What would happen if you took the two sides of Indiana Jones - scholar and adventurer - and then basically neutered him of everything interesting? You'd unfortunately have Daniel Craig's turn as Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass, out on DVD today. I don't blame Craig, of course - at least he cuts a dashing figure in tweed - and I don't blame Phillip Pullman's source material, of course (Asriel's much more interesting in the books). I blame the shredder they edited this story in.
But that's the biggest problem of The Golden Compass film-edition, one that hits all the bases, and not much of anything survives completely unscathed (that said, everything bounces off Nicole Kidman like that old school-yard chant "I'm rubber, you're glue..."). It's still an alright movie, which is why I'm reminding y'all it's out today and you ought to catch it if you haven't caught it already - it's just not all it could've been.
And every day that passes with more Hobbit-related news-bites is another day this franchise turns to dust. Sigh.
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But that's the biggest problem of The Golden Compass film-edition, one that hits all the bases, and not much of anything survives completely unscathed (that said, everything bounces off Nicole Kidman like that old school-yard chant "I'm rubber, you're glue..."). It's still an alright movie, which is why I'm reminding y'all it's out today and you ought to catch it if you haven't caught it already - it's just not all it could've been.
And every day that passes with more Hobbit-related news-bites is another day this franchise turns to dust. Sigh.
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Oh no. You're not gonna wank over every minute detail about The Hobbit are you?
That is the problem with fantasy. You need time to tell the story, to believe in these worlds.
LOTR got it right.
This should have been a mini series. The Northern Lights should have been 2 films, The Subtle Knife should have been 3, and The Amber Spy Glass should have been 3 also.
Sad thing is what they did with The Golden Compass ruined the story, so any possible sequels would suffer.
Don't get me started on The Golden Compass. I think that is one of the worst book-to-movie adaptions I've seen. Not so much on the acting/effects/cinematography side, but (as you said) the way it was edited. They switched the order of events around and then they freaking left the major end scene out of the movie!
So disappointed, cause the books are great. And this could have been such a fantastic movie.
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