Reaction to the Movie Eragon?

[Sthronds]

I just watched it on DVD and I have to tell you that I thought it was really disturbing. I'm just wondering if anyone else felt that way or if it was just me being too sensitive. I thought that the evil sorcerer was one of the most frightening characters I've ever seen in a movie and I'm kind of shocked that this was marketed to kids. I'd love to know some of your thoughts.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

Maybe I better watch it. My DS, who is almost 13, read the book a couple of months ago, and got the DVD as an Easter gift from my mom. He watched it and liked it (although he said the book was better), but I did not watch it with him.

 

[momrek06]

Well I have not seen the movie...but I would just like to say that in January I was riding the EUROSTAR from London to Paris and this gentleman walked on the train and sat down in front of us.

My DS (21) says to us...."He looks very familiar, he is a famous British actor"...well I had NO clue. So it bothered my DS so much he decided to approach him...and they chatted and chatted and his name is Alun Armstrong and was in many movies and Eragon was one as well as Patriot Games and Braveheart (those were the two my DS recognized him from)!!!

Sorry, OT, but it just came to my mind when you posted about Eragon!!

 

[Swimnoid]

I just saw it a couple of weeks ago and liked it. I don't remember it being all that frightening.

Now the wrestling fight scene in Borat???? THAT was frightening!!!!!

 

[Sthronds]

It's possible that I'm just too sensitive then. I just didn't like that character at all.

 

[Straycat]

I read the book, was disappointed in the movie but I didn't find it too disturbing.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I found the movie horrible and boring, grade B at best. So some of the "terror" of the movie is lost due to it being crappy. As far as Galbatorix played by John Malkovich as being the most evil, don't see it.

Book is OK.

The only person I loved in the movie was Brom played by Jeremy Irons.

 

[MichelleVW]

We loved it....my DD said the book was better though, but I haven't had time to sit down and read it...

 

[Fitswimmer]

I was disappointed as well. I had high hopes for it, but it just didn't deliver. Now, I don't have small kids in my life anymore, so my "is this scary" filter is kind of out of practice-but I didn't really see anything really horrifying.

I agree-I was much more horrified by that wrestling scene in BORAT.

 

[TurboKitty]

DS and I got bored with Eragon. We didn't even see the whole thing. Sad really, I could have seen that being a better movie than book, too.

I was really excited that Robert Carlyle was Durza, the shade but he looked so different than what I am used to, I even lost interest in some of my favorite eye candy.

 

[FloraFauna]

My DS15 got this movie in his Easter basket and was very excited because he loved the book. I haven't watched the movie, but I know he was very disappointed in the movie. I guess he was expecting it to get the same film treatment as the Harry Potter books and in his opinion it did not.

 

[ticktock]

I found the movie horrible and boring, grade B at best. So some of the "terror" of the movie is lost due to it being crappy. As far as Galbatorix played by John Malkovich as being the most evil, don't see it.

Book is OK.

The only person I loved in the movie was Brom played by Jeremy Irons.

I think she was talking about the character played by Robert Carlyle. IMHO Carlyle was the only decent part of this movie. But then I love the over the top type of bad guy characters. The characters that frighten ME are the ones that are based on real life types of personalities, like the Godfather movies etc. So I wouldn't say Carlyle's character was the scariest I've seen by a long shot.

Anyway this movie was lame, lame, lame. I expected more from John Malkovich . Though it was nice to see Jeremy Irons play a good guy for a change. I really got the feeling that the actors were all jumping on the I want to be immortalized in the minds of children Harry Potter band wagon, because there was NOTHING in that script that would intrest an experienced actor.

 

[wvrevy]

Being a fan of the books, I also had high hopes for this movie...and I don't think I've been that disappointed in any movie in recent memory. It was criminal what they did to that story. I know it's tough to translate a complex book to the screen, but c'mon...a first year film student could have done a better job than that.

Skip the flik, read the book. Just pathetic. (and no...I didn't think "scary" at all, though I wouldn't watch it with my DD just because it so tremendously sucked).

 

[Jennasis]

I Didn't read the book but I did watch the movie just this past weekend. I didn't get it. It was on par with other sub-par sword and sorcery films like Dragonheart and Dungeons and Dragons, and the plot was heavily borrowed from other similar books (most notably LOTR, and that whole wretchedly written Dragon Riders of Pern series). If the plot of the book was anything like the movie then Paolini isn't the second coming of Stephen King...he's just another nerd who spends to much time playing World of Warcraft and D & D.

I didn't even think Rachel Weisz did a good job voicing the dragon.

You see...THIS is exactly why J.K. Rowling insists on having such tight rein over her books.

 

[Meriweather]

Read the book....loved it.
The movie not so much. Way to much of the story cut out.
I didn't find it disturbing, just disappointing.

 

[Parkhopper]

Being a fan of the books, I also had high hopes for this movie...and I don't think I've been that disappointed in any movie in recent memory. It was criminal what they did to that story. I know it's tough to translate a complex book to the screen, but c'mon...a first year film student could have done a better job than that.

Skip the flik, read the book. Just pathetic. (and no...I didn't think "scary" at all, though I wouldn't watch it with my DD just because it so tremendously sucked).

OMG, I would have said almost the EXACT same thing. We were so incredibly disappointed in this movie and even my DS12 walked out and said, "they should have had a disclaimer that said that the movie was VERY loosely based upon a book by the same name."...and he was right! They skipped so much of the story that it didn't even make any sense anymore and they totally left out vital and important characters in the book (Hrothgar for one)

Suzi

 

[wvrevy]

I Didn't read the book but I did watch the movie just this past weekend. I didn't get it. It was on par with other sub-par sword and sorcery films like Dragonheart and Dungeons and Dragons, and the plot was heavily borrowed from other similar books (most notably LOTR, and that whole wretchedly written Dragon Riders of Pern series). If the plot of the book was anything like the movie then Paolini isn't the second coming of Stephen King...he's just another nerd who spends to much time playing World of Warcraft and D & D.

I didn't even think Rachel Weisz did a good job voicing the dragon.

You see...THIS is exactly why J.K. Rowling insists on having such tight rein over her books.

Trust me, you can't even begin to judge the book based on that crappy excuse for a movie. The plot was vaguely similar in the way that all fantasy is vaguely similar to LotR - but that is about as close as it gets. I mean...let's put it this way: picture the Harry Potter movies, only instead of Ron and Hermione they just included one generic sidekick for Harry...and Harry lived with a nice elderly couple instead of the Dursleys...and Harry didn't have the lightening bolt scar, because he'd never met Voldemort before...and...and...and...

THOSE are the kind of radical changes they made from the book to the Eragon movie. They completely destroyed the story. Personally, I felt kind of sorry for the auther, since he's really not much more than a kid. They took his solid fantasy story and completely ruined it just so they could get a CG dragon on screen.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

Eragon is my son's all time favorite book and he was really looking forward to the movie.

It was terrible. None of us (myself, DH, DS(13) found it scary,suspenseful nor interesting. The book was so much better.

 

[Disneyglobegirl]

I'm another that liked the book but not the movie. Disturbing? Not so much. Disappointing? Definately!!!

 

[Jennasis]

Trust me, you can't even begin to judge the book based on that crappy excuse for a movie. The plot was vaguely similar in the way that all fantasy is vaguely similar to LotR - but that is about as close as it gets. I mean...let's put it this way: picture the Harry Potter movies, only instead of Ron and Hermione they just included one generic sidekick for Harry...and Harry lived with a nice elderly couple instead of the Dursleys...and Harry didn't have the lightening bolt scar, because he'd never met Voldemort before...and...and...and...

THOSE are the kind of radical changes they made from the book to the Eragon movie. They completely destroyed the story. Personally, I felt kind of sorry for the auther, since he's really not much more than a kid. They took his solid fantasy story and completely ruined it just so they could get a CG dragon on screen.

Don't worry. I planned on reading the books DESPITE the lousiness of the movie. I wonder what the author truly DOES think about the film? Surely he can't be pleased with it. The movie just lacked so much. It was so poorly cobbled together and I remember thinking that the filmmakers must have ASSUMED that the viewers had already read the book and were familiar with the plot, since it was apparent that they were leaving stuff out. I felt lost and disconnected to the movie (and I like fantasy films!)