Comments | fluffyllama23: The Golden Compass

fluffyllama23

The Golden Compass

Dec 08, 2007 23:09

A while back my father and I went to see The Golden Compass. I thought that overall it was very well made, but that there were several ways in which it kind of killed the book. The most obvious is that (spoiler warning) Roger dies in the end of the book. However, in the movie, the ending is treacly and shows the two children looking happy and ( Read more... )

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chaifairy December 25 2007, 05:35:24 UTC

ooo i basically agree, but the thing i didn't get was why they kept jumping back and forth between children's movie, horror film, political intrigue, and war story. i think it could've been a bit tighter...

fluffyllama23 December 26 2007, 23:25:57 UTC

Yeah, it was a bit scattered and kept jumping around. They could have made another hour.

cosmicdancer December 25 2007, 15:21:20 UTC

we were kind of left with a 'wtf' feeling after the ending. Yeah, Roger definitely does die! Also I couldn't stand Nicole Kidman in it even though I usually like her.

However, the rest of the casting was superb and it was a pretty fun movie. Yay bear fights! Yay airships! Yay daemons! Yay!

fluffyllama23 December 26 2007, 23:25:17 UTC

Yeah, I was really WTFed.

I thought Nicole was perfect for the role. Even back in elementary school when I first read the book, I always thought she'd be good, so I was really happy when the movie came out and she was in it.

The SFX were great though. And I am glad that the part where Iorek lops of the other bear's (why was his name not Iofur?) jaw was kept.