. So yeah.

Thanks for listening, :pant pant: cuz I just... don't really... I dunno. Love the book! Detest the movie - WHY? Well you watched the vid right!? So I don't wanna hear how you don't understand where I'm comin' from. LOL

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[Serasia]

I think some movies are pretty faithful to the book; I'm not sure how some movies can be allowed to have accurate details from the book down to the least important piece of dialogue, and others have changed the characters and dialogue so much. The movie can't be exactly like the book, but look at Lord of the Rings--maybe an often-used example but still, they were really faithful to the book, I thought. Wish some of the movies of books I read were that accurate, but that's life, I guess.

[MorbidKittyProd]

@Serasia depends on the producer & what their vision is, as well as the director. I tend to think that if the writer isn't there (alive), someone else has to be there to represent them to then fight to get the book represented accurately/fairly - what have you.... hate to say it, but look at TWILIGHT --- Stephanie was involved with the first one, and though she stood by it, thought it was straying a bit from the original & had the producer fire the director & get a new 1 for the next film...

[MorbidKittyProd]

@Serasia depends on the producer & what their vision is, as well as the director. I tend to think that if the writer isn't there (alive), someone else has to be there to represent them to then fight to get the book represented accurately/fairly - what have you.... hate to say it, but look at TWILIGHT --- Stephanie was involved with the first one, and though she stood by it, thought it was straying a bit from the original & had the producer fire the director & get a new 1 for the next film...

[20Pumpkins2LoVe]

Sorry, but you said that they kept the farm boy feel. Not really, what poor farm boy that can't afford meat, manage to own a perfectly tailored jacket... But ya other than that I agree with you 100%. And just as a side note, if someone were to tell you (maybe 3 years down the road) that they were redoing the movie, and they planned on doing them all, would you be excited or disappointed?

[MorbidKittyProd]

@20Pumpkins2LoVe I'll have to rewatch my own vid to know what you're talking about to be perfectly honest LOL (wow, bad huh? lol amnesia.... or early onset Alzheimer's at 28? lol)

Remake - anxious in that I'd wanna know if they were honestly looking at the fans and going "This is for you- it's closest to the book at ANYONE will get. You'll love it." I'll hold 'em to it... watch it.. and we'll see.

Dunno.

[CptJack131]

haha omg your soooooo right!! this movie was soooooooo bad

[hslover00]

oh man, you are hilarious (in a good way)!!! couldn't agree more, in fact, you dont even have to pay attention to realise its impossible to make a second movie ( murtagh wasn't taken away, ajihad didn't die)! this is just.... just a waste. Can't believe i spent 103 minutes of my life on this (as you say) hollywood piece of shit.

[hslover00]

oh man, you are hilarious (in a good way)!!! couldn't agree more, in fact, you dont even have to pay attention to realise its impossible to make a second movie ( murtagh wasn't taken away, ajihad didn't die)! this is just.... just a waste. Can't believe i spent 103 minutes of my life on this (as you say) hollywood piece of shit.

[1994PandaBeth]

Now you know how I felt like when I watched Dragonball Evolution and Avatar the Last Airbender at the cinema.

[SleekYellow]

I think we all know that Peter Jackson would be the best director for a propper Eragon film. Look at LotR (he turned a great book into a possibly slightly better film in my opinion). The film was nothing like the book. I cannot believe that Christopher Paolini would allow them to create that monstrosity. The characters were all wrong (apart from Murtagh or perhaps Brom if he changed his personality). And Eragon was supposed to have dark hair.

[Senkiatzu]

You know, I understand the need to change or adapt the story when making books into movies. I know that sometimes they have to change/remove scenes and characters, merge cities together, and summarize plot points. But my problem with this movie is that it changed so many things that DIDN'T need to be changed. Even some of the core aspects of the story were completely altered unnecessarily, and pretty much every single character was completely different from their original descriptions.

[Alphapkmn]

@raistlinmajere98 I do! I most certainly do! Why not have the guy who directed Harry Potter: Sorcerer's Stone, direct the remake? Since his version followed the book almost to the letter!

Eragon will need to be redone entirely before anyone can even think about doing Eldest!

[Alphapkmn]

I agree with you on...pretty much every single point.

[Alphapkmn]

How true. Yes he has brown hair. The only things the movie got right are: that: Eragon found the egg while hunting, Zarroc is red, and that Saphira is blue. Nothing else. I think that they made the movie script putting the book in a blender.

[SherlockHolmes100]

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