thaluikhain said:
Eragon ripped off Star Wars. Not in a "the Doom movie was Resident Evil in space" way, but in a truly shameless, scene for scene way.
It starts with a princess being pursued by an evil empire's forces. Before being cpatured, she sends away something of extreme value. It's found by a farmboy who lives with his uncle. He's not sure if he should get involved. After the empire come looking for it and kill his uncle, he decides to go off with this wise old mentor, who used to fight the empire but put that on hold after they lost the war. They meet an untrustworthy scoundrel they are forced to deal with. They find out the princess is being held captive at the empire fortress and go resuce her, but the mentor is killed...and so on
Ah, but it's okay- it had
dragons.
/Sarcasm.
OT: I'm just trying to think now... Well, pretty much any Disney sequel (come on, Mulan, Pocahontas, Cinderella, Aladdin... And don't you other crap Disney sequels think you've gotten away with it- I'm looking at you too).
The Matrix sequels? Ocean's Twelve? Jaws sequels?
Actually, on the note of bad films made from books, I'll go back to Eragon. Sure, it was bad and camp, but the book was still better.
Stuart Little and Dr. Dolittle don't hold up to their original source material. They aren't bad per se... But not as good. Same problem with Stardust. All right movie- unless you've seen the book. Then it's... well, mediocre at best.
I've never seen a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film that holds a candle to the book; the only redeeming feature of the latest one was Alan Rickman as Marvin the Paranoid Android. The rest of the cast... I wasn't as sold on.
Oh! And Star Wars. Not that you don't know that all ready, but I felt I'd better write it down...
