Eragon movie sucked!!! *potential spoilers*

[Skyla Doragono]

ixis, Star Wars is also considered science fiction, and therefore most people call it by the genre George Lucas dubbed it -- Space Opera -- instead of one or the other. :P [/random SW geek fact]

And LotR was good because not only did it have a decent director who knew what the fuck he was doing, but it also had a good cast of REAL actors, not preppy teen emo actors. Nothing kills a movie that has the potential to be good like bad acting.

There's this one book I read ages ago... I can't remember the name of it to save my life, but it was about a spoiled prince that was charged with finding seven keys that would save his kingdom from destruction, only to find that the keys led to something more than just the end of his kingdom. It was a freakin' great series, I just wish I could remember the damn name of it. X_X;

THAT would make a wonderful fantasy movie if done right.

 

[FlippyD]

ixis, Star Wars is also considered science fiction, and therefore most people call it by the genre George Lucas dubbed it -- Space Opera -- instead of one or the other. :P [/random SW geek fact]

I know
But I hate calling Star Wars science-fiction because it... really isn't lol

People always think Science Fiction = future, robots, lightsaber, metal bikinis on alien women, but that isn't true. You can look up a million definitions of Science Fiction online (you can check answers.com or Wikipedia, but I don't like citing them as sources, specifically Wikipedia.)

Star Wars is a fantasy story, it just takes place in the future, which doesn't make it science fiction. Star Wars lacks the important "science" part of Sci-Fi. Plus, it has magic (the force) which denotes it as fantasy.

(Sorry for going all geek "ZOMG GUYZ WE GOTTA HAVE THE RIGHT DEFINITION!!1one". I know most people do call it Sci-Fi, but I argue against that just to be different.)

EDIT: (unfortunately from Wiki)
One definition offered by Rod Serling is that "science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible." The meaning is that science fiction describes unlikely things that might take place in the real world under certain conditions, while science fantasy gives a veneer of realism to things that simply couldn't happen in the real world under any circumstances.

 

[Rye]

Star Wars is a fantasy story, it just takes place in the future

Technically Star Wars isn't in the future, the crawling prologue tells us that: "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
^.^;; it doesn't take place in the future by that sense.

 

[FlippyD]

Technically Star Wars isn't in the future, the crawling prologue tells us that: "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
^.^;; it doesn't take place in the future by that sense.

Ah, you're right. Well, that only further supports my "Star Wars isn't Sci-Fi" argument.

 

[Anonymous]

Okay, waaay offtopic. Let's keep this about the movie. However, I'd love to see a thread debating genres of games/books/movies, if someone would like to start one.

 

[kip]

*arem*star wars clone with dragons *arem*

 

[Tdata]

I swear, they must have used the cliftnotes version... Over half of the movie doesn't fit the book... I was disapointed...

 

[Grey_hok]

What do you expect? It's a basic LOTR wannabe.