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I'm afraid to say that book slapped when I was a kid, but the hype elevated once the movies started coming out.
Imagining a world where Eragon had a good movie, it'd probably change the trajectory of a lot of things
Same for me friend, I was really into it as a kid because I was blissfully unaware of everything it really meant. I was fed the slop and I liked it
I was into the first 5, but had super checked out/aged out of them after that. I was like 14 when the 5th one came out. By 6 and 7 I was old enough to realise “oh these actually kinda suck”. Not in a political sense, I just thought the actual books themselves were mid a.f. once I reached my later teens
I was 10 when the last one was released, it really hits different when you still play with sticks
The movies really got the boost from having a John Williams score. Even his work on super mid movies is incredibly memorable.
The movies aren’t that bad. Critics, academies, and even the general public at the time held them all in high esteem and they are well made.
I didn’t even like the story after Goblet of Fire but calling the movies mid is really underselling them.
We played stuff from the Harry Potter soundtrack in band one year