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<blockquote data-quote="IcedEarth81" data-source="post: 3236896" data-attributes="member: 47224">Excellent points. I don't get to go see many movies in the theater, so when I do it has to be a for-sure great movie. I might watch Eragon when it comes out on video, but I'm not paying $7.50 to see it. I don't care how good the visual effects are, if the story is bad, the acting is bad, and cliches abound I'm just not that interested. I also like Rotten Tomatoes. It's normal for a critic or two to not like a movie. When very nearly all of them dislike a movie that is usually a huge red flag. Lord of the Rings raised the standard for fantasy movies. You can make a great fantasy movie without it being completely cheesy and cliched, and you can make one with good character interaction and development. LOTR wasn't all about the action, it was about the characters. You cared about them. You wanted them to succeed. That was because of the story, the dialogue, the character introductions and development. Jackson had great material to work with thanks to Tolkien, but he and his team still did a good job of not letting the effects and action be the entire story. Those things supported the story. I simply will not forgive a movie using the effects in place of the story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IcedEarth81, post: 3236896, member: 47224"] Excellent points. I don't get to go see many movies in the theater, so when I do it has to be a for-sure great movie. I might watch Eragon when it comes out on video, but I'm not paying $7.50 to see it. I don't care how good the visual effects are, if the story is bad, the acting is bad, and cliches abound I'm just not that interested. I also like Rotten Tomatoes. It's normal for a critic or two to not like a movie. When very nearly all of them dislike a movie that is usually a huge red flag. Lord of the Rings raised the standard for fantasy movies. You can make a great fantasy movie without it being completely cheesy and cliched, and you can make one with good character interaction and development. LOTR wasn't all about the action, it was about the characters. You cared about them. You wanted them to succeed. That was because of the story, the dialogue, the character introductions and development. Jackson had great material to work with thanks to Tolkien, but he and his team still did a good job of not letting the effects and action be the entire story. Those things supported the story. I simply will not forgive a movie using the effects in place of the story. [/QUOTE]

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