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Post by ÄlveKatt on Aug 13, 2006 4:37:05 GMT -5
I am curious, being a fan of Fantasy and Science Fiction, how will the movie based on the fantasy novel Eragon turn out? www.eragonmovie.com/main.htmlStories about a man and his dragon is something I quite enjoy. There is allways some kind of empathy between them. I am looking forward to seeing a new movie on this theme, it was a long time since Dragonheart. But even the source material isn't the best I have read, if not really bad either. I have read another book on a man and his dragon theme that I thought much better called Temeraire (or His majesty's dragon if you look at the US edition). I would really like to see Temeraire make it to a movie. Imagine the era of the Napoleon wars, only they have an air force of enormous dragons. Alternative history with a draconic twist. ;D What do you think, will Eragon turn out to be a good movie? And if it makes it good, will there perhaps be a bigger chance of Temeraire also making it to the big screen? |
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Post by kylerexpop on Aug 15, 2006 5:56:02 GMT -5
it sort of looks lame, on-screen.
at the san diego comic con, i went to a few film panels mostly to just sit down for a few minutes, organize all my free junks and purchases in my pack and pockets, and see what free stuff i could get for showing up. at one of them, the vp of something or other for the movie studio that's putting out eragon was there and was getting all excited/proud about bringing it to the screen and being committed to it and finding the exact right actor for the lead role, blah blah blah. "this is the first time ANYONE has seen the trailer and it's SO WONDERFUL" we were told.
well, it looked like any other dragon story that's made for sci-fi channel or straight-to-video or whatever. like, right now (maybe not RIGHT NOW, but when i'm awake and more coherent in a few hours) i'm fairly confident that i can predict and map out exactly what happens in the movie without any futher knowledge of the premise or the books themselves. i bet the ending will soften the cliffhanger (aren't there multiple books? i think they were saying 'trilogy') just in case it does bad and they never get made.
so, yes: if you like the book and like this sort of thing, it seems like it will be just your bag. otherwise, it doesn't look special enough to be the massive lotr type of hit they probably would like it to be. but hopefully i'm wrong! we'll see around christmastime, yeah?
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Post by PoolMan on Aug 15, 2006 11:07:08 GMT -5
It's so strange, reading the entire Hitch Hiker's Guide series, and then coming on the boards to hear Kyle's textual impressions of Zaphod Beeblebrox.
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Post by pfrsue on Aug 15, 2006 16:47:49 GMT -5
Zaphod aside, I haven't seen the trailer for Eragon (and won't until I'm finished with vacation and not using my Dad's computer), but I really liked both books in the series thus far. I'm also a longtime follower of Anne McCaffrey's Pern (she should have given the series to me instead of her son) and always sort of hoped they could do some justice to the original Dragonriders Trilogy in a movie - but as time goes by, I've sort of lost hope.
I miss my Pern fanfiction. *sigh*
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Post by Lissa on Aug 22, 2006 7:08:09 GMT -5
You would have made a much better stab at Pern than Todd McCaffery would have. Of couse, it would have been a much darker Pern.... (Like I'm any better?)
I keep meaning to read the book, but funny how I haven't managed it. (I still have those two blasted chapters left in Clash of Kings, which probably haven't been burning into me because one is Theon, who I'm not crazy about, and one is Bran, and I already peaked to see how his chapter ended, because I like Bran.) I have heard that no one's actually seen the dragon yet though?
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Post by Head Mutant on Aug 22, 2006 7:32:12 GMT -5
Dude, it can't hold a candle to D&D2, and I want no part of it.
Pssht. Dragons. Fantasy's generic bullies, beating up unicorns and elves since 1948.
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Post by Ms. Jellybean on Aug 22, 2006 11:47:10 GMT -5
A film version of Eragon seems like it would be a disaster. I just have a gut feeling about it.
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Post by Big T on Aug 23, 2006 0:49:36 GMT -5
I really enjoy the books but I must say that where the books come ever so close to a LotR rip off, a movie might come off even more so. I get a bad feel ing in my gut about this movie myself. Although that doesn't change the fact that my girlfriend (also a fan of the book) and I will catch it in theatres.
Baaaaaaaaah...
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Post by ÄlveKatt on Sept 17, 2006 1:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by PoolMan on Sept 17, 2006 15:05:19 GMT -5
That's the same link twice, AlveKatt!
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Sept 17, 2006 18:51:18 GMT -5
So nice, he linked it twice.  Oh, and I'm not even interested enough to check the trailer.  |
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Post by littlewing on Sept 17, 2006 21:43:33 GMT -5
I've enjoyed the first two books of the Eragon series fairly well enough, but I have to say- an awful lot of it seemed to be taken from the Lord of the Rings. Understanding of course that LotR set a standard for fantasy stories that has been imitated so often that anyone who's read more than two fantasy novels has become pretty disillusioned. I suppose I'll see it when it comes out, despite the fact that this is another fantasy excursion with dragons starring Jeremy Irons.
I also don't quite get the author's fascination thus far with his elves. If anything they seem even more pretentious and snooty than the ones in Tolkien's books.
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Post by ÄlveKatt on Sept 18, 2006 2:42:54 GMT -5
Uhm. Ooops. I have edited the post, but I didn't manage to find the intended url despite heavy googling.
Temeraire's a lovely book and, I think, it getting a movie is something to get excited about. So, Google Peter Jackson + Temeraire. Read the news. And read some reviews of Naomi Noviks books.
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Post by ÄlveKatt on Sept 18, 2006 2:46:49 GMT -5
I've enjoyed the first two books of the Eragon series fairly well enough, but I have to say- an awful lot of it seemed to be taken from the Lord of the Rings. When I read Eragon my first thought was that this guy has watched a bit too much animated Japanese fantasy. It felt a bit like he had taken that and tolkien and stirred it around a bit. But I liked it for the escapism. |
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Post by Magill on Sept 18, 2006 9:23:09 GMT -5
I'm in the midst of rereading LOTR and reading Eragon and Eragon definitely seems to be repackaging a lot of LOTR. I'm not too far into Eragon, but just looking at the maps and some of the characters so far, there's a lot of similarities.
Incidentally, this is the 2nd time I've read Fellowship and The Two Towers (I started Return of the King but never finished it). The first time I read Fellowship, I couldn't stand it for the first 100 pages or so (exception--the chapter "The Shadow of the Past"). It seemed to be all "boo-hoo, these scary riders are keeping us from visiting a tavern" and a guy in yellow boots with really bad rhymes. I really didn't get into it until the Council of Elrond.
I think the first time through, I was impatient for things to start happening. I felt very similarly when I first read The Stand: "enough with the knocked-up college kid, the partying rock star, and some dude from Texas--when are people going to start dying?" Now that I know the story (for both), I can appreciate the setting up of the characters and the mood.
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