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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 02:49:31 AM

Title: Eragon movie trailer
Post by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 02:49:31 AM

For those of you who don't know, a movie is being made out of the book eragon, which is basically like Lord of the Rings, just with dragons :)

I found out about this movie around 3 years ago, ever since then, I've been waiting for a trailer or something from it. There was supposed to  a trailer attached to X-men 3, but it got pushed back to Superman Returns, which got pushed back to Snakes on a Plane, etc. Anywayz, they finally got a trailer out today (or rather last night).

I have to say.. This movie looks awesome. Though, my opinion may be a little bias since I'm basically a dragon freak, but the book started off with one of them cliches I HATE, so the two kinda offset eachother.

Anyway, you can watch the trailer here: http://movies.aol.com/movie-trailer-clip/eragon-ed-speleers-jeremy-irons-large

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 16, 2006, 03:13:39 AM

FINALLY!!! I LOVE THAT BOOK!!! IT WAS THE BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!!!

No, really I read the whole first book in seven hours.

I'VE BEEN WAITING 3 YEARS FOR THIS MOVIE!!!

 I LOVE YOU DB!!!


I just hope they don't screw this over like they did the Harry Potter movies. Generally they make bad movies out of books. I will be very, very, ummm yeah..., if this movie dissapoints me.

Not that the Harry Potter movies were, well, bad, they just didn't follow the plot of the book, and they missed parts. I found myself saying,"Oh, wow, this part in the book was really good! I wanna see it...wait...what the heck! They skipped it!", and stuff like that.

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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on September 16, 2006, 03:21:22 AM

Best book ever: Dune by Frank Herbert. Literature pwnage to the maxx.

I've never been a big fantasy guy, so I've never read these.

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 16, 2006, 03:27:33 AM

Well, I watched the whole trailer.

First of all, Eragon looks creepily like me.

Second, the mark on his pal was supposed to look like a large blister, not a scar. I'd tell you why, but it'd wreck the movie for all those who didn't read the book.

READ THE BOOK NOW.

The Razzac, the big mummy-zombie guy shouldn't look like a zombie. He wears a cloak, not rags. He's also supposed to have a beak as a mouth.

READ THE BOOK NOW.

I noticed a lot of other minor mistakes. Sorry, but I'm an Eragon freak. I could draw the whole map by memory.

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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on September 16, 2006, 03:29:58 AM

I'm like that with Dune XD I can map out the poles along with the shield wall, the stations, and anything else XD

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 16, 2006, 03:32:33 AM

Lol, I used to want to memorize the walkthrough to TLoZ, Ocarina of Time, but then I realised that that was going too far...

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 03:34:19 AM

I'm not a big reader at all, so when I heard about the book, I never bothered reading it. I thought it would be some crappy book with some lame steriotypic dragon rider. I forgot who, but someone on charas was making an eragon fan game, after reading about that, I got interested in the book. It just so happened that my girfriend had eragon, and let me borrow it. I kept it for 4 months I think... Anyway, the book starts out with the hero's home being burned down and Eragon (some farmboy who becomes the main character), goes after the people who did it. So that was a big cliche, and since I really hate cliches, it kind of turned me off. I kept reading because I really loved the characters, I thought Brom was the bomb, and I really like the actor who plays him, so I'm happy about that.

But yeah, after I got halfway through the book, I couldn't really stop reading it. A few weeks ago, I finally bought the sequal (Eldest). I was hesitant to buy it because it only came in hard cover, and cost around $25, which is WAY too much for me to pay for a book. I found it at Wal-Mart for $15, so I picked it up, and I'm about half way through that. Then recently, I bought Eragon, so I have that book as well now.

I'll have to check out Dune sometime, but considering the amount of reading I do, it'll probably be a while.

Yeah, a lot of things are messed up in the movie. The Urgals for example are just people... I think at first they were just going to make Eragon as a budget movie, but later realized it had potential and started working harder on it (which is why the trailer has been delayed so much.) The differances I've seen thus far don't really bother me too much though.

I really like how Saphira (the dragon) looks. It seems like they put a lot of work into her, and she just looks awesome now.

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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on September 16, 2006, 03:51:33 AM

If you get into Dune, just be warned there's... 8-9 books. But its sci-fi.

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Post by: Drace on September 16, 2006, 07:47:25 AM

With dragons?! Wooh! Dragons are so underrated now-a-days.

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Post by: Revolution911 on September 16, 2006, 05:38:40 PM

I shat my pants.

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Post by: drenrin2120 on September 16, 2006, 05:46:18 PM

Looks pretty sweet.

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Post by: Black Massacre on September 16, 2006, 07:56:16 PM

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I'm not a big reader at all, so when I heard about the book, I never bothered reading it. I thought it would be some crappy book with some lame steriotypic dragon rider. I forgot who, but someone on charas was making an eragon fan game, after reading about that, I got interested in the book. It just so happened that my girfriend had eragon, and let me borrow it. I kept it for 4 months I think... Anyway, the book starts out with the hero's home being burned down and Eragon (some farmboy who becomes the main character), goes after the people who did it. So that was a big cliche, and since I really hate cliches, it kind of turned me off. I kept reading because I really loved the characters, I thought Brom was the bomb, and I really like the actor who plays him, so I'm happy about that.

But yeah, after I got halfway through the book, I couldn't really stop reading it. A few weeks ago, I finally bought the sequal (Eldest). I was hesitant to buy it because it only came in hard cover, and cost around $25, which is WAY too much for me to pay for a book. I found it at Wal-Mart for $15, so I picked it up, and I'm about half way through that. Then recently, I bought Eragon, so I have that book as well now.

I'll have to check out Dune sometime, but considering the amount of reading I do, it'll probably be a while.

Yeah, a lot of things are messed up in the movie. The Urgals for example are just people... I think at first they were just going to make Eragon as a budget movie, but later realized it had potential and started working harder on it (which is why the trailer has been delayed so much.) The differances I've seen thus far don't really bother me too much though.

I really like how Saphira (the dragon) looks. It seems like they put a lot of work into her, and she just looks awesome now.

Your only half way thrugh the book  :o  :o I read the whole think in like 4 days.

Anyway, i'm going crazy over the book since i like it and the sequal.

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 08:07:12 PM

Actually.. I'm not quite half way done with the book. The book kinda annoys me how it swtiches back and forth between Eragon and Roran.  Like, I get really interested with whats happening with Eragon, then all of the sudden it switches back over to Roran, I soon become very interested in his story, but then it switches back over to Eragon...

I think its brilliant how the author did that to keep the reader reading, its just annoying sometimes.

And to think that Christopher Paolini was only 15 when he started writing Eragon. Then again, I had someone in my math two years ago and they had just published a book at the age of 16 I think. And here I am at 18 and haven't even started to write a book yet.

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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on September 16, 2006, 08:59:38 PM

I've never cared much about the 15 year old authors. I know some people who are getting published. All it requires is you write something they think will sell. I've read some real garbage that everyone loves written by 15. But hey, it sold. Now these people that get comics and stuff published at 15, thats amazing.

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 09:19:13 PM

Meh, if a book is good, I don't mind how old the auther was when they wrote it, its still good. I never knew the age of the auther (nor anything about him) until after I read the book.

Though he was 15 when he started writing the book, he had alrady graduated from high school, the book wasn't published until he was 19, so I'm guessing he did a lot of revisions and such when he was 18. Even though he was 15 when he started writing it, I don't think it shows at all in the book, except maybe the big cliche part...

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 16, 2006, 10:30:49 PM

Another thing that peeved me is that they showed the ENDING in the trailer!! THEY SHOWED THE CLIMAX GOSH!

Saphira is really good. I liked how they made her according to the cover. Durza also looks, well, AWESOME! He looks exactly like I imagined him, with the hair, eyes and stuff! Except he has more marking on his face then I thought, but that makes him looks cooler.

I think the men are just men, because theere were some men in the army. If they took out Urgals, ugghhh...

And did I mention I look a lot like Eragon?

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 16, 2006, 11:27:46 PM

I've been tracking the movie for a while, I heard somewhere that urgals weren't going to be in the movie. Or rather, they were going to be in the movie, but instead of being the monster type creatures, they were just going to be men. I don't know if that was accurate or not, but thats what I heard, and I didn't see any urgals in the trailer, and since urgals are a big part of the book, I'm kinda thinking it was right.

Yeah, I think everyone looks really cool. Except Eragon of course, he's as ugly as **** :p

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 17, 2006, 02:03:21 AM

Thats very nice of you.

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 17, 2006, 02:54:50 AM

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Thats very nice of you.

:D

Lol, well I got sick of waiting 3 hours for the trailer to load when I want to watch it, so, I found a way to actually download it from the site rather than just watching it :)

Back to the actual trailer, I was hoping that they'd have a voice for Saphira in it. Last I heard, they were having trouble finding a good voice actor for her. I haven't heard who was selected, but I wanted to see what she sounded like :( Though techinically, she doesn't talk...

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Post by: Razor on September 17, 2006, 05:24:23 AM

Looks interesting to say the least. I myself have not heard of the books, or of the movie up until now.

But I can't get over the fact Eragon is obviously Dragon with the first letter increased by a letter. It bothers me.

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 17, 2006, 01:29:00 PM

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Looks interesting to say the least. I myself have not heard of the books, or of the movie up until now.

But I can't get over the fact Eragon is obviously Dragon with the first letter increased by a letter. It bothers me.

Ineed, I wish they would have found a better name. From what I heard, Eragon comes from one of Anne Mcarthy's books on dragon riders. And in the actual Eragon book, the name eragon was supposed to be the first dragon rider's name. So I guess its supposed to be symbolic or something that the eragon (the main character) has that name. Maybe its resemblence to the word dragon also means something, but if it does, I haven't gotten that far in the book yet.

Also, it seems that the names of the books follow a pattern, they're 6 letters, and start with E. The first book is Eragon, the second book is Eldest. So thats probably another reason why the auther wanted to use that name.

Before I read the book, I felt the same way. Though, I thought Eragon was the name of the dragon. All the other names are pretty cool and original, after I started reading the book, i just thought of eragon as another name and not dragon with an e.

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Post by: Red Fox on September 17, 2006, 01:55:23 PM

Damn thats hot I'm gonna go and buy the book now..oh wait it's sunday..I'm gonna go and buy the book tomorrow.

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Post by: Black Massacre on September 17, 2006, 02:06:22 PM

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Originally posted by Razor Looks interesting to say the least. I myself have not heard of the books, or of the movie up until now. But I can't get over the fact Eragon is obviously Dragon with the first letter increased by a letter. It bothers me.

Ineed, I wish they would have found a better name. From what I heard, Eragon comes from one of Anne Mcarthy's books on dragon riders. And in the actual Eragon book, the name eragon was supposed to be the first dragon rider's name. So I guess its supposed to be symbolic or something that the eragon (the main character) has that name. Maybe its resemblence to the word dragon also means something, but if it does, I haven't gotten that far in the book yet.

Also, it seems that the names of the books follow a pattern, they're 6 letters, and start with E. The first book is Eragon, the second book is Eldest. So thats probably another reason why the auther wanted to use that name.

Before I read the book, I felt the same way. Though, I thought Eragon was the name of the dragon. All the other names are pretty cool and original, after I started reading the book, i just thought of eragon as another name and not dragon with an e.

The 3rd books name is "Empire".

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Post by: Robotam Plus on September 17, 2006, 02:12:00 PM

Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie.

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Post by: Black Massacre on September 17, 2006, 02:16:17 PM

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Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie.

I hate  james bond. I like only one of the geams.

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Post by: I Have a Sandwich on September 17, 2006, 03:39:38 PM

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Originally posted by Robotam Plus Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie.

I hate  james bond. I like only one of the geams.

BLASPHEMY! Maybe if you didn't like a Timothy Dalton Bond it'd be fine, no one does. But Connery, Moore, and Brosnan!?

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Post by: Drace on September 17, 2006, 04:47:41 PM

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Originally posted by Black Massacre quote: Originally posted by Robotam Plus Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie. I hate  james bond. I like only one of the geams.

BLASPHEMY! Maybe if you didn't like a Timothy Dalton Bond it'd be fine, no one does. But Connery, Moore, and Brosnan!?

Also, if I might add, WHAT THE HELL ARE GEAMS?!

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Post by: Revolution911 on September 17, 2006, 04:49:03 PM

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Originally posted by I Have a Sandwich quote: Originally posted by Black Massacre quote: Originally posted by Robotam Plus Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie. I hate  james bond. I like only one of the geams. BLASPHEMY! Maybe if you didn't like a Timothy Dalton Bond it'd be fine, no one does. But Connery, Moore, and Brosnan!?

Also, if I might add, WHAT THE HELL ARE GEAMS?!

NOOB ALERT. DOESENT KNOW WHAT GEAMS ARE. NOOB ALERT.

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Post by: Black Massacre on September 17, 2006, 05:13:28 PM

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Originally posted by I Have a Sandwich quote: Originally posted by Black Massacre quote: Originally posted by Robotam Plus Can't say I'm that interested. I'd rather go watch the new Bond-movie. I hate  james bond. I like only one of the geams. BLASPHEMY! Maybe if you didn't like a Timothy Dalton Bond it'd be fine, no one does. But Connery, Moore, and Brosnan!?

Also, if I might add, WHAT THE HELL ARE GEAMS?!

Games*  :p

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 17, 2006, 07:03:07 PM

What would be even dumber is if they made an Eragon trading card game.

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Post by: Razor on September 17, 2006, 07:32:57 PM

Nah, you'd need a massive cult following before they even consider doing that. If the movie becomes the next LOTR, then maybe.

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Post by: RPG LORD on September 17, 2006, 08:38:33 PM

...So Alagaesia IS getting a movie. Sweet.

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 17, 2006, 10:06:10 PM

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Nah, you'd need a massive cult following before they even consider doing that. If the movie becomes the next LOTR, then maybe.

There already is one from the books.

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 18, 2006, 02:27:23 PM

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The 3rd books name is "Empire".[/B]

Thats the 'rumored' name, there hasn't been any official name for the book yet. Heres something on it.

 

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We're willing to bet the book title will look something like this: E _ _ _ _ _.  Safe to assume that the third book will fall into the 'six-letter-long starts-with-E theme'?  We think so!  The book has been rumored to be titled "Empire," though Christopher Paolini assures us that at this point, there is no official title to the book - meaning, "Bubbles For Buckfish" is just as likely as any other name for the book!

Theres a trading card game for pretty much everything. If people want to buy the cards, why shouldn't they make a trading card game of it? Personally, I haven't bought any type of trading cards for a good 5 or 6 years.

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 18, 2006, 09:28:42 PM

Well, trading card games are getting dumber and dumber. Pokemon used to be a good TCG, then they made is dumb by renaming everything to cheesier and cheesier names. They also made a codname kids next door TCG, which suckek like nothing before.

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Post by: Black Massacre on September 21, 2006, 08:22:14 PM

They're making a game out of it. I hope it doesn't suck.

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Post by: Razor on September 21, 2006, 08:30:37 PM

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They're making a game out of it. I hope it doesn't suck.

*points at every other movie based game ever*

Also, Fantastic Four and Cat-Woman.

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Post by: Linkizcool on September 22, 2006, 12:44:44 AM

The game would be sweet if you get to control Saphira's fire breath at the last battle.If not, ...

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Post by: DragonBlaze on September 22, 2006, 02:32:13 AM

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The game would be sweet if you get to control Saphira's fire breath at the last battle.If not, ...

Meh, there are a lot of dragon fighting games out there such as Drakengard, Drakengard 2, Drakkem, Dragon Rage, etc. Even if Saphira could breath fire on the last battle, that won't make it a good game.

I doubt the game will be good. I really don't think it'll be a 'bad' game either. Just a normal game with nothing too special.