Well... saw the film it was... Well, I'm sure anyone not old enough to spot the enormous flaws in the costumes, special effects and fight scenes would have had a good time.

Starwars wasn't terribly original as a story, no. its based heavily off of akira kurosawa pictures, moreso than its deliberately an exploration of any concept of archetypes. lucas isn't that clever - the archetypal business was an accident rather than design.

however, eragon is a direct rip off of star wars, regardless of if star wars was original or not.

I liked Eragon cuz I am a teenager and I didn't notice the paralell because I haven't seen Star Wars 4, 5 and 6 in 10 years and now you've gone and stolen my enjoyment. :cry:

I saw the movie and enjoyed picking out the numerous flaws. Angela reminded me of Hilta Goutfounder in that she sounded like a percussion band falling off a cliff. And the funniest part of the entire book, the werecat was not there. Me and my friend compared the movie to a pot. The developers smashed the pot, lost half the pieces and put it back together with a glue stick.

Heh. That can be fairly enjoyable. Garner, though scathing in his indictments of some awful movies, has a soft spot for such idiocies as Spaceballs.

but Spaceballs can't hold a candle to Ice Pirates. now THAT is classic cinema.

I've read Eragon and Eldest, and found them very entertaining. That said, they shouldn't have been published. They aren't great books- the movie was even worse but I had fun annoying other cinema goers by laughing at all the wrong places. Waste of some good actors- it had the potential to be good, the plot is simple and could have translated well with care. Slipshod work though.

I've read the first two eragon books and I've got the third coming in the mail at the end of this year. The first was pretty good, I mean it was just your basic "fantasy book", but if the guys works on his writing he could be a good writer one day. The second book was terrible. Borning, had a lengthy start and didn't really get into the action until the last 3 chapters - these were pretty good actually. I was willing to give it the benefit of a doubt, second books in series aren't always that good anyway and so I bought the last book. (fingers crossed for something good)