Why eragon is a terrible movie

The movie didn't have any details and all the characters wre wrong! It gave Eragon a completely different motivation, for one thing - in the book he left Carvahall to seek out the ra'zac to take his revenge for them killing Garrow. That completely changed the whole feel of the character and the story for me.

And that was just the first gripe in a long list of complaints. I tried to watch the film a second time to give it another chance, and I got so annoyed I ended up turning it off half way through! The movie really sucks. The movie was a sad interpretation. Sep 18, AM. The movie was just The book isn't that great either. It's written poorly. I still enjoyed it though. The movie was so bad that I couldn't finish watching it. Everyone in the world thinks that. Veggy wrote: "Everyone in the world thinks that.

Sep 21, AM. Book all the way!! The movie left out too many details. I guess Eragon's not really a book for you if you don't have the patience to sit and read through all of Paolini's extremely detailed descriptions. But I guess that is both a good and bad point. Impatient people get turned off, but then again, it gives an extremely clear picture of what Alagaesia was like. Sep 24, AM. I remember being very disappointed with the movie adaptation.

Samantha wrote: "Honestly, I preferred the movie. I found the book to be kind of boring and poorly written, and the story wasn't anything special.

The movie wasn't exactly great, especially since they made Eragon o I screamed sooo much watching them get all the characters and story wrong. The book was great and the movie was total trash. The book was definately much better I myself wouldn't mind if they made eldest into a movie also, but I would hope that they would put much more effort and thought into it. A movie is never as good as the book itself and it really only entertained my twin 10 year olds.

Sep 24, PM. How it was as far as a movie is concerned? Did it hold up to what the previews seemed to promise? As far as this one went I thought it held up pretty well. It was a little to fast going, but I have remind myself, in this step I'm not thinking about the book I'm thinking of the movie. Step 2. In this aspect most movies fail miserably and I'm sad to say this one is no exception.

It missed many specific details I though painted a huge picture for the whole thing. Not only did the movie have terrible acting, but it ripped all the plot points to shreds, and turned it into some cheap action flick while losing every important detail in the book. Books are better. Breaks my heart with the bloody butcher job they did to one my fav book series. There was so much that was cut out of the movie that brings the books to life.

Sep 25, AM. Joni wrote: "The book was definately much better I myself wouldn't mind if they made eldest into a movie also, but I would hope tha Samantha wrote: "Joni wrote: "The book was definately much better I myself wouldn't mind if they made eldest into a movie also, but I w Seems unfair to say that, there are already so many inequalities when it comes to judging books versus movies but to start penalizing books that do not feature actors and actresses that we like?

Where does it end? I'm kidding of course, and I have not read the Alien book. I think there are some cases where a movie keeps up with a book or turns the story into something a little different which is perfect in movie form - a movie will never cover all the aspects of a novel and we should all stop expecting it to.

Anyway I'm with the rest anyway, the clunky directing, bad dialogue and poor acting even by Jeremy Irons killed it for me. Rachel Weisz was alright voicing and Garret Hedlund was good enough to stand out thoroughly and begin my love affair with him in that movie. I watched the movie with commentary and most of the time the director would say his reasoning for choosing something was "it looked cool" so it's nice to know we all didn't miss the deeper meaning. Anyway the book was longwinded and a little bad but I have a soft spot for the book series, don't know why.

OP you really should have asked if anyone actually liked the movie since this topic turns up on every Eragon board every couple weeks or so and it's always the same response.

The other Samantha is the first person I've ever seen defending it. Samantha wrote: " The movie is better than the book because it had sigourney weaver? Not sure if she was in it I would have like the movie any more than I did. What should be a rip roaring adventure never really flies with a story predictable as Jeremy Irons character who is their for purely plot exposition.

The special effects are good and you will find the dragon endearing. The Kingdom of Alagaesia is ruled by the evil King Galbatorix John Malkovich , a former dragon rider that betrayed his mates and his people in his quest for power. When the orphan farm boy Eragon Ed Speleers finds a blue stone sent by Princess Arya Sienna Guillory , he sooner realizes that it is a dragon egg. When the dragon Saphira is born, Eragon meets his mentor Brom Jeremy Irons , and becomes the dragon rider foreseen in an ancient prophecy that would set his people free from the tyrant Galbatorix.

Eragon meets the rebels Varden and together they fight against the evil sorcerer Durza Robert Carlyle and the army of Galbatorix in a journey for freedom. I have never read the book, but adaptations of novels to the cinema are not easy, since the languages and the dynamics are different.

Further and the most important, when we read a book we use our imagination to create the scenes and the landscapes, while in a movie we see what the director is able to show. I do not agree with the unfair and underrated IMDb User Rating since this movie is excellent: the cinematography, landscapes and special effects are awesome, disclosed in a perfect pace; there are magnificent lines; the cast is amazing, with names like Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Robert Carlyle acting with the unknown Ed Speelers and the gorgeous Sienna Guillory.

My vote is nine. Title Brazil : "Eragon". When I saw the trailer for this film at the cinema, I thought it looked like a rubbish rip-off of The Lord of the Rings, and while the analogy wasn't true, the quality of the film was. Basically Alagaesia is the kingdom ruled by the villain and former dragon rider who betrayed those close to him in his quest for power, King Galbatorix A very underused John Malkovich. She grows into a high flying friend that feels what Eragon feels, which comes in handy for directions and stuff, and soon Eragon meets another former dragon rider and mentor in Brom Jeremy Irons.

They realise that Alagaesia is in trouble, so he joins forces with the good guys in their gang, the race of warriors known as the Varden. They all go into the battle against Galbatorix, evil sorcerer Durza Robert Carlyle and the army of weird looking men in the quest for freedom. The special effects don't add anything, the performances apart from maybe Irons are all lame and ineffective, that includes the dragon too, and the action is not interesting enough viewing, an easily forgettable fantasy adventure.

Pretty poor! The movie talks about a young peasant named Eragon Edward Speleers living at homeland called Alagaesia , he's an orphan fostered by his uncle Alun Armstrong and he finds a mysterious stone like an egg , when suddenly awakening a baby dragon and is named Saphira voiced by Rachel Weistz. They communicate themselves by telepathic language. An older wanderer named Brom Jeremy Irons is the mentor of the farm boy , he suddenly encounters himself the only person can save the kingdom , battling against a horrible sorcerer named Durza Robert Carlyle , a nasty, evil-hearted magician.

Eragon becomes the new Dragon rider fighting across the fantastic lands. He and the Dragon make for an entertaining pairing running , flying with the adventure. Eragon is helped by an archer young warrior Garrett Hedlund and a king of a remote tribe named Ajihad Dijimon Honsou. They team up and band together and free themselves to the beautiful princess Sienna Gullory confronting weird monsters and taking on king's tyranny John Malkovich.

Film blends witchcraft and wizardry , adventures , battles and is extremely fun and amusing. Stimulating action set pieces illuminate the full-blown adventures of Eragon and his Dragon.

Casting is frankly well , giving enjoyable performances. Convincing special effects by Industrial Light Magic George Lucas's owner bring dragon to life with spectacular images. Work on Dragon took more a year and does seem authentic. Patrick Doyle's soaring musical score is wonderful and colorful cinematography by Hugh Johnson. Picture is beautifully made with phenomenal production values and rousing production design in charge of Wolf Kroeger. The motion picture was marvellously directed by Stephen Fangmeier.

As of , this remains the first and only film directed by Stefen , who's mostly known for doing visual effects work on Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park , and as the second unit director on Galaxy Quest It's a unqualified success accounting for one of the greatest dragons in picture story.

Exciting adventure Gordon 14 December This is a fantasy film about a teenager in a farming village being destined to become a dragon rider to fight against an evil king. The plot is easy to understand, and the characters' names and roles are prominently featured often enough to be remembered. The plot is an obvious fantasy but is not bizarre. The landscape of the rural countryside is breathtaking, especially the scene where Eragon and his companion ride on a horse on a spine of a mountain range.

The special effects involving the dragon are excellent. The dragon moves seamlessly. The dragon's details down to the feathers and the shadows due to the direction of light are shown vividly. The ending sequences are intense, impressive and gripping, as if I really was in a battlefield!

This is also helped by the fact that the soundtrack adequately complements the action in the film, without being too loud and noisy. To sum it up, the film is exciting and breathtaking! The only complaint I have is that most of the characters' voices, in particular Edward Speleers' and Rachel Weisz's are too over-the-top British, and too monotonous.

If they could speak more naturally, it would be a big plus. The makers try to copy just about everything, from the vast shots of the character's travelling across the landscape on horseback to the way the monsters look to the lighting to the costumes to the language to the epic battle at the end where the heroes are hopelessly outnumbered.

The CGI computer effects are alright if not amazing, the makers have given the Dragon a very human face with very human like feature which i thought looked daft. While I am sure the makers thought a human face would be more expressive I want my Dragon's to look like Dragon's you know?

To be fair the effects here are no better than those seen in Dragonheart which was made some ten years earlier.

Mainly filmed in Hungary. The acting is poor, Ed Speleers in particular makes for a very bland hero while Jeremy Irons has the good sense not to stick around until the end. CinemaSerf 9 January I quite enjoyed this fantasy adventure. Ed Speleers puts in a decent performance as the pretty-boy hero chosen by a dragon Rachel Weisz to be her rider in a battle against the evil shade rather hammily played by Robert Carlyle. Jeremy Irons is a bit of a fish out of water, but helps keep this moving along well enough.

The battle scenes at the end are well staged and the SFX are stylish and colourful. The writing is not good - really quite stilted but taken on face value, it's just a bit of boys-own stuff, and quite watchable. I am not ashamed to say that this movie is way too silly to be believed. What were they thinking? Twenty minutes in Jeremy Irons ends a scene by saying "Mark my word the age of Dragons will return". This is followed by the infamous growing scene where Eragon says "Maybe the age of Dragons has returned" which is instantly echoed by the dragon saying "Yes Eragon the age of Dragons has returned".

At that point I gave up on Eragon never to return. What ever made the book a runaway bestseller seems to have been stripped away and replaced with scenes and shots lifted from other better and worse movies. Yes, the film steals mercilessly from Star Wars, with shots lifted almost exactly from that film and scenes that seem to be paraphrases as well.

Its clear director Stefen Fangmeier has an ability to make a film look good but he has no ability to tell a story in a unique way.

Its embarrassing, but its not surprising when the director who never directed anything before made his name as a effects supervisor, clearly he lifted from the things he knew best- big effects films from the past. I can't entirely blame him since I'm sure that the film was wounded in the script stage with the story being refashioned into a Star Wars clone.

This film is best summed up as a warning of the danger of uncreative but workman like types getting their hands on a creative property and sucking the life out of it. Wait for cable. However, the young actor, Edward Speleers, didn't bring much to the table. He just didn't seem to have the magic I was expecting. Irons gave a great performance, and the others in their small roles did as well, so it wan't a total loss.

Have to look for her more. Home schooled as a youth, Montana native Christopher Paolini began writing his page epic at age His parents and he privately published it when he turned 19 to retain all creative and financial power over it.

In a Teenreads. Com interview, Paolini deflates his literary success, "I never intended to become an author; writing "Eragon" was just a wild challenge for myself, an attempt to produce a book-length work, without any intention of publishing it. Of course, since it worked out so well, I've continued to pursue it. This one incident has completely changed my life. Later, in , Knopf acquired Paolini's second installment in the trilogy, a vast page tome, entitled "Eldest," and published it.

Tolkien, Ann McCaffrey, E. In a Powells. Com interview, Paolini defended fantasy as his choice of the subject matter: "Life is a give and take between pain and pleasure, suffering and joy. Finding a way to live with dignity is one of the eternal themes of human existence, and. To try and share with the readers the solutions that you or I have happened to think of to some of those quandaries.

It makes reading worthwhile, too. Paolini should have credited George Lucas as another source of inspiration, too. The fifteen-year old hero, Eragon Edward Speleers , lives on his uncle's farm in the mythical realm of Alagaesia, a kingdom once governed by the gallant Dragon Riders. Like Paolini's novel, Peter Buckman's screenplay constitutes an anthology of plot points and character archetypes from millennia of standard-issue mythology. For example, the prologue conjures up Tolkien parallels in its story about a larger-than-life struggle between good and evil and a dubious champion who will deliver all from the tyrannical despotism of its supernatural antagonist.

John Malkovich of "Dangerous Liaisons" fame plays the insane King Galbatorix with ranting, scenery-chewing exuberance. Sadly, Malkovich's over-the-top villainy is confined to only a few scenes on a single throne set as he barks orders to his dastardly second-in-command, a shade called Durza. Once a noble dragon rider himself, Galbatorix rode the blue skies astride a fire-breathing flying lizard and maintained harmony throughout the empire.

However, Galbatorix betrayed his brethren and slaughtered them. He serves as an Obi-Wan Kenobi type mentor for the unskilled teenage protagonist. Poor as he is, Eragon tries to exchange it for meat, but the village butcher refuses Eragon's offer.

Later, to his surprise, Eragon discovers that the stone is really an egg. Before his eyes, he watches as an adorable baby blue dragon hatches from it.

No ordinary young dragon itself, the playful lizard manages to communicate with Eragon through telepathy. Eragon comes to the attention of Brom, and they join forces to dethrone Galbatorix. Meanwhile, Galbatorix's murderous minions are scouring the countryside to find the egg before it hatches. Saphira, as the hatched dragon comes to be called, grows to adulthood in record time, towering 15 feet tall with a wingspan of approximately 30 feet.

London-born actress Rachel Weisz of "Constantine" provides the Saphira's voice and brings some warmth to the beastie. Comparatively, "Eragon" recalls the fantasy film "Dragonheart" about the last dragon voiced by Sean Connery and a disheartened dragon-slaying knight Dennis Quaid that team up to topple an wicked monarch.

Lawrence Konner , Jesse Wigutow. Dec 15, wide. Mar 20, Ed Speleers Eragon. Jeremy Irons Brom. Sienna Guillory Arya. Robert Carlyle Durza. Djimon Hounsou Ajihad. Garrett Hedlund Murtagh. Rachel Weisz Saphira Voice. Joss Stone Angela. John Malkovich King Galbatorix. Gary Lewis King Hrothgar. Alun Armstrong Uncle Garrow. Nils Allen Stewart Lord Urgal. Steve Speirs Sloan. Christopher Egan Roran. Caroline Chikezie Nasuada. Jaymes Butler Warrior. Stefen Fangmeier Director.

Lawrence Konner Writer. Jesse Wigutow Writer. John Davis Producer. Wyck Godfrey Producer. Adam Goodman Producer. Patrick Doyle Original Music. Hugh Johnson Cinematographer. Roger Barton Film Editor. Masahiro Hirakubo Film Editor. Priscilla John Casting. Mindy Marin Casting.

Wolf Kroeger Production Design. View All Critic Reviews Jan 24, I didn't hate this as much as everyone else. There's nothing new in the story or the filming, but it's all done well. I personally found "Eragon" entertaining.

Christian C Super Reviewer. Dec 02, What the hell was this crap. Bradley W Super Reviewer. Oct 18, What a mess of a bad movie! No one should subject themselves to this unorganized mess of writing and terrible effects.

Willis T Super Reviewer. Aug 08, I enjoy a good fantastical story but I had avoided this one due to the bad things I'd heard of it. However, I eventually thought I should still give it go and see for myself. Seriously though, I wish I'd listened to the naysayers now. Bad dialogue, bad acting, bad movie.