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Originally Posted by The Might
incredibly many plotholes if you take a close look...the best plotholes in Tolkien's case are the eagles and the Nazgul crossing the rivers...
Now many say it was a great achievement for his age...but still can't be compared to Tolkien's works.
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#1. You're right, it can't. Doesn't come close. Nothing is in the same league to 50 years work.
#2. They botched the movie. One and a half hours is okay for ... say ... Happy Feet, but for a 400+ page book it gives entirely the wrong impression.
Half the cities are cut out, the Ra'zac are killed (which leaves no room for the plot involving Roran in the soon to come third book) the characters are very undeveloped when you start the 'exciting' battle scenes and Arya shows no magical talent or even pointed ears. The Urgals have no horns, Daret, we are told, is near the Beor Mountains, Jeod is nowhere to be seen, Angela is badly acted and says nothing about Eragon's future, there are no dwarves! Tronjheim is just a few wooden defenses, the Rose Crystal is nonexistant and the lines are based for three-year-olds, never saying more about main entities than "Greetings, I am Ajihad, leader of the Varden." Saphira can breathe fire all throughout the final battle, Durza summons some big scary black thing completely out of his league, there is no Mourning Sage and much more that I cannot remember without the book! **pants**
Oh yeah and Eragon isn't supposed to be blonde.
In other words it isn't a good enough book to be made a movie and when they did it was very badly done. Sorry. Paolini, I respect you, but your movie reeks.