Films

[lilflower]

Two films.

One, EVERYONE must go see. The other... could be a real let down and a sad state of affairs.

First... "The Golden Compass" (the film version of Philip Pullman's amazing book "Northern Lights")

Cast (in credits order)

Comments

[bowiemullet]

Everything about 'The Golden Compass' makes me want to weep uncontrollably.

It looks.

Horrible.

Oh man.
WHY? WHY? WHY?

[lilflower]

I know. and i swear, you pronounce daemon as if you were saying demon... or is that just me?

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[bowiemullet]

How the hell are they pronouncing it?
When me and Ad went to see the stage adaptation, they pronounced it 'Demon'.
That was bloody good actually. Amazing puppets and lighting and staging and stuff.

Im anxious about how they are going to do the daemons in this film thing... CGI makes me nervous... It lets me down far too often.

Im totally unhappy about Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, and Nicole Kidman... and yeah. Just all of it.
Huffff.

No doubt I'll go see it anyway. But still, Im just. WHY?? WHY, WHY WHY?

I think, the only way I could have been happy with this would have been claymation, and/ or Batman/ Edward Scissorhands era Tim Burton-esque stylings.
I think film makers of this certain... Fantasy book adaptation genre are getting stuck in a rut with this particular aesthetic. You know, the Chronicles of Narnia, Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter, Eragon... they all have a vaguely similar look to them.
It just would have been nice for the big brains behind His Dark Materials to have deviated from the beaten path.

GRRR.

[lilflower]

well, on the website, they kept saying daemon not demon... it states at the front of the book! and there is a kinda image of Lord Asriel's daemon on the website and i fear, alas, CGI