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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3238944" data-attributes="member: 9037">Like I said earlier the people I went to see it with liked it. My son he is in his 20s and his gaming group went to see it and they enjoyed it.Most of my gaming group went to see it and they have all enjoyed it. Sure most of us agree that it could have been longer and was badly edited. I agree with a lot of what some of the people here are saying and that is that people have become jaded and unable to just sit and let the story wash over them without engaging the crticial part of their brain. Its like a lot of people have become crtitics and look for what is done wrong in a movie and what is done right in a movie as they sit and watch it. I would hate to be a paid critic of the movies because I think it takes a lot of enjoyment out of the simple pleasure of sitting in a dark theatre and getting caught up in the story.Being critical as you watch the movie is not the same as what Hitchcock called the fridge critic which is what I am. Its when after you see the movie and are making a sandwich and thinking aboutt he movie you realize that there are things wrong with it. That is usually diffrence between a okay movie and a great movie.I also add something to this. To me a bad movie is one where I sit there wishing I was someplace else. Where my mind wanders and I am bored. When its over I am left feeling well that two hours of my life I aint ever getting back.So I considered Eragron a okay movie. I was not bored and the movie held my attention. Though it had a lot of fridge moments, But I am still glad I saw it.I also think the judgement that a film is bad is a personal one. Aside form the critical point of view. For example Big Trouble in Little China from the critical point of view is a bad film, but a personal favorite. A movie like the English Patient is a great film from a critical point of view but to me it is a bad film, boring and several hours of my life wasted. Maybe its true that LOTR rings raised the bar on fantasy films and now we expect that level out of every fantasy film we see. I just don't see that happening. Hollywood puts out very few great films.  Those stand out and are remembered. LOTR is up there with films like Casablanca. Do you know the name of many films that came out the year Casablanca did? Its like fiction every so often a book will be writtten that blows you away and becomes a great literary classic, but not every book written has this happen some are just entertaining they are pieces of fluff meant to give you a few enjoyable hours of reading. I think a lot of movies are like that to. I am glad that I am able to turn of my crtical part of the brain and just enjoy so many movies that a lot of critics have said are bad movies.</blockquote>

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