Which franchise did Hollywood ruin more? Twilight or Eragon?

[Fursnake]

I will never waste any of my life reading any of the Twilight books or watching the movies. I do enjoy the Eragon books though and they did absolutely ruin the movie franchise. The movie strayed so far from the book in certain areas that they destroyed any chance of making sequels without rewriting the plots of the other books as well. I wonde rwhy actors like Jeremy Irons and Jon Malkovich got invloved in the film at all, in fact it seemed like Malkovich was in the film just for the hell of it in a few scenes, when in fact his character never even physically appears in the storyline until the second book, well after the events of the movie. Those responsible for screwing up what could have been a really good film trilogy should be sacked.

 

[fulano]

I like to think Twilight screenplay was written by people just like us, who had gone under cover years ago when the book was released, slowly gaining control of whatever script was under wraps for the film adaptation, taking it over at the last second and making it as bad as it could possibly be so as to ward off people with hope of redemption.

God bless those unsung heroes "salute"

They obviously failed because there's another movie coming.

Burn!

I just saw the trailer, and holy crap if this movie doesn't look to be just like the first one but way more bloated.

Total trainwreck for great justice.

 

[asiepshtain]

Super Mario Bros

 

[z121231211]

Both Twilight and Eragon had humble beginnings as charming, well written

That was as far as I got into the OP.

No, just no.

I got halfway through Eragon (and stopped for some reason) and thought it was ok, but how did you group it with Twilight as 'Well Written'?

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Eragon. There was nothing to ruin in Twilight.
Also, aren't we over with Twilight-bashing?

Super Mario Bros

...What?

 

[Viruzzo]

I think that asking that in place with a dominat male demographic kind of defeats the point (as it would doing it in a female dominant place).

Anyway, a sign that Paolini is probably not a writer is that he is the son of the effing publishers of his book! That defeats the point that he is young, kills it with barbed wire and throws it in the nearest dump.

Super Mario Bros

There is no SMB movie. I said no. Nooo!

 

[asiepshtain]

Eragon. There was nothing to ruin in Twilight.
Also, aren't we over with Twilight-bashing?

Super Mario Bros

...What?

What indeed, couldn't have said it better.

 

[asiepshtain]

I think that asking that in place with a dominat male demographic kind of defeats the point (as it would doing it in a female dominant place).

Anyway, a sign that Paolini is probably not a writer is that he is the son of the effing publishers of his book! That defeats the point that he is young, kills it with barbed wire and throws it in the nearest dump.

Super Mario Bros

There is no SMB movie. I said no. Nooo!

No viruzzo, there WAS a super mario brothers movie. Search you're feeling, you know it to be true.

(I'm mixing fandoms again)

 

[Cody211282]

Both Twilight and Eragon had humble beginnings as charming, well written, and fairly successful fantasy novels.

Did you actually read either series, or are you just on some really great LSD?

'Cause they both sucked pretty badly.

im going with alot of acid was taken before this was typed

 

[DragonChi]

Eragon for sure. terrible movie.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Neither of them needed any help being horrendous.

 

[GrimTuesday]

both books werent very good so nether

Twilight was just plane crap, and Eragon is Star Wars with dragons and swords

 

[Anachronism]

I haven't seen or read Twilight, so this post is directed entirely at Eragon.

I don't think Hollywood ruined anything. I think the awfulness of the film was a good reflection of the quality of the source material. The Eragon books sucked, quite frankly. It's Star Wars' story copy-pasted into Middle-earth. The story is unoriginal, the characters are boring, and the quality of the writing is quite terrible. The film was much like the book, except that it somehow managed to actually be worse. The total creative bankruptcy was compounded by bad acting and a script worse than the prose of the novels. On top of that, the film was so rushed and badly edited that there was no time for any character development whatsoever. It was horrible.

But it's like Hollywood trashed a holy temple when they made Eragon.

Surely Star Wars is the holy temple to which you are referring, and Christopher Paolini is the one who trashed it? Paolini looted and plundered everything of value from this particular temple, took a few minutes to damage some of the artefacts, and put them on display in his own, hastily constructed temple, claiming that they were his own.

I'm relatively certain that the last book in the series will end with a huge battle outside Uru'Baen, while Eragon sneaks into the city to kill Galbatorix. He and Murtagh will fight, and Murtagh will be defeated. Galbatorix will then proceed to kill Eragon with force lightning magic, but Murtagh, seeing his brother dying, will intervene and kill Galbatorix. Because he swore to serve him, however, Murtagh will die.

Sound familiar?

 

[Julianking93]

Twilight was never good, so it couldn't be "ruined" by a movie.

So eragon

 

[Riding on Thermals]

Surely Star Wars is the holy temple to which you are referring, and Christopher Paolini is the one who trashed it? Paolini looted and plundered everything of value from this particular temple, took a few minutes to damage some of the artefacts, and put them on display in his own, hastily constructed temple, claiming that they were his own.

I'm relatively certain that the last book in the series will end with a huge battle outside Uru'Baen, while Eragon sneaks into the city to kill Galbatorix. He and Murtagh will fight, and Murtagh will be defeated. Galbatorix will then proceed to kill Eragon with force lightning magic, but Murtagh, seeing his brother dying, will intervene and kill Galbatorix. Because he swore to serve him, however, Murtagh will die.

Sound familiar?

Since we're on the topic of being unoriginal, can we agree that Star Wars isn't exactly narrative genius? Absolutely, the movies were excellent, that's not my argument. My point is that Star Wars wasn't the pioneer of any of it's themes or plot twists, it just became the source material for a new generation to copy.

 

[rainman2203]

I'd say Eragon was ruined worse by its film counterpart. While the books were pretty good despite having nothing original at all in them, Twilight was terrible in written form and terrible in movie form. Stephanie Meyers makes we want to start writing again in hopes that preteens will send me millions of dollars.

 

[ThePhobicMan]

I never read Eragon, but I read all the Twilight saga's books and, in my opinion, the movie SUCKED! And no, I'm not gay for reading those books.

 

[BigCat91]

Twilight my past GFs have forced me to watch it with them and their friends, and my friends who happen to be girls have made me sit through their talks about it.

I have to admit i felt that my soul has died a little, and suicide has past my mind when ever i hear that title haha.