Good Fantasy movie
Added 11/6/2009
Entertaining fantasy movie not as well done as Lord of the
rings or dragonheart but it does have outstanding
special effects and excellent acting
by John Malkovich,Jeremy Irons and Ed Speleers..
visually beautiful...great scenes with the dragon.
A Poor young teenage boy finds a beautiful
blue stone that turns out to be a Dragon egg..(Dragons pick
the people they want to be their rider before hatching.)
Eragon curiously listens to a downtrodden man in his village telling
tales about the evil king and unknown to Eragon...
it is Brom who was a exdragon rider(his dragon died)
Brom's inner powers senses that Eragon may be the new rider that
the oppressed people are expecting to release them from
the evil clutches of the king...and is dissapointed that
the dragon picked such a young boy....
Brom follows Eragon home and feels the responsibility to
to teach him the ways of a rider.
Eragon's Uncle is found dead and his home burned.
Revenge is in Eragon's Mind and he and Brom
set out to fight with the varden (a mixture
Of beings elves.etc) to get rid of the King (played by John Malkovich)
an evil dragon rider strayed from being a protector to be
mad from power and dark magic.
The books are extremely well written and some are dissappointed
with the first movie adaption.. the book is just a difficult act to follow...
books that are good in character development just dont translate as
well to a movie...if you are expecting it to be very close to the
book and feel let down if it doesn't... you may not like it....
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Disappointing
Added 10/26/2009
I watched this in the theater with my son. The first 20 minutes of it are pleasant and wonderful.
Then the shift comes in tone, scenes are edited quickly. Episodes from the second book are introduced to fill gaps. The story becomes one great big mess. Whole other episodes go unfilmed, unexplained.
My son who had such glee for the first two reels walked out of the theater fairly angry.
He ticked off several things wrong with the picture's framework, and large gaps in the story line, missing important elements.
PS: he doesn't want to even think about owning a DVD of the feature.
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it was nothing like the book
Added 10/10/2009
You do not get an impression of the book from the movie. The book is way better.
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What Happened?
Added 9/28/2009
Spoilers, ahoy.
Well. This was quite the disaster. I've been reading the books for several years, and purposely didn't see the movie when it was in theaters because I kept hearing bad things about it. Curiosity got the best of me the other day, however, and I rented it.
I'm not exaggerating when I say 90% of the movie was inaccurate. It all began with a butchered pronunciation of "Alagaesia." When there's a pronunciation guide in the back of the book, there's just no excuse for that. One could argue that the writer/director/producer/whatever didn't know how to pronounce it because they didn't read the book, but let's at least give them the benefit of that particular doubt.
For my fellow book fans: Eragon was fine, but everyone else was completely out of character. Roran skips town because he's old enough to be recruited into the Empire's army, and he ain't down with forced military service. Brom wasn't wise or very helpful. Arya flirts with Eragon in every scene they have together AND her ears aren't pointy (which isn't her behavior, but still). And, the icing on the cake, Murtagh shows Eragon how to find the Varden. I know.
What could've been a slower-paced epic like Lord of the Rings ended up being a jumbled mess, zipping through scenes fast enough to give me whiplash. A 500+ page book was squeezed into an hour and 45 minutes. A lot of important plot points were removed, too, making it practically impossible to ever make a sequel without re-doing this one first. Actually, that's an idea I could get behind.
If you're after a GOOD dragon story, stick to the books.
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Good movie, not like the book...
Added 9/25/2009
This is one of those instances where the book is better than the movie (Isn't that how it usually is?) In fact, the movie was a little bit disappointing. It barely followed the book, and the parts that did were almost destroyed. Also, time is a problem in the movie. No not the fact that it only lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, although I didn't like that either. It was how the movie ran. The book takes place over a period of weeks. The movie made it look like Eragon lived right next door to the Varden instead of traveling miles and miles every day. All in all, dissappointed. Only buy this if you are a real, die-hard Inheritance fan. Otherwise, just rent it and save your money.
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Good Fantasy movie
Added 11/6/2009
Entertaining fantasy movie not as well done as Lord of the
rings or dragonheart but it does have outstanding
special effects and excellent acting
by John Malkovich,Jeremy Irons and Ed Speleers..
visually beautiful...great scenes with the dragon.
A Poor young teenage boy finds a beautiful
blue stone that turns out to be a Dragon egg..(Dragons pick
the people they want to be their rider before hatching.)
Eragon curiously listens to a downtrodden man in his village telling
tales about the evil king and unknown to Eragon...
it is Brom who was a exdragon rider(his dragon died)
Brom's inner powers senses that Eragon may be the new rider that
the oppressed people are expecting to release them from
the evil clutches of the king...and is dissapointed that
the dragon picked such a young boy....
Brom follows Eragon home and feels the responsibility to
to teach him the ways of a rider.
Eragon's Uncle is found dead and his home burned.
Revenge is in Eragon's Mind and he and Brom
set out to fight with the varden (a mixture
Of beings elves.etc) to get rid of the King (played by John Malkovich)
an evil dragon rider strayed from being a protector to be
mad from power and dark magic.
The books are extremely well written and some are dissappointed
with the first movie adaption.. the book is just a difficult act to follow...
books that are good in character development just dont translate as
well to a movie...if you are expecting it to be very close to the
book and feel let down if it doesn't... you may not like it....
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Disappointing
Added 10/26/2009
I watched this in the theater with my son. The first 20 minutes of it are pleasant and wonderful.
Then the shift comes in tone, scenes are edited quickly. Episodes from the second book are introduced to fill gaps. The story becomes one great big mess. Whole other episodes go unfilmed, unexplained.
My son who had such glee for the first two reels walked out of the theater fairly angry.
He ticked off several things wrong with the picture's framework, and large gaps in the story line, missing important elements.
PS: he doesn't want to even think about owning a DVD of the feature.
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it was nothing like the book
Added 10/10/2009
You do not get an impression of the book from the movie. The book is way better.
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