I saw this movie the other day. I've never read the book, so I have nothing to compare it to, but I did actually roll my eyes like three times while watching it; it was that corny. But the dragon was cute as a baby, and the fight scenes were pretty good, though more intense than I thought they might be for PG--some little girl in the row behind us was scared out of her wits and wanted to leave the theatre.
I wouldn't buy it or anything, and I dunno if I'd watch it again. *shrug*
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring." -Chuck Palahniuk
I enjoyed the book but the movie was terrible! You could easily pick out the mistakes and altogether it was boring. Also they missed out a lot of things that will make the second movie understandable. (even though the second book is rubbish anyway)
I think that it was rubbish and they could have done a lot better and made a better movie.
Last edited by Saphira on Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Watching that movie was quite possibly the worst hour and forty-something minutes of my life. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do more: Throw my soda at the movie screen and storm out in a huff, or fall asleep from sheer boredom. The only actor who was remotely convincing was Jeremy Irons, but even that didn't do much to change how lame it was. I know I've posted about how much I disliked it before, but it really ticks me off of how crappy a job they did.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ~Lord Byron
At first I wanted to watch the movie, but after reading the book I did not want to waste my money. The book was a mix of cliches, flat characters and stolen plots and ideas. I have no idea why it became such a hit. I like Harry Potter, but to those of you who don't, at least it was original.not one of the best reads of my life.
There's always been a lot of tension between Lois and me, and it's not so much that I want to kill her, it's just, I want her to not be alive anymore.
I've read the book, and I want to watch the movie, but everybody is saying it's so bad. You'd think that would make me wanna NOT watch it, but it only makes me more desperate to watch it, lol..
Be yourself; everybody else is already taken.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
When you're being nice to your character, you're being bad to your book.
What? He kills the ra'zac? I'm reading book two (merely to see what happens, Roran bores me to death) and I know the ra'zac appear there. And the bit from book three at the back shows the ra'zacs lair. Paolini never wrote a a great book, but letting his story slip that badly is pretty disgraceful. LOOK AFTER YOUR WORK MAN!!!
I liked the book when I first read it. I knew the movie would probably be crap, but I watched it anyway. One of the main things I was waiting for was the explosion of the Star Rose(in the Varden hideout) cause that would have been fawwesome in movie special effects.
Come on...you know there's something wrong with a film when you and your sister/whoever are laughing during the huge battle scene at the end: we thought that the evil villain (I forget his name because I have not read the books---the one who looks like an overgrown Gothic Chucky) looked like one of the subs we knew from my middle school. When the climactic scenes that are supposed to shut you up make you start laughing out loud at how ridiculous they are, you need to take a restart at film school.
Just watch Lord of the Rings and appreciate Peter Jackson. I know I will.
"...some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright." -The Shawshank Redemption
The movie wasn't nice at all, in my opinion. The book wasn't good either. When my sisters and I watched the movie, we thought that the egg looked like a jelly bean (my mom thought it was a pill)...
"Do I like my coffee black? There are other colors?" - Author Unknown
The movie was fun to laugh at. If you know the TV show Mystery Science Theatre 3000, I think that this would be a good candidate for it. They didn't even bothing spending two minutes to give a proper introduction to one of the characters who did play a rather important roll in the book.
Please, sit down before you fall down.
Belloq, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
