Eragon: How Not to Start a Film Franchise

Eragon came in 2006 to high expectations (from me at least), but failed to live up to the Christopher Paolini novel in any way. In this video, I dive into why the movie didn't work.

[captainmidnight]

Do you wish we had more Eragon movies?

[liamlloyd]

I feel Eragon would make a better netflix series than a movie, like they’d actually have time to flesh out the characters

[zenonx]

I laughed when during the middle of the movie they had saphira burst into flames, becoming a bigger dragon as if she were a Pokémon instead of growing over time

[nathanielmarquardt]

Are we not even not going to talk about how the elves weren't even elves, the dwarves weren't even dwarves, and the urgals weren't even urgals

[jackwoodbury]

I remember back in high school i was reading these books and I was stoked. I was talking to my english teacher about them and I asked him “can you believe a teenager wrote these?” And he simply replied “yes.”

[SZRLM]

Jeremy Irons is a professional. No matter what film he's in, he gives a performance to enjoy.

[XtoDoubt]

Bottom line: it's bad but not The Last Airbender bad

[ibraheem]

"Avatar the Last Airbender"
"Eragon"
"Percy Jackson"
I hope I never see any worse adaptation than these

[wargriz]

I love that for the scene with Galbatorix he also calls it a stone as if he doesn’t know it’s an egg.

[cybr]

My main qualm was how they butchered the story line so bad they couldn’t have continued a second movie even if the first was well received

[Hero]

One of the best choices in the books is that we NEVER see galbatorix except at the very very end of the novels. The dedication to making him actually scary was so great in the books and it managed to make me have to physically stop reading to calm myself down.

[Lurion_K]

I remember feeling quite pissed about this movie. Not even because the movie itself wasn't that great, but because they changed so much from the source material, it felt like a different world to me. One example: they didn't even bother giving the elves pointy ears. Yeah, it's a small thing, but things like that are everywhere in this movie.

[Kadaue]

I want Eragon to be given another chance on screen. A TV series would do this book series the justice it deserves

[sunnyk]

as every true paolini fan knows to say when someone brings up the movie: what movie?

[YxngWxvy]

The Percy Jackson series should be next

[jinx]

We seriously need more dragon flicks, good ones preferably.

[zedalba]

Eragon was his best book. My greatest criticism is how Christopher would spend 2-3 pages describing a thing only to never reference it again. I understand world building, but I can clearly remember those Dwarven wolverine claws easier than major plot points in his other books.

[ShadowKaiserin]

Honestly, Jeremy Irons is the perfect Brom. He is the one member of the cast I would carry on to a new adaptation. He does a fantastic job of playing the grumpy, sarcastic mentor.

[fishpastetheth]

Fun fact: I read the books before seeing or understanding anything about the Star Wars. The reveal of Eragons father absolutely blew me away and I can now totally understand why the Star Wars scene is referenced so much.

[Technicolorbaby]

The worst part of this film is that they turned the two strong female leads into crappy sidekicks with no personality. They made Saphira an obedient horse and Arya a dumb damsel in distress.