Eragon.

[Injury]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Injury
It's a juvenile LotR.

The mistake is comparing the two. It's like comparing box wine to $50/bottle wine. One is cheap and aimed at young people but gets the job done, and one deserves a degree of respect because of the quality and time put in to making it worth the cost.

Better yet, it's a direct comparison of the writers of both books... Tolkien, who wrote LotR around the age of 60 vs. a guy who wrote Eragon as a teenager. Eragon was the first of only two novels he's written thus far.

I wouldn't call it "awful", but I'm not surprised it did horribly, considering the piss poor marketing and factoring in that it was a little-known early reader's book to start with. I enjoyed the movie, but at the same time I got to see it for free. Bottom line, it's not a movie geared towards adults.

It's not geared toward kids either. My son got bored with it even before I did.

I was not aware that your son was on the script-writing and marketing team for the movie.

Maybe it was the Amazon product description about the book or the "PG" rating it worked for that led me to believe that. Could have also been the fact that 4 of my middle-school cousins begged me to take them to see it after reading the book and the idea that they thought it was okay that made me think that.


Or MAYBE your son getting bored by it has NOTHING to do with the INTENDED audience.

 

[HammerCurl]

Originally posted by: Compton
I thought it was the worst movie I've ever seen.

You didn't watch "The Seeker" then.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Injury
It's a juvenile LotR.

The mistake is comparing the two. It's like comparing box wine to $50/bottle wine. One is cheap and aimed at young people but gets the job done, and one deserves a degree of respect because of the quality and time put in to making it worth the cost.

Better yet, it's a direct comparison of the writers of both books... Tolkien, who wrote LotR around the age of 60 vs. a guy who wrote Eragon as a teenager. Eragon was the first of only two novels he's written thus far.

I wouldn't call it "awful", but I'm not surprised it did horribly, considering the piss poor marketing and factoring in that it was a little-known early reader's book to start with. I enjoyed the movie, but at the same time I got to see it for free. Bottom line, it's not a movie geared towards adults.

It's not geared toward kids either. My son got bored with it even before I did.

I was not aware that your son was on the script-writing and marketing team for the movie.

Maybe it was the Amazon product description about the book or the "PG" rating it worked for that led me to believe that. Could have also been the fact that 4 of my middle-school cousins begged me to take them to see it after reading the book and the idea that they thought it was okay that made me think that.


Or MAYBE your son getting bored by it has NOTHING to do with the INTENDED audience.

Or maybe you put waaaay too much thought into that reply?

Too close to call really.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

That movie gets a big k.

 

[novasatori]

Man, this movie had potential to be pretty good, and I think that the boy and his mentor weren't that bad in it, but damn the dragon voice was so shitty, when they'd be mind talking it was like she was just reading off a sheet of paper.

That basically ruined the whole movie for me.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
So how does it compare to the books? Eragon has been on HBO a lot lately. I read the 2 books and enjoyed them.

Badly. If you have read the books it just makes the movie so much worse. They butchered the book.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Injury
It's a juvenile LotR.

The mistake is comparing the two. It's like comparing box wine to $50/bottle wine. One is cheap and aimed at young people but gets the job done, and one deserves a degree of respect because of the quality and time put in to making it worth the cost.

Better yet, it's a direct comparison of the writers of both books... Tolkien, who wrote LotR around the age of 60 vs. a guy who wrote Eragon as a teenager. Eragon was the first of only two novels he's written thus far.

I wouldn't call it "awful", but I'm not surprised it did horribly, considering the piss poor marketing and factoring in that it was a little-known early reader's book to start with. I enjoyed the movie, but at the same time I got to see it for free. Bottom line, it's not a movie geared towards adults.

It's not geared toward kids either. My son got bored with it even before I did.

I was not aware that your son was on the script-writing and marketing team for the movie.

Maybe it was the Amazon product description about the book or the "PG" rating it worked for that led me to believe that. Could have also been the fact that 4 of my middle-school cousins begged me to take them to see it after reading the book and the idea that they thought it was okay that made me think that.


Or MAYBE your son getting bored by it has NOTHING to do with the INTENDED audience.

Or maybe you put waaaay too much thought into that reply?

Too close to call really.

I was on the clock and had noting else to do.

 

[soydios]

Movie sucked.

Read the books. Those are far better than the movie makes them out to be.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: HammerCurl

Originally posted by: Compton
I thought it was the worst movie I've ever seen.

You didn't watch "The Seeker" then.

Or "Snakes on a Plane."

 

[PingSpike]

I really didn't like this movie. Its special effects were good were good, but I didn't really enjoy any other part of it.

My wife likes the books, mainly because she loves anything about a dragon. And thats fine, I mean, dragons are to my wife what robots and zombies are to me so I'm obligated to endure her stuff if she endures my crap. Its not like I hate dragons.

But the whole movie was just fairly annoying and all the characters were unlikeable. And his powers were obtained to easily. I hate the message that powers are obtained with dumb luck, not hard work. And thats the same reason that Batman owns and superman is dog shit.