Eragon - The movie

Hmm... you do seem to have strong views about the book. Can you tell me a few things that you felt were missing in movie from the book. Don't go about saying that you have not read the book because I have and I thought the adaptation was a clever one which took out the boring portions of the book. One part which I will agree with you was the climax which could have been done much better. Cheers! Ram

Hmm.. you have some valid points, and I agree with you on Solembum. But, the last point you made gets it absolutely correct, it would have been a too long a movie. I don't agree with your latter part of that line that the movie should not have been made in that case. I feel we should go ahead and make the movie if we can get reasonably close to the book and that has been tried in Eragon. Cheers! Ram

Okay, here we go: The learning of the Ancient Language. There was no way that Eragon was proficient enough in the ancient language to kill those Ra'Zac so easily. Angela: They totally screwed he over! "doo let de Angela tell yeh fohrtoone." Nothing like Angela, and they completely cut out Solembum, one of the best charactersin the book. The story: There was little story, if any. One of my favorite parts about Eragon was how in-depth the conversations with Brom got- the Ancient Language, the history of Alagaesia, dragons, etc. Now it's all gone. But my favorite part of Eragon was the sweeping political story in Farthen Dur, and that's gone too. The acting: The acting was just bad, and pure, 100% Hollywood cheese. The actors seem to have a habit of sticking periods midway through a sentence. "Take care of. Saphira. Because without her. Life is hardly. worth living." Murtagh: They made Murtagh look like an emo punk. They did him all wrong, and made him look like the was a paranoid schizophrenic with a drinking problem. They got his captivity wrong. The story and geography: They cut out 7/8ths of the attention to detail that made Eragon great in the first place. I know that there is a flaw in all my reasoning, and I acknowledge it: If they had made the movie close enough to the book to satisfy me, the movie would be far too long. I say, in that case, better if the movie had never been made. The end.

Yes, I myself felt that the movie was better than the book. Cheers! Ram

You !!, yes, you !!, helldragon. You think the movie was better than the book !!?. I was consider are you reading the whole parts of novel, or you doesn't like reading novel ?. Well, whatever you choose, I just said this to you, you went to the wrong opinion. The movie was a BIG MISTAKE, because the movie almost the whole part about Eragon chapter, didn't you realize it yet ?.

You obviously haven't actually read the book.

Hmm... I agree with your points on the Dwarves and the description of the characters. I think most of the concentration was on Saphira and getting her correct, but even I was disappointed with the back ground voice of Saphira. I just thought it lacked the conviction for the role. But, I just wonder why Christopher Paolini did not make any comments though he was advising the movie directors. Cheers! Ram