The Book Was Better: Eragon Review
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2013
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_And THAT is why the author and director should always cooperate when making a movie._
+Gιαηт Lιzαяd (Anna's Backup) I agree. I certainly wouldn't mind even taking a cut in pay when selling the story if it meant I got to have at least some creative control.
+KrimsonRogue I agree with you 100% .
+Gιαηт Lιzαяd (Anna's Backup) yeah, I read that Harry Potter would have become an animated movie if JKR sold her rights.
Regisseur95 _Oh._
+Regisseur95 Harry Potter movie franchises was great.
What bothered me most was Arya. In the book she is a stubborn bad ass elf warrior but was turned into a generic princess for the movie. The fight scene with her was forced. Plus she was really good with magic. This and the lack of dwarfs ruined this movie for me.
"It was rumored that the dwarves would not appear in the Eragon movie and *this is true in a certain sense, as the dwarves in the Eragon movie are human-sized instead of being short people*. This, however, is relatively unnoticed next to the other huge changes like Durza riding a shadow dragon"
-inheritance.wikia.com/wiki/Dwarf
and the fortune telling scene.
and in the book we dont find out shes princess till the middles of the second or third book. its huge and here its part of her introducing herself. in the book her princess hood is a plot line of itself
I hate it when they water down strong female literary characters to turn them into helpless damsels in distress for the movie. It sends a pretty crappy message to little girls.
And she was supposed to have BLACK HAIR! I don't know why but this has always bothered me immensely
It's not a swirly scar, it's a cinnamon roll.
The movie was a disaster, and they literally butchered Angela's character. But your comment "I'm the car, and I say Fuck you, my battery is dead!" literally killed me. I think this one will go on my wall to look at whenever I feel sad!
+HereIAm247 That does seem to be one of my more popular jokes. XD
Ikr I mean the WHOLE FRIGGIN THING IS LIKE "wat?😱".But that "I'm the car.F*ck you my battery's dead" was so funny.
Do you think it's possible for 20th century Fox to do a more improving reboot of Eragon(compared to what we ended up with) that can earn the following sequels of the Inheritance Cycle?
+Anthony Nunez I think it's easily possible. A few things that irritated me was the fact the elves and dwarves were completely cut out, arya was human (the worst offense if you ask me because she's one of my personal favorites of the whole series), the ending battle was cool but completely wrong, I could go on for days but if they stick to the book it'd be fantastic to see on screen
+Anthony Nunez I think the series would work much better as a tv show.
Wasn’t Galbatorix driven insane by the death of his Dragon? The whole reason he began to hate the other Dragon Riders was that they refused to give him another dragon egg. That was mentioned in the book, so I’m surprised the exposition didn’t mention that.
Also, Saphira suddenly becoming an adult... no. They literally fast-forwarded their bonding.
They probably meant to add that in the sequel ;D
And yeah, I'm still upset that they didn't bother to spend even 10 minutes on her growing up for such a long time. In that case I would've even been fine with a little bit of exposition to summise some of the time they can't show.
Her “instant adult just add water” annoyed me as a kid seeing a preview, then I called a friend about it who was a fellow fan of the book and he went “what? That’s so stupid”
That’s right, even kids in 6-7th grade could instantly see that was stupid
@@Lucy666Fernandez and some people acuses this film of ripping off star wars
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Well, what I can tell you is that apparently the book rips off The Chronicles of Earthsea
So he's basically like Anakin.
What's absolutely crap is that if they ever reboot/remake this (which they definitely won't), Jeremy Irons won't be Brom.
And he was THE PERFECT Brom. This is the one thing this movie got right!
Sharpclawasaurus True. His casting was the best decision of the movie.
Lol, a reboot was announced about a year ago!!!
+Sam Parker Bullshit.
+Sharpclawasaurus honestly moments like these are when i wish i could go back in time and change up some events so that a wrong could be right. This movie is such a terrible blow to both fans of the book and newcomers to the world of Alegesia. Hopefully someone with an actual care for their work will come along and make a movie thats worthy to be associated with this great series.
+Sharpclawasaurus Guys, if you go to this site, and sign the document, Fox has agreed to do a reboot if we hit 75k www.change.org/p/fox-2000-consider-rebooting-the-eragon-inheritance-cycle-film-franchise?tk=bDO4PKadLr_MVtRIK29_r46iZdCp8FiNnrl99sSzX5M&
Wait, weren't the Ra'zac like bird people who used their older cousins as mounts? I mean, those bug amalgamations were cool and all...
Their mounts were their parents.
Yeah, they were an insectoid race in service to the king
Parents but yes.
Parents
@@artemisarrow179 no, they were birds in the books
>Showed Galbatorix
>Ra'zac were more demon-ish
>Arya was a redhead
>Saphira had feathers
>Eragon burned down his own farm
>Eragon is blonde
>Urgalgra had no horns but instead were fat humans
>I just remember the Varden being a ton of cringe
AVGN voice: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
>Shruikans eyes are yellow
>Arya is only a human
didnt brom have a long beard in the book it descibes a flowing white beard but thats just minor detail also angela played way bigger role in the book also where is solembum
IMDB confirms many fans were upset over the director's decision to take out crucial characters and plot lines.
Artemis Arrow wait a minute arya was a redhead in the books right
@@druffner nope. No elves had red hair. Only raven black and platinum blonde. Arya had black hair. Angela had red hair
Starting with a history lesson. Galbatorix is just plain evil instead of being driven mad due to losing his dragon. No elves, dwarves and technically no urgals either. The king referring to Saphira's egg as a `stone`. Durza creating Ra'zac with a spell. Ra'zac look like zombies. Eragon doesn't recognize a dragon when he sees one. Everyone somehow knows the dragon has hatched. Saphira's got feathers and evolves like a Pokémon. The deep and beautiful emotional bond between a dragon and its rider reduced to `I protect you to protect myself`. Eragon immediately off to the Varden instead of following Ra'zac to avenge his uncle. Angela is utterly boring and completely forgettable instead of the charming, witty and wild enchantress she's supposed to be. Twins, Solembum and Elva don't exist. Arya is concious during the escape and Brom's death (which she as a skilled sorceress does nothing about) and extremely awkwardly falls for Eragon. Durza has a spell to create a dragon up his sleeve. Eragon has no injury to heal in Ellesméra. CHEESUS CRUST WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY?!
Agreed! my thoughts exactly!
They also completely left out Orik, Joed and several other characters who would have been important later.
You forgot Murtagh beeing totally dumb and useless with no personality in the movie instead of beeing an important charakter and ally/friend to Eragon.
They need to make this movie again but to add to your comment Terim looks nothing like i thought it would i expected a minsa terith type city not a swamp like village
Also forgot Roran is basically nonexistent here, they never show TRONJHEIM, which would have been awesome, AND the Ra Zac die in this first movie. A 3 book major plotline gets thrown out the window and makes half the story of the sequels impossible
This movie was a complete joke. Just a quick cash grab for Eragon fans, and it's obvious they didn't respect the fan base enough to at least TRY.
+Lisa Galarza fuck you, the movie was gr8 :)
+GAXERIS rako great for people who did not read the book that is.
I don't think you and possibly many other fans are aware that the director made his directorial debut with this movie which is why many fans feel as if it's plot is arguably weak and very different from the book.
Mike Serota
That's no excuse. A bad film is a bad film.
Or they respected it as much as I respect Paolini's writing.
You know, call me crazy, but I still have an appreciation for the book. Yes, it's not the greatest fantasy story of our time, but the author's age when he began writing it, and still managed to craft a decent story, made me think that I could do it too. It's what inspired me to start writing.
This MOVIE, on the other hand, is more of a clusterfuck than the book ever was.
I agree. Eragon is what made me fall in love with the fantasy genre and I believe I was about 13 at the time. I kept re-reading it and when I found out he started writing it at 15, I believed that I could write my own book one day, too. :)
The movie was utterly disappointing.
It's sad that a 15-year-old boy is a better writer than Stephanie Meyer or Cory Doctorow.
It is an amazing achievment for a boy at such a young age.
But he was like 22 by the time he wrote book 4, right?
The other books are really good too, and the star wars parrellels kind of slow down
They never become a real couple in the books, Eragon ends up with the bluest balls in fantasy.
But they just butchered the hell out of the book.
Considering the genre and target audience, I found the lack of couples at the end to be really brave of the author. Only recently in Disney movies (and not necessarily for the right reasons) have main characters not gotten their loves. This was different from anything I'd seen.
@Hayley
What do you mean the wrong reasons?
@@wannabehistorian371 feminism and trend chasing
The books aren't over yet...
@@muaz3708 We don’t even know if Eragon is gonna be in the next book, though-
The thing that annoys me the most is the way the movie can't even stick to the chronology of the book whereas the scene where Brom dies is completely uprooted by the fact that Arya is already present and fit enough to use magic to heal Brom. WTF MOVIE!!!!
Where is Katrina? Where is Jeod? Where is Solembum? Where is Elva? Where are the Twins?
Where are the Urgals fucking horns?!
These questions, and more, shall be promptly ignored! :D
no apparently Katrina, Elva and the Twins are deleted scenes. crucial plot points are fucking deleted scenes.
I hate this movie
and where are the fucking dwarves....In the dwarven kingdom!!!
you forgot Orik
Nick Rosell there where dwarfs but otherwise its missing everthing else
What about Saphira having FEATHERS?!?!?!?! WTF IS THAT?! In the books she has "flight membranes" My vote: new movie, close to the book as possible, and finish through the end of the series. (and make Arya an elf) Oh and what about wards? No one had wards in the movie...granted, Eragon and Brom didn't have many in the book, but still...Brom didn't die from Durza, he died from the Ra'zac
EXACTLY. I SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER READING THIS IN ELDEST, ABOUT SAPHIRA HAVING *MEMBRANES*. I hated her feathers, honestly.
+Madison Warner ah but then Sapphira wouldn't be fluffy. next you'll say she should actually use her claws and teeth. that she should eat cute little animals and intimidate anyone that comes near her. can't have that. no we have cut out all the interesting bits out of her character and replace it with inane passive bullshit. god I hate this movie.
James Vargo Gosh you said that so well.
(FYI: I only just started Inheritance, the last book. So pls no spoilers :3)
They literally shit all over the story. Angela is dark skinned by the way....and where was Solembum? And Urgals have horns. And Garrows whole farm was DESTROYED!!!! He didn't just have a stick on his chest! Saphira had to help Eragon remove rubble to even find him!!!...and Snowfire is WHITE!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! and Eragon gets captured and drugged for several days in Gil'ead. And why is Arya awake the whole way to Farthen Dur? Hello?!?!?!? In the book, this adds a great deal of information about mental interaction between two minds. I liked Murtagh here...sort of. He didn't contribute much, but I think with some coaching, he could have grew into the part. They also could have developed the dwarves more, especially ORIK?? WHERE WAS HE??? And Nasuada? Wow...she needs a metric shit ton of character development to grow into the role she plays in the other books. To defend Eragon, (or rather his actor, which I can't remember his name) he could have done the whole series, in my opinion. with help. What in the hell was Durza riding on? Really...? Ugh. WHERE ARE THE TWINS?!?!?!?! HUGE MISSING PIECE!!!! and Shurikuan is about 200 times larger than Saphira, since I am being an ass about this. Yes, many of these things wouldn't matter that much in the movie, if they had done it right, but since they fucked it up so much, I get the right to complain about it ALL!!! HAHAHAH!!!!
Madison Warner That's the thing. I can deal perfectly fine with a few mistakes, with a few things missing. But with Eragon they missed soooooo much, where it didn't feel like the book anymore.
I actually had a Paolini as an English Teacher in LQHS, Mrs. Paolini who is related to the author and had a copy of the book on display in her class.
Ohvust small dif you.sk Mrs palonni about the eragob movie
You know that this movie's budget was bigger then any of Lord of the Rings movies (Not counting the Hobbit). That's just sad.
+Stage Lined
It doesn't look like that.
Schwarzer Ritter Yeah I know, but its not by much.
Where did all the money go?!
Wolverine101 John Malkovich, obviously
@@bluefire9147 Nah, probably went into all of that freaking crappy CGI.
This movie was a lethal dose of cringe to me. The book was amazing, and it's so sad to see some company shit out a movie for profit about it. Durza's death was completely different in the movie, Eragon IS NOT A BLONDE, Saphira HAS NO FEATHERS, Arya is AN ELF NOT HUMAN, and the rescue scene for Arya in the movie... uuugh the pain
I see what you mean about some company "shitting out" a movie for profit when the book was already known and fairly popular. It's kind of like how EA sports "shit out" Madden 06 for Xbox 360 claiming the graphics and the sound would blow you away and they may have but the game-play was just horrendous. That's similar to how this movie excels at having visually impressive computer generated special effects, (especially with Saphira), but the story was cheaply written, was equally disappointing and barely compared to the book's story line if at all.
Praying for a movie reboot and actually get it right :c
ok boome XD
I think with the gedwëy ignesia, they made it resemble the lowercase letter "e", for Eragon in the movie. And Eragon and Arya never do end up as a couple officially, because she always rebuffs his romantic advances. I was also hugely disappointed about Galbatorix. The whole idea behind him not showing up in the books until the very end of Brisingr, (but mostly Inheritance), is that you have this phantom-like presence of Galbatorix constantly lurking over the characters in the books. The reader of the book also wants to finally catch a glimpse of Galbatorix, and the suspense keeps building and building until he finally appears. That was the whole point of not introducing him until later on, to build that fear and suspense of this powerful ruler that we haven't even heard speak one line in the first two books. But it makes it so much better when he finally does show up, and to introduce him in the movie so soon, right off the bat, is horrendous.
And he looks old. In the books he has black hair and a black beard.
+Life Questioner Yes, very similar to Sauron, only a lot less evil, and a lot more absolutely fucking insane. AND THAT'S COMING FROM ME, I KNOW MORE ABOUT INSANITY THAN FUCKING ANYONE!
Exactly! I just started Inheritance, but boy oh boy when I *SPOILER ALERT FOR INHERITANCE* just got his voice I was like "Who ah... We actually heard him. WE FREAKING HEARD HIM!
Adriana Vokshi Galbatorix used Paralyze, it's super effective, Oromis fainted, Glaedr fainted, gained 10,000 XP, Murtagh level'd up!! >:D
+Life Questioner I think the Driector finaly relized his mistake with the gedwëy ignesia at the end and so, when Eragon is atempting to heal saphira's wonds ( which never happened in the book anyway) they made only a circle glow on his hand
Can somebody make a new Eragon movie please ;-; we as fans can look past this giant mistake of a movie, just give us something! Eragon deserves so much better. Shit.
We fans should just make an entirely fan-based movie! Even with almost no money and entirely volunteer actors we could make a better movie than what they did. ARYA'S EARS WERE NOT EVEN POINTED. I MEAN- WHY!?!
Elena Shortes
We can do it! Sign me up!!!!!!!
Elena Shortes As you said we need to get the fans together and make a movie ourselves since 20th century fox did such a piss poor job at it!
I'm your editor. XD
***** Email me a link. I wanna join. (Email: JumpingWindow17@gmail.com)
The worst part is Arya and Eragon never even HAVE a proper romance
They didn't have ANY in the first book...
Eragon is Star Wars in Middle Earth.
The book starts off that way but the plot matures beyond that in the sequels.
Jeremy Irons was great in his role, Carlyle appropiately creepy in his, Saphira looks awesome and Patrick Doyle's musical Score is awesome. That aside... I watched it before reading the book and thought it was... okay as a stand-alone Movie. But as an adaptation, its a complete miss.
To its credit, there is ONE Scene that is an actual improvement: Saphira carrying Brom as he was dying. That *was* a nice touch.
Except that did kinda happen in the books and saphira had bat wings, not feathers
Robert still was better as Rumple
@@jamainegardner4193 and some people call eragon ripoff of star wars
I wish Peter Jackson had directed Eragon. It would have been like Lord of the Rings XD
+Curtis Yue meaning epic and perfect! I agree!!!!
You.... are.... 1,000,000,000% Correct. Now he is available. Let send him a request to do Eragon.
+Curtis Yue, YES!
Yes he should. They need to remake the piece of crap movie into something better.
+Curtis Yue From what I understand, Paolini is a Lord of The Rings fan and he admits being inspired by it when writing Eragon, which I find wonderful and still original enough. And that's exactly what I expected from the movie, maybe that's why I was so disappointed by it
There are about three or four locations just completely skipped, and not to mention the half dozen characters. I mean, without Katrina Roran (who barely exists) has no reason to lead the village to the other edge of the continent and become the bearded hammer man. I think because there was such a lot going on in the book due to travelling round NW Alagaesia they would have been better off splitting the book into multiple films. I think we're all just hoping they might remake it. Well, hopefully not the same people though.
I was really sad about the removal of the enormous gem that Arya and Saphira smash at the end to save Eragon, but I think what pisses me off the most is the fact that they thought it would be "interesting" if the elves had human ears, aka, we're so cheap we can't afford the prosthetics to make them pointy..
Which is even more sad when you realize that they had a bigger budget than the Lord of the Rings.
+Logan Hollis what do you mean??
+Arty Wolve The thing with Roran and Katrina is in the second book though right? And the movie is only about the first...
And yes, can somebody please open a petition or something again? I think there once was a petition, but they closed it for some reason...
Shiv B I mean they had more money to spend making this movie than Peter Jackson for one Lord of the Rings movie.
Logan Hollis They did.
I didnt know haha:):0
It would be utterly impossible to make sequels based off this movie. They left out every scrap of important plot and character development that they possibly could. Not that anyone would go see the sequels after this, even if they did make them...
I would watch it just to see how they screwed up trying to fill in the holes
The movie reaches the end of the fourth book. There is no possible way they could make a sequel because there is nothing left in the story. The movie was garbage and would probably sell like seven tickets if they made a sequel anyways.
Murtagh is my favorite character and they completely and utterly destroyed him. There are certain things that bother me (like the fact that he has light eyes in the movie when Paolini referenced them as brown, but that's minor) more than others, but the fact that they completely breezed over his tortured past really burned me up. They need to do a remake, and have it follow the plot/character development of the book practically verbatim. Eragon fans deserve another shot after this abomination.
P.S. Murtagh's scar placement gets me too. DX
To add how Dragon is different, Galbotorix, if you read the book, was driven angry by the death of his dragon. He did not 'sense' the weakness as the movie puts it. There are much greater forces than a farm boy and a dragon and some rebels.
>saphira was a long-necked bird with feathers rather than a legit dragon with gem scales
>they killed the ra'zac which don't actually die until the beginning of the third book
>urgals didn't have horns
i could probably come up with more you didn't mention if i had seen the movie and read the books more recently.
in my opinion, the movie was good in its own right, but only if you change the names of everything and make it have no connection to the books whatsoever. The video game was fairly decent too.
fun fact: paolini said that at some point there was an offer on the table for him to be an urgal in the last battle and that eragon would cut his head off and hold it very dramatically, but that didn't end up happening because of scheduling conflicts as he was on tour for eldest at the time.
actually saphira is never said to have feathers or a beak.
and one of the main features of urgals are their horns.
Nat Torpedia i was saying what the movie did that the books didn't
+tEm paY fo c0olEg!!1 you just edited your comment!
Nat Torpedia ???
You're absolutely right! And not to forget that Eragon's hair is supposed to be brown (Ok, he said that already, but it really bothers me for a reason), his face pretty angular with a strong jaw etc., Arya's hair should be black, her eyes green and I also think that they completely failed to convey her character ^^
Just one thing he said I didn't understand (Maybe you can help me? ^^) : When did Arya and Eragon end up together in the books? O.o xD
I am incredibly angry with the makers of this movie. They demolished characters such as murtagh, arya, Angela, Katrina, roran, and even Ajihad and Nasuada! Someday, I am going to remake this. And make a movie for each book. And put in details about the Sloan, and Katrina, and all the other villagers from carvahall. Also I would make arya an elf. So there Hollywood!!!!
Oh but if you haven't read the book, don't watch this. *SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT!!!!!*
Elise the lonely time-lady I will join you I totally want to remake this move it is a change in career path for me
Kaylee Smith
omg yes
Kaylee Smith
nice. we can make the remake together.
Can I play Eragon? I also have a friend who could voice Solembum
I remember trying to watch the movie, but I was completely done with it once Angela showed up.
i need to know was i the only one who heard rasengan at 9:30
its Brisingr but it was shouted in a way that it sounded like what you though it was. so he shouted : BRISINGR!!!
No, he didn't say that but I can see why you thought that.
Really? You have more patience than me, I was done with it as soon as it starting narrating
God, I hate this movie. The original Eragon is one of my favorite books ever, and outside of the final book's lackluster ending, all of the Inheritance Cycle is amazing. This movie barely followed the plot of the book at all, yet spent none of the time where it wasn't following the book developing the characters. Saphira looks barely anything like how she's described in the book (and how she's depicted on the GODDAMN COVER), and the acting is just plain awful. The film also cut so much out that it is literally impossible to make Eldest a movie without remaking Dragon first.
Honestly, if they DO remake Eragon, it should be as a Games of Thrones-style TV series, with as much time as is needed for adapting the plot and characters of four incredibly long books. The casting needs to be impeccable, and they should get Paolini on as a closely involved creative consultant on the whole thing.
Or a Peter Jackson production
riderfan215 Peter Jackson dosnt like magic that much that is why the Lord of the rings has limited magic in it but he would make the action scenes awesome though
Hmmm, Good Point. Then we need David Yates or someone else from Harry Potter
also we need a good miniture props group like weta workshop
I agree, I still can't get over angela, and they skipped completely over Teirm! The only worse movie made from a book I know is The lighting thief and is sequel
Ajihad, Angela, Arya, Murtagh, Urgals, Ra'Zac, Magic are all fucking awfully represented...
Jeod, Elves, Dwarves, Orik, Nasuada, cities at all are all nonexistent
+Fairielights There are so many things wrong with Arya. From hair to her attitude
Nasuada really only gets important in the second book elves dwarves orik and jeod are really nonexistent which is bad nasuada I could have understood
its so sad they should have included orik at least ;-; im a huge fan of these books and like evrything u said +Austin just ruins it ;-;
Best part about there not being a sequel: I think it might be finally time for a reboot, I mean it's been ten years and will be longer once someone starts on it. :D
This series deserves better movie adaptations like Harry Potter got where a lot of care and work is put into it and it actually tells the story properly. While my memory of the book is bad (just too many things I have to remember so a lot of book info is leaking out of my head at this point) I remember how much I was thinking during this movie "this isn't right!"
Also, isn't Eragon like 13 or something in the book? I remember him being around 17 in like the third or fourth book and maybe something important happening because of him being that old, maybe not but I know he wasn't 17 in the first book. It was the first thing that told me that I wasn't going to enjoy the movie.
he was 15 at the start and before saving Arya he had his birthday
He was almost 16 at the start of the first book.
He didn’t even kill durzan on dragon back. He killed him under the dragon stables(name escapes me at the moment) when Arya(think I spelled that right) dropped the crystal floor/roof on him distracting durzan long enough for eragon to stab him in the back.
same thought man
It's sad because I really love the second book and it could make such a good movie...
In the book the prophecy actually made sense and foreshadowed the course of the whole story. I loved going "Oh!" after the story passes a point mentioned in the prophecy. The movie? Yeah, telling him things he already knows. Also Brom's dying words... He whispered a few words from the ancient language to Eragon just before his death. Well but it was never touched again even in the books so... And Arya telling him she was a princess in the dream? Even if it was Durza not her... It was revealed only in book two!!! This movie is an insult to the Inheritance cycle and I cringe every time I even remember it... But you're right, Brom was great.
Book Arya: Almost kills Eragon with her mind in her weakest stage.
Movie Arya: Reveals her identity to a random stranger
Interestingly those 7 words in the Ancient Language that Brom whispered to Eragon while dying are still a mystery in the series that will be solved in the fifth book of the series. C. Paolini said in an interview that he is gonna write a fifth book about the aftermath of the fall of Galbatorix and on an interview about it he stated that 'everyone in Alagaisia has overlooked something really important'. In the same interview he said that yes we will learn about those words that Brom whispered. Now hopefully we will just have to wait till the book is published to find out more
And in the books, Arya emphasizes that a Drottningu isn’t actually the same thing as a Princess
They don't seem to understand that the Raazac are supposed to be birdlike creatures with hard carapaces and cloaks, not Oods made up of cockroaches. Also, what on earth is that thing that Durza is riding? Is that supposed to be some poor take on a Lethrblaka? /sighs/ I hope they do a remake sometime that actually FOLLOWS the plot properly so that not only could they impress the fans, but they could follow through with making the rest of the Inheritance Cycle into movies.
If only they could do it to the scale of the Hobbit...
I hope that someone produces a TV series based on Eragon. It could be a success if someone takes their time with it. Something like:
-Season 1 (6 Episodes; ends with Eragon finding the Dragon Egg)
That would open a lot chance of character development for all the citizens of Carvahall
-Season 2 (6 Episodes; ends with Raz'ac killing Garrow and Eragon leaving with Brom)
-Season 3 (~10 Episodes; ends with them leaving Teirm)
-Season 4 (~6 Episodes; ends with Eragon being captured in Gil'ead)
-Season 5 (~6 Episodes; Ends with them arriving in Farthen Dur and Murthag & Eragon being seperated)
-Season 6 (~6 Episodes; ends like the first book + Roran briefly being shown in the ruins of his destroyed home)
...and you have 6 seasons with very well developed characters just after the story of the first book. Yeah, would love a reboot/TV series of Eragon
Senna Asad
I would watch the hell out of that show! XD
Senna Asad An anime would be great too
The book Eragon deserved a better movie than the Hunger Games did.
KittyKat Kandi I think it was some sort of Shadow Wrym . And I would LOVE a Eragon series because then I could be more like the Book. BUT in order for Fans not to RIP the makers apart they would have to make it EXACTLY like the book
So why would Galbatorix refer to Saphira's egg as a stone to Durza? He has no reason to except to keep the true nature of it from the viewer.
+Fairielights Ummmmm one of the worst parts.... BROM TOOK THE KNIFE FOR ERAGON WHEN THE RAZZAC THREW IT NOT WHEN DURZA DID!
+Kenny Hine and why are the fucking ra'zac predators while in the book they were fucking bird-like humanoid creatures
Fairielights mhm what really creeped me out was when Arya tore her skin off her hand i'm reading inheritcane now and i got to when they were flying in the cloud
+SabreSugari :3 You know what is even creepier? Brom "killed" them......yeah, okay. No Book 2 or even three, no reason.
Thats not the problem. He can come back anytime from that. It was just the next village. But he was never mentioned in the normal movie, just in the extra.
I know that Shruikan was barely in any of the stories except for Inheritance, and even then he was only in a couple of chapters, and yet his scale and obvious power shown through Christopher's writing made a lasting impact. I just noticed while watching this that you can see Shruikan's wing by the throne in the first scene with Galbatorix. I mean come on. In the book, Galbatorix appeared to have a huge black curtain behind his throne, which at a later date turned out to be only a fraction of Shruikan's actual wing. Now it just looks like some black suit case which had some pretty decorations on it... It would have been so kickass to see Shruikan in all of his huge glory. By far one of my favourite dragons in literature and the first description of him in Inheritance where he first appeared gives me goosebumps every time I read it.
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What? Saphira is evolving!
Congratulations! Your dragon evolved into bigger dragon!
I love all four books in the inheritance cycle and had read them about five times and totally agree that the movie screwed up BIG time. One thing that was left out in this, however, was how in the book, Arya was bad ass elf and in the movie, she was a girly, romantic, human that I hated.
I hate this movie SO MUCH!
EVERY SINGLE SCENE WAS WRONG!!!!!
Very true
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wait.. they aren't a couple at any point in the books.. Ariah (?) refuses until the very end... well she sorta wants to but at that point in the final book they still decide they can't do it.. they have no kiss and they didn't even have potential (although Eragon disagrees^^) until Eragon discovers his true name, changing quite a bit in the process.
They kinda get to the relationship point at the end of inheritance
45bullshark
ya.. but not a romantic one :/ dunno what u understand under a romantic relationship
+Awkward Alan, I haven't finished reading the books, but I'm pretty sure its spelt 'Arya'
Alex Slobodian
ah ok.. ya I read them ages ago, thx. I don't know the correct spellign and i'm too lazy to look it up :D
Don't forget how the last fight scene with the shade and eragon was completly fudged. in fact they didn't even have the mounts! it was the mithirim rose, diamond star thing, that arya smashed that actually killed Durza! the fight scene consisted of three groups that were getting attacked by thousands of urgals. ugh full on hate this adaptation!
Most if that is right. Except the Isidar Mithrim didnt kill durza. It distracted him so Eragon could light his sword on fire and stab him through the heart
Ugh!!! It still pisses me off that the movie ruined Angela's character! She was my favorite character, because she was an awesome magic user, and she knitted.
She wasn't a spangly gypsy who spoke in the third person!
ANGELA! ANGELA! Most freaking awesome character in the series!
Yes she is, and this stupid movie had to go and screw up her character!!
Knitwitty Ann I just wish Arya was an actual elvan
I know! How hard is it to get plastic pointy ears? What possible reason could they have to change that?
Laziness
Star Wars didn't patent that story model, it's older than movies. Just saying.
Knowing that the author was 15 when he wrote it is inspiring to me as a 17 year old writer who is working on a book trilogy.
And his book was better than a movie that was nominally written by adults
I actually enjoyed the movie. Although i did enjoy watching this, especially this scene:
Eragon: I'm the rider, and I say we go.
Saphira: I'm the car, and I say fuck you my battery's dead.
The book was still way better
But Eragon and Brom spending so much time together felt pretty sweet after discovering he was actually Eragon's father. It was good to know he got some time with his dad.
Agreed. When I realized that Brom was actually Eragon's father, chill ran down my spine
And this movie cut out Brom fondly reminiscing about Selina and foreshadowing that eventual revelation
Fun fact about me: I like Inheritance Cycle more than Harry Potter and I love Harry Potter, but Inheritance cycle's world building goes beyond just things that directly have something to do with the main character(s), Eragon grows a lot, it doesn't end up with him ending up with his love interest, instead learning that they can't get together but accepting his duty to watch over the eggs and train future dragon riders, the fact you can't lie in the language of magic, with each word being the true name of the object ect... is more interesting than just learning a phrase that causes a spell, you need to learn an entire language and know the true meaning of the words to use magic best, the fact that it uses your own physical energy to cause it's affects makes it more of a magic you can gauge, and it switches P.O.V. to other characters to see how the things going on effects them and their problems. Sure it might have cliches but it's not like everything always goes right for Eragon and he isn't perfect or boring, he had different flaws he had to work through throughout the books and to accept them to realize his own true name as opposed to others like Luke(since apparently Star Wars is a big comparison, and that series is also a textbook heroes journey story, nothing groundbreaking in terms of story-telling except surprising people with Vader being Luke's father) whom wasn't really a unique character. People may say it's cliche and has too much padding. or Star Wars but with dragons, and they're wrong. The classic heroes journey has been around for ages, even the greeks had stories with it, and Eragon does a good job setting up the world and characters, and follows up on them in the sequels in a way I haven't seen often. The way they defeated Galbatorix is also amazing. Elva is an incredibly tragic and interesting character. There's so many good female characters, and none are written the way modern Hollywood writes them. The male characters are great as well. Sloan is interesting as a minor antagonist. True names for people is an interesting concept. There's just so much good that outweighs any of the bad, and it's better written then most give it credit for.
I saw the movie first a couple of years ago and I found it chaotic, now that i've read the books... I really don't understand what they were thinking. They absolutely murdered the storie, the characters." Barzul!"
Barzul: To curse someone with ill fate.
To be Fair, Star Wars was just Lord of the Rings in space...
Yes. that's right! Thanks for beating up the movie! I am a fan of the book series. The movie is SO lame! They left out Roran and Katrina. Saphira is supposed to be shiny blue like a sky of saphires. The lighting was poor. Oh! The creators of Once upon a time would do a MUCH better job with this! And, Eragon did have a crush on Arya but she is way out of his league. I can go on, but I'll stop here because all the fans know exactly what is left to be desired."I expected more!"
My favorite part is "I'm the rider and I say we go. And I'm the car and I say f$#k you my battery is dead.
With the brutal gruesome deaths, torture, and battle scenes a remake could totally be a gritty R-rated tvshow.
Just wow. I have never heard someone describe the movie in such a well thought out and precise and true way before. Every single point was on target. A couple of my friends have seen the movie but not read the books and loved it but won't believe me when I tell them how much of a total flop it turned out to be. To the movies makers YOU RUINED THE HOPES OF SO MANY FANS OF ERAGON!!
Thanks for the comment! Always nice to hear such positive feedback. :D
I'm also surprised he didnt mention anything about killing the razac since in the book, that again.. didn't even happen, the razac killed brom .. :'( anyway, and Eragon went alone to durza, brom was already dead. Again, just surprised KrimsonRogue didn't say anything. (why change that?)
Because since the razac died it makes it impossible to create a second movie, bc the razac returned to palancar valley and kidnapped Katrina, which caused roran to join the fight. This is a huge part of the book.
The last thing that annoys me is the ending fight with durza and the fact that the twins weren't there and murtagh wasn't captured, again this takes away from the second book as well as "the cripple who is whole" didnt speak with eragon at the end.
Thank you for listening.
Brom: What are you, 15, 16?
Eragon: 17!
Me: YOU'RE 15, 16 MIDWAY THROUGH!!!
They did a complete nasty job on this. If they wanted to do this over, like he said, they would have to start from scratch. I would of suggested them to make a movie for each book. And they should make it longer. I heard that the movie is only like half an hour long. But it they are too lazy to remake the movie, they should of at least followed the plot! The characters don't even look like a quarter of what the books described them as! Arya has long black hair and she was not suppose to wear that golden dress (not the green one). Eragon has brown hair and brown eyes. Brom was fine. Murtagh looked like what I expected but also like he said, he didn't follow the things he was suppose to do. And Saphira in the movie, they put feathers on her NOT SCALES!!!! But baby Saphira was the most cutest thing ever in the movie.
yasemin kop Gotta say, you mention how no one looked how they were meant to but say Brom looked fine, when he was described more different than portrayed than anyone you mentioned. though I agree that Jeremy Irons was one of the best parts of the movie.
Besides that, yeah if they remake it they need longer movies. Hell they could make the 4 books into 8 movies and not add filler with the size and content they all have.
yasemin kop IKR like come on people FEATHERS really???
+yasemin kop the worst part about this movie to me is how poorly each character was represented in this story, none of them really followed what they were supposed to be, i mean they even killed off the razac in like a 5 minute fight, how can you kill off the most mysterious/ deadly characters in the whole story of alegesia in such a crappy fashion?!?!?!?
I have a good question for you +krimsonrogue with the advance of CGI in TV shows. would you like to see the books adapted in to a TV show?
Well, we've definitely had success in books to TV adaptations as of late. I think that's an avenue that should really be explored more.
KrimsonRogue that's what I was thinking, it would be better as a TV series, taking time to tell a full charater driven story, instead of a quick cash in
Yeah,it is like the same way GoT cant be a movie.
What's G.O.T.?
Mike Serota Game of Thrones
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No they didn't, Eragon was full on in love with Arya, but she was completely calm and didn't want to distract Eragon and showed no interest and shot him down every time even after the battle was won. At most she said maybe it time, and since the end made that impossible they were never together.
"If you can show me the quickest way to the varden-"
"TO THE VARDEN IT IS!! : D"
Lmao what.
Brom: by the way I'm your father
Eragon: wait what?
Brom: bleh...
Murtagh: by the way I'm your half brother
Eragon: wait what
Murtagh: ight imma head out
He was much nicer to the movie than I would've been. He mentioned the crappy dealing with Murtagh and Arya's characters and even brings up the waste of Angela the Fortune Teller and touches on the absence of Solemnbum, but he also overlooks the waste of Roran and Nasuada and the absence of Katrina and the Twins. (deleted scenes don't count) and even neglected to mention that the Ra`zac getting killed completely obliterated the story-lines for movies based on books 2 & 3.
I guess you can't really fault the movie for Roran, Katrina, and the Ra`zac since book two wasn't even published when the movie was released, but you could still bring it on the director's shoulders when you consider that he probably should've consulted with Christopher Paolini, the author of the books, to make sure the movie won't be Dead On Arrival.
Despite all these flaws,the movie is still pretty enjoyable depending on how forgiving you are. And I'm saying this, by the way, from a "Guilty Pleasure" stand point. In fact, I even listed this at #4 in my Guilty Pleasure Movies video.
I was so surprised he didn't touch on their appearances. I mean, Eragon has brown hair and eyes, Arya has black hair and elven ears which I'm most angry about, I expected Brom to look older, Angela was a sexy lady which she totally shouldn't be (and missing my one of my favourite characters Solembum) and to add on top: Saphira doesn't have freaking feathers. She has a membrane, I specifically remember reading this in Eldest and am sure it got mentioned in the first book too. How they looked really annoyed me lol...
Adriana Vokshi
Well I'm much more forgiving about things like appearances because to me as long as they ACT well then I don't really care.
In DareDevil the movie Kingpin was black even though in the comics he was white.
Also in the Harry Potter books Harry has green eyes but Daniel Radcliffe has brown, and Emma Watson was way too beautiful to be Hermione which backfired on the 4th film.
But these actors all did good in their roles so I really don't mind things like that.
SuperCHARged Productions Normally I wouldn't mind either, but if their appearances make them special in a way, then I do. Idk how to explain lol. That's why I'm sorta fine with Eragon I guess, but when it comes to Arya I feel like her having black hair is important :P I'm just weird lol.
+Adriana Vokshi ears yes; hair no.
SuperCHARged Productions Well at least we agree on making the elf an elf. XP
Also Durza was killed inside of Tronjheim when Arya broke the star sapphire to distract Durza so Eragon could stab him in the heart.
Is it possible to petition for a better movie? This time with people that have ACTUALLY read the books writing it?
Let's start a comment petition, and if I ever become a movie director I will remake this movie
IF YOU DO, DO PERCY JACKSON AND MAKE NICO SCARY
That'll be second on my list :D
SIGN THIS PETITION HERE NOW
www.change.org/p/fox-2000-consider-rebooting-the-eragon-inheritance-cycle-film-franchise
Kaylee Smith So doing that. Thank you!
What would make me so happy, is that some great movie director decided to reshoot the book, or better, the whole series, IN cooperation with the author, because the story of Eragon does deserve a good film version.
"This WASN'T the character growth I had in mind!"
I still laugh at that...
I'm not a big reader, but these books are basically 40% of my life since it took me so long to read them. It hurts just thinking about the movie. Good job on the review man. The mystery continues, where are the fucking elves and dwarves?
Good question. They might be under the same rock as Roran and the rest of Murtagh's personality.
and the ra'zac being actual badasses, the ra'zac parents being existent, pretty much every single bit of decent backstory, arya's entire fucking character, ajihad's entire fucking character, durza's entire fucking character, the fact that the limits of magic are never explained and the fact that durza could create a life sized living dragon like creature in about two seconds that is larger and seemingly stronger than saphira. if they had actually paid attention, the writers would have known that for durza, even though he is more powerful than the common elf, is actually kind of weak as shades seem to be portrayed, and that the very effort of trying to create that creature would not succeed and most likely kill him unless he stopped the spell. almost everything in this entire movie was screwed up and almost every event and character happened in the wrong way, at the wrong time.
The books only take 2-3 days each for me to read, but since I re-read them so many times (The first two 14-15 each) the series has made a very happy chunk in my life.
I was one of the unfortunate few who saw the movie when it came out, read all the books that were available at the time, then saw the movie again and cried. It's so terrible XD
40% of your life how old are you?
it took me 6 days to read inheritance cycle though that was reading all day apart from meal times, but what can i say 10 years of age and on school holidays i devoured books then and i still do being a book worm rocks
Vypeira
same each time i watched it after reading the books it just got worse though i stayed adamantly faithful (my little sister age 10 still doesn't realize what a terrible movie it is we only watched it 4 times though)
The worst part of the movie is how the Varden looks like a wild African tribe hunting lions and wrestling bears to sustain themselves instead of, you know, civilized people in organized cities supporting a cause for hundreds of thousands...
Personally, I am a huge fan of the Inheritance book series, and think that most of the flak it gets is frankly undeserved. For a example: Some of the people who hate the book series call Eragon a psycopath due to his habit of slaughtering many of Galbatorix soldiers that, as far as he knows, just wanted to feed their families and dont even like Galbatorix in the first place. To that, I point out the fact that not only having the hero remorseless slaughtering faceless mooks almost a staple in the genre( I point to Star Wars, on which Luke does the same thing ), but Eragon is one of very few book series to have the characters in-universe discussing the morality of doing that, and it is clear Eragon is very hesitant and remorsefull about it, to the point of having nightmares about it. It is part of the point of his character: He starts off as a idealistic, yet naive, hero wanting to take down a perceived tyrant, but, upon seeing how war actually works, he progressivelly evolves into someone more cynical and pragmatic, someone willing to do acts of cruelty for a greater cause, but never taking joy on it, and never losing sight of his goal to help people. Pretty much half of the things the Inheritance series is accused of pulling( The mages being overpowered, the elves being too perfect, the Urgals being just yet another version of the orcs etc. etc. ), are actually deconstructed within the book series itself.
... Shame that the movie kind of takes away the moments on the series dedicated to deconstructing its own fantasy cliches, and make it every bit as cliche as the haters think the books are.
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Thanks! :D
I was so mad after I saw this movie. It was obvious why they didn't do a sequel, they fucked the plot so hard it couldn't stand on its own. I actually wondered if anyone who made this movie actually read the book, or if it was described to them by someone who was drunk.
The drunk explanation would actually answer a lot of questions. XD
If Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit could do it correctly, why couldn´t Eragon ?
One of things that really ticked me off when I watched years ago was the lack of the awesome settings. Instead of seeing a mighty coastal city that was well designed and thought out, we get a single shack in a swamp. We don't get mighty halls or a massive Ruby Rose that was the life's work of a great Dwarven artisan, a rose with is shattered in the final battle of the first book, we get mud huts and rickety bridges.
My introduction to the series was the movie. I'd never heard of the books before it. As an introduction, it wasn't bad. Instead of being disappointed that the movie didn't get things right, I instead got the books, which were superior to the movie. Though I was left wondering what the hell the movie makers were doing, since the books pretty much WERE written like movies. They were almost scripts in and of themselves.
Seeing the movie made me sick. After reading the book, I was convinced the story would be able to make a movie as good as maybe The Lord Of The Rings, but they just changed everything, fucked the actors up and made the ugliest props.
I wish they showed more effort I really do. I just finish the first book last night and I saw so much potential...that is if they actually read the book instead of skimming it. Take Tronjheam for example the thing that could have been done with that glorious city. I would love to see a professional cg reproduction of Tronjheam. I am disappointed with this movie. Not really mad but disappointed. I could have been great if they follow the source material. But I do give it credit for one thing, it got me to read the book.
Can't believe this came out ten years ago. I was a thirteen-year-old obsessed with these books and was always quoting your review of the movie to my friends. ❤ ah, memories
I'm kinda surprised at all the love for the Eragon books here. Yeah, I loved it too... when I was 14.
Tomas King Charming.
+Sporkaganza Ever had a cherished childhood memory of favorite game? Well heres my favorite book.
Also if you think this is weird go to a vid of spyro and youll realy get a laugh
Yeah the book is actually pretty bad, maybe the worst fantasy series i have ever read.
+Dr Nigromante i smell a hater looken 4 attention
Each to their own, I am 25 and the Inheritance Cycle is my favourite fantasy series to date and I've read alot.
The book is 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999x better. Not an exaggeration, that is my opinion.
and they totally ignore roran and katrina!!
Actually, to fix that, I've put up an annotation that warned of the upcoming spoiler. Thanks for reminding me and sorry for the trouble. :P
"I'm the car and I say fuck you , my battery's dead" hahaha that really got me for some reason
Him ranting about the similarities with Star Wars
Me: Oh that’s how you pronounce Galbatroix
Damn dude you're hilarious and are have very good honesty in your review. You deserve more subscribers :D
Why thank you! I''m working on reviewing Percy Jackson now and I think it'll be just as hilarious as this review has been.
mostly came here cause the Inheritance Cycle is my FAVORITE book series, and this movie shat on that by not even having the characters PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS right. Though it DID have 2 good things. Namely Brom and that fight at the end with the shadow dragon summoned by Durza.
also, Chris has gone on record to say that the Inheritance Cycle was inspired by the likes of Star Wars, which is why there are similarities. And I should note that Eragon doesn't even join the Varden until near the END of the first book. And he spends more time with the elves than the Varden during the rest of the series!
As far as I know there was no shadow dragon fight.
TheDraconicFlame no, there was no shadow dragon fight in the book, but it was a change that enhanced the movie without hurting the book.
May I remind you that in the book the final battle where Durza is killed was a dramatic duel on top of a giant star sapphire in the Dwarven stronghold? In that fight Eragon received an injury that was vital to the plot of the second book. They messed up with the shadow dragon and made continuity errors.
TheDraconicFlame fair point. which is why it's kinda a good thing this movie didn't have a sequel, though the shadow dragon fight COULD have ended with Eragon getting injured...if this thing was actually competent instead of just a money grab.
If they film the series they'd need to start over from scratch, because of all the bad actors, important details that were skipped out completely, and continuity errors.
THE BOOK REITERATED SO MANY TIMES THAT SAPHIRA HAS THIN MEMBRANE WINGS BUT HERE SHE IS WITH FEATHERS
Honestly, Eragon the book is one of my favorites. It, along with the likes of Percy Jackson and Lord of the Rings, inspired me to start writing on my own.
Who decided to make Angela look like that? I mean, seriously. Come on, guys. Grrrr.
I keep hearing rumors of a remake of an eragon movie. I hope they do it. It's good source material, they just have to stick to it.
I actually enjoyed the movie ok, but then God I could not have had less feelings about the book. The writing style felt so bland, I made it 100 pages in my first time before giving up, when Twilight I at least read till the end. I only ever finished the book because of a book club.
And I guess I'd already read too much other science fiction, because wow I got distracted by how he ripped off the magic system from Earthsea for example. I honestly think his parents would have helped him more by having him sit on the story at least until he was older.
This was a fun review tho, for as polar opposite as our views are.
Angela was so fun in the books. She was mysterious, yes, but she was also quirky, friendly to anyone who wasn't actively against her, a skilled fighter and tactician, an expert with poisons, and often came off as anywhere from eccentric to crazy... kind of like Phoebe from Friends. In fact, when she first meets Eragon, she's trying to prove that toads aren't real, which is kind of hilarious.
I can never get tired of watching this video.
This video is hilarious.
I hope sometime in the future there is a remake of this movie because it was a complete mistake in making this movie. There were too many things missing that should have been in the movie.
I'm not gonna say that Eragon as a book is anything more than Lord of the Rings-flavored Star Wars, but the movie is the saddest attempt to cash in on a fanbase I've ever seen.
I KNOW RIGHT. We just need Peter Jackson.
I sadly have to agree on everything. I remember skipping school to see this movie and it wasn't even worth the day off. it had so much more potential. I don't understand how it got so bad with such a great book for all of their content decisions
This movie is literally killing me... like help, I’m being killed by this.
While I agree the book is much much better.. I still owe a part of me to the movie.
I was what... eight or nine when it came out with a love of dragons. So my dad took me to see the movie in theaters. I went to see it in theaters three more times before it came out on DVD, at which point I didn't stop watching it for three days. Then, sneakily, my dad got me the book for Christmas. Understand, I was reading at a kindergarten level when he handed me the book. within the month I was reading at a fourth grade second semester. Before hand I hated reading, now, I love it. If it weren't for this movie, flawed as it is, i'd be borderline illiterate... (Although my punctuation could use work. xD)
Fun fact, the author is from Montana, which happens to be the state where I live.
"I'm the Rider, and I say we go!"
"I'm the car, and I say fuck you."
I'M DECEASED