Sigh, I had a bad feeling about it but I didn't think it would be that bad. And they explain everything in the book, guess it was hard to transfer that without making the dioluge long and dreary. And i need to learn how to spell that...
Again clarification: I was referring to the excessive Internet hate that surrounds that movie, not the movie itself.BehattedWanderer said:That movie. Urgh. One of the greatest series around, and it got a movie that was the equivalent of a hurricane on a small tourist island's economy. Shame, really. A permanent skidmark on the series, unfortunately.canadamus_prime said:Oh boy, it's going to be Eragorn all over again.
Oh. Well. That's different. Though, in fairness, it was a shitty movie. But from what I understand from the internet, having not read the books, the movie is a fairly faithful adaptation, if slightly less bloody. The Eragon movie chewed up spat out context and bits from the book, and earned it when we hit it with a stick.canadamus_prime said:Again clarification: I was referring to the excessive Internet hate that surrounds that movie, not the movie itself.BehattedWanderer said:That movie. Urgh. One of the greatest series around, and it got a movie that was the equivalent of a hurricane on a small tourist island's economy. Shame, really. A permanent skidmark on the series, unfortunately.canadamus_prime said:Oh boy, it's going to be Eragorn all over again.
It's satirizing reality TV. Think Jersey Shore or Survivor but with death.JMeganSnow said:Wow, looks like the film really is a faithful adaptation of the book. I read it yesterday and, geez, if you're going to invent (or steal) a dystopian future, why on earth would you then write a book that focuses primarily on:
1. Describing every meal the protagonist eats, in detail
2. Hair, clothes, fashion, body waxing
3. The protagonist's daddy/abandonment issues
4. Whether or not the protagonist REALLY has feeeelings for the hawt guys in her life.
5. Just general agonizing
Tiresome.
Good to know. I haven't been told by many people that I should read them, so I've kept out of them. Out of curiosity, would you recommend them on their value as a literary series alone?animehermit said:I read the first couple of books before the movie, the movie is only partially faithful with a lot of stuff cut out to make it shorter, a lot of the magic stuff was cut, which was sad because that was the best part of the book. Having said that, the books are no great work of art either, being only severely mediocre at best and being downright awful at worst.BehattedWanderer said:Oh. Well. That's different. Though, in fairness, it was a shitty movie. But from what I understand from the internet, having not read the books, the movie is a fairly faithful adaptation, if slightly less bloody. The Eragon movie chewed up spat out context and bits from the book, and earned it when we hit it with a stick.canadamus_prime said:Again clarification: I was referring to the excessive Internet hate that surrounds that movie, not the movie itself.BehattedWanderer said:That movie. Urgh. One of the greatest series around, and it got a movie that was the equivalent of a hurricane on a small tourist island's economy. Shame, really. A permanent skidmark on the series, unfortunately.canadamus_prime said:Oh boy, it's going to be Eragorn all over again.
A mediocre movie, however, might be different. We might not hate it that much, and instead just be "meh" to it, or hope it gets better for the later installments.
No, it's not. It's supposed to be, but it isn't. The problem is that there isn't a lot of satirizing going on and it goes about it in the least offensive way possible. Death Race does a better job of satirizing reality TV, and that's about convicts killing each other with cars in a dystopianish future on HBO.Atticus89 said:It's satirizing reality TV. Think Jersey Shore or Survivor but with death.
Except Eragon was mediocre source material that the movie threw out a lot of the good bits of (while also making everyone human). The Hunger Games in pretty good source material (nothing amazingly unique, but the first-person perspective [at least if I'm remembering correctly] and the characters themselves still made it entertaining) that... Well, I don't really know what if anything the movie changed because I haven't seen it.canadamus_prime said:Oh boy, it's going to be Eragorn all over again.