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ERAGON trailer hits online...
Hey folks, Harry here. I love dragons. Ever since I first saw 7th Voyage of Sinbad... I've been a dragon junkie. Perhaps my second biggest let down in the history of AICN had to do with DRAGONHEART, which I so wanted to be a great film. I was so stoked for DRAGONHEART - and when that flaming turd shat in my eyes - I was furious. Cuz... man, dragons are cool. DRAGONSLAYER was badass! But DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was awful, "throw me the rod" indeed Mr. Bluelips! Now - Peter Jackson has announced some dragon series that Quint loves - and I have to say - I'm going to purposefully not read those books so I can just let them happen to me. The last "Dragon" series I read was the DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN series. And I heard from most of my fantasy literature junkies, that the books that this Fox series is based upon were just shit. Cliche after cliche. And it is Fox - which all of you know, I'm employed by the Democratic Party to hate on at every turn. But as cheesy as this trailer is... I want this ERAGON thing to be fun.
First off - there's that blonde kid from the old animated DUNGEON & DRAGONS tv series that I loved. He's got the power bow and everything. Then there's the dragon with scaly feather formation wings. And Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich. And costumes recycled from one of the greatest cheese sword and sorcery flicks ever made... SWORD AND THE SORCEROR. Just be fun. Please - just be fun.
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Dragonheart was a punch to the balls and anus, but God did it give us one of the best lines in film hostory. 'Like a pudding.'
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I'm sorry, but does anyone else here think that Eragon and especially Eldest were both actually excellent books. Yes, its well trod territory, but these were engrossing gripping books, and the character of Saphira is intelligent and well thought out, and their relationship is good. I have very high hopes for this film...
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I'll watch it on DVD
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weird
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Fuck yeah!! Oh and dragons??? TOO SOON!!
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men riding dragons throwing wolves at maggots
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John Malkovich has never been in this film! In fact, this film has never been made! He told me in the interview which you can read on MY WEBSITE!
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The trailer looks a little bit like "In The Name Of The King", but at least they are not trying to copy the visual style of LOTR.
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Looks like it was shot in the same woods.
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oh well, thems the breaks
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'member that part in the preview when the fuckin' dragon bit that one dude!? 'member that!? OMG! Fuck! I mean seriously! This might be the best movie ever made! If I had a dragon I'd name him Brad...But don't worry, me an' Brad wouldn't have coitus or anything.
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I had high hopes for this series, but I don't think I'll be seeing this in the theatre.
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ain't never read the books or even seen the trailer but from the Harry's description above this sounds like the most derivative shit ever. and i thought Irons would have learnt his lesson from being in the D&D movie.
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would help. help immensely
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I bought this book and I read nearly forty pages of it. The only reason I read that much was because I imagined Napoleon Dynamite's voice narrating the story to me.
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With the dragon acting stupid and not dragonly at all. What made matters worse was that it seemed Sean Connery was hamming it up to the ninth level. Other than the dragon, the movie was actually pretty good. Maybe if the dragon didn't talk so much or at all and didn't look so cartoony, it might have been a good or even great film.
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time for imdb and google photos! holla!!!
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This looks like the type of movie that I would only watch if it were the film that they played on a cross-country flight. And then when I got off the plane and the person picking me up at the airport asks: "How was your flight?" I respond: "Fucking awful."
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Malkovich's accent is crappy as usual, the pouty dork blond kid is questionable, and this movie looks second rate at best.
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If you want to read the book, instead just take the movie Star Wars and change all of the characters names. Instead of "the force" just cut-and-paste "dragon power" in its place and instead of "flys in a spaceship" write "flys on a dragon".
The book was uninspired shit and this movie looks like it was made for the Sci-Fi channel.
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I agree that Eragon reads like it's being narrated by Napoleon Dynamite, like it's this self-deluded kid talking as if he's enlightening the masses to a wet-dream type world of phallic dragons and she elves, with none of the conscientious, war-weary story complications of LOTR or a sophmore Civics class. The names are barely disguised bastardized Tolkien as well. Like Neverending Story, this kind of book caters to the bedwetting, notebook scribbling child at the heart of all fanboys, which is why the movie will kill at the box office.
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Between that and the final one sheet that is a complete ripoff of the one for the Goblet of Fire last year, the movie's drowning in the fantasy pool. I'm just not impressed. Though that Bond trailer is kickass!
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I like dragons, almost as much as I like dinosaurs. This dragon, however looks a bit too friendly to me, it lacks the character that the reign of fire one had. This one looks a bit of a snake skin labrador. Does he fetch in the movie, or lick his balls I wonder? A kid's movie for sure, hopefully Peter Jackson will do something more interesting with his Napopleonic take.
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And it made him a Millions when he put it online thru Lulu. I could be wrong but this title sounds like that book.
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Of course I was just kidding. (Probably you wasn't here for a few days and so you don't get the joke. Wasn't a good one anyway ^_^)
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I really liked the look of this in general. However there were a couple of points which worry me. 1st you can tell the good guys from the bad by the fact that they are CLEAN and HANDSOME/HOT. 2nd the final battle takes place inside a city. Dragons fighting inside a city should equal tonnes of environment damage which I'm not seeing in the trailer. Also being in a city means there cant be any hair raising wides a la ROTK. Which is just a shame as the only reason I can see for having set a film in the medieval past is to use the idea of the clashing hordes. But here it looks like the BAD ARMY stride into their fate pretty much single file. And there's only about 30 of them. Other than that.. Yay dragons!
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This looks lame. What an atrocious dialogue. Ans as cliched as a film can be.
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I remember in an interview after the first DND movie came out, Jeremy Irons said (and I'm paraphrasing): Sometimes you take a part because you are drawn to the character. Sometimes you want the challenge of working on a particular project with a particular director. And sometimes you have to pay for your castle in Scotland.
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Two reasons this film has been made:
1. Popularity of all young adult fantasy literature being turned into film franchises. Every production company wants their own Harry Potter or LOTR. (His Dark Materials, Chronicles of Narnia, Artemis Fowle all in development/production)
2. Eragon was a New York Times bestseller. Of course it only sold because it hit in-between HP new releases. (So many bad books have sold a lot because they have been heralded as "a fantasy book to keep your child reading in-between new HP releases.) And it was the fact that he was fifteen when he wrote the first one.
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It should star Cameron Diaz... it's that stupid.
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Uh yeah but then again you never read books right?
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I wonder how many 20 sided dice will be found on the theatre floor after the opening night? I think I will stay away from this pending geekgasm!
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1) Cast Jeremy Irons 2) Bad makeup for the villian's sidekick 3) Spend less on special effects than on craft services
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What this movie needs is some serious Zombi vs. dragon action. Why should sharks have all the fun?
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"I really liked the look of this in general. However there were a couple of points which worry me. 1st you can tell the good guys from the bad by the fact that they are CLEAN and HANDSOME/HOT."
"'E must be a king." "How do you know?" "'E hasn't got sh*t all over 'im." -
...since I only knew his german dubbing voice. How did this guy get famous with an accent like this???
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Is it just me, or did Reign of Fire actually improve with age? Or did all the other recent movies with dragons simply suck so much as to put things in perspective? I do maintain that the Reign of Fire dragons are still the best ever put on screen.
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i just watched the trailer for 'Beast Master: The Return' and how come Jeremy Irons is in so many dragon movies? Maybe its because he's overrated, like stories involving dragons.
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....all that make-up on Bobby Carlyle to make him look EXACTLY like Martin Short in Merlin.
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Looks like putrid shit; you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's labia and the source text is a pool of cat-sick.
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were the best I have seen thus far too, Killah.
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there wasn't much in this trailer that really "wow"d me. Stock audio effects for the dragon. Sounds like they took sounds from the Aliens in "Aliens" and pasted them over the dragon. The lead character looks like he came from the Mickey Mouse Club. It all feels really cliche and overused. But I'll wait and see if another trailer can impress me before I dump it.
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I'm going to avoid this movie unless is miraculously scores a 90%+ on Rotten Tomatoes. The book read like it was written by a 13 year old. I had to dive into a Heinlein novel afterward just to wash away the overwhelming sense of vocabulary limitation. It was most cleansing. A pity.
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Ah, nostalgia...
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They're very easy reads, and although it's not completely original, Paolini owes alot of inspiration to LOTR, Dragonlance and Dragonriders of Pern...It's still a great Series that actually does have a few unique aspects and subplots. They're very easy reads as well, and unlike a series like Wheel of Time (which I love) the Inheritance Trilogy doesn't get bogged down in it's own History or Tangling plots. And I want to be very clear about this, speaking as a fan from the Eragon community: Although this movie On It's Own may be a fun romp, and a good diversion, it's already become apparent to us Shur'tugal fans that this Movie is nearly an abortion of the source material. Core Characters have already been totally altered...not for the best. (For example, the Lead Female, Arya is a Raven-haired Elf...Not a Blonde Human...and it has serious ramifications to the total story if that's the way the Movie stays) I'll still go see Eragon in the Theater, for I, like you have a desire to see a Kick ass Dragon Flick. Dragons fucking rule. But don't write off the books entirely. It's actually the best New Fantasy series i've read for quite awhile. I'd compare it to a melding of Dragonlance meets Harry Potter. If you like either, or both then you'll enjoy the Books. And if you haven't read Dragonlance, at the VERY Least, the 1st SIX Books in the Series then you shouldn't even comment on dragons whatsoever. :) They're Geek Essentials. Please Tell Me you've Read them...
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i'm on that bandwagon...those dragons were definitely the best, even better than the black scary flying things in LOTR. this film is D&D2: Electric Boogaloo without a doubt. and yes, the kid wrote the books when he was 15, but what that actually means is he wrote some stuff, his parents, who are both teachers who home-schooled him, re-wrote the MSS and then they handed them off to a literary agent. so while i could forgive the limitations of an average 15-year old's imagination, i can't forgive the succession of people who engineered the release of the books and then executed this dogshit film.
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That old fart just commited suicide. The dragon did look awesome(hooray models), but the Reign of Fire dragons were awesomer. Way awesomer.
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That's right. Uwe Boll's DUNGEON SIEGE (aka IN THE NAME OF THE KING) will smack this unfunny garbage around like a coked up pimp.
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In Dragonslayer, Ulrich let himself be taken by the Dragon or Vermithrax, which I believe was its name. Having the magic amulet, Galen smashed it, thus destroying the dragon and Ulrich with it. So, technically, Galen was the dragonslayer, but for some reason, the king was officially pronounced as the slayer. I really wished they did a sequel to this so we see what kind of sorcerer Galen becomes. You just get a hint of it when he wills a horse to give him and Valerian a ride to their destination. Although, according to the film, I guess that was the last dragon in existence. Damn, I'm such a geek.
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ok, so the look of Bilbo is way too young! what's with all this riding smaug bullshit?! Peter Jackson has lost it, this looks nothing like LOTR!
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Not surprised to see that FOX is putting this out. It's not the worst thing, but it's very inderwelming for a soon to be released motion picture. Looks more like a tv special.
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Lame.
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That old fart did all the work. I can crush a rock...
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Dead Ringers, Die Hard 3. And he was good on stage recently. This however, will be poo.
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Talk backers are predictable as usual. While I agree that the Reign Of Fire dragons were amazing, I think this movie looks pretty awesome. But I am not one to nitpick every movie I see and literally take the fun out of going to movies like apparently most of you do. I'm sure it's not perfect, but who fuckin cares. It's a popcorn flick. One which I intend to see.
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I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I have seen the official Dungeons and Dragons sequel and actually liked it a fair bit. This looks like crap though.
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While we're talking about dragons lets have a quick shout out for Reign of Fire. "Ya take out the HEART, ya bring down the BEEEEEAST!" Add McConawhatever's southern accent to that.
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Bring back DragonHeart. At least Connery's dragon was cool. This dragon and Eragon look like pussies.
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WHAT MGM IS DOING. They plan on making two Hobbit films. Word is there trying to woo Peter Jackson and company aboard (a lot of money involved in these negotiations though {percentages and such}). Well? Have some guys investigate this pronto. Who cares about Eragon when we could see SMOG!
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Is that Pappagallo's kid from the Road Warrior?
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I've actually read Eragon and Eldest and Galbatorix is not in either one of them. AT ALL. But I recognize that adapting the book to film it helps to have your baddie present from the beginning. The fact that Galabatorix has not appeared in the books has built up what will probably be a monumental dissappointment in the third book "Empire." Get it all three books are 6 letters long and begin with the letter 'e'. Anyway the books are VERY derivative but they are entertaining to read and easy to get into. They are very detailed in languages and magical power limitations and abilities. Not nearly to the extent as Rings though. Actually what will strike you after reading the two books is that so far the plot is almost a direct copy of Star Wars and Empire. It's pretty funny. I'm lookign forward to seeing if the third book matches Jedi. I'm looking forward to seeing this first movie as well. The trailer looks better than I expected.
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A little bit of Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire..spinkled with some LOTR..and a dash of Obiwan. Yawn..
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And they are both bolted to the front of Thora Birch's chest.
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Really...is there anything Harry DOESN'T like? If they made a movie about toasters, he'd say "I love toasters".
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I think this will be very... entertaining. That Sienna Guillory girl, I find her very... entertaining to watch.
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Yeah I said Dragos, not Dragons. Big fan of Rocky IV.
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that feels better.... avoid the restroom for the next 15 min or so.
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While the Pern series has gone to hell recently with Anne "handing the reins" to Todd McCaffery, the original trilogy would be excellent on film. I seem to remember an attempt at a TV series a few years back, but it apparently never saw the light of day. And really, the books really need the attention and BUDGET of a movie studio, not UPN/WB/Fox, etc. Lessa and F'lar were great characters in the early books. F'lar needs an Errol Flynn type actor. Lessa...I don't know. The key thing, which probably "killed" the TV attempt, is the DRAGONS HAVE TO BE RIGHT. As for Eragon...shlock books = schlock movie; there ain't no fix for this turkey and I'd bet it dies a quick death.
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Matthew McConaughey taught me that.
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"I'm talkin about ya semen!" "You know you're not very good at innuendo."
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I love the letter T! I think Elizabeth Dennehy kicks ungodly ass! Chicken reminds me of the time I discovered masturbation!
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...Winner of the Academy Award for Best Quote of the Day. *crowd goes crazy*
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The best dragon movie, and for that matter, dragon, is Dragonslayer. Remember, Bernafax Pajorative was old. When a dragon gets that old it knows nothing but pain, constant pain. It grows decrepit, pitiful...SPITEFUL. How is it that a movie released in the early eighties still has better effects than 99% of the movies released in this day and age? A total travesty, if you ask me.
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1) DRAGONLANCE animated movie in Fall 2007 is going to be the truth. Forget all the rest. 2) That old animated D&D cartoon was my joint back in the day. Classic! 3) This trailer for Eragon looks ok. I'm still not totally souped yet but a lot can change over the next 3 months. We'll see. 4) Yo Moriarty- where's that Seven Samurai analysis. I can't wait to read your thoughts on arguably my favorite movie of all time. Peace.
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The books may be good but I cant take Irons and Malkovich seriously in any type of fantasy film.Its just obsured.This is gonna stay between D&D and LOTR,But I dont se this movie make 100 mill
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You'd think that after ALL those years of advancing computer technology that they would be able to make a dragon that looks realistic... or at LEAST better than dragonheart! GEEZ!
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This is horrible, I mean does anything about this film seem go to you? Anyone check out the book? It's like one HUGE CLICHE! It's like Ender's game meets LOTR, some self-fullfilling crap. ANd ERAGON? That's like Aragorn, not even hiding the fact he ripped off the main character's name. The DungeonSiege movie trailer looked better than this crap.
And those of you not familar with the whole Fantasy Genra, THIS IS LIKE A DIRECT RIPOFF!!! Ok, I admit that Fantasy Novels tend to repeat the same storylines but this is going overboard. Ever read Lords of the SKy by Angus Wells? It's the same damn storyline except published years before ERAGON!!!! Not to mention the years AM has been at it with Pern. How about Dragon Princeby Melanie Rawn? There are literally hundreds of better NEWYORK BESTSELLING novels on dragonriders and they have the gall to pick this crap to build a movie around?
Now with J.Irons and John Malcovich part of the film, it's a sure thing this will tank.
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We ALL know that DRAGON SLAYER is the best dragon movie of ALL TIME!
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Yes this is derivative turd, and we can all point to it and say we could've written this Eragon book with half our brain tied behind our back, but at least this kid did it. He wrote a piece of shit at 15, got it published, and made some money. When I was fifteen I wrote lots of pieces of shit. But none got published.
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So, why haven't any of the Pern novels been filmed before this piece of sophmoric claptrap?
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Wow. I haven't seen a crappier trailer in a while...looks like utter shite!
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like back in the day. Even Krull had a memorable score.
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But he was one of these whiz kids so he was actually in third grade. I say he did a darn good job considering the assignment was "What Arbor Day Means To Me".
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but then, i was like 7 at the time.
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I didn't want to actually admit that I too had seen the straight to Sci-Fi channel Dungeons and Dragons sequel.
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I hope they managed to make something better than the books. Cause the book SUCKED!
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I like Dragons! I also like Things That Are Remotely Interesting, which this isn't!
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Haven't seen it in years. I don't think it's THAT shitty, though.
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Does look a big rip-off (esp the sun setting bit - how very luke on tatooine! minus a sun of course) but he put the effort in and got the reward. Whether it is the fantasy novel deserving to make a movie of though? maybe not. Lots better. Hell why not a David Gemmell novel, his heroes where at least believable, f*cked up occasionally and had good lines. Slightly Harry Potter, not super original but well done. Slight hints of Xena/Hercule production. Viggo went to the trouble of sleeping in his armour to make it look lived in (aka the star wars lived in universe look). Not like extras got it fresh out of the prop department (aka star wars prequel), which the baddies in this obviously suffer from. Looks decent, I will reserve judgement, could be entertaining.
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Ever since I was a kid, I would jam pinto beans up my nose.
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...as in the dragon from The Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenberg:
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Dragon-Guardians-Flame/dp/0451453506
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It has the cinematography look of....SHIT. Did a baby with halogen work lights light this? WTF...what a shitty shitty looking movie.
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Make a dragon movie.
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You mentioned reading the Pern books? How about LOTR? The Earthsea series? And I'm guessing you have seen Star Wars? Then you have already read this story, except by much better writers. I am not kidding when I say that every character, character name, place, event, and theme in Eragon can be found in these stories--without exception!
For a good chuckle, go to Amazon and read the 1-star reviews. Brutal. Then compare the age of those reviewers to the 5-star reviewers.
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when their dialogue is childish and corny, you'd rather they'd just eat people. Seriously, the FX are the only good looking parts of this trailer. Mostly it looks like costumes and lighting from a Sci-Fi Channel movie. And the capper with Saphira chomping down on a knight looks lame. It's a dragon eating someone and it looks like a filler shot! That is no proper way to end a trailer. Draco lunging for the camera in the Dragonheart trailers was cooler. The only thing I will say for this movie is that Dragonheart's dragon plus Star Wars characters and villains seems like a good combination even if it is unoriginal. Sadly the book really is a by the numbers retelling of Star Wars with dull dialogue an unconvincing hero and a boring pace. So if this is a good movie, I'll be surprised. It's a shame that this is getting made but something like Prospero's Children is not. And why the hell is this already getting a trailer while John Carter of Mars isn't even cast?
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scienceman, read the TB. i already said the kid's parents re-wrote (read: wrote) the MS and gave it to a lit agent who is a friend of theirs. the lit agent gave it to carl hiassen. that is not made up, it's da truf. i believe jack black would call that 'a little nep-o-tizzz...' anyhow, dragonforce rules, and yes, i said the reign of fire dragons were the best BUT that doesn't mean that dragonslayer isn't the best dragon MOVIE! coz it is, anybody who sez different, i'll throw poo at you.
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I’m sure saying this is going to elicit a long string of replies to the tune of “you have no taste” “you’re an ignorant (insert random obscenity)” and “you’re stupid and your whole family is stupid” and many more imaginative insults to my character and intelligence based solely on my opinion of this film but I’m going to say it anyways. I love Dragonheart. I consider it the best dragon movie to date. I won’t argue the greatness of Dragonslayer or the lesser greatness of Reign of Fire, or the awful absurdity of D&D, but for me Dragonheart is the best. Maybe it’s because I was so young when it first came out but though I’ve grown older and more jaded I love that movie more now then I did when I was a kid. Perhaps it’s that child in me that keeps me from viewing it with the scrupulous and bitter eye of an adult. I love Sean Connery’s performance, the music, the characters, the story and above all, the dragon. The design is one of the most unique and original I’ve ever seen and the character performance is amazing. This was the first time since the advent of CGI that a dragon was realized using this technology and it remains one of the best. I simply don’t see how it is that everyone can hate this movie with such a passion. I’ve seen a lot of people talk about this movie as being riddled with cliché but I don’t see it, especially when compared to Dragonslayer which, while great, has the sorcerer, the brash young sorcerer’s apprentice, the princess and the girl who dresses as a boy. Though these aspects break from their respective patterns they are nonetheless present. And besides, by this point it’s not possible to have fantasy without some kind of cliché in it, because everything has been done already time and again. My point is that I just don’t see what it is that makes all of you hate Dragonheart so much and I’d prefer that you don’t reply with your reasons, be they valid arguments or pointless insults. I love this movie and if that makes me tasteless and ignorant I’d prefer to remain that way. I just want to know if there is anyone else out there who shares my view.
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Sep 15, 2006 11:24:50 PM CDT
ugh - I haaaaate to bash any book, but this one was
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unreadable. It stole every trite fantasy plot ever written, and did it poorly. The dialogue was truly awful. Why are they making a movie out of a crappy book which stole from the Pern books, when they haven't made a movie about Pern? How retarded ARE these Hollywood execs? Pern books would make wonderful movies. The relationship b/t the dragons and their riders was incredibly well done by Ms. McCaffery.
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I do agree with the general consensus that Eragon looks about as bad as D&D, though maybe with better looking dragons, despite the bird wings.
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and not in the fun KY jelly sorta way...
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I too loved Dragonheart. My one problem was the villain. At no point did I ever feel that that fauntleroy looking sissyboy posed a serious threat to anybody with his "evil", despite his dragon heart. He reminded me of a hallmark TV movie villain. But Connery's dragon, and the interaction between man and dragon was humorous and touching and that theme music was pretty powerful. It still runs through my head as it was used for quite a few trailers for other movies, just like the crimson tide theme from Deep Blue Sea.(why did such a joke-based action movie get such a good orchestral theme?)
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the books were written by a 15 year old for young readers - and the movie appears to be going after the same audience - lighten up - also - i liked "reign of fire" a lot too but the dragons in dragonslayer are the coolest
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I didn't love it - but I liked it. It's oddly affable.
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I'm not saying that Reign of Fire is the best dragon movie, just that the dragons themselves were the best realization of the concept. But Dragonslayer is the peak of old-school dragon goodness. I think it actually used the most sophisticated stop-motion rig ever made before and since, so they could have motion blur on the dragon. Always was a fan of the technical stuff.
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Now that is a dragon. If it ain't got a bunch of heads, with each head shooting some different kind of fire or ice or something, don't waste my time.
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Oh jesus what kind of Narnia-cloned crap are we going to get from this
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It looks rather formulaic to be honest...some kid shouts things, rides a dragon and lots of cgi armies...after Rings and Narnia, I wonder if audiences are gonna be all fantasy'd out to see another that happens to be part of yet another trilogy because let's face it every big film now has to be part of a 'trilogy'... though there doesn't seem to be an awful lot competing with it in December apart from Night At The Museum and Charlotte's Web as far as big family flicks go so maybe it has a chance...though I'm gonna say that Night At The Museum is gonna be the one that banks big this December.
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I recently finished the first book, its painfully awful to read. Bad Dialogue, Mary-Sue characters, and the plot is absolutely a re-hash of Star Wars, even down to the "You're all clear kid!" moment at the end. What's worse is that the film looks alright, apart from the John Malkovich scenes which look like they were filmed on the set of a sci-fi channel tv show. I can't see the King of the world wanting to live in a craggy stone room with a huge fire beside him. Does look like the story has been altered (thank god) at least in the movie Sienna Guilleroy may spend more than the last 2 chapters awake. Also no Orc-ripoffs which suits me fine, but the army looks a bit keek. (why do all evil armies wear red cloaks in fantasy movies?)
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Of course, with all this fantasy stuff coming out now (Narnia, Eragon, etc) by the time they finally get to the good stuff like Sword of Truth, the aforementioned Guardians of the Flame, Wheel of Time, etc, everyone will be fantasied out and the movies will be crap and make no money--kind of like what you are starting to see with the Superhero films. Oh well, it all comes in cycles and hopefully I will still be alive the next time around!
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Sep 16, 2006 7:53:48 PM CDT
he already made a small fortune just writing the books
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and hes close to 20 now - im sure some chicks dig 20 year old guys with lots of cash and a writing career - you sound envious
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You just can't beat the special effects for Trogdor the Burninator!
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Was home schooled. He financed the books through his parents company. I love the way on this site, people actually predict failure for films that arent even out yet.
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Was home schooled. He financed the books through his parents company. I love the way on this site, people actually predict failure for films that arent even out yet.
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We predict failure because we are painfully aware, through bitter experience, what makes a good movie. Eragon will likely make some money but it will get bad reviews from every corner because the story itself is a load of guff.
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are the ones that Ursula LeGuin wrote in theose Earthsea books, because they were super-humans who's lived longer and learned more than any normal person. Who gives a shit about a stupid fire-breathing pterodactyl?
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Eragon trailer: Not a single original frame or second of dialog. Completely agree with posters who call it a pantload of derivative crap. Yawn. But you could say the same thing about the Casino Royale trailer, and why does that look so good?
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says the main character boy after the dragon roasts one of his enemies, all the while not noticing the eerily odd, coif he's sporting looks much like the Donald's do. Haha.
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It came out in 1996 which means its production predates the site so I don't know what you're talking about Quint.
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I hate to disagree with you all . .
OK i am lying, I LOVE to disagree with you all! But the books were exceptionally good. A tad cliche? eh.
What the hell were you doing during your sophmore and junior years of high school? Cause this kid was writing epic fantasy while most of you were probally just playing D&D in your parents basement . . .
and still are.
The movie does not look great and might still suck (I admit it looks a little too much like the god awful D&D movie) But give the kid some credit.
Harry you are correct Dragonslayer is a great movie but i still kinda like dragonheart even if the villain looked like a young martin short. -
Peter Jackson succeeded with LOTR because, besides the great source material, he took his cues for the look of his series of films from David Lean movies. In comparison Eragon looks like it was inspired by made for Sci-Fi channel movies.
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Wasn't the fact that it had cliche's. I think they tried to do too much to please everyone, like kids in the audience with the dragon's hammy performance. It just didn't come off ferocious and scary like I would imagine a dragon to be. It came off almost slapstick cartoony in a sense which pulled me right out of the film. I n otherwords, this movie suffered the Jar Jar effect. I'm sure the flimmakers meant well but it came off cartoony and almost slapstick at times. Dennis Quaid's performance, however was the best in the film but it was like he was on another level and the film was two steps behind. Had the dragon been a little less friendly, and a bit more ferocious, and not had Connery's voice, with a lot less comedy, it could have actually been a great movie. Now that I think about it, Irons would have been a better choice instead. Another great choice would have been Michael Wincott with his already awesome gravelly voice. I think that would have catapulted the flim into greatness
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It's mighty hard to do good production values on midieval type fantasy movies, and they seem to have missed the boat on this one. And that blonde guy is fugly, make him stop. I'll be skipping this one in theaters. And I'll definitely be skipping Reign of Fire 2 if it ever gets made. That movie just hurt.
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Eragon might be the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen, I can't believe I'm saying this but I think Dungeons & Dragons might even be better. Oh dear God I want to sear this crapfest from my memory- hopefully it won't make any money and the planned sequels will be canned. People of the year 2005, heed my warnings... do not let 15 year old kids write novels, especially if they're retarded 15 year old kids who've just watched Star Wars and Lord of the Rings back to back. That is all.
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