Eragon

My only exceptions for sci-fi or fantasy would be the Star Wars movies and The Lord of the Ring Trilogy. But I actually hated the Eragon movie. I don't have the patience to read through about the total of 10,000 pages for the Lord of the Rings books. And I can take so much of the people who believe they are Star War characters or star trek it's all the same to me.

There are those movies like Planet of the Apes that really shouldn't of made remakes just because now that there are better special effects the producers of these movies seem to cheap to spend money on decent actors.

Clearly the actors, director, just about anyone involved in the making of the movie except Christopher Paolini don't know the first thing about the book. When I was watching the movie, the first thing I thought was how could someone who could create another entire world in his head (aside from being lonely jk) could sell his material to screenwriters who probably just got out of high school. No, that would be an insult to high school students.

Eragon is a boy who is orphaned but lives with his cousin and Uncle. They lives in the magical land of Alagesia, which is ruled by a dragon rider, Galbatorix. One day, he finds a stone that he brings home and hatches into a blue dragon. Galbatorix's minions, creatures called Ra'zacs, go after Eragon and his dragon, Saphira.

As he is rynning away from the Ra'zacs because they have blown up his farm and killed his uncle, he meets Brom, a story teller, who helps with Saphira and tells Eragon all he knows about dragons.

Along the way the encounter a stranger named Murtagh who helps them out of a sticky situation. They are attacked again and this time Brom doesn't survive. He tells Eragon about how he was a dragon rider before and how he should seek the Varden to help him.

Eragon dreams of an elf and eventually finds where she is captive and rescues her. They all travel to the Varden to return the elf to her home. The book ends with a battle, with Eragon injured but alive.

I guess they couldn't even shell out for good creative directors either. Of course, when your reading a book you put your own spin on things and visualize the way things play out. I don't think anybody would think that Saphira would look like a chicken or that elves would...well look like normal people. The movie didn't even follow the book. Pretty much the only things that stayed true were the names and the weather. I won't go into the details.

The book: maybe 9. The movie: 0