Note: I'm about to write alot!! They pretty much summarized the book. They actually chose Joss Stone to play Angela and Djimon Honsou's accent was awful and Galbatorix was unnecessary because they never actually had any scenes with him in the book. Plus, Eragon didn't even go with Arya to Ellesmera and he didn't get a vision from The Cripple Who is Whole and the battle of Tronjheim wasn't even that long and they didn't even fight inside the mountain and there weren't even any dwarves and Saphira didn't grow that fast and she didn't learn to speak that quickly either and Durza's eyes weren't even red in the movie and they didn't kill the Ra'zac and Roran didn't run away because he didn't want to fight for Galbatorix. And, Saphira didn't hatch in the barn and Brom and Arya didn't know she had hatched untilthey saw her and they didn't even go to Teirm. I know I must sound like a total geek to mention so many things from the book, but I was really expecting more from it.
2007-10-28 07:17:55 · 10 answers · asked by Roselle 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Horrible and very funny adaptation of the popular children's book that plays like a bad SNL skit that is trying to parody "The Lord of the Rings" than the book that it's based on. The screenplay is a major mess with dialog that even little kids would find stupid and the performances are almost all laughably bad. Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich should be ashamed of themselves for even agreeing to be in this film and Djimon Hounsou should start reading his scripts a little more carefully. The only redeeming thing about this crappy film is the great voice over work of Rachel Weisz, who manages to give the dragon Saphira more talent and range in terms of solid acting than all the human actors working in the film. The C.G.I work done for Saphira was also well done, making her more lifelike than her human co-stars as well.
Outside of Rachel Weisz's great voice acting and the great special effects for the Dragon Saphira, this movie is more and less a bad comedy that did not deserve nether of them.
2007-10-28 07:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by yu3se6 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know it sucked. Brom died by Durza not the ra'zac. They made Eragon look stupid when he got mad at Brom to go to Gilead, not just having arya give him the images in his head. I know they completely skip Teirm and Jeod. Also the urgals look stupid. They are supposed to have horns they are to human-ish. I think the movie completely missed the point. It should be remade by a good director who actually read the book.
This could have been a really good movie if a good director made it.
2007-10-28 07:29:21 · answer #2 · answered by jrjunior42 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't read the book(s) but it's known fact that books are always better because the movie usually takes out a lot of little details from the original story. I saw the movie and yes, I know it was crap. There wasn't enough emotion in it.
2007-10-28 07:22:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many who read the book were sorely disappointed in this film, myself included. They really should've taken more time and effort into making it a better film, because it really could have been......that's why Peter Jackson was so successful with the Lord of the Rings. Personally, I thought they made it so quickly because of LOTR's success, but they failed miserably because it didn't even hold a candle....and I'm not really looking forward to anymore Eragon films, either.
2007-10-28 07:26:07 · answer #4 · answered by squishy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally i agree with u! I was hoping there is more into it. When the movie is coming out, i thought i get to see the room where full of rubies and other stuff in the cave
2007-10-28 12:17:56 · answer #5 · answered by Morgan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a fair film but way off the books so that they have to work if they want to make Eldest as a movie.
2007-11-01 04:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i didn't read the book either, but i could tell that the movie wasn't well made. i didn't know there was a book. the book is always better though, so i'm going to check it out from the library to read it. =]
2007-10-28 07:38:50 · answer #7 · answered by Virginia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gave it all of ten minutes of my time and then I clicked the remote to some other crap.
2007-10-28 07:27:46 · answer #8 · answered by survivansustah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eragon and his cousin were acting gay.
2007-10-28 07:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your right it was disappointing
2007-10-28 07:23:54 · answer #10 · answered by Zombie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋