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I always love to review movies that have been made after books because usually...they suck, and it gives me a chance to practice my ranting skills. Eragon turned out to be no exception, but a close friend, who had fallen in love with the book, desperately wanted to see it and promised that I would love it even though I'm not usually the fantasy movie type. So, I went to it with an open mind and a little bit of leniency for my friend's sake (she tends to get a bit touchy when I question her taste in movies).

Let me make my point right from the beginning: My friend thinks that Star Wars is the most amazing creation ever. The Lord of the Rings box set has a monument right on top of her dresser. She completely loved Spider Man 3, The Fantastic Four, and X-men. (You can get the gist of her "questionable movie taste".) We left the theater in silence and I waited until the appropriate number of steps toward the car when I asked it.

"So...did you like it?"

She completely stopped in her tracks, turned to me and said, "I am so sorry you had to go through that." She absolutely hated it and we spent the rest of the night bashing it. Of course, from my end it was completely expected that I would hate it, but she was custom-made to love this movie and yet she swore to never see it again, and forget about the sequel!

There were a lot of elements to complain about afterward and some of them were pretty huge. Others were just pet peeve kind of things that were probably more personal than anything. For example, I could not stand the mind voice of the dragon. It seemed completely out of place and lacked any kind of emotion that would have helped the scenes greatly. The special-effects were already rather horrible so they desperately needed to pump up the realism of the voice. In accordance with that, the communication aspect between boy and dragon was a bit awkward. Facial expressions were mainly to blame.

The largest flaws happened to be the camera angles and I would place 60% of my dislike on that. There were only two shots and they swapped back and forth every other scene. The first was a long-shot of a setting, always looking straight on, always having the characters directly in the center and having a lot of empty space on the sides. The second was a close-up of Eragon's face. Time after time it was just his face talking to the camera. He was talking to the dragon at the camera. He was talking to what's-his-name at the camera. He was talking to the bad guys at the camera. He

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