Eragon

When I first saw Eragon, I loved it, the dragons, the battles, the love interest, the mentor, and almost everything else about it. Then when I heard that it was based on a book I was skeptical and didn’t read it for years. Once I did I unfortunately now had second thoughts on the movie I had once loved.

Everything we view as good or bad is all based on our perspective and reading Eragon gave me a new perspective on the movie that immediately had me disappointed with the adaptation. The story in the book was much more complete and overall better which is to be expected but there were major parts of the book that were completely re-imagined in the movie that were saddening. The saddest part of the changes is that the story could never truly continue into sequel films because the first movie went off track enough to were the first movie and second book in the series could never line up unless many changes were made. 

It is one of the most nervous times for book lovers when one of their favorite books is being made into a movie. The possibility that a story so close to your heart could be viewed on screen is just magical but at the same time there is usually disappointment as the movie never seems to fully grasp you the same way as the books. 

All that being said Eragon is a good movie on it’s own but not a very good adaptation of the book. I would definitely recommend the books however, it’s called the Inheritance Cycle for those of you who don’t know, and four books in all.