wtf?
Just saw the Eragon movie.
What a load of crap.
I was willing to cut Fox some slack when they announced they would be making a movie on the book, but after the movie I take everything back. The drivel that met me on the big screen wasn’t even worthy of the notoriety that surrounds the books themselves.
Hell, I'm even hoping that people would be inspired to pick up a copy of Eragon and enjoy that more than the **** on the screen.
Forgive me for failing to announce, but since my last post I have been hired by the largest Eragon fan site Shurtugal.com (I am both an outspoken Anti and Inheritance fan. I prefer to stand on both sides of the strait thank you very much. Grey Lady in the house) . My duties are to update the website’s content, and I’ve been reading material on the movie production for subsequent articles. To quote from Mythic vision:
“We could not even mention the name of Lord of the Rings--we were forbidden by the heads of Fox”
^crap, crap, double crap^
Mention and Show are two entirely different verbs. Sure they maybe were forbidden to allude to LOTRs, but that didn’t stop them from making Eragon into a fuzzy silhouette of the greatest fantasy epic of our time.
You know what made Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, and even Harry Potter great movies?
They were made BY fans FOR fans.
Since the movie heads were adamant fans of their respective literature, it was only natural for them to turn their movies into things that they would enjoy watching (and thus the entire fan base). Even Chris Columbus, who I thought was the worst of the HP directors made the first two HP films enjoyable because of this:
“There have been come criticism from certain people that we have been too faithful to the books, my feeling is, if you are a fan of the books, you need to be faithful. If you love something, you should be faithful to it.
Clearly, the people who made Eragon the movie did not love Eragon the book, so they proceeded to create it into something that resembled one of those badly cut fantasy flicks that pop up on the Sci-Fi channel.
I understand that Fox was trying *a tad too* hard to appeal to a younger audience, but are they not forgetting that kids these days expect more than they did when I was a kid?
Just because you market a film to kids doesn’t mean you should go about it in a half-assed way.
Enough with my ranting. Lets just all take a deep breath, get Eragon out of our heads, and go spend our movie money on something a bit more…respected. My holiday will be made if I can somehow see this.
97% on Rottentomatoes. It must be worth something.
What a load of crap.
I was willing to cut Fox some slack when they announced they would be making a movie on the book, but after the movie I take everything back. The drivel that met me on the big screen wasn’t even worthy of the notoriety that surrounds the books themselves.
Hell, I'm even hoping that people would be inspired to pick up a copy of Eragon and enjoy that more than the **** on the screen.
Forgive me for failing to announce, but since my last post I have been hired by the largest Eragon fan site Shurtugal.com (I am both an outspoken Anti and Inheritance fan. I prefer to stand on both sides of the strait thank you very much. Grey Lady in the house) . My duties are to update the website’s content, and I’ve been reading material on the movie production for subsequent articles. To quote from Mythic vision:
“We could not even mention the name of Lord of the Rings--we were forbidden by the heads of Fox”
^crap, crap, double crap^
Mention and Show are two entirely different verbs. Sure they maybe were forbidden to allude to LOTRs, but that didn’t stop them from making Eragon into a fuzzy silhouette of the greatest fantasy epic of our time.
You know what made Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, and even Harry Potter great movies?
They were made BY fans FOR fans.
Since the movie heads were adamant fans of their respective literature, it was only natural for them to turn their movies into things that they would enjoy watching (and thus the entire fan base). Even Chris Columbus, who I thought was the worst of the HP directors made the first two HP films enjoyable because of this:
“There have been come criticism from certain people that we have been too faithful to the books, my feeling is, if you are a fan of the books, you need to be faithful. If you love something, you should be faithful to it.
Clearly, the people who made Eragon the movie did not love Eragon the book, so they proceeded to create it into something that resembled one of those badly cut fantasy flicks that pop up on the Sci-Fi channel.
I understand that Fox was trying *a tad too* hard to appeal to a younger audience, but are they not forgetting that kids these days expect more than they did when I was a kid?
Just because you market a film to kids doesn’t mean you should go about it in a half-assed way.
Enough with my ranting. Lets just all take a deep breath, get Eragon out of our heads, and go spend our movie money on something a bit more…respected. My holiday will be made if I can somehow see this.
97% on Rottentomatoes. It must be worth something.