Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
They tried to blend all the books together and fucked everything up so bad a second movie is impossible.
Just a couple things I remember:
Galbatorix, the king and one of the last dragon riders, constantly claims he wants “his stone” back. That “stone” is a dragon egg and he should know this better than anyone.
Urgals, which in the books are basically orcs, are literally just humans with helmets.
They gave Durza, the villain of book 1, Shruikan, Glabatorox’s dragon. Which was then promptly defeated. Thing is, when dragons die, their rider is likely to die as well(galby is a special case, his original dragon died already). This is especially problematic because {MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD} Galbatorixs final plan is to breed his dragon with the lead characters dragon to bring back the dragon race he destroyed. Also, Galbatorix’s dragon would have most likely the strongest remaining dragon heart (“eldunari”) which are the source of galbatorix’s powers.
Tl;Dr: it’s not worth finishing the series because the entire rest of the plot would make no sense. The book series is literally my favorite series with >10000 series read.
That wasn’t Shruiken, that was, like, a shadow dragon he summoned with his shadow power or something. Created for the movie so they could have a more exciting climax than a one on one sword duel ended by an elf magically shattering a ruby as large as a house directly over said duel before diving into it on the back of a pissed off dragon, providing the distraction needed for the hopelessly outmatched hero to stab the unholy abomination through the heart. That might sound awesome to you, because it is. Shruikan was the post credits reveal.
Ah fair. Though also to be fair, isn’t the star rose about the size of a football field? At least that’s how I always envisioned it. Good God, that’s such a great series
It’s been my favourite series for so long, it’s so hard to explain to someone why it’s so good because it just sounds like another fantasy adventure series, but it’s so gosh darn good.
It’s been so long, I just remember that they generally cut a ton of major elements of the story and completely changed the end bc they had no intention of ever making a sequel, at least not one remotely based off of the books. I remember being excited to see certain things happen, and they just… didn’t.
Out of curiosity, what was wrong with it? I never read the books, and watched it years later on late night cable, and it seemed ok. Typical pre-teen bland fantasy. Perfectly fine on enough weed
They tried to blend all the books together and fucked everything up so bad a second movie is impossible.
Just a couple things I remember:
Galbatorix, the king and one of the last dragon riders, constantly claims he wants “his stone” back. That “stone” is a dragon egg and he should know this better than anyone.
Urgals, which in the books are basically orcs, are literally just humans with helmets.
They gave Durza, the villain of book 1, Shruikan, Glabatorox’s dragon. Which was then promptly defeated. Thing is, when dragons die, their rider is likely to die as well(galby is a special case, his original dragon died already). This is especially problematic because {MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD} Galbatorixs final plan is to breed his dragon with the lead characters dragon to bring back the dragon race he destroyed. Also, Galbatorix’s dragon would have most likely the strongest remaining dragon heart (“eldunari”) which are the source of galbatorix’s powers.
Tl;Dr: it’s not worth finishing the series because the entire rest of the plot would make no sense. The book series is literally my favorite series with >10000 series read.
That wasn’t Shruiken, that was, like, a shadow dragon he summoned with his shadow power or something. Created for the movie so they could have a more exciting climax than a one on one sword duel ended by an elf magically shattering a ruby as large as a house directly over said duel before diving into it on the back of a pissed off dragon, providing the distraction needed for the hopelessly outmatched hero to stab the unholy abomination through the heart. That might sound awesome to you, because it is. Shruikan was the post credits reveal.
Ah fair. Though also to be fair, isn’t the star rose about the size of a football field? At least that’s how I always envisioned it. Good God, that’s such a great series
It’s been my favourite series for so long, it’s so hard to explain to someone why it’s so good because it just sounds like another fantasy adventure series, but it’s so gosh darn good.
It’s been so long, I just remember that they generally cut a ton of major elements of the story and completely changed the end bc they had no intention of ever making a sequel, at least not one remotely based off of the books. I remember being excited to see certain things happen, and they just… didn’t.