Title: Eragon
Genre: Fantasy,
Rating: PG
Length: 1.5 hours
Starring:
Edward Speleers,
Jeremy Irons
Rachel Weisz
I give this movie 4 stars out of 10.
Genre: Fantasy,
Rating: PG
Length: 1.5 hours
Starring:
Edward Speleers,
Jeremy Irons
Rachel Weisz
I give this movie 4 stars out of 10.
I've heard a lot of bad things about this movie but I was willing to give it a chance.
I seem to be good at watching movies and not being anal about how well they followed the plot. I've learned the hard way that movie directors can only do so much.
So I watched this movie like I would watch any other movie. Or tried to.
If you haven't read the book you would not know what was going on half the time. Everything just happened so fast and and skipping around, and lots of things were very vague. At first I gave them some slack because I realize you only have so much time for a movie. but this movie was very short and they didn't even focus on some main plot points.
The cheesy dialog didn't help either. And if Eragon and Arya had kissed I was going to throw something at the tv.
Saphira was my favorite character. The animators did a wonderful job (except for the feathers. Dragons don't have feathers.... o_O) and I really loved the affects they used for her. The voice they got for her, Rachel Weisz, was perfect as well.
Edward Speleers is 20 years old, and this was his first movie. I don't know if it was the script or if it was him but I didn't like Eragon the boy in the movie as much as I liked Eragon the boy in the book.
I know that at least Jeremy Irons and Garret Hedlund had more talent but I had never heard of the other actors so I couldn't say. I think they all did the best they could with the script they were given.
Some of the main important characters were left out though, not to mention a LOT of important scenes and information.
I don't think this movie is worth seeing. If you want to see it, don't waste three dollars renting it, borrow it from somebody.
I seem to be good at watching movies and not being anal about how well they followed the plot. I've learned the hard way that movie directors can only do so much.
So I watched this movie like I would watch any other movie. Or tried to.
If you haven't read the book you would not know what was going on half the time. Everything just happened so fast and and skipping around, and lots of things were very vague. At first I gave them some slack because I realize you only have so much time for a movie. but this movie was very short and they didn't even focus on some main plot points.
The cheesy dialog didn't help either. And if Eragon and Arya had kissed I was going to throw something at the tv.
Saphira was my favorite character. The animators did a wonderful job (except for the feathers. Dragons don't have feathers.... o_O) and I really loved the affects they used for her. The voice they got for her, Rachel Weisz, was perfect as well.
Edward Speleers is 20 years old, and this was his first movie. I don't know if it was the script or if it was him but I didn't like Eragon the boy in the movie as much as I liked Eragon the boy in the book.
I know that at least Jeremy Irons and Garret Hedlund had more talent but I had never heard of the other actors so I couldn't say. I think they all did the best they could with the script they were given.
Some of the main important characters were left out though, not to mention a LOT of important scenes and information.
I don't think this movie is worth seeing. If you want to see it, don't waste three dollars renting it, borrow it from somebody.
1 comment:
Not having read the book (yet), it hit me as a decent action flick. I'm sure I have no idea what most of the plot of the book is, but I don't need to. I think the movie, on its own, was a decent story. The effects were good, the acting was par for an action flick.
This is why I rarely read the book before seeing a movie, assuming its not a based on a book I've long-since read.
The movie format rarely does a decent book justice.
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