I liked the books, more so when I found out kid wrote them. I've been following the progress of the film and it seems like a nice diversion this winter. The one thing I didn't like, and I hope it's not this way in the movie, is when I tried a demo of the game for the PS2, the musical score had brass of the Lord of the Rings  soundtrack (the parts where Uruks show up). It was intermixed with other music and the game sounds themselves but anyone who've seen the films would have picked up on it. That upset me, as I've tried in the past to explain to folks that Eragon isn't trying to be TLOTR, it's got it's own mythos even if it borrows from old ideas...only to have the music clipped (for the game only I hope). Ugh.  Ah well, I'll still see it, ILM did some interesting things with the dragons this go around.