tallacus
12-15-2006, 11:30 PM
First thing is first:
If you are a fan of the Inheritance trilogy you will notice alot, a rediculous amount of detail was taking away from the movie, now i know u r going to say but they always do it, they take so much away from the book that I was embarassed and didnt really enjoyed it as much as i should have had, it felt like Dead Men's Chest to me a little bit, but thats me I have High expectations.
First you will notice alot of cuts, such as Roran leaving not because of Katrina but because of Galbatorix is drafting the young men, so Katrina was cut out of the movie entirely along with The Twins in Tronjheim, and that its just sooooo short! OMG! 103 mins long! u cant do a movie like this with loosing a serious amount of detail, even though i appreciate Saphira talking alot, there are some scenes where she shouldnt have had like leaving Gil'ead.
The CG: what is there to say? With the VFX being done by ILM and Weta, (though mainly the team of ILM) ILM just knows dragons, though if i was Saphira's animator, i would have made her facial a little bit more expressive, instead she seems to me a little bit of robotic like the so called dragons in the animated series "dragon booster". Plus having his roots with Mental Imagery, do you think Director Steven Fangmeier had them using mental ray? i doubt it. Renderman all the way when u have a dragon that needs to be displaced like Saphira.
But the big saving grace for the movie for me was at the end, OMG! the end was the best part, I let out a huge "YES"! at the end when Galbatorix's dark dragon Shruikan appeared, it brought a warmth to my heart to see Shruikan :yes: :D
overall it was descent, but it really, really, could have been better comming from a fan of the books series
7 out of 10
and now FOX get to work on the Eldest movie! plzzz...... :D :dance:
If you are a fan of the Inheritance trilogy you will notice alot, a rediculous amount of detail was taking away from the movie, now i know u r going to say but they always do it, they take so much away from the book that I was embarassed and didnt really enjoyed it as much as i should have had, it felt like Dead Men's Chest to me a little bit, but thats me I have High expectations.
First you will notice alot of cuts, such as Roran leaving not because of Katrina but because of Galbatorix is drafting the young men, so Katrina was cut out of the movie entirely along with The Twins in Tronjheim, and that its just sooooo short! OMG! 103 mins long! u cant do a movie like this with loosing a serious amount of detail, even though i appreciate Saphira talking alot, there are some scenes where she shouldnt have had like leaving Gil'ead.
The CG: what is there to say? With the VFX being done by ILM and Weta, (though mainly the team of ILM) ILM just knows dragons, though if i was Saphira's animator, i would have made her facial a little bit more expressive, instead she seems to me a little bit of robotic like the so called dragons in the animated series "dragon booster". Plus having his roots with Mental Imagery, do you think Director Steven Fangmeier had them using mental ray? i doubt it. Renderman all the way when u have a dragon that needs to be displaced like Saphira.
But the big saving grace for the movie for me was at the end, OMG! the end was the best part, I let out a huge "YES"! at the end when Galbatorix's dark dragon Shruikan appeared, it brought a warmth to my heart to see Shruikan :yes: :D
overall it was descent, but it really, really, could have been better comming from a fan of the books series
7 out of 10
and now FOX get to work on the Eldest movie! plzzz...... :D :dance: