Eragon is a cheap copy of which movies?

[CreekDog]

I just saw it on Mystery Science Theater (the new one). It sucked even though it had Jeremy Irons.

Anyway, I was thinking...copy of Harry Potter, Star Wars, ummm...and Neverending Story

[Fenris]

1. Dragonheart, Dungeons and Dragons (another Jeremy Irons tour de force!)

Pretty much any shallow, shitty fantasy movie.

[VenusRising]

2. The book was worse.

Every chapter I caught some trace of another book...Lord of the Rings, Ender's Game, Harry Potter, and another that is escaping me at the moment. The worst part was in the second book where the author actually wrote...on the page....in the story....."Barges?! We don't need no stinkin' barges!" I closed the book and never looked back. It's shameful that this book was even published as original work.

[CreekDog]

5. This was a book? Egads.

I think your avatar is Arya. :rofl:

[VenusRising]

9. Written by a teenage boy.

His parents happened to be publishers or something and voila! We get this piece of garbage.

[FloridaJudy]

6. You read the *second* book????

Brave soul. I left the first on an airplane - I'm surprised Homeland Security didn't come after me for that (there must be some law against a weapon that bores to death). A book has to be pretty damned bad if I abandon in in favor of the in-flight magazine.

The frigging thing read like it was written by a fifteen year old - which it was - but not by a very bright one. I have a feeling the author probably posts videos of himself on YouTube with his home made light saber, when he's not ripping off every fantasy novel ever written.

[VenusRising]

10. I only started reading the second one after my roommate bought it.

Like I said. I didn't finish it, and I do not plan to ever take it up again.

I can't believe you left that on a plane for some unsuspecting soul! That is Homeland Security worthy. :rofl:

[DarkTirade]

12. Hey now...

don't lump us homemade lightsaber makers in with people like that... :P

[FloridaJudy]

13. Yeah, but you have a life!

You're posting here, for one thing. :hi: I've never made a light saber, but ask me about my SCA costume sometime.

I'm wondering who that kid's mom had to sleep with to get that atrocity published. I wrote some pretty awful tripe when I was fifteen too, but my parents had more sense than to try to publish it so that it would follow me the rest of my life. I would've had to change my name and leave the state...

Oh, wait. I did change my name and leave the state.




=============================================never mind

[DarkTirade]

14. The kid's parents were publishers.

So... she just had to sleep with his dad to get pregnant in the first place. :P

I'm actually rather proud of some of my sabers... http://www.stickmanltd.com/cheapsabers/
some of my earlier ones sucked, but the later ones got pretty good. :) Haven't made any in a while, but I was at the hardware store yesterday and I figured, what the hell. So I bought some parts to make another one. Figure I'll just take some pictures, put it on eBay, see what happens. :)

[FloridaJudy]

15. But those are very cool.

I picture this kid with a broomstick dipped in day-glo, not something as intricate as that.

[Lorien]

3. It was nothing more than one horrid fantasy cliche after another

How did they manage to make Jeremy Irons seem flat and one dimensional, while the CG dragon seemed more lifelike then most of the human cast? Oh yeah, it was directed by an EFX guy!

[CreekDog]

4. George Lucas?

:shrug:

[Lorien]

11. No, Lucas uses a lot of special effects, but he was never an EFX director

I can't remember the guy's name, but his ONLY previous experience was as a director of special effects at one of the larger EFX houses.

[Archae]

7. Their next project...

http://velvetoctopus.com/spyro/index.htm

[The Animator]

8. Ok, so once there were hundreds of Jed.. er Dragonriders who were

the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Repu... umm.. the kingdom. But them one of them turned evil, and hunted down all the others.. One Farm boy discovers that he is, in fact is destined to be a Je.. Dragon Rider. After he discovers this, he returns home to find his Uncle murdered. He is leaves his burning farm, and takes his first steps into a larger world, with the help of a mentor, an old hermit who happens to be one of the last Dragon Riders to escape the purge. This mentor is killed though, when he aides this farm boy to rescue a princess from the Death St... ehhh, a fortress.

I only saw the movie but I'm guessing that in the second book the farm boy discovers that the Dark Lord is actually his father.

[DarkTirade]

16. Wait... did you actually watch Eragon? :P

[leeroysphitz]

17. "It sucked even though it had Jeremy Irons."

EVEN THOUGH? LOL...