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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3231232" data-attributes="member: 5868">We went and saw it today.&nbsp; I had pretty low expectations, having read the books ... and therefore wasn't disappointed.&nbsp; The movie doesn't do anything to salvage the hackneyed cliches of the source material.&nbsp; You can be the best director, with the best actors and writers, but if your source material is crap ... and sadly, the writers made a few decisions that made the movie worse than the source material.The movie suffered from bad pacing.&nbsp; It needed to be 45 minutes longer, to avoid the poor character introductions and complete lack of character development (&quot;Hi, I'm &amp;*(^$*#^&gt;&quot; &quot;Cool, come join us!&quot;).&nbsp; Dialogue was lousy -- poor John Malkovitch: &quot;I suffer without my stone&quot; - WTF?&nbsp; Acting was wooden.On the plus side, the dragon CGI was great, and Jeremy Irons actually does a halfway decent job (at least, far better than the D&amp;D movie).&nbsp; It would be really fun to give it the MST3K treatment (I was whispering appropriate Star Wars quotes to my wife -- &quot;Your father's light saber ...&quot;, until she got annoyed and told me to shut up).&nbsp; If you treat it like a brainless popcorn fantasy, rather than expecting epic fantasy, you'll be entertained.&nbsp; It's far better than the D&amp;D movie, at least.Overall, score of 3 on a scale of 10.Oh, I suspect Eragon came from &quot;Dragon&quot; with an &quot;E&quot;.&nbsp; If you think of Eragon as Luke Skywalker (last of the Jedi), Brom as Obi-Wan, Uncle X as Owen &amp; Aunt Beru, Alya as Princess Leia, Murtaugh as Han Solo, Durza as Darth Vader, Galbatorix as the Emperor, and the Varden as the Rebel Alliance, substitute magic for the Force, steel swords for light sabers, and a dragon for an X-wing fighter, with the basic plot outline of SW:ANH, you'll have Eragon (and it gets worse in the next segment, when Eragon goes to visit Yoda ...).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 3231232, member: 5868"] We went and saw it today. I had pretty low expectations, having read the books ... and therefore wasn't disappointed. The movie doesn't do anything to salvage the hackneyed cliches of the source material. You can be the best director, with the best actors and writers, but if your source material is crap ... and sadly, the writers made a few decisions that made the movie worse than the source material. The movie suffered from bad pacing. It needed to be 45 minutes longer, to avoid the poor character introductions and complete lack of character development ("Hi, I'm &*(^$*#^>" "Cool, come join us!"). Dialogue was lousy -- poor John Malkovitch: "I suffer without my stone" - WTF? Acting was wooden. On the plus side, the dragon CGI was great, and Jeremy Irons actually does a halfway decent job (at least, far better than the D&D movie). It would be really fun to give it the MST3K treatment (I was whispering appropriate Star Wars quotes to my wife -- "Your father's light saber ...", until she got annoyed and told me to shut up). If you treat it like a brainless popcorn fantasy, rather than expecting epic fantasy, you'll be entertained. It's far better than the D&D movie, at least. Overall, score of 3 on a scale of 10. Oh, I suspect Eragon came from "Dragon" with an "E". If you think of Eragon as Luke Skywalker (last of the Jedi), Brom as Obi-Wan, Uncle X as Owen & Aunt Beru, Alya as Princess Leia, Murtaugh as Han Solo, Durza as Darth Vader, Galbatorix as the Emperor, and the Varden as the Rebel Alliance, substitute magic for the Force, steel swords for light sabers, and a dragon for an X-wing fighter, with the basic plot outline of SW:ANH, you'll have Eragon (and it gets worse in the next segment, when Eragon goes to visit Yoda ...). [/QUOTE]

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