Eragon (Widescreen Edition)
by Stefen Fangmeier
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Actor: Djimon Hounsou, Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Sienna GuilloryDirector: Stefen Fangmeier
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Hugh Johnson
Editor: Roger Barton
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo
Editor: Chris Lebenzon
Producer: Gil Netter
Producer: Chris Symes
Writer: Peter Buchman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
DVD Reviews of Eragon (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fun movie but not nearly as good or deep as the book.DVD Review: Rate a movie by its own merit
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like to WATCH entertaining and relatively creative fantasy movies then you should be amazed by this short movie. Each actor fits their character well, the special effects are actually believeable, the sets are goureous and the storyline is classic mythology. When one considers the canon of fantasy movies created over the last 30 years it is rather difficult to find enough quality movies to populate a single bookshelf, not even to mention the abominations churned out by the Sci-Fi channel on a weekly basis. If you're like me and you could care less about the book, then you really should give the MOVIE a try. DVD Review: A Poor Substitute For The REAL Eragon!
Summary: 1 Stars
I really wanted to scream out everything wrong with the movie when I watched it--"You know Brom's horse was WHITE in the book!" "Arya is and E-L-F! Ya know, POINTED EARS?!?" It was a very poor substitite for the R-E-A-L Eragon. Here are the Huge downsides to it:
- You idiots! Arya is an elf!! And may I remind you, Eragon rescued her UNCONSCIOUS, in a prision cell, in Gil'ead!
- They didn't even visit Dras Leona or Yauzac! No Hadarac Desert, No Isidar Mithrim!
- Brom and Eragon practically hate each other in the movie, in the book there was a lot more with brom and Eragon, and when Brom died you're just like, "Big Deal, nothing special!!!"
- The stupid directors just put some armor, tough expression & beard on some people and called em' Dwarves. And whatever happened to Hrothgar?
- What about Murtagh? Oh, he was only there for 5 minutes, Murtagh was a huge part of the book, and now he's like as important as dust.
- Saphira changed from baby dragon to adult dragon in 2 seconds!!! Stupid.
- Saphira couldn't even breathe fire in the first book! And she won the battle by just doing that.
It infuriated me to see a great book thrown into a stupid movie. If you have read Eragon and go watch this movie, believe me, you will be sobbing or screaming your head off by the end of the movie.
DVD Review: It's a disgrace!
Summary: 2 Stars
Since I liked the books, and since I knew from Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter that fantasy books can be made into great movies, I decided to give Eragon the Movie a try.
I learned something very important from this movie: Stefan Fangmeir shouldn't be directing anything more serious that traffic on a deserted country road. He and the rest of the loonies who made this abomination are obviously either very stupid, or they forget to read the source material before they made a movie out of it.
I'll get to my main gripe first. This movie was not true to the book at all. In fact, I could probably name at least 50 things that were dramatically changed from book to movie. There's a chart on Inheriwiki(the Inheritance Encyclopedia) that describes at least that many, and maybe as many as twice the number. I'm not just talking about a few minor plot details: the rules of magic have been altered quite a bit, and none of the characters even remotely resemble how the characters were described in the books. Arya, for example, was described as black-haired and green-eyed. In the movie, she has reddish hair and blue eyes. WTF?!
That's where most of my dislike for this movie comes from, that fact that it made no effort to follow the book, but even without the book in the picture, it still is just a light and hastily scrapped together film for the kids at best. The acting is rather bad at times, the script is horrendously cheesy, the landmarks don't come close to matching how they were described in the books, the movie is way too short, the protagonist is even more snobby and annoying than in the books, and all in all, it sucked.
As icing on the cake of Stefan F.'s disgrace, the movie is also very derivative of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Granted, the book had several similarites, but the movie takes it to new heights. In fact, there are times when it seems the makers went out of their way to make the movie more similar to Star Wars! For example, early in the movie, there's a scene where the main character stares up at the sun in the evening while somber music plays. It wasn't in the book, it was in A New Hope, why is it here? Also, an important point of the plot was changed in which the Wise Old Mentor was killed by the Imperial General, when he was actually killed by the Ra'zac in the books. This switch was entirely unnecessary and only reinforced the Vader vs. Obi-wan parallel.
Also, they cut out way too much. There were only shreds of the original book in this thing, and they had to delete even more good parts to add their asinine Star Wars rip-off scenes in. Look at some of the best fantasy based films, like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. They are both waaaaaaay longer, especially with all the deleted scenes. Eragon is just too big of a book to be translated into one movie. Though the two series I mentioned were done pretty well, each individual book was quite a bit shorter than Eragon, and especially the sequel, Eldest. A miniseries would suit the Inheritance Cycle much better.
So why did I give this poorly created Star Wars clone two stars instead of one? While, I have to admit there were a few, tiny bits of entertainment in there, and the better half of the actors were pretty good, actually. John Malkovich(sp?)did a pretty good job of bringing a sinister, threatening air to Galbatorix, especially considering the meager screen time and lousy script that he had to work with. Jeremy Irons did a pretty good job too; compared to some of them, he seemed to be the only one who was trying. Robert Carlyle made a good Durza, though it was kind of disappointing that he didn't have red eyes.>:( Hedlune(sp?) acted out the roguish Murtagh well, and probably resembled the character physically more than any of the other actors resembled their characters. Finally, some of the music and themes in the movie were decent and entertaining.
Overall, don't waste your money on this embarrassment. Read the books, which are 10,000,000,000,000 times better than this lousy piece of mutilated plot. If you're a fan of the books, you'll probably want to see it at least once, if only for the comedy value of how horrendously it was done. However, this pathetic movie does not have my recommendation.
DVD Review: crap..enough said
Summary: 1 Stars
while its true that you cant adequately transfer a book to a movie, the makers of harry potter,iron man(i know its not a book but it still held true to the story line), etc have done it quite well. this movie absolutely butchered the books and the script would've been better suited for toilet paper. elves looked like the other humans, the herbalist looked like will smith from wild wild west scene, every thing just SUCKED!!
Description of Eragon (Widescreen Edition)
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.While it owes much of its appeal and appearance to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eragon can stand on its own as an enjoyable fantasy for younger viewers. Faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by teenage author Christopher Paolini, this boy-and-his-dragon tale offers clean, fast-paced family entertainment without compromising the darker qualities of Paolini's novel (the first in what is known as the "Inheritance" trilogy). The plot centers on 17-year-old peasant farmboy Eragon (played by appealing newcomer Ed Speleers) who discovers a mysterious blue object that turns out to be an egg that eventually hatches to reveal Saphira, a blue-scaled dragon that quickly grows to full-size. According to prophecy, Eragon is destined to be a dragon-rider like those who once protected a benevolent kingdom, thus reviving an ancient conflict against the army of King Galbatorix (John Malkovich), a former dragon rider who turned to evil, now in alliance with a! dark-magic "Shade" sorcerer named Durza (Robert Carlyle). While the movie serves up familiar fantasy elements and offers little if anything new to fans of the genre (or anyone who's read the books of Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. Le Guin), it's visually impressive (especially the dragon scenes, with Rachel Weisz providing the telepathic "voice" of Saphira) and full of timeless wisdom, much of it delivered by Eragon's heroic mentor Brom (Jeremy Irons), himself a former dragon rider with memories of past battles and hope for Eragon's future. Add a fair warrior-maiden named Arya (Sienna Guillory) and you've got all the ingredients for a worthwhile (if not particularly original) fantasy that points directly to a sequel. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up to individual viewers to decide. --Jeff Shannon
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