har and har and har . sci fi channel strike again with another adaptation that suck the big one . not content with ruin battlestar galactica last year and they now present u with this most dire of literary conversion the legend of earthsea . now and i recall read wizard of earthsea back in my childhood . but i can not recall anything much about it too many other book since then . so i approach this adaptation with an almost unbiased view . however and despite not have any gripe against the film on the basis of it not like the book . and i do have a lot of grievance base on the fact that it just total rubbish . first off and the acting . none of the actor be in any danger of drown during the making of this show simply because they be all so horribly wooden and would have float without a problem if they would fall in . my two personal favourite be the chap who play ged father and the king of something or other who want to rule the world . ged father deliver most of his line atrociously badly . especially when he be suppose to convey some sort of feeling at the time . the scene where ged go over the cliff saw him give such a fake show of grief i expect the villager to stare at him as strangely a if he have just burst out laugh . the king of god know be only slightly ( and i mean very slightly ) away from a mustachio twirl villain . his overact just get worse a the film go on . he be chew up scenery at a ferocious rate of knot . plus and his crown just look pant . like something you would get out of a cereal box . but at least it distract you from his agonize mugging at the camera . then there be the cgi . my pet hate be cgi that doesn not look even remotely real and guess what . earthsea have awful cgi in spade . the three standouts and though and be a follow . firstly and any scene where the cgi map fade into the real world . laughable . remind me of the old hammer wolf man movie where lon chaney slowly change into the wolf man . not at all convincing there and but at least they have no technology a an excuse . here it just look a shoddy and rush a it be . next we have the scene of the port ( couldn not tell where it be mean to be ) which have pier and crane and boat and all kind of cgi thing . they would have look fantastic in any computer game i play oh . five year ago . here and they look like what they be . very cheap as cgi . and finally and the dragon . i haven not be so insult by a cgi dragon since the dungeon and dragon movie . the fact that it size also seem to change during it scene be also totally risible . a for realism and forget it . this dragon be to realism a barney be to dinosaurs . there be also a number of plot inconsistency that spring into glare obviousness during my torturous observation of this film . firstly and just how do an entire school of wizard and who control the wind ( among other thing ) not manage to defeat a sea borne armada of men by the simple expedient of and say . blow them away . and the gebbeth . what be that mean to be . something scary i expect in the book . but here and be treat to an actor who have a whole uncle fester thing go on . about as scary a ronald mcdonald . no . wait . ronny be scary . i take it back . unca fester be less scary than ronald . laughable in fact . final gripe . the costume . what pantomime show do they steal these from . despite the odd smear of dirt here and there there be something about these outfit that tell you if you look in the seam you would find a shiny new care label . maybe they get a job lot of left over from hercules the legendary journey whatever and they be not good . mercifully and the entire program be already fade into a murky haze . which be a good thing and because the last thing i need when i get hold of the actual book to read be to have the awful scene of this production spring into my mind eye . that would be too much like a waking nightmare . even a a non earthsea fan it have nothing to offer me that hasn not be do big and good and frankly and with downright more heart and elsewhere . avoid .