Eragon Trailer

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Eragon-Trailer-MovieOh my sweet heavens. Ok, I’ve been saying that I’m kinda looking forward to Eragon, although I’ve had a nagging fear that it would come across as either a bad Lord of the Rings rip off… or an even worse second coming of Dungeons and Dragons… and I think those fears were understandable.

But now the Eragon trailer has popped up on the web… and OH MY GIBBLETS it’s wonderful… it gets better and better as it goes, and doesn’t feel like Lord of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragon in the least. The visuals look wonderful, and man when Eragon pulls out his sword and shouts “We fight as one” and the dragon breaths fire on his swords I had fricken CHILLS run down my spine.

This movie looks WORTHY. I can’t wait for it. You can see the Eragon trailer here. Enjoy and leave your thoughts.

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  2. I’m sorry to report that the movie utterly sucked. Soulless tripe it is. Sure the FX look OK, but that’s about it. I didn’t expect too much from this obvious Harry Potter/LOTR/Star Wars clone but I expected it to be at least mediocre which sometimes is OK.

  4. The trailer was good. I like how Saphira(the dragon) is represented, thought I expected the shade of blue to be more brilliant than dark.

    However, the comments on the topic of the trailer were most disheartening.
    Of COURSE there are some similarities between Eragon and other books. There are many reasons for this, namely.. they were all best sellers? The purpose of a book is to sell to an audience, which Eragon did very well. All books have elements of other books and storylines the author experienced.

    I would go on, but this is not really the best place for it. There is no way of measuring how good a book is other than by how well it sells, same with the movie. And I have a feeling we will be hearing alot more about this particular one. The book sold well (The author earned a few hundred thousand for the book rights alone, not to mention individual sales..) So I hope the movie does well.

    Good trailer.

  8. I am not impressed what-so-ever by the trailer of the movie. I have read the first book (working on the second) and already I have seen things in the trailer that no where at all match the book. Here is another sorry ass studios take on a movie without staying true to the source material. I fucking hate it when that shit happens. The book however, is mediocre at best though so I can’t really say that I am all that surprised. It looks like a big budget B-Rate movie at best. I will be in line to see it when it comes out, but my eyebrows aren’t raised in anticipation.

  9. I think the trailer gives a bit of false image to what the movie is realy going to be like. I’ve read both the books and the parts they have shown in the trailer happen very seldom. Either they have hyped up the battles and training sessions in the movie or they have changed it from the book completely. I’m looking forward to the movie, and I hope most people will at least give it a chance. I mean, how many nine-teen year old kids can creat a novel and have it turn into a big screen movie in less than 3 years?

  11. Umm, I just got back from seeing Gridiron Gang, and this trailer played before it. I remembered you mentioning it, so I sat up and watched it. Huh? You were hyped over THAT Sci-Fi Channel looking crap? Maybe it looked cool on a computer screen, but on a big screen, that dragon looked like crapola. Yikes.

  12. I think that we can expect a very good special effects movie from this cuz they DO have the special effects guy from saving private ryan for this film.The trailer was SWEET!It doesnt look to much like lotr and the dragon looked better than i thought it would.i gotta say im gona try to get tickets for opening day.

  13. Would probably get my award for worst edited trailer of the year. Some of the effects — with the exception of the dragon — looked pretty hokey, and I thought the first thirty seconds was way too tight. They should loosen up a bit and let images stay on the screen for a bit more than one-tenth of a second.

  15. Thanks to Al Young and Test for the links.

    This trailer has elements borrowed, imitated, rehashed or derived from other movies. LOTR, Dragonheart, Narnia, Star Wars, Dungeon & Dragons, First Knight, Willow….the list goes on and on.

    The overwhelming sense of deja vu will kill this movie.

  17. Hey…
    Reign of Fire was entertaining.
    I dont understand what everyone hated about this movie.

    Was it just me or was John Malkovich a litle too obvious with his “I’m the evil king in a fanatasy movie” schtck?

    I’m still gonna see it, but I hope its more LOTR and less Dungeons & Dragons.

  20. Let’s substitute the flowing part with the force…the king with the empire…the hero and the sunset with Luke…the once and proud ancient times filled with protective warriors with the old republic and the jedi knights…and what do we have? STAR WARS!!

    Geez if the that trailer was giving some of you chills what would Ishtar do?? Boring trailer with a stale old premise…no wonder I never read the book.

  22. Our world is screwed, if only there was ‘one’ person to save us.

    Is it me?

    Yes.

    Cool a dragon! I’ll save the day.

    Not yet, we must have some kind of obstabcle, minor love theme, then a long drawn out battle.

    Ok, How about now?

    Sure.

    Yay! I saved us with a dragon.

    Yay!

    The End.

  23. This trailer looks WEAK. The FX look okay but the dialogue is so wooden it hurts, especially from the lady training the hero. Hope it’ll turn out to be okay but from this it just looks like it’s trying hard to be Harry Potter meets Lord Of The Rings…

  28. I can never open any trailers on this AOL site. My browser tells me it can’t download the necessary data. I’ll have to wait for it to appear on YouTube.

  32. The trailer is slick enough, but I’m not interested. I read the book and it is not very good. A lot of routine characters and situations, as well as numerous plot holes. That it was written by a teen makes the fact that this book was published even worse. Give the kid a chance to develop instead of inflicting amateur hour on the reading public. Maybe the second book is better written, but why would I bother when the first was so poor.

  33. All I think of when I see this is “Watered down, PG-rated fantasy fluff.”

    It doesn’t hold much visual style like the LOTR does, and everytime I think of the name I remember the book that I always see in the young-readers section at the library. I don’t think this will have the impact or quality of LOTR, but all we can hope for is 2 hours of entertainment. I hope it’s violent in the battles, by the looks of it it may well be. IMO, Chronicles of Narnia would’ve been much more impactful and entertaining if they wouldn’t have sugar coated the sacrifice and made the battle more perilous. But hey, it needed a kid-based audience… And violence is a big no-no!

  37. I’m not a huge fan of this trailer at all. It seems far too much like a cheap LOTR rip-off and I think the best we can hope for is that it’s at least entertaining.

    Then again, I’m not a huge fan of the rings trilogy so i’m guessing this isn’t really aimed at me anyway.

    Paul

  38. Yeah you guys are absolutely bonkers if you thought that was a fab effin’ fantastic trailer.

    It was ok (maybe) and with some good actors, but it seemed like a b-action movie plot with a dragon in it.

    It also had the marching troops from the LOTR and the Luke Skywalker looking into the sunset scene. And the Rocky I-V trainin sequence. And on and on, so no it didn’t give me chills of the good kind, no.

    I was actually expecting to find Campea commenting that the post was of irony and to my surprise there was none, I’m astonished.

  39. eh…hollywood’s trying to hard now…

    the trailer was ok, but..it seems that this movie is going to be in the shadow of LOTR. after watching the 10 hour modern day classic trilogy that was LOTR, more and more movies like this are trying to be franchises. this movie is already proclaming that 2 more are going to follow this…is that the new thing studio-wise. to commit to 3 movies before you find a proper audience for the first one?

    i don’t know…good luck to this movie, but it needs a better trailer in my opinion

  41. Oh please tell me Miguel that you’re not seriously trying to compare a real novel to a video game as equal “source material”. That is night and day.

    Plus, Stefen Fangmeierm, the director of Eragon, has worked on over 15 feature movies as a lead effects artist, and has been an assistant director on 2 feature films.

    The Halo guy hasn’t ever worked on any feature film in any role at all. None, Zero, Nothing.

    So no Miguel, this Eragon example doesn’t remind me of anything at all, especially Halo (if that’s what you were getting at).

  42. Henrik: I’m running Firefox as well and I didn’t have trouble with either…have you installed the newest update to Firefox? My browser automatically updated yesterday so you may want to check that out…

    As for the trailer…Oh goodness. I can HEAR your excitement in the post and for good reason: the trailer is AMAZING. I’m psyched!

  43. Looks great, and hey it’s a big budget movie based on a popular source material, directed by a first time director that comes from Visual Effects department, does this remind anyone of a upcoming movie…

  44. This site doesn’t work for me :(

    My firefox is unable to install ActiveX or something so I can’t see this trailer or the new James Bond one.

    Anybody happen to know how this might be fixed?

  45. The trailer does look good and it raised my expectations but a good editor can create a good trailer even if the movie sucks. This is a first time director (if I remember correctly) and the trailer doesn’t tell us if he can direct or not. Has anyone read the books? Is it a good story?

  46. i watched it twice and had the chills both times during that scene. Still havent read the book. I ordered it on tuesday, so another 3-4 weeks before i get it. But damn, trailer looked sweet.

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