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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3230080" data-attributes="member: 14159">My girlfriend loved the book, she even got me a copy of it for my birthday so I'd read it.  So we went out and saw it today at the first showing at a local theater. . .They took a decent fantasy novel and turned it into a run-of-the-mill fantasy movie.  Far better than the really cruddy fantasy movies, but far worse than the novel. The movie feels like a fantasy version of the basic plot of Star Wars, which while a number of parallels to the general "heroic journey" plot are in the novel, is a lot less screamingly obvious.  It's almost like they want the movie to be cliche so it will be like other successful movies, instead of like the book.A lot was cut out of the movie from the original book, including some significant characters and plot developments, and a lot of scenes that set the mood and feel as something other than generic cliche fantasy were cut.  If you disliked the movie as cliche and shallow, but like fantasy in general, try the novel (which is still a little cliche, but far better and more entertaining).Now, in many ways I do see this as Jeremy Irons atoning for being in the Dungeons and Dragons movie, since his acting, dialogue, and general performance as Brom was far, far better than his appearance in the D&D stinker.  Honestly, Jeremy Irons's acting was probably the high point of the movie.  John Malkovich did a good showing too as the evil king.</blockquote>

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