Early review of Eragon - ouch!

[xwolverine2]

eragon sucked ass! it wasnt uwe boll... but it was damn close

 

[lordofthenerds]

730 pages!!! Turned into a 105 min movie?!?!? Jeez, and then the Harry Potter fans complain.

The movie's actually only 99 mintues...

 

[Quasar]

I actually had some anticipation for this movie, though reservations as well (Fox, blueprint plot). Looks like the reservations win. I'll wait for Netflix.

 

[Galactus]

Estimated numbers for Friday: $8,6 million. Not enough to beat Pursuit of Happyness which had $9,1 million.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

I have always pretty much figured that Rocky Balboa would be the bigger box office movie for this december. The movie opens on the 20th giving it a 6 day weekend if you count christmas day.

 

[Darth Elektra]

I have always pretty much figured that Rocky Balboa would be the bigger box office movie for this december. The movie opens on the 20th giving it a 6 day weekend if you count christmas day.

Im hoping 'We are Marshall' is crowned king for December.

I dont think it will though

 

[The Lizard]

It's kind of weird that a James Bond flick will probably end up being the best "event movie" of the 2006 holiday season.

Hopefully the sixth Harry Potter movie will go back to a December schedule, since the HP flicks just always felt like holiday season films to me.

 

[Galactus]

Hopefully the sixth Harry Potter movie will go back to a December schedule, since the HP flicks just always felt like holiday season films to me.

November 21 2008
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Happy now?

 

[Substance D]

This could have been a decent, fun flick if it had better directing.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It's 497, but still. The film needed to be 2 and 1/2 hours long, at the least.

I've have literally just finished the book and the last page number was 730, its 730 pages long in my book, and should have been a 2 1/2 hour movie at least.

 

[Mogwai]

this film was very choppy... nothing like the book..

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I'm getting a certain pleasure out of seeing Eragon fail commercially and critically. Such cynical excercises deserve it.

 

[Substance D]

I'm getting a certain pleasure out of seeing Eragon fail commercially and critically. Such cynical excercises deserve it.

The movie sucked! Just like Casshern!

 

[Kevin Roegele]

The movie sucked! Just like Casshern!

Exactly, just like Cas.....no, wait.....!

 

[Elijya]

I saw it saturday, I went with a friend who had read the books and was excited for the movie. I warned her about the bad reviews, but she wanted to see it anyway. We both groaned the entire movie, it was SO bad. She kept covering her eyes as she watched the story she loved get raped.

My response was "So when do they go to the cantina to meet Han and Chewie?"

 

[Elijya]

why did Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Rahcel Weisz sign up for this ****?

 

[souloffire]

why did Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Rahcel Weisz sign up for this ****?

$$$

 

[Obsidian]

I saw it saturday, I went with a friend who had read the books and was excited for the movie. I warned her about the bad reviews, but she wanted to see it anyway. We both groaned the entire movie, it was SO bad. She kept covering her eyes as she watched the story she loved get raped.

My response was "So when do they go to the cantina to meet Han and Chewie?"

FOX sure does love to rape stories.

 

[Denny67]

I think the movie was doomed from the beginning.

People who read and liked the book are either young adults or adults that liked it because it was an entertaining read and not “good literature.”

Most know and realize it was written by a 15 year old kid and in reading the story you see where he was influenced by or borrowed a lot of his ideas from books and movies he liked… e.i. LoTR, Star Wars and some D&D stuff.

To then take that as your source material would be fine should you take all of the other stuff that made the book somewhat good but if you strip away the story telling and character development, condense it down to less than 2 hours then make changes on top of that, you end up with what you have.

It never ceases to amaze me how little Hollywood knows about making movies and continues to make the same mistakes over and over again when adapting films from preexisting properties.

 

[Elijya]

$$$

obviously. But this is two POS fantasy bombs in a row for Irons

 

[BloodyWolverine]

It's kind of weird that a James Bond flick will probably end up being the best "event movie" of the 2006 holiday season.

Hopefully the sixth Harry Potter movie will go back to a December schedule, since the HP flicks just always felt like holiday season films to me.

Isn't Happy Feet ahead of Casino Royale. Face it folks the bigger movie year is 2007. This year is done. And i had hoped for a desent december flick. Looks like The Italian Stallion is my last hope. The best over all december movie so far is Blood Diamond even if its not making money.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

why did Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich and Rahcel Weisz sign up for this ****?

Irons did Dungeons & Dragons, and Weisz did The Mummy movies.

 

[Elijya]

Hey, The Mummy movies were pretty good, and Weisz was good in them. And she wasn't known until them, so they basicly launched her career. and it wasn't QUITE the same genre. Plus, Eragon was a voice role for her, so I can understand her signing up, she didn't have to do anything more than spend an afternoon in a sound booth.

Irons though, this is just inexcusable

 

[Eros]

I didn't like the books, becasue they were obvious rip off or heavily based on the above named sources. The movie though was worse then the book, and i paid 9.50 plus pop corn and drinks.

 

[primemover]

This is a bummer, I was hoping for some decent dragon on dragon action.