The Golden Compass, a story that sacrificed all its value in an effort to meet the constraints of the big screen.
Rating: PG The movie makes some allusions to the Catholic church being evil. However, in the book these allusions are much clearer.
Recommendation: Read the book. Avoid the movie.
Highlights:
The book occasionally surprises you with violence. One scene in the movie stays partially true to the book in that one armored bear rips the lower jaw off of another. However, in the book, he follows it up with eating the other bears heart...
Surprising amounts of death for a kids movie.
The visual effect of a demon dying is well done.
Several explosions.
Disappointments:
No midgets.
The kid who plays Lyra is awful.
I am disappointed in every famous actor who participated in this movie.
The whole movie was a race to include as much of the book as possible, but completely missed the point in the process. Probably the worst adaptation I have ever seen.
Rating: PG The movie makes some allusions to the Catholic church being evil. However, in the book these allusions are much clearer.
Recommendation: Read the book. Avoid the movie.
Highlights:
The book occasionally surprises you with violence. One scene in the movie stays partially true to the book in that one armored bear rips the lower jaw off of another. However, in the book, he follows it up with eating the other bears heart...
Surprising amounts of death for a kids movie.
The visual effect of a demon dying is well done.
Several explosions.
Disappointments:
No midgets.
The kid who plays Lyra is awful.
I am disappointed in every famous actor who participated in this movie.
The whole movie was a race to include as much of the book as possible, but completely missed the point in the process. Probably the worst adaptation I have ever seen.
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