![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThis evening ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellefurtle and I watched a DVD of Eragon, courtesy wallabok.
Interesting little movie which shows its Lord of the Rings heritage at every turn. Strangely clichéd dialogue, oddly clipped scenes which suggest that there is another, much longer movie on the cutting room floor - I felt like I'd watched the highlights reel from a very long saga. I can see that the kudos of being in a LOTR style movie might have been enough to attract the likes of Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Robert Carlyle, after all see what it's done for the career of Sir Gandalf Magneto, but really. You'd have thought they'd read the script before signing on the dotted line, wouldn't you. Unless they did, of course, and there's a much longer and rather better told movie lying on the cutting room floor. Jeremy Irons particularly missed out; he didn't have the chance to properly finish Obe-Wan-ing Eragon before he died, yet somehow despite that and with no Yoda input, there is our hero, all growed up and fighting like a veteran.
Hmm.
Still, at nothing, it was worth the price of admission and I'd gladly pay twice that to see it.
I don't know if the sequel will ever be made; I'm not sure it's worth it. Eragon II: The Kingdom Strikes Back it's all set up and ready.
ellefurtle and I watched a DVD of Eragon, courtesy wallabok.Interesting little movie which shows its Lord of the Rings heritage at every turn. Strangely clichéd dialogue, oddly clipped scenes which suggest that there is another, much longer movie on the cutting room floor - I felt like I'd watched the highlights reel from a very long saga. I can see that the kudos of being in a LOTR style movie might have been enough to attract the likes of Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Robert Carlyle, after all see what it's done for the career of Sir Gandalf Magneto, but really. You'd have thought they'd read the script before signing on the dotted line, wouldn't you. Unless they did, of course, and there's a much longer and rather better told movie lying on the cutting room floor. Jeremy Irons particularly missed out; he didn't have the chance to properly finish Obe-Wan-ing Eragon before he died, yet somehow despite that and with no Yoda input, there is our hero, all growed up and fighting like a veteran.
Hmm.
Still, at nothing, it was worth the price of admission and I'd gladly pay twice that to see it.
I don't know if the sequel will ever be made; I'm not sure it's worth it. Eragon II: The Kingdom Strikes Back it's all set up and ready.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-30 01:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-30 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-30 08:43 am (UTC)Strangely clichéd novel.
I thought the novel stank so I'm not surprised it didn't make a very good film. My only hope was that in cutting off the flab and waffle they might have found a worthwhile nugget of film - but I think I was being overly generous. From what I can recall, the weaknesses you are highlighting are all there in the source material.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-30 11:27 am (UTC)I remember customers like that in my shop and that was --- oh dear, oh deary deary dear it was 20 years ago. This means that I have been involved with Roleplaying games for half my life!!! OH OH does that mean I can be a sword and dagger wielding mean little old lady? oh please! yes!
About Jeremy Irons
Date: 2007-07-30 12:11 pm (UTC)Re: About Jeremy Irons
Date: 2007-07-30 12:50 pm (UTC)