move over harry potter...Eragon is here!!

[blake]

lol
Anyone else noticed that Eragon had exactly the same plot-line as Star Wars.

Those of you who read Joseph Campbell know what I'm talking about...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

 

[Gonking]

Eragon is pure crap, a copy of Lord of the Rings.

 

[GreenKToo]

so did I,and I cant wait for the sequel.EDIT: I havent saw eragon.is it worth a look??

I liked Narnia too.

 

[Movies205]

If you like the books, you'll like the movie, I gather. I never read the books but the problem with the movie is the lame story that's obviously written toward other teenagers who feel a need for adventure. Like come on dragons who died if the dragonrider dies? A land controlled by an evil king, blah blah been there and done that all. The movie follows a rather formula driven plot so it's kind of boring, however the creature effects are cool and I really like the final fight scene.

 

[GreenKToo]

well,I havent read the books,but it sounds like a knock off of LOTRs...

 

[Rez]

I concur. Harry Potter does suck!

 

[JackBauer]

If you like the books, you'll like the movie, I gather.

actually, I know a couple of people who love the books (why, it's beyond me) and hate the movie (now that I can understand). they changed a lot, apparently.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

This should have been mentioned With Pirates Of The Caribbean or Narnia but i agree no way is it Eragon the thing Harry Potter should fear i fantasy or get out of the way from. I think The Golden Compass will be the next big Fantasy hit.

 

[nocomics]

The person who said Equilibrium was nowhere near as good as the Matrix, you should know it was not meant to be. In fact, it was meant to be a Dystopia story in the vein of "1984", "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," and the Russian Masterpiece "WE." It pulled off and excellently, combining elements from all these stories and adding the threat of the death of emotions to what a government or society could do if we let it. He then put a nice action gloss on the outside of the deeper meaning to try and get the mainstream audience to see it, and to give it a happier ending.

Eragon looks like a movie that is being Over hyped because it may not be that great, but wait and see it for yourself, it maybe quite good.

It was advertised as better than the matrix,and it wasn't better thats all I'm saying. I enjoyed the movie,I like Bale just wasn't as good as matrix.

 

[swifty]

to anyone...PLEASE DO NOT PUT ERAGON AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS IN THE SAME SENTENCE!!!!

PLEASE!

 

[britrogue]

has anyone been seeing those lame ass ads. with the voice announcer saying "move over harry potter the next big sci-fi fantasy adventure is here...Eragon!" lol this movie is in no way harry potter nor the next big sci-fi advneture. i hate when ads over hype a crap movie,thinking it's the next big thing after lord of thr rings or any other sucessfull epic franchise.

what do you guys think about this?

I must admit, having seen the trailer for this, I'm quite looking foward to seeing it

 

[Sam Fisher]

to anyone...PLEASE DO NOT PUT ERAGON AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS IN THE SAME SENTENCE!!!!

PLEASE!

O. Eragon is better than LOTR

 

[Cyrusbales]

my mate saw eragon and said it was one of the worst films he'd seen for a long while. From what I've seen, i tend to agree.

 

[Turtle-Man]

O. Eragon is better than LOTR

Explain how it's better.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Explain how it's better.

I was joking

 

[Turtle-Man]

I was joking

I know. t:

 

[Fried Gold]

The person who said Equilibrium was nowhere near as good as the Matrix, you should know it was not meant to be. In fact, it was meant to be a Dystopia story in the vein of "1984", "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," and the Russian Masterpiece "WE." It pulled off and excellently, combining elements from all these stories and adding the threat of the death of emotions to what a government or society could do if we let it. He then put a nice action gloss on the outside of the deeper meaning to try and get the mainstream audience to see it, and to give it a happier ending.

I knew that someone would not let the Equilibrium comment slide...

 

[Cyrusbales]

I knew that someone would not let the Equilibrium comment slide...

what does this have to do with (the crap that is)eragon?

 

[Fried Gold]

what does this have to do with (the crap that is)eragon?

The poster, nocomics, quite rightly pointed out the similarity between the way that Eragon was being marketed and hyped as the next Harry Potter and the way that Equilibrium was marketed and hyped as the next Matrix.

MurphyMan barged in with his size 6's, with a deconstruction of Equilibrium and the unfair parallels with the aforementioned Matrix, all the while missing the point by a mile, and ultimately coming across as rather tragic.

 

[Cyrusbales]

okies, with you now, you're referring to marketing not content. easy peasey.

However in England, the marketing for eragon has been more like the new LOTR instead. "The next great fantasy epic" and such like. And there has been a shortage of trailers in cinema's too, mainly just kept as carboard cut outs and posters.

Thought the international perspective might help.

 

[Rac]

ROTFALMAO! I wanna see/hear these ads!

 

[lordofthenerds]

If they really want it to be the next fantasy epic, the film-makers should grow attention spans and actually make the runtime longer than 100 minutes.

 

[Cyrusbales]

If they really want it to be the next fantasy epic, the film-makers should grow attention spans and actually make the runtime longer than 100 minutes.

surely just making it a good film would be a nice start, but they can't even manage that