Eragon is never horribly injured after riding Saphira for the first time.Eragon was never captured and held in the prison with Arya.Important plot points that were not included or were butchered or never existed in the first place:
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You can’t make an objectively bad movie and alienate your fan base and expect to make a sequel the size of Eldest.Ĭharacters that were awkwardly introduced or not introduced at all: In order to still tell the story, they’re going to have to either deviate from the storyline of the novels or have some very creative explanations for the sudden changes. If the filmmakers ever get around to making Eldest (which I doubt they ever will because the reception of Eragon was critical, to say the least), they will have a lot of trouble. Or slept during the class that explored the concept of cooking by convection. Since we cannot directly see her thoughts as we did in the novel, the few lines Saphira did have were so important and Weisz nailed them, in my opinion.Īll filmmakers failed 5th grade science. Rachel Weisz did such an excellent job with her voice and by extension, her personality. The one character I did like was Saphira. They didn’t even really achieve ‘sexy’ either. I think one of the problems was that the filmmakers decided to put too much emphasis on the ‘sexy’ aspects and in doing so, did not stay true to the characters. And she certainly did not warm up to Eragon very much throughout the whole cycle, let alone the first novel. She was a practical and, at times, ruthless character. In the novel, Arya was a strong warrior who never wore dresses except in her homeland she wore men’s clothes because they were practical. Arya wore a dress and actually seemed to like Eragon in a romantic way. Garrett Hedlund was about as believable a warrior as my little sister would be. Murtagh was cheerful and eager to go to the Varden, in stark contrast to the moody, tortured warrior Murtagh in the novel. Well, it seems like they didn’t even try. Okay, I get that they can’t put every little detail from the book into the movie, but they can try to get the character’s personality right. Murtagh, Angela, Brom and Arya…they were all so different from what they were like in the novel. I don’t think they could have possibly gotten the characters any more wrong. Lord help any warriors that went into battle in real life with armour like this.