(This shall be your Golden Compass movie review, provided in a timely fashion. I'm only spoiling things if you haven't read the book. :D )
The movie sucks unless there are armored bears onscreen.
No, really. This isn't just me spouting off with my Armored Bear Love.
The movie sucks unless there are armored bears onscreen.
Okay, I suppose I can amend that. Sam Elliott rocks in it, so...
The movie sucks unless there are armored bears onscreen or someone onscreen is talking about armored bears.
Also, I know it's a trilogy. (Subtle Knife is my favorite, FYI.) I know they're making movies out of the other two books. However, they cut off the end of the movie before the story actually ends. I know it's so that the audience isn't left with a horrible cliffhanger, but it's distracting. I guess those of you that don't read books probably have no problem with things like this. :)
And finally, I'm not up on my pronunciation of weird letters, so I dunno how the AE thing is actually supposed to be said, but I've always said it 'day-mons'. No wonder the churchers are all up in arms about the movie, with little kids running around with 'animal demons' and all. Because it certainly isn't from any other content of the movie, that's for sure. Unless armored bears are heretical. Because seriously, the 25-30 minutes or so of armored bears were fucking awesome. It just doesn't save the rest of the really crappy movie.
tj out
2 comments:
i concur. the bear and the cowboy made the whole damned movie. i'm too pissed to write coherently about it so here are my thoughts in a list.
-Sam Elliot and the bear made the whole damned movie
-the movie gave you most of the what, but hardly any of the why, and left out some important whats
-what they gave you was so disjointed i'm surprised it made any sense at all
-salon.com's review was a little harsh saying Nicole Kidman came off drag queeny. it was nothing of the sort and i think she did a fine job with what she was given
-somehow the writing for the movie was able to convey how the characters talk and feel in the book, but missed everything else. like how they're all related and why you should care (as opposed to the, "oh ya btw" connections that happened at every freakin cut)
-lack of pine branches
i'm sure there's more. and unless they fire this asshat and get a new writer/director i'm skipping the next two movies.
I think that the only reason it made any sense at all is because I knew what was supposed to happen.
I liked all the actors, for what it's worth. I loved the set/costume designs. It was mostly when people started talking that I had problems. :)
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