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I have mixed thoughts about this film, which I will outline here, so, lets begin.
Story
Eragon is a farmboy, who while hunting in The Spine, finds a mysterious rock, transported to him by the elf, Arya. He brings it home, and soon, it hatches into a dragon, named Saphira. Dragons are extremely scarce in his land, Alagaesia, and so the evil king Galbatorix doesn't want a new Dragon rider, because it may rebel against him with a rebel group, "The Varden". The King's assasin's, Ra'zac, come to find Eragon, and in doing so kills Eragon's uncle Garrow. Eragon wants revenge, so he goes with the village storyteller, Brom, to try and reach the Varden.
Review
This is a good movie, but if you have read the book (which rocks), you will se that many good parts are lacking. Basically, if you haven't read the book, you will think this is a brilliant movie, but if you have read the book, you will see that alot of good storylines within are lacking. More or less they have actually cut out the middle of this book, where they go to a city and meet Brom's old friend, who helps them find the Ra'zac. And, a very important and cool character, Angela, gets 5 seconds and is seen as a strange old gypsy who just felt like scaring Eragon.
Last point, if you compare Eragon from the book with Eragon in the movie, you get to almost completely different people.
I give it 4/5 if you haven't read the book, but 3/5 if you have.
Story
Eragon is a farmboy, who while hunting in The Spine, finds a mysterious rock, transported to him by the elf, Arya. He brings it home, and soon, it hatches into a dragon, named Saphira. Dragons are extremely scarce in his land, Alagaesia, and so the evil king Galbatorix doesn't want a new Dragon rider, because it may rebel against him with a rebel group, "The Varden". The King's assasin's, Ra'zac, come to find Eragon, and in doing so kills Eragon's uncle Garrow. Eragon wants revenge, so he goes with the village storyteller, Brom, to try and reach the Varden.
Review
This is a good movie, but if you have read the book (which rocks), you will se that many good parts are lacking. Basically, if you haven't read the book, you will think this is a brilliant movie, but if you have read the book, you will see that alot of good storylines within are lacking. More or less they have actually cut out the middle of this book, where they go to a city and meet Brom's old friend, who helps them find the Ra'zac. And, a very important and cool character, Angela, gets 5 seconds and is seen as a strange old gypsy who just felt like scaring Eragon.
Last point, if you compare Eragon from the book with Eragon in the movie, you get to almost completely different people.
I give it 4/5 if you haven't read the book, but 3/5 if you have.
I have mixed thoughts about this film, which I will outline here, so, lets begin.
Story
Eragon is a farmboy, who while hunting in The Spine, finds a mysterious rock, transported to him by the elf, Arya. He brings it home, and soon, it hatches into a dragon, named Saphira. Dragons are extremely scarce in his land, Alagaesia, and so the evil king Galbatorix doesn't want a new Dragon rider, because it may rebel against him with a rebel group, "The Varden". The King's assasin's, Ra'zac, come to find Eragon, and in doing so kills Eragon's uncle Garrow. Eragon wants revenge, so he goes with the village storyteller, Brom, to try and reach the Varden.
Review
This is a good movie, but if you have read the book (which rocks), you will se that many good parts are lacking. Basically, if you haven't read the book, you will think this is a brilliant movie, but if you have read the book, you will see that alot of good storylines within are lacking. More or less they have actually cut out the middle of this book, where they go to a city and meet Brom's old friend, who helps them find the Ra'zac. And, a very important and cool character, Angela, gets 5 seconds and is seen as a strange old gypsy who just felt like scaring Eragon.
Last point, if you compare Eragon from the book with Eragon in the movie, you get to almost completely different people.
I give it 4/5 if you haven't read the book, but 3/5 if you have.
Story
Eragon is a farmboy, who while hunting in The Spine, finds a mysterious rock, transported to him by the elf, Arya. He brings it home, and soon, it hatches into a dragon, named Saphira. Dragons are extremely scarce in his land, Alagaesia, and so the evil king Galbatorix doesn't want a new Dragon rider, because it may rebel against him with a rebel group, "The Varden". The King's assasin's, Ra'zac, come to find Eragon, and in doing so kills Eragon's uncle Garrow. Eragon wants revenge, so he goes with the village storyteller, Brom, to try and reach the Varden.
Review
This is a good movie, but if you have read the book (which rocks), you will se that many good parts are lacking. Basically, if you haven't read the book, you will think this is a brilliant movie, but if you have read the book, you will see that alot of good storylines within are lacking. More or less they have actually cut out the middle of this book, where they go to a city and meet Brom's old friend, who helps them find the Ra'zac. And, a very important and cool character, Angela, gets 5 seconds and is seen as a strange old gypsy who just felt like scaring Eragon.
Last point, if you compare Eragon from the book with Eragon in the movie, you get to almost completely different people.
I give it 4/5 if you haven't read the book, but 3/5 if you have.
No one is being liking my review? Me is sad now.....
Good review, but I thought the film was pretty poor. 6/10 at a stretch. Unoriginal, cookie-cutter, and John Malkovich was underused criminally.
Reefer wrote:
>John Malkovich was
>underused criminally.
You mean Galbatorix, right? Well, they shouldn't actually have bothered to put him in the first movie. In the book he doesn't do anything, not until the 2 book. And they had someone cast for a main character, Katrina, but she wasn't in it. The movie has to get it's priorities (I'm pretty sure thats wrong) straight.
>John Malkovich was
>underused criminally.
You mean Galbatorix, right? Well, they shouldn't actually have bothered to put him in the first movie. In the book he doesn't do anything, not until the 2 book. And they had someone cast for a main character, Katrina, but she wasn't in it. The movie has to get it's priorities (I'm pretty sure thats wrong) straight.
the eragon movie sucks i could come up with 50 things wrong with the movie . the books ARE AWESOME!