Eragon

[Slyvr]

Great book. The second, Eldest, was awesome too. Think the movie will be any good?

[Atnas]

Usually if a book is good, the movie is shit.

[Slyvr]

True, I saw the previews and stuff and it is defienetly not going to be like the book. The "Urgals" are freikin human...They're supposed to be horned monster things

[gruesomeBODY]

Scared to see the movie since i liked the book. The only movies that actually seemed to do the book justice was LOTR.

[Slyvr]

Ya, but did anyone read the books before they watched LOTR?

[Thanatos]

I did...

[Slyvr]

I've never even heard of them before the movie

[gruesomeBODY]

i did. Thats why i was interested in seeing the movie, especially when i heard about the cast.

[Sovereign]

This is only my third time hearing about this. One was from a discovery chan show where Orange County Choppers were building an Eragon themed bike. THe other from an old manager/friend of mine, and the third being here.

The manager said it's going to suck.

[Atnas]

Ya, but did anyone read the books before they watched LOTR?


I did.

Also I read all of the Harry Potter books that were out before the first movie was released, or let alone planned.

Movies = Shit

When compared to book counterparts.

My problem with movies is the length. Most of the time they are too short for my liking.

[Medieval Bob]

I've never even heard of them before the movie

Hard to believe people aren't reading LotR anymore.

[Lenny]

Most people will see it, think "Blimey, that's a big 'un", see the type of language used, and be instantly put off.

I think the last time I read the whole trilogy was the day I went to see Return of the King.

[Slyvr]

I saw the movie first and tried reading the book, but was like...I've already experienced this a million times in the multiple times I've seen the movie...Why am I sitting here reading it?

I got through a chapter or two and gave up in the fellowship

[Sovereign]

All movies are too short and everything feels rushed imo.

You need a nice logn series.

[Medieval Bob]

Why am I sitting here reading it?

Because the books are much, much better. Reading (in this context at least) is about entertainment. It's a sad day when people start to write off books altogether because the "same" story is available in movie-form.

[Sovereign]

It's gotta be a damn good book for me to read it over watching it in movie form. I'm one who needs hard copy visuals to really enjoy the story.

[Medieval Bob]

I always like the images in my mind better. I usually don't even like artwork on my books. The characters always look wrong to me.

[Lenny]

Do you ever get through a book imagining a character to look like whatever, only to forget completely what they look like if you think about it, or nce you have read the book? And then magically remember how they look etc when you next pick up the book?

[Medieval Bob]

No. Once I've figured out what a character should look like, I remember until something ruins it for me. For instance, I used to have this great image of Caramon from Dragonlance as this massive person, truly a giant among men. Now, thanks to cover art, he's just a big guy. :-\

[Lenny]

Fair enough.

If they're a main character in a series, then I can remember exactly what tey look like (for example, Sam Vimes, Rincewind out of Discworld, Richard and Kahlan out of Sword of Truth, etc). But if it's a one-off book, or the only one I've read in a series, I forget what they look like. :(

[Slyvr]

In Eragon the main character is supposed to have brown hair and the scar is more of a circle. In the movie, he has blond hair and the scar for some reason is the movie logo "e" 0o

[Lenny]

That's because film directors seem to think they have some kind of poetic license that allows them to change things in the books to suit their own needs.