Eragon was a wonderful book. How could anyone not make a good movie out of that book? Most scripts aren't that clearly or visually written. Why couldn't a GOOD movie director gotten his hands on it???
Whine, growl, moan.... done now.
WTF happened with Eragon??
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havnt seen it yet but I believe the director tried to appeal to to many audiences at once, instead of focussing on a certain age group they tried to appeal to young, middle and old at the same time. Personally if I was directing it I would of made it a risky 12/safe 15
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Yeah, I was so impressed when I heard that he was so young. The second book is called 'Elder', btw, and the third one was supposed to also be a 6 letter word startinge with E (Empire I think) but now that a real company has bought up the rights he might be forced to change it.
I haven't watched the movie yet because I've heard that it's quite... off.
I haven't watched the movie yet because I've heard that it's quite... off.
i dont find that so strange, if a person really lets a child go with thier imagination it is inconcievable what said child may come up with. most parent will say they encourage an imagination but when the child starts to exhibit a lust for fantasy thier parents will usually snap them back to reality by dismissing what they say as "silly non-sense"...very sad.jcrowfoot wrote:Yes. It's interesting to note that the author is 15 years old. Humbling. I'm twice that age and can't seem to finish a novel.
im like that, in a certain context(the not being able to finish part) i begin to write a story and i think they are really good and so do the people i get to read them but then i get another idea and a new story starts...rinse and repeat, i think i have about 6 stories in progress.
That's why it's so impressive that a 15 year old wrote this book, Sobek. The imagination is a given (though it's particularily great that the parents actually nurtured that) but it is not a small book. It's a feat to get a teenager to accomplish something like that, and I don't think he needed any prodding, just support.
Nope. It was a science fiction/historical novel. It was two stories, one about space travelers lost in time, the mystical childhood of Hatshepsut, and how those two worlds collided. I started it when I was eight years old. Part of the problem was that people kept falling asleep every time I read parts of it out loud to them. 
My REAL giving out was when I saw Star Gate within a week of reading Pyramids, a mass paperback and mediocre novel that came out right about the same time. That book was SO bad that it made everything that involved the Ancient Egyptians and technology look very silly.
I did an exhaustive search for it at Amazon, but couldn't find it, and THEY don't know who the author was, either. It was not the book by Terry Prachett... even his worst book ever was light-years better than this one.
I still have the thread of the story in my head, and maybe if I made it a comedy I could redeem it some day.
My REAL giving out was when I saw Star Gate within a week of reading Pyramids, a mass paperback and mediocre novel that came out right about the same time. That book was SO bad that it made everything that involved the Ancient Egyptians and technology look very silly.
I did an exhaustive search for it at Amazon, but couldn't find it, and THEY don't know who the author was, either. It was not the book by Terry Prachett... even his worst book ever was light-years better than this one.
I still have the thread of the story in my head, and maybe if I made it a comedy I could redeem it some day.
Well, I'm a Christian Dean Anderson fan, so I'm not a good judge of these things. However, my first true love was MacGuyver. 
Yes, I imagine I will look like Marge's older sister(s) when I get old... only fat. <shudder>
I liked the movie actually, and was ok with the tv show. My favorite part was the first scene in the movie where the geek archeologist tells the US Military what's what. But then, I LOVE geeks.
Most women think I'm deranged.
My biggest problem with Star Gate was the whole "Egyptian Gods being evil aliens" thing. The tv show made it somewhat better in that some of the aliens were good, too. So it wasn't the quality of Stargate that was the problem.
When I was a kid, if what I did *in* *any* *way* sounded like something someone else did, I would feel crushed because I wanted to be original. Too bad it took me 20 years to figure out that everything has been done. Don't get me wrong, people were telling me this right and left. I just couldn't accept that nothing was REALLY nothing new under the Sun.
I was most purely Aquarius when I was a child.
After all, some of the best Sherlock Holmes stories ever written were written by Laurie King, and honestly there are no new ideas in there... except the combination is brilliant and she's a great author.
Yes, I imagine I will look like Marge's older sister(s) when I get old... only fat. <shudder>
I liked the movie actually, and was ok with the tv show. My favorite part was the first scene in the movie where the geek archeologist tells the US Military what's what. But then, I LOVE geeks.
Most women think I'm deranged.My biggest problem with Star Gate was the whole "Egyptian Gods being evil aliens" thing. The tv show made it somewhat better in that some of the aliens were good, too. So it wasn't the quality of Stargate that was the problem.
When I was a kid, if what I did *in* *any* *way* sounded like something someone else did, I would feel crushed because I wanted to be original. Too bad it took me 20 years to figure out that everything has been done. Don't get me wrong, people were telling me this right and left. I just couldn't accept that nothing was REALLY nothing new under the Sun.
I was most purely Aquarius when I was a child.
After all, some of the best Sherlock Holmes stories ever written were written by Laurie King, and honestly there are no new ideas in there... except the combination is brilliant and she's a great author.
lol, ive never come across a person who wasnt a macguyver fan.
i love the Egyptian Gods, but im also a sucker for bad guy's in Tv if they have class...and the Goa'uld have class. but its not only the Egyptian Gods who are evil, the was a few Chinese, Celtic and Hindu ones in there as well. i love the replicators though. the movie was pretty excellent.
my view of original these days is so long as you didnt see the idea then go "hmm i might use that" its something that you think of...even if you later find out there are things exactly the same or similar.
i love the Egyptian Gods, but im also a sucker for bad guy's in Tv if they have class...and the Goa'uld have class. but its not only the Egyptian Gods who are evil, the was a few Chinese, Celtic and Hindu ones in there as well. i love the replicators though. the movie was pretty excellent.
my view of original these days is so long as you didnt see the idea then go "hmm i might use that" its something that you think of...even if you later find out there are things exactly the same or similar.