And don't forget one nasty detail: The hero's name is actually a play with the word "dragon". Makes it sound as if one would spell "d - ragon" inferring some “ancient pronunciation” of the word, as "e - ragon" ... hahaha... that just doesn't hold water, it’s really just a poor trick - one more in a bag full of them, plentiful in the film.I summed courage – “part brave, ¾ very fool” - and went to see how low Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich have fallen in this bomb. The must have asked for a pretty penny, or are in dire need of some.
2007-01-01 09:05:00 · 11 answers · asked by tu_cabron 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I thought it was more of a rip off of star Wars. Why? Let's count the ways..
1. The main hero is a farmer, wants to get away because friends/relatives are also leaving, only family he knows gets killed
2. Local "crazy, old man" rescues hero, explains his destiny
3. Hero attempts to rescue cute heroine
4. The "rebellion"
5. Local "crazy, old man" dies near end doing something heroic
6. Big creature that one person can understand
I had more thought of when I saw the movie, but that's what I remember right now
2007-01-02 13:26:13 · answer #1 · answered by rules27 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently you don't know there are a whole series of Eragon books. It's not a play on the word dragon because there is no "d" in it, and even if it was, so what? The books have been very popular, just like Harry Potter. Are you a film critic? Are you a screen writer? Are you a director, or an actor? Probably not. So don't criticize. I haven't seen this movie yet, but plan to at some point simply because I love dragons.
2007-01-01 17:13:22 · answer #2 · answered by blondee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is very much like Lord of the Rings. Eragon sounds like Aragorn. It has the same basic story line, good VS. evil, too. And the impossible hero. in Eragon, a farm boy becomes the hero in Lord of the Rings, a hobbit is the hero.
2007-01-01 17:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by myshinigami 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked it, and I don't think actors the size of John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons and Robert Carlyle are in need of the money.
2007-01-01 17:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by Gabriela Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dork, read the book and don't disgrace Christopher Paolini's brilliance. i didn't think the move was that great, but the book was amazing.
don't listen to all the silly lines in the move "one part brave, three parts fool' was not in the book.
OH MY GOODNESS SHUT UP AND READ THE BOOK OR YOU HAVE ABSOLOUTLY NO SAY IN THE MATTER!
2007-01-01 19:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by {hippy}[dreamer] 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's based on a book that was written by a 17 Year Old. In my opinion, if it wasn't for the fact that the kid was 17 when he wrote it, it probably would have never gotten as much attention as it did.
2007-01-01 17:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by gnrmskka 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a rip off of the lord of the rings boooooooooooooo to eragon
2007-01-01 17:21:33 · answer #7 · answered by muzit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, not TOTALLY a ripoff from LOTR, it IS a book series.... and from what my son says.. the books are pretty good...but the movie, not so much
2007-01-01 17:13:55 · answer #8 · answered by Kirsten I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked it for all the special effects
2007-01-01 17:13:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought Eragon was NOT good AT ALL!
2007-01-01 17:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by █b█r█e█n█:) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋