Eragon, good and bad

We saw Eragon (2006) on opening day, December 15, 2006. It was good, but not the book. Parts of it bothered me, like changing the ending to work differently than the book, and in the beginning having soldiers in the town near where Eragon lived, which is NOT part of the book, their town had been “out of it” not affected by the troubles in the realm up to then. Cousin Roran left home for different reasons in the movie, from the book, yes in the movie it was the “soldier issue” –he was leaving to go “who knows where” in order to avoid “conscription” basically. Also, the thing about the she-elf Arya was all different from the book, in Durza’s grasp in prison, poisoned, and how Eragon learned of her and then eventually saved her. The book and the movie are so different in most ways about it. Then the journey from the prison to the Varden hideout, it was a long journey in the book, and it took two-second in the movie, and it wasn’t that they just flashed forward in time for these fast events, they truly left OUT the journey’s.

The other thing is that things were condensed together and whole sections of the book twisted. What was missing? Character building. Eragon and Brom sparring every night on their jouney. Oh, yeah, the journey is missing. All of it, basically. It’s a movie that could have been longer, and more from the book actually added to have it make sense to everyone. It was 1 hr. 38 min. or so, too short, too fast, too “painful”.

It was good though, it’s hard to say why, except for to say, “Sapphira” was magnificent.

I’d love to see the movie done over, like that’s possible. It could be so much better. It seems to be a flash, flash, quick film, suitable for the hyperactive one that can’t even get into a movie with more than a few ‘down time’ scenes, slower character building scenes, and a complex journey. :rolleyes:

It was something special to see the dragon come to the big screen. We had been waiting awhile to see this film, and to finally see it: and it was too short, too quick, too action oriented, not enough character building, missing characters, changing ideas, towns, and cutting out the journeys, it’s hard to say that it was good, but it was on some level. FWIW