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Eragon Movie SUCKS!

Posted in Movies by The Gossip Monger on December 16th, 2006.

5.7 on IMDB and a mere 16% on Rotton Tomatoes means that Eragon is not a tale of brilliant cinematography.

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Still, if you want a Christmas movie to take the kids under age 6 to, it’s not so bad. They’ll get to see “sorcery” and “dragons” and won’t notice the massive lack of plot, continuous discontinuity, terrible acting, and bad special effects.

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    MY NAME IS TANZIA RAHAM, I GO TO PRINCESS MARGARET SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SURREY, B.C, I AM A FUCKIN WHORE, THAT NO ONE LIKES :)
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    im gonna state all the problem with the movie and compare it with the book:(maybe sad but i feel this should be done)

    Problem: 1.there arent ment to be guards in carvahall and the time which the guard scenes took up should be used in bits that they missed out.
    2.Roran (Eragons cousin) leaves for the wrong reasons he is ment to leave because he wants to get married to his girlfriend katrina in the film he leaves because hes afraid he will get recruited.
    3.Saphira grows way...too quickly she doesnt just transform into a big dragon while shes flying she grows over a few days.
    4.Eragon is too old in the book hes ment to be 15 going on 16 but in the film hes 17.
    5.Eragons uncle doesn't die like that hes ment to burn in a fire were hes rescued and taken to i think its Horsts house were he dies of a fever.
    6.Angela the fortune teller person is in the wrong city as thats were all the villagers were killed and she ment to be were Jeod lives which is another city oh and jeod isnt in the film.
    7.Urgals look wrong they are ment to have horns.
    8.Eragon is ment to be captured were he finds Arya but instead in the film he goes and rescues her also murtag came in at the wrong time and was ment to shoot durza in the end but instead Eragon does.
    9.Arya is ment to be unconscious through the whole journey to the varden.
    10.giant urgals called the kull are ment to be foloing them not just normal urgals.
    11.when they reach the waterfall eragon is ment to say some special words to open the stone wall to the varden.
    12.3 characters arew missing the twins and orik who is a dwarf.
    13.there is not one dwarf i see in the film and there arel ike hundreds in the book.
    14.some random character the one with blondish grey hair and has a staff i thought maybe he was one of the twins but im not rly sure.
    15.urgals in the battle were not all ment to die so quickly they were ment to fight each other when durza was killed.
    16.durza is riding..well i dont know wtf that thing is and well its not in the book.
    17.i shouldve put this problem further back but just remembered.they didnt even go through the Hadarac desert.
    18.murtag is ment to be freed were he fights in the battle.
    19.galbatorix armies are not even ment to be in the battle only the urgals.
    20.eragon is ment to get his armour and dragon armour from the dwarves.
    21.saphira was not close to death in the book only eragon was.
    22. i missed 3 other problems out which i just remebered now brom is ment to die by the razac and the razac dont die in the first or even the second book but im not sure if they were killed cause well they sorta dissapeared.and eragon should be chasing the razac but in the film the razac are chasing them.

    There is probably other problems but well cant think of them anyway i just wnated to point out how many problems there were cause i rly liked the book and the director or whoever made the film ruined it oh and galbatorix shouldnt be in the film at this point and were the hellis solembum the werecat he was cool in the book.
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    Okay, the movie sucked ass. I thoroughly enjoyed the books Eragon and Eldest (even though I am more of a fan of Raymond E. Feist's books) and I thought that they *were* original (contrary to popular belief). The movie was a cotastrophe. It sucked in terms of watching it as a book fan as well as from the point of anybody who has ever seen a half decent movie. I would reccomend this kind of movie only to a person who has never read the book and has a mental condition that prevents them from noticing the lack of plot as well as the fact that there was only one *actor* in the entire film (Jeremy Irons).
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    totally agree with jimbo, some things ya missed out
    1. Saphira is mean't to break that big dwarven flower
    2.why didn't eragon bless/ curse that girl?
    3. the werecat and angela teliing eragon about his mother having her future told.
    also for xmas i asked for the game before i saw the movie (wish i hadn't, you can only be saphira, no sword fighting only get to be a person while you on on the dragon) but in the game Murtagh does shoot durza but only because you can't as you have mounted saphira.
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    funny enough, my mate liked it, i asked him about it and he left abit out, thought he was just forgetful when i saw it he was right (a very rare moment in time)
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    This was the worst thing that could have possibly happend to me i was swearing at everything it completely ruined my next week. Im sure im not the only one who waited almost 2 years for this peice of crap to come out. I think the director should be whipped, just a suggestion. The only actors i liked were brom and arya, how could they possibly ruin such an amazing book. Paulini ( forgive me if thats spelled wrong) this was the worst thing that could happen. Ok guys come on what the hell, the Razac died in the first 30 min. THATS THE WHOLE PLOT. Eragon goes off because he wants revenge without them theres no katrina theres no jeod theres no MURTAGH HE JOINS ERAGON BECAUSE HES TRACKING THE RAZAC. I think that its fair to say that this was a huge screw up and any evidence of this movie should be burned. Give this movie to a talented director like Peter Jackson. I have so much more to say but ill hold my tongue im hungry.
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    I so freaking agree with you guys.

    With the money they made with this, they should completely cancel to make eldest, and take that money to redo eragon, with the right plot.

    If they do come out with eldest, they will most likely loose money because no one will want to see it.

    Everyone that saw this movie and call the producer than tell him to get another top notch producer and make that guy do the movie properly. And also the movie should be long, not like average americain movie of 90 mins, a good freaking 2 1\2 hours for a book like this!

    Everyone make threads websites, ect ect to try and make these bast&^$ do this movie properly, then it ll make more than 100$ M, more like 200$ M.

    I know I am gonna start some forums and push on this.

    Send me some emails and lets try to work something out, because this is like way worse than a really bad april fools joke.

    leblanc_alex1 AT hotmail.com
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    Heya guys,

    Just to let you know i feel ur pain. Eldest and eragon are fukin sick as books i love them , i cant even explain how much i love them. This producer whomade this fuked up film should b shot. Did they even read the book. SOOOO many mistakes.
    Arya didnt even lwk like an elf FFS. Just simple looks ect, Even the silver hand was wrong Wtf sooo basic, i work at the movies, the more i saw of this movie the more i felt like i was gona be sick, i nearly cried. No dwarfs, no kik ass elves. No twins Completly ruins the story line etc i cant b bothered to list the probs lets sen letters or sumit something has to b done

    lemi know at my email masonryan102@hotmail.com
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    i loved that book more than anything and the stupid hollywood b!$#*% f*$#!@ RUINED it!!!!!!!!! how could ANYTHING EVERRRR suck soooo bad!!! man... it felt good to FINALLY get that out!
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    well guys and girls i think that the movie did suck but u have to think if they put evry thing in the movie how long of a movie would it be?? it would be so long they would have to have breaks in the middle. i have read eragon+eldest so many times and it is the best book ever so yea.... also book are almost always better than the movie for the simple fact that books have u put the way people look and the way u want to see the parts in the book. and to the people that say the twins were not in it....... they were when durza and the army were invadeing the vardon the twins were right on both sides of durza so yea the movie should have had more times spent on it and wat not so yea thnx for you time


    will
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    A film maker sound not be afraid of time. Look at lord of the rings.... each movie was like over 3 hours long..... but they were fkn sick as AIDS.

    Another movie that has length that is crazy good is the god father.

    You cant blame length for the shittyness of this movie that may or may not be loosly based on the book eragon.
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    I was sorely dissapointed when I went to the theaters to watch this movie. After reading both the books I was very eager to see this story put into a movie. If they do make a movie for Eldest, and it turns out like Eragon did, I am probably going to cry. There's just no way you can put everything important from the books into an hour and a half movie. It's just not possible. There's too many characters, too much plot. For the Eldest movie, I think they need to get a few new actors. The kid that plays Eragon is really not a good actor. For me, he wrecked the movie more than the lack of plot. Also, they need to find a new producer, one that's willing to put a decent amount of money into this film. MAKE IT A 3 HOUR MOVIE, THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE!!!!
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    wtf is up with this. I read the book and the movie realy ruined it for everyone. The director took the cheap way out and cut the most important parts. He made all the characters look completely different from the book.
    1. Arya has black not blonde hair
    2. Eragon has black not blonde hair
    3. Brom is supposed to have a long beard
    4. Urgals have horns
    Alson the plot was missing so many key parts.
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    Eragon has brown hair.... not black. but word, the movie sucks.
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    Why would you expect the movie to be good when the book was horrible. If the author of this book wasn't a spoiled little rich kid this book would've (shoulda) never been published. I could spit out crap (blatant start wars / lotr rip off) and have it published if my parents were publishers. What was the main characters name again, was it Luke Skywalker ? Bah bad book, bad movie, bad video game.
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    ur a f(_)|{!/\/ retard this book was friken amazing i dont know how u thought it wasnt, and the movie di compleyylt ruin it dso u cant blame the book. btw star wars sucks ass
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    Eragons a bestseller. I'm pretty sure it doesn't suck
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    lol... @ jon

    ive not read the books but, during the whole movie i was thinking its a cross between star wars and lotr... me and my dad watched it and were joking about that the whole time.

    funniest part... when the dragon is going like freakin MACH3... and braun (or w/e his name is) is like riding alone side them talking to eragon... lmao
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    i DONT KNOW WHY U GUYS THOUGHT THE MOVIE SUCKED! I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT...SOMETHING MUST WITH GUY PEOPLE ....
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    that movie was horrible. I read the books they were great. The movie skipped alot of cool, key events that should have made the cut, like tierm, dras leona, etc. And the ra'zac looked like zombies. And not scary. I had always pictured them like cloaked hunchbacks with beaks hidden be hoods, just like the book described them. That movie left alot to be desired. what a waste of time and $10.
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    I loved the movie, but I will admit that I hadn't read the books and because I would also be able to watch it with my daughter.

    Though, since the movie I got my hands on the books and I really hope that if they ever do the sequel, that they would make it a bit more true to the books. As in Hollywood won't make it so childish and stick to the plot or the main plot points.
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    I thought the Eragon movie left out bits, but it was still a great film. In harry potter movies they leave out bits, its not like u can fit the hole book into the bloody movie is it. i think anyone who thought it was bad is childish.
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    The book was AMAZING and yet the movie SUCKED. I was expecting it to be much better. I disliked Brom, in the movie, because i imagined him older looking sort of like Dumbledoor (in harry potter). And the Ra'zac, turned out to be dark bug things? instead of "Bird-like " creaturs with wings. That was a disapointment for me. Also they skipped the part with Angela and Solembum! ARGH, welll i know that maybe they couldnt fit EVERYTHING into the movie, but it seems like they just read the first chapter of Eldest, and turned it into The MOVIE Eragon. Durza didnt even look scary, and i guess he lost his pointed teeth. And the scene with dead Garrow, there werent any burns from