Would you say it's better than or worse than Lord of the Rings?

Lord of the Rings is definitely better.

I saw Eragon too. I wrote a rant/review on my Xanga (I always do this), let me post an excerpt.

I disliked Eragon from the opening line. After a brief monologue by Brom, played by Jeremy Irons (the voice of Scar from The Lion King), the following "dialogue" occurs:

Brom: ...a stone stolen from the emperor himself. (He's talking about a dragon egg shaped like a Jelly Belly)
*dramatic scene transition*
Galbatorix (a name that only looks good on paper): I want my stone back. I suffer for my stone. Do not prolong my suffering.
*another dramatic scene transition*

They, of course, did this with the upmost seriousness. Anyways, the rest of the movie was a series of convoluted plot twists that lacked something: cohesion. In essence, they took the novel (already a mediocre mimicry of Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars with a bit of Earthsea and the Dragonriders of Pern thrown in), cut it in half, and moved the plot around to make it make sense. The already shallow characters of the book get almost no development time in the story, and it runs through like a Jackie Chan movie; it's just fight scene after fight scene. Except Jackie Chan usually has better dialogue than these characters.

I think Peter Jackson can almost file a plagiarism lawsuit and win. The only thing that seperates the two movies is the fact that the Elves don't have pointy ears (it's like neutering goats and monkeys), the Orcs (Urgals) don't have costumes (a bunch of fat bald men running around in war paint), and there are black people in the movie.

I give it a 2/10.

The theme totally bites off of LotR. LotR has Elves, Dwarves, Orcs (Urgals), and Evil Men. There's also Mithril, dragons, etc etc.

The storyline is identical to Star Wars. Young boy with no parents is raised by uncle on farm in the middle of nowhere. While he's off doing secret things evil people from the Empire destroy his beloved farm and uncle. He goes off on a quest with an old man figure to learn to be a Jedi--I MEAN DRAGON RIDER--without prior knowledge of the man being a great, but broken, Jedi. Along the way he picks up a hotshot cowboy figure and rescues a princess who sends a distress call to him from a prison run by a evil inhuman monster-figure that's also damn good with magic and a sword. At the end, the boy joins a rebellion and beats the evil monster guy in combat. -_-

The magic system is the exact same as Ursla LeGuin's Earthsea system. Words in an ancient tongue control the object that they repesent.

The Dragon Rider selection system is the same as Anne McCaffrey's The Dragonriders of Pern. They get telepathically picked. Good thing Saphira can't teleport, even though this would fill in the plot gaps of the movie a bit.

See Saphira grow from hatchling to dragon? That happened in five seconds. There was literally a flash of lightning when it occured. It was disgusting.

I felt the voice was too mature and feminine for a dragon. Granted, it's an awesome voice, but I didn't expect it from Saphira (named after a woman who hoards gold in the Bible); maybe from Arya (who is supposed to have black hair and pointy ears, they casted the wrong character here). It also makes her puns and chiding comments in the movie seem awkward. Imagine a hot girl saying things like "YOU be careful" at four different points in a movie about dragons.

By the way, hi Jasmine.

--- The only thing I hate more than a dumb person who thinks he is smart is a smart person who thinks he is dumb.

You WOULD have a Xanga, Taishaku. :)

Oh, just making some lighthearted fun. You're a sport, Taishaku. It's just that sometimes it seems like you do have rather a lot to say.