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I'm also looking forward to the next movie by M. Night Shyamalan.

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Originally written by Hanttiworker:

Wait, Eragon? They're making that awful, badly written Tolkien-rip into a movie? And you're expecting to see it?

What the hell is wrong with you people?

In case it's not the same story, excuse upper remark.

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There has been much criticism of Eragon, regarding everything from word usage to the marketing techniques (critics deride the labelling of the author as a "prodigy" or "wunderkind"). The book's most frequent criticism is that it uses far too many clichés. Paolini employs stock characters, such as Elves, Dwarves, and a pseudo-orcish race known as Urgals, complete with an elite sect known as the Kull, comparable to Saruman's uruk-hai.

There has been much debate over whether incorporating Elves and Dwarves similar to Tolkien's is derivative or honorific. On the subject of Tolkien, it has also been pointed out that many names in Eragon resemble those in Tolkien's work, such as Arya (comparable to Arwen), Isenstar (comparable to Isengard), and Mithrim (comparable to mithril). The name Eragon itself closely resembles Aragorn. There is also mention of Angrenost, the Sindarin name for Isengard. There is also a note of the naming of the Beor mountains coming from Beorn, which is another word for bear. In The Hobbit, there is a character known as Beorn, who has the ability to transform into a bear. On the map of Alagaësia, the spelling of the place name Melian is identical to the name of the character Melian the Maia of Tolkien's The Silmarillion. The Grey Folk, said to be the first few magical beings resemble the Sindarin, who are the Grey Elves. These are a few examples of what is believed to be a wider occurrence.

Yet another criticism is that the plot closely resembles that of the original Star Wars saga. Characters are also similar, down to Brom who is supposedly the last of his order. Paolini countered these two remarks by stating that most fantasy is derivative, and that Star Wars has heavy ties to Buck Rogers and Dune. Furthermore, he also believed Tolkien to echo a famous Norse myth about a ring that made a dwarf invisible, made popular by Richard Wagner's epic opera series "Der Ring des Nibelungen", or "Ring of the Nibelung," despite the fact that Tolkien himself once said; "Both rings were round and there the rescemblance ceased."

Critics also conjectured that Paolini had the characters of Eragon act unrealistically while performing a myriad of fantasy clichés, such as "shedding a single tear" or reflecting in needless arcane speech: "When he would return, he knew not."

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Originally written by SupaNik:

The Fog (remake)

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Didn't that movie come out months ago? The one with that dude from Smallville?. It seemed Ok, but I heard it was horrible. Therefore, I decided to wait until the movie it comes out on tv.

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