UltimaLink007
Hope Never Dies
I just went over Slyguy's house. I didn't get to try his Wii, but Wii got to sii Eragon in theaters. This is my review of it.
Voice Acting - 8/10: Everyone sounded pretty well done with the exception of Sapphira. Her voice sounded to young, and didn't seem to fit my idea of a dragon. Eragon sounded proper for his age, and Brom's voice was really cool. I wish that I'd stayed for the credits to see who played him.....
Acting - 8/10: Not really too bad. Eragon was very annoying most of the time, but otherwise, well done. They acted what was on their scripts well, too bad the scripts weren't that good.....
Story - 3.5/10: This is the part that killed the movie. I have read the book, and I loved it. That is the reason why I bothered to even see this movie. The story from the book was butchered completely, and it really p***** me off. They skipped over multiple major parts of the story, and many of the parts they kept were jumbled up or utterly destroyed. I won't spoil much, but since they moved abruptly from random place to random place, I was whispering to Slyguy the whole time: "Wow! a random hill!" or "Wow! a random stream!" This was beyond dissapointing. This butcher job was almost as bad as what they did to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Very dissapointing indeed............O yeah. The end of it made no sense whatsoever
Characters - 7/10: I expected the characters to be much different.....I thought Eragon had slightly darker hair, and that Arya would have black hair, I couldn't see if her ears were pointed, and that
Brom though, was exactly how I previously imagined to be...Uncle Garrow I think looked too young.....but again, that's my opinion.....The Ra'zac were far from what I thought that they looked like from the book's description........and the Urgals were supposed to have giant horns, and look more like Orcs. They looked like humans that had moles on their heads, and that had too much to drink, because their eyes lookes bloodshot.
Special Effects - 8.5/10: The fire looked REALLY cool. a giant blue flame. WOW. and the "dragon vision" was really cool too. Though, I don't understand why it had a wierd yellow tint... The effects of Durza's magic were boring, and didn't look impressive at all. I wish that they used more special effects, it might've helped the movie out. It DEFINATELY could have used and explosion or two.....
Book to Movie comparison: This movie is not well related to the book. Everything in the book flowed well, and the movie did not. The movie cut out too many parts of the book which were vital to the story to be a successful venture in this case. The reviews say that this movie is highly overrated, and I agree with them fully after seeing it. Which leads me to say.......
Overall - 5.5/10: This movie severly dissapointed me. I was not at all impressed, and it irritates me greatly that someone took a great story, and annihilated utterly. The only good thing about seeing this movie, is that I can say that I saw it, and am not just basing this review off any other review. I hope to god that Eldest will be better.....
Voice Acting - 8/10: Everyone sounded pretty well done with the exception of Sapphira. Her voice sounded to young, and didn't seem to fit my idea of a dragon. Eragon sounded proper for his age, and Brom's voice was really cool. I wish that I'd stayed for the credits to see who played him.....
Acting - 8/10: Not really too bad. Eragon was very annoying most of the time, but otherwise, well done. They acted what was on their scripts well, too bad the scripts weren't that good.....
Story - 3.5/10: This is the part that killed the movie. I have read the book, and I loved it. That is the reason why I bothered to even see this movie. The story from the book was butchered completely, and it really p***** me off. They skipped over multiple major parts of the story, and many of the parts they kept were jumbled up or utterly destroyed. I won't spoil much, but since they moved abruptly from random place to random place, I was whispering to Slyguy the whole time: "Wow! a random hill!" or "Wow! a random stream!" This was beyond dissapointing. This butcher job was almost as bad as what they did to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Very dissapointing indeed............O yeah. The end of it made no sense whatsoever
Characters - 7/10: I expected the characters to be much different.....I thought Eragon had slightly darker hair, and that Arya would have black hair, I couldn't see if her ears were pointed, and that
she would be unconsious for a great part of the movie, like in the book.
Special Effects - 8.5/10: The fire looked REALLY cool. a giant blue flame. WOW. and the "dragon vision" was really cool too. Though, I don't understand why it had a wierd yellow tint... The effects of Durza's magic were boring, and didn't look impressive at all. I wish that they used more special effects, it might've helped the movie out. It DEFINATELY could have used and explosion or two.....
Book to Movie comparison: This movie is not well related to the book. Everything in the book flowed well, and the movie did not. The movie cut out too many parts of the book which were vital to the story to be a successful venture in this case. The reviews say that this movie is highly overrated, and I agree with them fully after seeing it. Which leads me to say.......
Overall - 5.5/10: This movie severly dissapointed me. I was not at all impressed, and it irritates me greatly that someone took a great story, and annihilated utterly. The only good thing about seeing this movie, is that I can say that I saw it, and am not just basing this review off any other review. I hope to god that Eldest will be better.....
