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I just bought the movie ... haven't read the book yet but heard the movie strayed quite a ways from the book.
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I'd like to get a good scan of that Bat thing Saphira and Eragon were fighting. I haven't found one yet.
>> Anonymous
the books are pretty good. 2nd better then the first.
>> Anonymous
this movie sucked beyond reason. biggest piece of shit ever put to film. the fuckin book sucked too. the kid who wrote it should be brought up on copyright infringement charges for ripping off the Lord of the Rings.
>> Anonymous
Strayed far from the book? No, I've heard they both suck equally.
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he didn't just rip off lord of the rings...there was elements in the book from every fantasy story from the dragon lance chronicles to star wars
>> Anonymous
ripped off as they may be, I actually enjoyed the books...
>> Anonymous
Spoiler: All fantasy is horrifically derivative. Everything rips off everything else.
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>>128383
Protip: Not all fantasy is horrifically derivative. You have just read the shitty ones.
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>>128202
The only reason they were published was because od his daddy.
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>> Anonymous
Ok, the books aren't actually that bad, especially the 2nd. And i'm still excited to read the 3rd. But the movie strayed so far from the book its just terrible. For one, quite a few characters were completely scrapped in the movie, even main characters (where's Katrina!?). Second, the main characters cousin, Roran, say's in the movie that he's leaving to go join the army! BULLSHIT! He fuckin leaves to start a job as a blacksmith or some shit, and comes back to find his father dead, his cousin missing, and his village being attacked by the very same army he says he "JOINS" in the movie!. Third, the end of the movie was just... (ZOMG Hero Eragon saves the day and comes out without a scratch on him! He's AMAZING!) Fuck That. He does kill the shade, but it involves a gigantic chandelier shattering above him as well as his back being sliced open by the shade, rendering him practically crippled after an elven rider uses magic to save his life.

Seriously, even if you say the book sucks, Eragon Book > Eragon Movie
>> Anonymous
Now I HAVE to read the book to see what the fuss is about.
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>>128468
You've probably already read the books, or atleast parts of them, if you've ever read any popular fantasy novels.

Honestly this kid flagrantly stole, and worst yet the plotline is the worst kind of one dimensional fantasy trash novels. But hey he's a teenager so WOW look how talented he is, the fred savage of the y generation.
>> Anonymous
Did anyone say star wars plot theft? Because I think someone said star wars plot theft. STAR WARS PLOT THEFT
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STAR WARS PLOT THEFT
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces
>> CastleRock
You are a major idiot. Someone once said "All the stories have been told. All there is now is variation on themes or combination of." Your opinion is like a wreaking ball through ideas. You trash everything even when you profess you like something. Loser.
>> Anonymous
>>128487
Yup, Star Wars invented Dragons, which were ripped off by this book.
Bastards.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, movie sucks. Read the books instead.
>> CastleRock
Dolt.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>128655

Yes, they are the archetypal stories... though the Inheritance trilogy feels alot like Star Wars with dragons to me... :)
>> Anonymous
>>128439
Wait, what? In the movie his cousin runs away to live god knows where before the army forces him to join.

The movie sucked up until the final fight which looked pretty cool.
>> Anonymous
Name some good non generic fantasy books for me.

I've read very few but one I really enjoyed was John Marco's The Eyes of God/The Devil's Armor, still need to read the third one.
>> Anonymous
George Martin. A Song of Ice and Fire. Get it.
>> Anonymous
>>128810
Yes. Simply Yes.

My top ten books include all 4 in the series thus far. There are so many moments that will make you cream your pants. Oh and it is horribly depressing, don't get attached to any character.

"When she woke up she couldn't see."
DAMN YOU GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, write faster!
>> Anonymous
george rr martin, thread over, etc
>> Anonymous
George R. R. Martin has absolutely nothing on Steven Erikson. He's good, but Erikson is better. The Malazan Book of the Fallen is the finest ongoing fantasy epic of our days.
>> Anonymous
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman

The first book, The Golden Compass is being made into a movie right now and will be released in December.
>> Anonymous
>>128949

Holy fuckin' YES. Among the best fantasy I have read in almost 30 years of reading SF/fantasy. Absolute must-get. I just fear that the movie will mangle the book, considering the main statement of the books...
>> Anonymous
Eragon is SUCH a Mary-Sue.
>> Anonymous
Directing and Script for this movie was shitty... end of story.

The acting was decent, but the way it was directed left me wondering what the fuck was wrong with the guy. It kept jumping around, there was no smooth passage of time. All in all it was a half assed movie, with bad directing, and a shitty script based on a book with a pretty obvious storyline, with lots of cg and a pretty setting to make it look nicer.
>> Anonymous
I haven't watched the movie yet, but it feels like an early harry potter movie...
>> Anonymous
I read both book recently and i have to say i was disappointed..yeah it's the stereotypical "epic" type book...but..there wasn't enough i dunno descriptions..I already knew what was going to happen in the second book without even reading it..*cough* Murtagh*cough*

I think i would have liked the book better if i were 12 and never read any fantasy before that. =(
>> Anonymous
>>128856>>There are so many moments that will make you cream your pants.

QFT. Earth-shattering, plot-twisting revelations occur in every chapter. If you're sick of 100000000 page long Fantasy epics in which characters just walk around a lot and attend councils, you will LOVE this book. Also, no character is safe. Not even children, not even righteous kings are sure to survive each day, let alone each battle.
>> Push destructive device and obliterate this film please! Dana
I hated the movie to a point of madness. they put freaking feathers on a dragon!?!? That is the lamest. and the dragon armor at the end? the first set looked cool but they had to change to a goofy ass helmet to fit the ugly beasts head. only the kings dragon looked remotely cool. the evil bat was cooler then Saphira! the Ra'zak we're cooler then Saphira! The whole flippin thing strayed from the book, which regardless if it resembles any other series, if you liked the "ripped off" series then you should at least somewhat like it's generic version. but this moive was nearly as far of book as Queen of the Damned. who ever decided not to let the director of the lord of the rings trilogy have this series needs to be shot. only the Ra'zak looked good. I mean the director had to have said at one point, "Colored contacts and face paint for the rest of you non computer animated people we're using the rest of the money on this film to go buy a yacht." So lame.