Sounds pretty bad based on your grade.. I still feel that DRAGONSLAYER is still one of the better Dragon movie's and it's from 1981.. Pretty good FX for that period when we didn't have CGI like today..

I'll take a look at it.

THough its a cheesy film, I still like Dragonheart. over time though, it feels stupid but definetely better than this crap fest.

How someone over at RT managed to give it a good grade is beyond me.

lol AWESOME review and describes exactly what I expected from this movie.

I gave it a D... Saphira is the only good thing.

I've never seen DREAMCATCHER.. Is that the one where some guy is sitting on the toilet and a worm or alien crawls out of his ass?? Seriously?? I read somewhere where that happens??

What can I say? My feelings about this movie are the same. Big Disappointment.

I don't remember the last time I was so mad about spending money to see a movie. Worst of all it's not even a full movie, it's a blatant set-up for a sequel, and unlike POTC2, I didn't actually care about any of the characters or seeing the rest of the movie.

D

2nd worst movie of the year, behind Ultravioleeeeeeeezzzzzzzz..............

Another terrible film, and it makes my list of top terrible films of the year.

F

D

Bad film. The dragon looked great, but the dialogue was terrible with bad performances. Joss Stone was awful in the one to two minutes she was on screen. My advice to Joss Stone is to stick to singing. This could have been much better.

Oh dear. You know a movie is bad when the sole redeeming quality is Jeremy Irons.

I went to see Eragon today (only because I wasn't the one paying), and to be very honest, I can't give it a straight-out "F" because I REALLY liked Brom!

Jeremy Irons was the worst thing about Dungeons & Dragons, but I guess he learned that scenery doesn't taste good, 'cause he didn't chew it much in Eragon.

I have to admit that I actually shed some tears during Brom's "last ride".... That was a pretty cool idea (I wonder if that was in the book, 'cause from what I've heard of Paolini, he doesn't seem imaginative enough to come up with such an original scene?).

But take Brom out, and you've got a movie that's more laughable and more awful than Dungeons & Dragons... and I liked DnD (as a guilty pleasure film).

Dave Trottier said in the Screenwriter's Bible that after you choose a genre for your story, you watch several movies in that genre that are widely considered good and several that are widely considered bad.

I have often looked to Dungeons & Dragons in the category of "this would've been great if you changed this & this, and so here is what I can learn from the makers' mistakes".

Eragon, though, is going straight to the "THIS IS BAD" category.

But, because I liked Jeremy/Brom so much (didn't expect to) to the point that I cried when he died... I'm giving the movie an F+ (so my vote went to "F")... It's not a movie worthy of the celluloid it inhabits, but it also doesn't quite deserve a straight-out "F" because of Jeremy/Brom.

I wonder if Brom was that cool in the book?

~ Joy ~

I should have known better watching this movie, as I found the book poorly written and incredibly derivative. Still, it was readable, so I had small hopes that the film would at least be watchable. It wasn't. Terribly acted (with four Oscar nominees in the cast, that's no small feat!) and horribly edited, with bad effects and even worse writing than the book. Only Jeremy Irons seemed to be giving a damn, but the character is so poorly written that he can't do anything with it. The dragon looks incredibly fake, and the story is nothing more than an out-and-out rip-off of Star Wars - but that's the author's fault, and I knew that going in. Still, the story is cut down so much that all that remains is the basic SW plot, and it doesn't even try to hide it. There's no flow between scenes, no character development, and only brief bits of action, which are (admittedly) good. What a complete disaster.

I turned this off 30 minutes in.

Enough said.

F. It felt like i was watching a high schooler mix lord of the rings and star wars together. I swear there was even dialogue taken from the films.

Wait, you mean you have taste?

ERAGON - 4/10 (D+)

Barf! This was so bad and uninvolving. I didn't get anything out of it. It was nearly impossible to find it interesting.

Well, it was better than what I was anticipating, but it's not good at all. This is almost to reminiscent of Star Wars(one shot early in the film is even stolen from Star Wars), not to mention Potter, Rings, Narnia, Dragonheart(which I don't consider a bad thing), and Dungeons And Dragons(which I consider to be a horrible thing). The visual effects are rather weak for this type of film, but it does manage to get the job done. The acting side is as uneven as a rollercoaster. Edward Speelers makes a weak debut here(to be fair, he has to say some very clunky dialogue, but he does nothing that Hayden Christensen couldn't have done), but he's almost Oscar worthy compared to his more well known co-stars. What on earth did John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons(who should have learned after Dungeons And Dragons to stay away from fantasy flicks), Sienna Guillory, Dijmon Hounsou, Robert Carlyle, and Rachel Weisz see in this script(beside a paycheck, obviously)? They all do their best to keep a straight face at this material(Weisz is voiceover only, but her sweet vocal tones wouldn't be my first choice for the dragon), with Malkovich and Irons trying their best to hold it in. While it's not unwatchable, it's obvious that something was lost along the way from page to screen(the book is over 700 pages, the movie clocks barely past 90 minutes without end credits). Eragon is weak entertainment with very inane dialogue("It's good to be brave, but sometimes it's better to be wise"), lackluster performances, and an ending that sets up a sequal. It was obvious this was set-up as a massive franchise in waiting(that isn't likely to happen judging from this films box office and audience reception), and it wasn't a good start at all. C-

An awful movie with laughable performances and a dull storyline. C-

Since I watched this and Night at the Museum back to back I've rethought my plans in life. My new plan is to end it.

Honestly, I would give this one a D just because N@tM is just so much worse than this. What did this have? Some good scenery, some okay effects, and Jeremy Irons was fun. The costumes were also pretty good through part of this. Although, was it Joy who said it's a sad thing when JI is the sole redeeming thing about your movie.

There's not really much to say? Rachel's voice over is absolutely terrible. And by the way, don't ever fucking make a story that's for little boys then give the guy a female dragon. That completely kills it!

One more thing...

Okay like 30 minutes of this movie is Brom/Eragon's trek to get to the rebels, but why doesn't the dragon just FLY HIM THE FUCK THERE. Oh yeah, because he's a Dragon Rider that doesn't take up riding again til almost the end of the journey? This isn't like Lord of the Rings where the Eagles wouldn't take them because it wasn't their thing and the ring is evil, etc.

And really... what is the difference whether or not Eragon or the Dragon dies? The goal is extermination... killing the Dragon would pretty much nip that in the bud.

Okay so then there was this part where Eragon has dreams of the chick and is like "I'm going to go get her" and forces the dragon to take him. Okay, stupid, even for this film, but okay. But this is theoretically really far away from their previous location... how the FUCK does Brom show up like 20 minutes after Eragon gets there? Did the dragon have that much time to get back in and get him??? I thought Eragon was the only "rider".

Ugh, it boggles the mind.

^^^^Saphira isnt fully grown yet, she is still basically a baby the entire movie/book. So she can't fly with additional weight for long distances (The Battle at the End with Eragon on Saphira never happened). All the Rider's were killed, just like the Jedi from Star Wars. A Rider turned bad (Anakin/Vader) gets rid of them all. 3 eggs survived, the blue one was stolen (Saphira), Eragon gets it and becomes the first Rider in X years. I read the book if you couldnt tell.

Strays too far from the book.

C+

Poor script, unimpressive CGI, and some LaughabLe viLLains. The onLy thing worth watching for me was the fuckin' AvriL Lavigne soundtrack.

C

not 100% terrible, but easily the worst of the big-budget CGI-led fantasy flicks.

C-