There are major annoying and unnecessary plot changes in The Seeker. More than half the scenes in the movie never occur in the book. This made me angry and wanted to destroy the screen.
The Good: People who didn't read the book and don't understand what a predictable plot is will really enjoy the movie. The movie "adaption" (I use the term very loosely) will please young children who are too lazy to read the book.
The Bad: Will can be very annoying at times, and almost all the other characters can be too.
Annoying Things Will does: "Can I fly?" Can't figure out who the sixth sign is even though it's almost the same in every movie. The actor of Merriman is also fairly obnoxious and doesn't act like Merriman did at all.
Will's family isn't loving like they are in the book which bothers me. They already changed everything (man even the names of the signs got changed) else in no they make Will's family with the exception of the little sister who's not even in the book not care about him. Jeez what's wrong with the directors.
The movie also takes place in present time as opposed to the 70's when the books were written.
They took away the Arthurian legend too which will make it almost impossible to do books 1, 3, 4, and 5 without completely changing it like they did to this one.
Included in obnoxious characters is The Rider who appears every other scene to tell this mysterious and impossibly hard (sarcasm) to figure out hooded figure that "you have one last chance" and then rides off.
Overall the movie is predictable, not fun for people who have read, and fascinating for people who don't like to read books.
By the way Susan Cooper highly dislikes this movie.
The Good: People who didn't read the book and don't understand what a predictable plot is will really enjoy the movie. The movie "adaption" (I use the term very loosely) will please young children who are too lazy to read the book.
The Bad: Will can be very annoying at times, and almost all the other characters can be too.
Annoying Things Will does: "Can I fly?" Can't figure out who the sixth sign is even though it's almost the same in every movie. The actor of Merriman is also fairly obnoxious and doesn't act like Merriman did at all.
Will's family isn't loving like they are in the book which bothers me. They already changed everything (man even the names of the signs got changed) else in no they make Will's family with the exception of the little sister who's not even in the book not care about him. Jeez what's wrong with the directors.
The movie also takes place in present time as opposed to the 70's when the books were written.
They took away the Arthurian legend too which will make it almost impossible to do books 1, 3, 4, and 5 without completely changing it like they did to this one.
Included in obnoxious characters is The Rider who appears every other scene to tell this mysterious and impossibly hard (sarcasm) to figure out hooded figure that "you have one last chance" and then rides off.
Overall the movie is predictable, not fun for people who have read, and fascinating for people who don't like to read books.
By the way Susan Cooper highly dislikes this movie.