Bambi’s mum was hot!
And Oh so tasty, with a sweet basil sauce. Yum!
[quote=“tigger”]So astonishingly bad it almost made the DnD move look good. No that couldn’t happen. EVER.
Dire, dire, dire.
I’m a sucker or fantasy. I really love it, but this was just so derivative of every major movie of the past 30 years. it sucked.
Acting - terrible (Depends of course if you blame the utterly rubbish script which destroyed an already terminally average book) Most characters had at least 2 lines that weren’t exposition
The lead spends most of his time brooding. Well looking like he’s brooding, but as a teenager it just comes across a petulent pouting.
They should have given away life size models of the dragon with each ticket so you could plug the plot holes.
Awful, awful script is like a ‘Fantasy for dummies’ rallying cry.
Dragon - cute. Great. Yippee! Rah Rah. Feathers. FEATHERS!
Hackneyed editing rushed the story along at a speed embarassing even for Days of our lives.
At the bargain basement price of 100 million dollars, they really could have done better.
I realise the target audience is 11 - 11 1/2 but come on. This is the sort of twee, lame, derivative rubbish that gives fantasy a bad, bad name. With all that talent and money they must be able to make good fantasy. (For a family audience is fine.)
I want to sue the producers for my wasted time.[/quote]
Stop censoring yourself Tigger tell what you really think
[quote=“tigger”]
All those people who have a script (or 5) half finished on the hard drive, we NEED to get them finished and made so we can have something better than that pants movie. I’m talking to you Carl, Scott, Ryan.
Hmmmm. Spleen vented. My work here is done.[/quote]
I am kicking around a idea that i will propose at the after larp, after i mull it a bit more.
[quote=“Carl”]
Stop censoring yourself Tigger tell what you really think
I am kicking around a idea that i will propose at the after larp, after i mull it a bit more.[/quote]
Saying what I really think would get me deported.
As for scripts,
Well? I’m waiting…
[quote=“tigger”]
As for scripts,
Well? I’m waiting…[/quote]
Have your PA call my PA we will power lunch, must dash, love your work honey… Caio
Thanks to all you guys who tore it to pieces here on the forum! I love you all! After reading this thread, I went into that cinema expecting something like Dragonheart or Excalibur, and was actually pleasantly surprised.
The only things that really stood out as bad (and actually didn’t bother me that much) were:
- main character - acting, lines, hair, voice, cape at the end, angsting
- pace
- lack of depth
I was really expecting flashbacks from Brom, about when he was a dragon rider. I was expecting to see what happened to Eragon’s cousin at the start. I was expecting to see more of those wicked assassins. I was expecting to see the dragon Saphira wearing the armour faceplate that we saw on the stand.
What was cool:
- magic
- not knowing exactly when Brom was going to die
- the Simpsons movie trailer at the start
But thanks for making me go in with such low expectations, it didn’t seem so bad.
power lunch Carl?
Why aren’t you writing?
I’ll give you power lunch.
GET WRITING!!!
If I have to endure one more movie like Eragon i will do something deeply unpleasant.
[quote=“tigger”]power lunch Carl?
Why aren’t you writing?
I’ll give you power lunch.
GET WRITING!!!
If I have to endure one more movie like Eragon i will do something deeply unpleasant.[/quote]
I am writing but am suffering from a bit of a block right now, I need HELP!!! I have realised that I hate working in a vacum, I dont mean i want a gohst writer, but just someone to bounce ideas of and get the juices coursing again.
I had an idea for a movie a few years back about a pair of very fine medieval riding boots. Vey much a “character study” piece that went through a series of peoples interesting lives.
It’d start in a cobblers shop as the cobbler was finishing off a pair of boots. Some noble would turn up and take them away.
He’d in turn lose them when being chased from the window of his lover by an angry husband, leaving the boots behind.
The husband would keep the boots and then be killed in a war and have his boots stolen off his corpse.
The corpse robber would lose them in a game of chance to someone.
and so on
At some point some lady would get them to wear as a disguise for sneaking out at night.
There would have to be a highway robber who stole them at some point as well.
Nice. I’ve read a series of short stories with a similar framing element. A colonist to America brings a musical instrument with them (might have been an accordian) that has four very different owners, and as it is passed on it tells not just their stories but a history of the times over 100 years or more.
I once read a children’s story about an anthropomorphic hat that wanted to “go places”. It ended up going places but didn’t realise it until it’d gone through about 20 different owners.
[quote=“Carl”]
I am writing but am suffering from a bit of a block right now, I need HELP!!! I have realised that I hate working in a vacum, I dont mean i want a gohst writer, but just someone to bounce ideas of and get the juices coursing again.[/quote]
Fair enough, but i do believe that if you click your fingers on this forum and ask for help, any number of loonies, lunatics and leemurs would happily volunteer to act as sounding boards for ideas, script read thrus, dialogue testers etc.
In fact, after new years why don’t you (and anyone else for that matter) bring the script round and we’ll bounce around a few ideas. I have the wine, you bring the script, hell pizza delivers. Could be a constructive evening. Anyone else interested?
That sounds like a great idea.
Make a date
i’m back in the new year somewhere between 4th-8th. How about Monday 15th?
I to have an idea for an LRP movie.
It would be shot in 12 shots, and underground in a little cave we know.
Advantages, short shoting time and atmosphere, quick to shoot as most players have the costumes and equipment already.
Disadvantages, long shots so everyone has to remember their lines and action, difficult shooting environment.
If anyone is brave enough to actually give it a shot contact me.
[quote=“Alista”]I to have an idea for an LRP movie.
It would be shot in 12 shots.[/quote]
how long would each shot be?
because you could conceivebly end up with a movie that is 12 seconds long
[quote=“Alista”]
Disadvantages, long shots so everyone has to remember their lines and action, difficult shooting environment.[/quote]
unless you wanted to do it long continuous shots, which is more work than you ever want to do for fun, and really difficult to stage.
someone once did a movie in one unbroken continuous shot, it took about a year to set up and required months and months of rehearsals.
[quote=“Alista”]
If anyone is brave enough to actually give it a shot contact me.[/quote]
frankly this sounds like a stone cold bitch on heels…have fun 
[quote=“Tigger”]
i’m back in the new year somewhere between 4th-8th. How about Monday 15th?[/quote]
lets do it
I’ve just seen this on DVD. As fantasy flicks go it wasn’t bad. Cliched and a bit hammy, but with a servicable plot and nice cinematography.
I’d rate it better than Dragonheart and the D&D movie and on a par with the Harry Potter movies for watchability for fantasy fans.
You have got to be kidding…?
I have read the second book, but not the first. As someone who had some idea if the story, I expectd a lot more actual story in this film.
I definitely thought this was a wait until it comes out on DVD movie - ok for a rainy afternoon. I thought that the actor who played title character needs more acting leassons, but there is some nice CGI. I liked Saphira.
I guess I’ll have to see it now…