Why does every sword & sorcery movie other than LOTR suck?

[Downhere]

Yes, I've read that from Pullman as well. Makes me laugh when I see some of the more conservative groups attack the Harry Potter series. Golden Compass makes Harry look like an evangelical Christian.

I agree, I'm a Christian but love Harry Potter. There really isn't anything objectional in HP, it's mostly pure fantasy. I don't agree with Pullman's worldview and I think that is what really brings down the world he tried to create, especially the second and third books of the trilogy.

Was Pullman criticizing the Narnia film, or the books? There are lots of fantastic things in Naria that don't evoke Christian thought.

He criticized the books.

 

[Victarion]

Hey! How much of Eragon's mythos is similar to Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" mythos? I'm surprised nobody has tried to bring her work to film yet!

Aside from Riders and telepathic dragons, I've not seen any other similarities. I will say that the "dragon choosing the rider" in the Pern stories is much more...interesting. t:

On the whole, Anne's series was too sci-fi for my tastes and Eragon was too Lord of the Star Wars for my tastes. We need something that's just right, which we haven't got yet!

-Lieutenant Morzan

 

[Trevor Goodchild]

I agree, I'm a Christian but love Harry Potter. There really isn't anything objectional in HP, it's mostly pure fantasy. I don't agree with Pullman's worldview and I think that is what really brings down the world he tried to create, especially the second and third books of the trilogy.

Hmm, interesting.
Could it be because Pullman's world is too ‘definitive’ in nature as opposed to open for interpretation, at least as far as global views on reality are concerned, like most works of fiction?
Like a sort of passive ridicule.
For the record I consider Narnia, in its movie context, to be just as ‘limited’.
Which, by the way, is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as the reader can accept this kind of certainty and not take it personally as s/he would in the real world.
You could say - to enjoy a fictional world, first you should agree with the author, no?

 

[Red Mask]

Aside from Riders and telepathic dragons, I've not seen any other similarities. I will say that the "dragon choosing the rider" in the Pern stories is much more...interesting. t:

On the whole, Anne's series was too sci-fi for my tastes and Eragon was too Lord of the Star Wars for my tastes. We need something that's just right, which we haven't got yet!

-Lieutenant Morzan

Ah good. McCaffrey had insisted that her Pern stories were science fiction instead of fantasy. Looks like she conveyed her idea well after all.

 

[Red Mask]

I agree, I'm a Christian but love Harry Potter. There really isn't anything objectional in HP, it's mostly pure fantasy. I don't agree with Pullman's worldview and I think that is what really brings down the world he tried to create, especially the second and third books of the trilogy.

If he's gotten that much criticism I wonder how Vertigo's "Preacher" has any chance of being filmed. The Church is depicted as even more evil and God is pretty much guilty for what's gone wrong in life.

 

[Reek]

Harry Potter is good, Narnia is good, Eragon blows, BRAVEHEART, not sorcery, but sword. Exaclibur was good. The Prestige is good

 

[Reek]

oh yeah, eragon had EPIC potential like LOTR, bookwise...well Eldest is the sequel and isnt as good as eragon, book 3 due next spring...but they coulda waited a few years and made a LOTR type trilogy...but they screwed it, unless, REBOOOOOT