Like I said, take a book and some headphones, that way you won’t be a hostage to fortune.
Well, I survived.
It was a bit boring. IMO, no one in the movie can act-even the voice of Saphira was bad.
I am bad at actor’s names, but the King of Galbatorix? Now there is a guy with issues.
“I miss my stone.” That is his second line or something. He MISSES his stone?
All I can say is that perhaps he should have treated his stone better-liking recognizing and validating its egg-ness. If he doesn’t even know what he’s got, no wonder he had it stolen! Maybe if he had brought the “stone” flowers or chocolate or taken it out once in a while, he wouldn’t be missing it now. Maybe a letter or even an email…these little things mean a lot.
And the Shade? The walking advert for acne medication and tanning beds? He needs a good manicure and some collagen work around the lipline…
Even the token hot babe–the Elf? Can’t act to save her life. And what was with the feathers in her hair–who is she, Pocahantas? Very odd.
This is sure to be a cable classic-like those cheesy movies that feature Warrior Women etc.
I wouldn’t see it again, but I was merely bored, not disgusted. I’ll take it. #2 son loved it, BTW, but since we haven’t finished the book, he was interested in the action. Me, having read the book, had no surprises at all…
Meh.
I suffer without my stone. Do not prolong my suffering. I nearly ran screaming out of the theatre after that line.
Iain M. Banks’s stuff is more like Machines and Man in Union against the Aliens/Bad Men. Great fun.
A series you should check out for your sun is the Edge Chronicles . They are YA, beautifully illustrated, stunningly original and all-round wonderful. A trifle dark , (no more so than Tolkien or Lewis, though) but with happy endings usually.
I swear he says he misses it as well. What a tool.
The oddest thing that it was instantly forgettable. I find that today-I cannot recall the simplest of things about this movie.
And a first has happened to me: I am reading this aloud to my son, and we continued last night, after seeing this movie. The main character for me in the book is NOT the actor in the movie. Usually, once I’ve seen a film, I make that switch, whether I want to or not-not this time. It’s like I didn’t even see the movie…and I count that a good thing.
Eleanorigby - the important question, the one we all really want to know the answer to: did the guy playing Eragon look as hot as in the trailer? Please say it has some boy eye candy as a saving grace even if it has absolutely nothing else.
He was cute. IMO, the other guys, both Brom and Morzag or Mortag or Montag (Dienstag’s son, just kidding) were hotter. But I don’t care for blonde men. I can see some middle school girls going nutty over Eragon, though.
The costuming of the Varden was just weird-take the Arabian nights, add square dance touches, and some disco glitter-and those are the men.
I think my beef with this movie is that it didn’t DO anything-the plot was meh, the acting was bad, the dialogue was blech. It didn’t try to develope the characters or even a love interest of any kind. No one cared about anyone in this movie and it showed. No chemistry, no tongue in cheek, no drama. Meh.
Generally films are watered down versions of books - if the book never developed the character or contained an interesting plot it’s going to be difficult for the film to. I’m definitely giving this one a big miss. My two younger brothers (12 and 13) saw it and hated it, seeing it for the total LOTR rip off that it was.