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I rather enjoyed the book series and this movie rivals as one of the worst adaptations ever made. I think it'd be better if it was redone by someone who has actually read the books.
CuriosityKills90
Please, yes. This shitty movie version made me angrier than I'd ever been in my life.
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
This story deserved so much better.
Tnacity
There is a petition to have the movie remade. It has quite a bit of signatures. Books were excellent.
StreaksOnTheChinaNeverMatteredBefore
Respectfully, I'm ok if they don't ever go back to this.
bigian77
We don't talk about that movie.
grid10ck
I wish but they bombed this one so bad no one wants to see a remake
FisticuffMcFightsalot
Really? I thought the book was pretty awful.
GrandSignal
Looks like a decent porn.
TheBoxHobo
Its on the same level as the last airbender. I loved the books and nearly cried when i saw the movie it was so dissappointing.
Cere4l
im still convinced the movie is the reason my subconcious wont let me watch the series
thebigdnotdallas
Enjoyed the books but I have no idea what movie you're talking about
ermahgerdz
Agree
BananaSquid
I have the same feeling about the Series of Unfortunate Events movie
SnugglyBurrick
The Netflix series looks promising
Slytherwin
This and the avatars the last Airbender movie. So much hope so much bitter disappointment
EarendilTheBlessed
GOD YES A 1000 TIMES YES, this is one of my favorite book series of all time and they fucking butchered it.
wastewanderer
I was taken to go see this because my friend swore the books were great. It seemed like a bad Star Wars fan fiction with dragons to me.
iwanttomountndewya
The books are good. This was a bad adaptation. They were missing three entire major characters. Made up a town. Characters were wrong.
JustYourAverageNerd
WE. DONT. TALK. ABOUT. IT.
Kamenoyoukai
They played the "telephone game" to write the script.
DisorderlyChaos
My understanding was that a 3rd grader wrote a book report on the book, got a failing grade, and a Hollywood executive found it in the trash
tiailds
There are better fantasy book series that would make good franchises.
ermahgerdz
Yes. But it could have been a good series.
DrEhrfurchtgebietend
Legend of the seaker was the worst adaption
barberst
Darken Rahl is Richard's brother? Fuck off with all of that.
ElbowDeepInStepMom
It was nothing like the books
Sitraka
Saphira was bleu.
jakethesnakeatechocolatecake
This and Avatar, the last Airbender
Widgetboy
Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich couldn't save this piece of shit.
MenTarK255000
The mortal instruments got a pretty shitty movie too.
Doubletapforpleasure
Completely agree
VenerateThisGuy
I quite enjoyed the movie. I'm not that familiar with the book though. Really wanted a sequel and would like to read sometime.
Doubletapforpleasure
You will no longer love the movie if you read the books.
Aranethon5983
If you do read it you will no longer enjoy anything about the movie. That being said, I highly recommend reading the books.
VenerateThisGuy
I think I have to read it now.
SomeSortaPsycho
I liked the movie a lot and then a friend made me read the books and then I hated the movie for how bad it screwed the story up
LLCoolGeoff
Would've enjoyed the books a whole lot more if he didn't take 6 years to write them
CometLaHal
id prefer they take 10 years rather than 1 if thats what it takes for them to be good.
DontReadMyBioPlsItsPrivate
Apparently he's writing another series set in the same universe but post eragon story
brainstrain
Last I heard Paolini was working on a sci-fi novel... but it's been a while
DontReadMyBioPlsItsPrivate
It was in a Q and A on his website. He said it was a long way off and was just now working on ideas for the story.
DontReadMyBioPlsItsPrivate
I'll try to find the source tomorrow
IcyOcean
Currently reading (3/4) and love them. Haven't watched this film because of the shit reviews.
iwanttomountndewya
You see that guy on the left with the broody hair? That's Murtagh (spelling?). Let that sink in.
Blakfyre77
As far as you're concerned, this movie doesn't exist. Stay innocent, you sweet precious child.
EarthDragon2189
From what I understand, the movie takes certain liberties that would have ruined important plotlines in the sequels if they had existed.
irrelephantcontent
Saphira was such a sassy little shit in the books. I loved her.
aleister94
"Dead" -saphira
Miles103RESPAWN
When your greatest performer is the ANIMATED dragon...yeah, they screwed up. Adaptations are hard, and you have to make changes...(1/2)
Miles103RESPAWN
But they have to be changes that MAKES SENSE! Done with short rant. (2/2)
Buckbeak1486
She was the only decent part of that steaming pile of shit film, too. I liked her scaled feathered wings.
WhatUsernamesAreEvenLeft
I approved of Jeremy Irons as Broom too. But little else...
MaxieMooo
Broom
chocolategorilla
I did not because the books repeatedly describe the wings as membranes much like a bat
Buckbeak1486
And Paolini explicitly stated that Arya has Raven-black hair, & the Ra'zac have insect-like carapaces, but the movie fucked those up.
chocolategorilla
it fucked a lot of shit up
Remmikins
I swear 15% of that series at least is Saphira telling Eragon that he's an idiot for playing around with magic. Again.
lifeguard96
I loved reading these as a kid and imagining the world that Chris Paolini created. Brisingr was my favorite sword I can still imagine 1/2
lifeguard96
to this day. Roran is my favorite character because of how he rose in the ranks of the Varmin from a nobody to a general that captured an2/?
lifeguard96
impregnable city and the events leading up to it were some of my favorite parts of the series from how he played mind games with their 3/?
lifeguard96
generals and wizards when they first meet. God I loved this book saga just not the ending. 4/4
lifeinabathtub
The author was 16 when he wrote the first book . I thought he did quite well
NotErichHartmann
Enjoyed it some as a kid, in retrospect they were pretty shitty books though.
errdog
I also read the book and felt it was definitely written by a 16 year old.
WumboPower
A 16 year old that got friendzoned hardcore.
InsertUsernameJokeHere
Too bad he's a whiny, conceited little cunt.
Comradesjeltonarmy
He did. Screen writers however did not. They fucked it up. It had a good series potential but they flopped the first.
Sticklebrickk
$$$$$$$$$$$
HypocriticalBastard
I'm honestly in awe that they managed to fuck up THAT badly. It was not a complex story and they managed to destroy it.
Comradesjeltonarmy
Yea... they are dumb
HypocriticalBastard
It's embarrassing that Twilight of all things was better done than that.
Comradesjeltonarmy
Or at least had a better continuity with the source material. A feathered Dragon wing is ridiculous. They are scalely
ClarityAndVision
He did amazingly. I read the first one when I was in fourth grade. As a 23 yo. I enjoy reading them just as much if not more now.
lifeguard96
I started in 5th or 6th grade I believe and I just fell in love with them it was a shame I didn't read inheritance until 9th grade 1/2
lifeguard96
because by then I kind of forgot everything but I still loved it all the same even if I had to refresh myself 2/2
whoknowswhoitis
I am nearly the same with you. Got them at the scholastic book fair in elementary and thought they were fuckin insane
Metopheles
...You were 23 in 4th Grade?
ClarityAndVision
Yes. Totally.
UnaskedForSharkFacts
I mean wasn't there that whole scandal about plagiarism with him, or am I thinking of someone else?
Ardencroft
yeah, it pretty much directly followed the plot of star wars, replacing the force with magic and dragons, and a sister with a brother.
lifeguard96
half brother
Sheepyhead
Nope
iwanttomountndewya
I know it's been awhile since I last read the books but I'm calling bullshit. Only thing remotely close is growing up with the uncle.
ReverendAurora
The film, however, is literaly Star Wars with dragons and magic replacing spaceships and the force.
Ardencroft
One of the stories is about a young man whose father gives in to his dark desire to rule, is hidden away and raised by an uncle, later 1/2
Ardencroft
discovers that he is heir to fantastic powers and is his peoples last hope against an evil empire. The other story is star wars. 2/2
TheSmittyWerbenjagermanjenson
Yes. This. I still get so mad about it. Even the little things that were easy to get right. Like the color of the sword gem. (1/2)
TheSmittyWerbenjagermanjenson
(2/2) Seriously. How hard is it to make something red instead of blue? Especially when it's CGI anyways! It'd be so easy just to do right.
brainlesstroll
THEY. FORGOT. THE. DWARVES. ENTIRELY.
sweetnaivety
or how they made Saphira grow up instantly which is the exact reason Thorn is stunted =/
Miles103RESPAWN
That really pissed me off. Missed a great opportunity to see the connection between them. A freaking montage would of been better.
sweetnaivety
right? at first I even thought it was going to be a time skip but then it wasn't and I was like WHAT THE HECK?!?!?
kuruflnwe
the final book was pretty awful.
Dagordae
All of the books were pretty awful. Like reading a lazy fanfic
BatteryLife
the ending where he just leaves for the island was shit, but not worse than the final battle that took like 1 chapter
EarthDragon2189
I was confused when the final battle ended and I still had, like, a third of the book to read.
HippoCripp
What a terrible ending am I right? "And they left"
RayLynch
WORST ending to a book series EVER!
laplance93
There are only four books? I've been waiting for a fifth one, I really don't think the fourth one ended very well.
BastardOrphanSonOfAWhoreAndAScotsman
Yeah it's over.
Sheepyhead
You think? I quite enjoyed it myself.
Mrwhoever
Was just medieval starwars
Bobicus5
From what I remember as a kid , how he ended the book left me very bitter against the series. I understand that all stories can't end 1/2
Bobicus5
perfectly like we hope, but at the time it just felt so disappointing. Having to wait all those years for it to end in that certain way.
redbaronshotsauce
Me too I absolutely loved it but felt like they could have done another book from their adventures fixing the cities and saving the eggs
Branch68
The issue was he originally wanted it to be a trilogy but when he sent the 3rd book the publisher they told he he had to break it it up
Branch68
So he had to take the book and basically redo it to be two books. That was also why it took so long for book 3 to come out
SirNames
Book 1 introduced a potentially great story, book 2 was awesome, book 3 was anticlimactic, and book 4 just sorta gave up.
iwanttomountndewya
I stopped at book 3 because of that I think.
BlackDragoness
I think as he grew older and read more, he was too heavily influenced by other works. The first one was a purer creation.
Sitraka
book 3 was the best (but i stopped reading at the 3/4 of the 4th book ^^)
Comradesjeltonarmy
It wasn't great but I thought it was an ok wrap up.
blabes
Agreed
Sypher667
The book was eh, but I feel like the ending was excellent. Left the world wide open, but concluded the story. And by "ending" I mean the 1/2
Sypher667
last chapter, maybe. Not much more. It was rather bland aside from the actual conclusion.
Comradesjeltonarmy
I kinda liked it but it wasn't as good as the other 3.
StuckInBetweeen
Agreed it was just terrible, the way he won and his decision at the very end. Very mediocre.
BastardOrphanSonOfAWhoreAndAScotsman
I liked the way the king was killed. It was poetic justice.
yugatha
To be fair, how do you defeat someone who has warded against every damage / harm you can think of?
StuckInBetweeen
By exposing him to something/the last thing that still makes him human? It just seemed so convenient, to cast one final spell and have him
StuckInBetweeen
lose because of being exposed to all of his evils. I guess it was just the execution, a huge build up to a quick and convenient end.
GadenKerensky
Also, the Wizards shouldn't have been able to nuke themselves because the atoms that make up their bodies don't have the right mass.
Mistruths
There is a ton of energy in mass. If you were to turn 60kg of any mass straight into energy, you'd get something of an explosion.