I read the book last night, and saw the movie about half an hour ago.

I honestly thought it was all very awesome.

Its sorta bothered me how so much of it was similar to Star Wars and other things, but oh well. It all came together to make an entertaining story.

Post your thoughts, or whatever.

I hear it's a LotR clone with a Star Wars wannabe feel about it. You are the first person to say he has enjoyed it that I've heard from.

[QUOTE=Victor Van Dort]I hear it's a LotR clone with a Star Wars wannabe feel about it. You are the first person to say he has enjoyed it that I've heard from.[/QUOTE]

The story is EXACTLY the same as A New Hope, but yeah. I still enjoyed it.

I thought it was a bit slow at times but still enjoyed it.
I guess there's a secound part to it too.

That's no dragon. It's a space station.

I never really like LotR clones. They always bothered me. I guess that's why I never got in to Erogon, or other Fantasies like The Wheel of Time series.

Which is probably a bad choice, because Tolkien didn't invent the fantasy genre, he was also a terrible novel author (a very good writer though) and very few fantasy novels rip off LotR anyway.

Yeah, but I'm always too lazy differentiate. I just people say stuff like "It's a continuation of LotR!" and silently groan.

Why would being a continuation of LotR lore be necessarily bad?

Building within an earlier author's mythos isn't unique to Tolkien's followers. It was/is also done with the work of H.P. Lovecraft, L. Frank Baum (Oz), and others. The results vary, but it can be convenient for the reader if nothing else, as they can experience a new story in an already familiar setting.

It's not unlike comic book "universes" where the particular story is set within an already established mythos, which of course allows for crossovers etc. Another obvious example is the Star Wars novel, spinoffs which gave us Thrawn, Mara Jade, Dash Rendar, and others.

I duno. LotR just seems like the sort of story that shouldn't be further developed, especially by an author that's not Tolkien. It's just personal preference.

Wheel of Time is awesome.

In other news, SAJN didn't like a movie everyone else hated. Stop the freaking press.

Lay of the drugs, Kirby.

What do they use for a death star?

Wheel of Time is crap. Even when I was reading it when I liked it, say 14 or so, I realized through the fourth book that the series was going absolutely nowhere, and it would take an long, slow time to get there. I can't believe I even stuck with it through the sixth book.

Eragon is crap. I was introduced to it when it first came out, my mother gave it to me and told me I should read it, because the author was fifteen (in 2002), as well. I read a few pages into it and found what is probably the blandest, most uninteresting most generic fantasy I've ever come across. Hey, if my parents were publishing me, I could put out this dreck, too. Yes, it's impressive that fifteen year old can write a novel. But don't leave a home-schooled autist savant to come up with something good.

There's nothing wrong with not liking fantasy. In fact, it's a sign of better taste. Good fantasy is few and far between. The vast majority of it is boring, verbose and poorly written. Fantasy you can at least mindlessly and quickly get through (R.A. Salvatore) is alright, because it moves a lot faster the big, long boring series- e.g. Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, whoever writes the Dragonlance novels

The only example of good recent fantasy I can give right now is George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series. It actually focuses attention on making realistic characters, something 95% of fantasy doesn't. In fact, Martin, is probably the only thing I'd pick up again out of the fantasy collection I made when I was fourteen .

Farm boy stumbles upon something (sent out by the princess) that pulls him into an adventure and then the Empire sends soldiers that end up killing his uncle so he teams up with a wise old warrior master that teaches him magic and then they rescue the princess from the clutches of the dark lord, but in the process the wise old guide is killed, but the hero gets away with the princess but unfortunately this is okay for the dark lord because he has planted a tracking device on them and this leads the Empire to the hidden rebel base during which time the hero must find his inner strength and use it to save the hopeless rebel fighters (he also has to learn to master his magic). Then, by some miracle, the hero is able to come on top and the rebels strike a crushing defeat against the evil empire, and so we are left with plenty of room for a sequel as the rebellion now has a fighting chance against the Empire.

The only difference is that Eragon had a dragon, and Luke had some smugglers.

I have not seen it, but heard a radio review of the film and critic Mark Kermode claimed that it was ordinary and was just another fantasy film. It just sounds like he's bored of fantasy movies. It was funny he compared it to SW and it leads to him saying 'who was that bloke who was Anakin's Teacher ermm you know the guy that Liam Neeson plays'. Says a lot doesn't it.

Sounds good, its got the dragons, the elves, the whole middle earth fantasy like Lord Of The Rings, Banned and Banished, Dscworld and all of sci-fi yep, Star Wars.
Im gonna find the book

I love the books, I'm so eagerly awaiting the final one to finish up the story.
Its all the best parts of everything mixed into one.

skeet skeet! :downs:

I'm a sword of truth fan myself >_>

Not in any rush to see this. Might rent it. Might.