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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archetype" data-source="post: 3236298" data-attributes="member: 40688">NOT a "Dragonrider" movie at all...What I hated the most about Eragon (at the top of a long list, much of which has been mentioned above) is the BAD TASTE it will instill in the general populace against any future "dragonrider" movies... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />I have been eagerly awaiting the day that cinema technology could convincingly and breathtakingly recreate the thrilling union of man and dragon in flight.  I was hoping that someone would get Anne McCaffrey's The Dragonriders of Pern onto screen first, to set the standard for this, but unfortunately this pile of drek got rushed into production first. Bleh.How can you call someone who spends more time falling *off* his dragon than actually riding it a "dragonrider" anyway?  And what ultimate cheesewiz was the scene where the hatchling dragon just goes *poof* in the air to instantly grow up into a convieniently-sized mount to finish the required battlescene with?  (No I don't know if this happened in the book as well.)  At least give us a "dragon growing up" montage!  I guess this panders to the whole instant-gratification Pokemon-generation needs ("Safira, I choose YOU!"), but it dumbed down the concept of dragons as a long-lived, majestic species that occasionally interacts with lesser beings during their many centuries of  life...Passable CGI can *not* cover over the stink of the rotting, poorly assembled carcass of bad writing, acting and directing underneath.  So sad.Oh, well.  Hopefully this will be forgotten by the time that Pern's true Dragonriders make it to the screen...</blockquote>

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