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Yes!

Quite.

Undecided.

No, they're pretty bad.

No, they're terrible.

Don't care. / View poll.

[Grakelin]

Paolini will probably grow into himself as a writer one day. I remember reading George R. R. Martin's 'Sandkings' because it is one of my favorite Outer Limits episodes (also, nostalgia, because when I was a kid I thought it was so cool that the main character had the same name as me). This was before I knew he was the authour of a popular fantasy series.

Boy was it ever a shitty read.

[Jackrabbit]

Yeah, he's not that bad, just boring, run-of-the-mill.

[Grakelin]

He needs to get some original ideas, though. The movie really was just 'A New Hope'.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Well perhaps he didn't have much creative control over the movie. I dunno.

[Grakelin]

It's based on his book.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Well sure, but I figured they did a book / movie deal where they say "hey man we'll make a movie based on your book, sign these papers and you get paid X". I didn't think the author had the director's ear throughout the filming. That would be such a pain, it wouldn't be worth it.

[ein]

Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay to the Hitchhiker's Guide movie.

[Pathos]

The Plagiarism Thread

LOTR: Inheritance Cycle:
Aragorn---------------Eragon
Arwen---------------Arya
Isengard---------------Isenstar
Angrenost---------------Angrenost
Morgoth---------------Morgothal
Elessar---------------Elessari
Fornost---------------Furnost
Melian---------------Melian
Valinor---------------Vanilor
Eriador---------------Eridor
Imladris---------------Imiladris
Caranthir---------------Ceranthor
Isildur---------------Isidar

There's a lot more there.

He also directly lifts the whipping scene from the Starship Troopers movie and puts it in his book. Dialogue (even though the dialogue doesn't even FIT the mood in the book, URRGGGHHHH) and all. Oh, and one of the first chapters of Eragon is basically stolen from WoT.

More:

Star Wars:
Empire, Empire
Varden, Rebel base
Eragon, Luke
Brom, Obi Wan Kenobi
Garrow, Luke's Father (can't remember what his name was)
Carvahall, Tattooine
Galbatorix, The Emperor
Murtagh, In Star Wars, there are two major revelatons of family ties, Princess Leya, and Vader. Murtagh acts as both in a way. He is Eragon's brother as Leya is Luke's sister, and he is trapped on the enemy side, as Vader is. Though I believe Murtagh will perform the same sacrificial purpose Vader did, kind of sad really.
Oromis, Yoda
Nassuada, sort of acts as princess Leya, since they are both, or at least at first appear to both be daughters of the leader of the rebels/varden.
Zarrock, Luke's first, I believe blue light saber
Brisingr, Luke's new, green light saber he makes later on.

[Jackrabbit]

The Plagiarism Thread

LOTR: Inheritance Cycle:
Aragorn---------------Eragon
Arwen---------------Arya
Isengard---------------Isenstar
Angrenost---------------Angrenost
Morgoth---------------Morgothal
Elessar---------------Elessari
Fornost---------------Furnost
Melian---------------Melian
Valinor---------------Vanilor
Eriador---------------Eridor
Imladris---------------Imiladris
Caranthir---------------Ceranthor
Isildur---------------Isidar

Wow. Just... holy... wow. I did not notice that. That's way more blatant than I thought. I mean holy shit.

[qwertyuiopas]

Wow. I just realized how to look at the books as an astonding work of art:
Look at it as if every single one of the borrowed ideas, names, and characters was intentional, and he was writing with the goal of making a story that imitated as many major works as possible without becoming *completely* horrible.

[Jackrabbit]

Wow. I just realized how to look at the books as an astonding work of art:
Look at it as if every single one of the borrowed ideas, names, and characters was intentional, and he was writing with the goal of making a story that imitated as many major works as possible without becoming *completely* horrible.

The work of art bit being that the books weren't completely horrible?

I don't know, that's more of a victory. He made buttloads of money from the series, so it's a pretty resounding victory but I don't think something can be considered a great work of art because it's not as bad as it could have been.

[inteuniso]

Note: Garrow is an Uncle, just like Luke lives with Uncle... Ben? Something like that. Anyways, Brom is actually Aragon's father (SURPRISE, creative thinking not from SW!) and Roran is kind of like Han Solo, in a way that he just kind of shows up and is Badass Normal, after killing a bunch of Nazgul and using a hammer like a freaking dwarf.

[Karnewarrior]

Uncle ben? Are we linking Eragon to Spiderman now?

[Grakelin]

Leave me out of this, guys.

[Luke_Prowler]

Actually it's Uncle Owen.