12-27-2006, 07:28 AM
"I suffer without my stone"
After a long winded introduction about what the hell is going on, this is the first line poor John Malkovich (please talk more with your agent before accepting these projects) speaks. I spent most of the movie listening to it echo inside my head. "I suffer without my stone". Occasionally it would leak out of my lips, because it was ludicrous. I spent much of the weekend repeating it. I want it on the T-shirt.
Eragon is the biggest young adult fantasy novel since Harry Potter. It would have been nice for them to have the same budget as the Harry Potter films to make this movie. It seemed after they did the CGI for the Dragon, they didn't have much money left for cool sets, fantastic costumes or script rewrites. They needed a bunch of those. It also would have been nice if the filmmakers had been alerted to the fact Lord of the Rings had been made into movies which all other fantasy movies will be judged. They should have maybe taken a look at that picture to see how it was done.
Eragon is the last dragonrider. He's the boy who gets the stone, which turns out to be a dragon egg. Who could have seen that coming? Dragon Egg's seek out their riders it turns out. Eragon was probably suffering without his stone. He just didn't know it. The stone hatches and the best scenes of the movie occur with the young akward dragon. We should have left then. But we didn't know then what we know now.
Eragon, played by Edward Speelers falls in with Jeremy Irons who is a dragonrider without a dragon. I think they hired Ed look pretty. Unfortunately that was the extent of his talents. Who would know that this was his first film. I checked. It's pretty brief under his credits. Jeremy Irons also needs to talk to his agent. He had plenty of bad dialogue to pull off. If it weren't for him, the dialogue would have been laugh out loud funny. "I suffer without my stone". Even with him it was laugh out loud funny, but Irons was still cool.
Then there was the dragon, Sephira, played by Rachel Weisz. I think she thought she was doing voice work for a different film. Some modern piece perhaps. Granted it was all mind to mind talk with Eragon, but it seemed very out of place.
Eragon, Irons, and the dragon spend most of the film heading for the mountains to find the Vardan while they are being pursued by the evil wizard, Durza, an unrecognizable Robert Carlysle, at the behest of the suffering king.
The Vardan are led by Djimon Hounsou who lost a bet with the costume designer about choice of hats. Find a still shot from the movie and see for yourself. No one would wear that battle helmet on purpose.
The best effect of the movie was at the end when Sephira and Eragon had to battle the dragon created by Durza. The Durza dragon was all black smoke and evil. If I get a dragon it's going to be that one.
To recap:
John Malkovich who only get three lines, is in charge of overacting.
Eragon is responsible for looking pretty.
Durza looked up caricature in the dictionary before taking the role.
Jeremy Irons is in charge of choking out bad exposition.
Rachel Weisz was in another dragon film and they used her voice for this one.
Djimon Hounsou gets the bad wardrobe.
I suffer without my stone
After a long winded introduction about what the hell is going on, this is the first line poor John Malkovich (please talk more with your agent before accepting these projects) speaks. I spent most of the movie listening to it echo inside my head. "I suffer without my stone". Occasionally it would leak out of my lips, because it was ludicrous. I spent much of the weekend repeating it. I want it on the T-shirt.
Eragon is the biggest young adult fantasy novel since Harry Potter. It would have been nice for them to have the same budget as the Harry Potter films to make this movie. It seemed after they did the CGI for the Dragon, they didn't have much money left for cool sets, fantastic costumes or script rewrites. They needed a bunch of those. It also would have been nice if the filmmakers had been alerted to the fact Lord of the Rings had been made into movies which all other fantasy movies will be judged. They should have maybe taken a look at that picture to see how it was done.
Eragon is the last dragonrider. He's the boy who gets the stone, which turns out to be a dragon egg. Who could have seen that coming? Dragon Egg's seek out their riders it turns out. Eragon was probably suffering without his stone. He just didn't know it. The stone hatches and the best scenes of the movie occur with the young akward dragon. We should have left then. But we didn't know then what we know now.
Eragon, played by Edward Speelers falls in with Jeremy Irons who is a dragonrider without a dragon. I think they hired Ed look pretty. Unfortunately that was the extent of his talents. Who would know that this was his first film. I checked. It's pretty brief under his credits. Jeremy Irons also needs to talk to his agent. He had plenty of bad dialogue to pull off. If it weren't for him, the dialogue would have been laugh out loud funny. "I suffer without my stone". Even with him it was laugh out loud funny, but Irons was still cool.
Then there was the dragon, Sephira, played by Rachel Weisz. I think she thought she was doing voice work for a different film. Some modern piece perhaps. Granted it was all mind to mind talk with Eragon, but it seemed very out of place.
Eragon, Irons, and the dragon spend most of the film heading for the mountains to find the Vardan while they are being pursued by the evil wizard, Durza, an unrecognizable Robert Carlysle, at the behest of the suffering king.
The Vardan are led by Djimon Hounsou who lost a bet with the costume designer about choice of hats. Find a still shot from the movie and see for yourself. No one would wear that battle helmet on purpose.
The best effect of the movie was at the end when Sephira and Eragon had to battle the dragon created by Durza. The Durza dragon was all black smoke and evil. If I get a dragon it's going to be that one.
To recap:
John Malkovich who only get three lines, is in charge of overacting.
Eragon is responsible for looking pretty.
Durza looked up caricature in the dictionary before taking the role.
Jeremy Irons is in charge of choking out bad exposition.
Rachel Weisz was in another dragon film and they used her voice for this one.
Djimon Hounsou gets the bad wardrobe.
I suffer without my stone
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit