Did you like how Paolini portrayed him in the fourth book from a story and character perspective? I personally thought it was a bit lacking since he really just comes across as a big movie monster rather than a character the same way that Saphira and Glaedr did. I think he should have gotten at least some dialouge.
I'm asking this because I know that in terms of the number of tickets sold, that year remains the biggest one in the last 40 years and I think we can quite safetely say that 2002 will never be topped in the future. This makes me wonder what it like to observe all this back then.
The early 2000's were the period were franchise movies really took over. There was on year in particular though that was truely enormous and that was 2002. Looking back it's kind of incredible how crowded that year was when it comes to big budget movies. Some of which include the following.
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
Star Wars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
Spider Man
Of all these films the biggest one ended up being Spider Man which broke the opening weekdn record and ended up being the first movie to make over 100 million dollars during its first weekend.
What was it like folloing all of this back then? Did it feel like teh start of a new era in Hollywood?
What actress do you think would do a great job voicing Saphira in the TV show? My pick would be Susan Eisenberg. For those of you who don’t know she played the Jedi master Shaak Tii in the Star Wars game The Force Unleashed aswell as Wonder Woman in some of DC’s animated films.
I've thought about this quite a bit. I know that a lot of people have talked about how they think that after this happens then the next big thing is either going to be movies based on video games or toys. The later is obviously based in large part on the success of Barbie. I'm personally not sure if there really is gonna be a dominant genre after that at least not a genre that will constantly achive the same enormous box office numbers that superhero films have done in the last 20 years. There could certainly be some very successful movies based on either video games or toys but even then I don't think that they will be able constantly be as big as the superhero genre has been in the kast tw decades. The truth is that audiences are more selective with what movies they see in theaters than they've ever been before. People often talk about how the decline of DVD sales killed midbudget movies but the truth is that even non superhero blockbusters in general have declined in popularity. I mean just think back on how popular disaster movies were in the 90's and fantasy movies in the 2000's both those genres have more or less died out now in Hollywood.
In the last 15 years or so pretty much every animated Disney movie have been rated PG instead of G. Back during the Disney renaissance none of the films received a PG rating even when they had death scenes like in The Lion King and Tarzan. Personally I don't understand why this happend and it makes me really wonder what it is that makes the MPAA think that it is necessary for a movie like Moana to be rated PG. I think we can say with pretty big certainty that all of the films from that era would have been rated PG if they were made today and The Little Mermaid would not have been an exception.
So what are your thoughts about this? How do you feel about the fact that this probably would have happend if the film came out today?
The chapter were Eragon and Murtagh enconuter the slavers is so good. Even though I agree with a lot of people that Murtagh made the right choice considering the circumstances (or the least bad) you have to admit that Paolini on a storytelling level manages in a masterful way establish a clear difference between Eragon and Murtagh as characters with Eragon's idealism and Murtagh's practical thnking. It's also very impressive that Paolini himself doesn't really take any personal stance in that chapter in regards to who he thinks is right.