Eragon

Makadona · Post by **Makadona** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:14 pm

wut2say, great points. When I saw it, I was so furious! My Mom had to shut me up during the film so I wouldn't kill someone, lol. Ya, they also put Angelia in a different town. I realyl hated the part where Sapharia learn't how to fly, and she flew into the sky, bolts sparkeld around her, then she became fully grown. They messed up how Broom dies, and the Razak where made wrong. They have beaks, that are hidden under a hood, not some zombie looking dude that has roches crawling across his face.

NeoN · Post by **NeoN** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:35 pm

I really liked the movie, even if it was a bit rushed. But I haven't read the books and the storyline didn't seem that bad to me, I must admit I nearly cried twice in the movie. I liked the job they did on the dragon, ecspecially when she was young, she was so cute...

Jishdefish · Post by **Jishdefish** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:57 pm

Okay, I think I'll still see it, but it sounds really butchard. Should have expected it from Fox... I mean they never brought back Firefly, and killed off two characters in the movie they made of it, Serenity. (Don't know what I'm talking about? www.browncoats.com ) Yeah, Fox has some bad reputation for ruining what could be a good thing...

NeoN · Post by **NeoN** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:16 pm

Yeah, I know what you mean. I liked 2 parts that made the movie worth it. The first was when Bron was dieing and Saphira took him for one last ride on her back, that was a good moment. The Second was when Saphira had been bitten by that Shadow flying thing near the end and was lying on the ground dieing, Since I haven't read the books I didn't know what was going to happen so that was really sad to me. I hate seeing dragons dieing...

draconic chronicler · Post by **draconic chronicler** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:37 am

As most of the fans have stated, it was way too short, and low budgeted to satisfy the die hard fans of the original book, but for a 104 minute, somewhat on the cheap production which was clearly a "risk" for the company, it was not too bad. The climactic battle was as good or better than any I have seen in a previous "dragon" movie. Contrary to earlier discussion here, the dragon does not fight another dragon, but a very bat-like demon creature. Her battle armor was an interesting touch, I do not recall in any previous dragon movie, was was quite well done.

Saphira is a very unusual dragon quite unlike any I am aware of in any previous film. Though definately reptilian with a scaly body, she has wings like a bird, and a bit of a feathery/furry mane as well. Like all "good" hollywood dragons, she has a relatively short snout, and a bit disturbing, almost human-like face, which coupled with the almost "angelic" wings, hearkens back to some of the most ancient human impressions of dragons from Mesopotamia, which after centuries, ultimately were transformed into the humanoid, winged angels of the Judao-Christian religions.

While she is a definate predator, with the huge, sharp teeth one would expect of a proper dragon, they are depicted in a realistic fashion, for they are not constantly bared, but concealed by reptilian lips, like the long sharp teeth of a Komodo Dragon, or the real appearance of carniviorous dinosaurs, (who we know also had such lips), and would be expected of dragons as well for important physiological reasons.

The baby Saphira was well done, and from a vorish perspective, there is a great scene of her very realistically gulping down a whole rat head first, exactly as one would expect of a carnivorous reptile. In another scene, she appears to be swallowing a bad guy, have him deep in her mouth up to his waist, but the scene stops there, as it is a PG movie.

So far the movie has received low marks from the critics, probably ensuring there will not be a sequel, which is unfortunate, for despite its faults, it was an entertaining little film. And in this shortened version, one does not have as much time to realize the original story is such a blatant rip-off of the Star Wars Storyline. While the original story was quite implausible, and the film adaptation no better, it is still probably the "best" impression of a dragon in a film that is friendly towards humans. Saphira definately made a more realistic dragon than the wholly unbelievable Draco of Dragonheart, who absurdly embraced the hitler-like slaughterer of his mate and all remaining members of his race, as his bossum buddy, practically begging the dragonslayer to slay him too, and for a totally pointless reason, save for the fact this is just another "last dragon" cliche so the dragon must die.

manofthewolf · Post by **manofthewolf** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:51 am

my opinion? I blew through the gme in 2 hours and that was with eating lunch. The screwed everything up in the game. So I did the dumbest thing i could do. I walked down to the theater to watch the movie. When the Ra'zac first came onscreen i got up and left.

Akira · Post by **Akira** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:33 am

i saw it on christmas eve and i really didnt enjoy it. It seemed way to short and with loads cut out . Also most of the movie was them riding around on hoarses. The main actor was very wooden and to be honest terrible and everyuthing seemed like they had to cram it all into a short space of time so they missed out anyhting that would have made the plot better and the movie decent. The only good thing i can think of about seeing that movie is that after it my family had something to talk about and make fun of which was very funny.

NeoN · Post by **NeoN** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 4:06 pm

Yeah, it was a bit of a simalarity to the way the harry potter movies turned out, I don't know what any of you thought of the movies but I saw as hell didn't like them...

Corva · Post by **Corva** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:36 pm

They put in bit's that weren't even in the book! Those took up about 1/2 an hour which could have been used for bit's in the book.

NeoN · Post by **NeoN** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:59 pm

Yeah, I would have prefered if they made it like 3 hours long but put in more detail into the storyline, but no movie is perfect...

Akira · Post by **Akira** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:13 pm

The movie seemed to be more about them riding around on hoarses becuase thats all they seemed to do for quite alot of it.

meretate · Post by **meretate** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:37 am

i saw the movie last weekand enjoyed it! half way through the book and love it! some advice! dont read the book, then see the movie! it will frustrate the crap out of you!!!

meretate · Post by **meretate** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:38 am

i saw the movie last weekand enjoyed it! half way through the book and love it! some advice! dont read the book, then see the movie! it will frustrate the crap out of you!!!

Corva · Post by **Corva** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:21 pm

I've done a review by the way.

Chalgrish · Post by **Chalgrish** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:39 pm

A seriously huge hole in the movie was lack of character development. Also, it looks like they hired someone with no knowledge of directing, only of CGI, to direct the thing.

Huge characters weren't mentioned, like Katrina, Jormundr, Orik, and other main ones in Eldest. All and sundry things that seperated Alagaesia's creature were taken out. Urgals had no horns, elves, no pointy ears, Ra'zac, no beaks.....

Saphira 'aging'.....Lord. In a nutshell: Eragon tries to get Saphira to fly, and she does. She goes into a cloud, lights on fire, and comes back fully grown. Whoop dee doo.

wut2say · Post by **wut2say** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:18 pm

that last thing you mentioned Chal was the thing that threw me the most. It had no basis what so ever in the book, and really didnt make sense in any other way i could think of.

All it did was shorten Saphira's 'childhood' and shorten the movie. Adding some cool effects along the way.

Araki · Post by **Araki** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:10 pm

The movie was probably the worst done movie I have ever seen half the characters where not right they changed too many things ex: the mark on hand, how some characters died, and the last fight. The fight against the shade was spposed to be inside the building not out over everyone else and Saphira wasnt there for most of it in book how ever not only was she there for whole thing in movie it almost kills her.

wut2say · Post by **wut2say** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:51 pm

i think saphira's almost death was what mad me the maddest. there was nothing like that anywhere in the book as far as i'm concerned and if they wanted to dramatize things they should have put in the breaking of the rose and the slowing of time so eragon wasnt killed by the shards...

wut2say · Post by **wut2say** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:53 pm

i think saphira's almost death was what mad me the maddest. there was nothing like that anywhere in the book as far as i'm concerned and if they wanted to dramatize things they should have put in the breaking of the rose and the slowing of time so eragon wasnt killed by the shards...that would have been cool.

they just added the near death to make the ending more dramatic, which in turn, make it lame...

Corva · Post by **Corva** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:11 am

Do you like to make multiple posts with one complete and one not?

Falconer · Post by **Falconer** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:30 pm

I could strangle whoever directed the movie and whoever wrote the script. Like Makadona, I had to restrain myself from yelling at the screen

Blue Tiger · Post by **Blue Tiger** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:46 am

I saw the film too, I hated the fact that they missed out so much stuff from the books. But what I really didnt like was saphira`s wings. They had feathers and they didnt in the 1st book. Also, saphira had a huge growth spurt, flew down and TOLD eragon that her name was saphira, where as in the book, he names her. Ed speelers,who was Eragon, seemed a bit weird, especially when he was trying to learn about the anchient language, he was too enthusiastic.
Oh and one more thing that I didnt get was that strange thing Durza was riding on at the end, who thought of that?

Falconer · Post by **Falconer** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:51 am

Dead thread. Please lock.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:32 pm

Why lock it? other threads are not locked or maybe the person thought he needed to comment on the topic in hand.

+ Silver - Orbs + · Post by **+ Silver - Orbs +** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Ok, here's the low-down

Chalgrish is not here. Only he and Tempest can lock threads- mods can only lock what topics are in their specific area.

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