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Book to movie inconsistencies that are genuinely annoying and unneeded
Felrender:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 14 May 2009, 16:34 ---That was Lynch's translation of 'the weirding way' mentioned in the book. It is supposed to be a self defence system deviced by the Bene Gesserit. But somehow it ended up being a weird box wich could amplify sound until ... strong ... and concentrated enough to .. shatter stone ... and stuff.
I don't know. It was a weird thing seeing that.
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Wait, so, in Lynch-land, spice-boosted precognizance + Whatever powers a male Bene Geseerit has = Siryn's powers? Weak.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: NeverQuiteGoth on 14 May 2009, 12:12 ---
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 12 May 2009, 06:05 ---Dune. There are so many things in the first film that are just wrong. Frank Herbert spent pages and pages explaining how a planet without water might work ... and at the end of the film it starts to rain.
Yeah. Riight.
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Moa'dib MADE it rain. He has SUPER POWERS.... :roll:
That first movie was still WAY better than the crappy scifi miniseries at least.
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Other way round I'm afraid.
The film made me gag
SirJuggles:
Have we mentioned Eragon? I don't have many specifics because I was so disgusted by the movie that I didn't retain much. I'll admit the book was entirely LotR-lite, but at least it stayed relatively true to it's source material. I... I honestly don't know what the people who made the movies read.
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: Felrender on 14 May 2009, 21:16 ---Wait, so, in Lynch-land, spice-boosted precognizance + Whatever powers a male Bene Geseerit has = Siryn's powers? Weak.
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Yes. That was, I guess, what he could come up with. He didn't think of actually talking to some martial artists and training and doing stuff but he went another way. And, I feel, he was wrong. The movie has some redeeming qualities. But this stuff just annoys me to bits.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: SirJuggles on 15 May 2009, 02:24 ---Have we mentioned Eragon? I don't have many specifics because I was so disgusted by the movie that I didn't retain much. I'll admit the book was entirely LotR-lite, but at least it stayed relatively true to it's source material. I... I honestly don't know what the people who made the movies read.
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How does one ruin Eragon? So utterly derivative and self-important, while wearing the guise of originality. If you have orcs in your book, call them "orcs". At least the Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance/whatever novels don't beat around the bush in that regard. They knew they were ridiculously derivative of LotR, Warhammer and, of course, D&D, and used such things to their advantage. They even managed humour, tension, unpredictability and likable characters in some cases.
Eragon is essentially a Mary-Sue-athon where the author looked at all the above sources and missed the point, themes and cool factor entirely. LotR is great because it's all about defying fate, not altering reality so that you become genetically superior (in which Eragon carries more racist undertones than LotR ever could).
I guess I am being very very harsh and it's not like I'm making judgements about those who read the book, but there aren't many ways you can essentially ruin Eragon, since it's already a mockery of the already rather poor swords and sorcery fantasy genre.
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