Comments on: Eragon http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Justine Burks http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-31 Justine Burks Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:12:46 +0000 http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-31 ine5ib7k8fw32ck5 ine5ib7k8fw32ck5

]]> By: Branden http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-27 Branden Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:04:48 +0000 http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-27 You people all suck! Eragon the movie sucked pretty much true....but the book was ausome! It wasnt written by a 15 year old either. it was started when christopher pauolini was 15 but he was much older when it was published. He did create a language though i have to agree most of his accent marks are useless. while he doesnt compare to someone like J.R.R. Tolkien, or Robert Jordan, or other distinct authors, he held his own and created a memorable book. I expect many more years of bigger and better writing from this young author and hopefully better choices in who directs his movies..... You people all suck! Eragon the movie sucked pretty much true….but the book was ausome! It wasnt written by a 15 year old either. it was started when christopher pauolini was 15 but he was much older when it was published. He did create a language though i have to agree most of his accent marks are useless. while he doesnt compare to someone like J.R.R. Tolkien, or Robert Jordan, or other distinct authors, he held his own and created a memorable book. I expect many more years of bigger and better writing from this young author and hopefully better choices in who directs his movies…..

]]> By: Jordan http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-14 Jordan Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:00:44 +0000 http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-14 Well put. For the record, I read <i>Eragon</i> a couple summers ago. It was entertaining and fast-paced but... lame. The author rather pretentiously talks about writing with "lyric beauty" on his website. It's almost more entertaining than the novel. And the opening sentences of the sequal, <i>Eldest</i>, are worth a groan or two: <i>The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. So thought Eragon as he stepped over a twisted and hacked Urgal, listening to the keening of women who removed loved ones from the blood-muddied ground of Farthen Dûr.</i> Also for the record, ignore pronunciation marks in Paolini's "works." Every time he uses a diacritic--cheaply imitating real fantasy writers by sprinkling around diaereses and circumflex accents--it has no bearing on pronunciation. Well put.

For the record, I read Eragon a couple summers ago. It was entertaining and fast-paced but… lame. The author rather pretentiously talks about writing with “lyric beauty” on his website. It’s almost more entertaining than the novel.

And the opening sentences of the sequal, Eldest, are worth a groan or two:

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
So thought Eragon as he stepped over a twisted and hacked Urgal, listening to the keening of women who removed loved ones from the blood-muddied ground of Farthen Dûr.

Also for the record, ignore pronunciation marks in Paolini’s “works.” Every time he uses a diacritic–cheaply imitating real fantasy writers by sprinkling around diaereses and circumflex accents–it has no bearing on pronunciation.

]]> By: Tom http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-13 Tom Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:28:08 +0000 http://www.lousymovienight.com/2008/01/19/eragon/#comment-13 A bored teenager whose parents were killed when he was a child tries to leave his uncle's farm in search of adventure but is told to wait until the next growing season. Dejected, he rides into the nearest town and makes the acquaintance of an old man who used to be a soldier for a powerful army that was defeated some time ago. He bonds with the old man and learns the secrets of this forbidden trade, ultimately rising to save the poor oppressed people and bringing back the lost art of... a.) The Force. b.) Dragon Riding. Eragon is what happened with the plot of Star Wars was infused with the characters of Harry Potter and set in the land of Lord of the Rings. Which is disappointing, because it means that anyone who's seen those movies has already seen Eragon three times over. But I suppose we have to divorce the book from the movie adaptation. ... Nah, they were both lousy. A bored teenager whose parents were killed when he was a child tries to leave his uncle’s farm in search of adventure but is told to wait until the next growing season. Dejected, he rides into the nearest town and makes the acquaintance of an old man who used to be a soldier for a powerful army that was defeated some time ago. He bonds with the old man and learns the secrets of this forbidden trade, ultimately rising to save the poor oppressed people and bringing back the lost art of…

a.) The Force.
b.) Dragon Riding.

Eragon is what happened with the plot of Star Wars was infused with the characters of Harry Potter and set in the land of Lord of the Rings. Which is disappointing, because it means that anyone who’s seen those movies has already seen Eragon three times over.

But I suppose we have to divorce the book from the movie adaptation. … Nah, they were both lousy.

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