Sunday, June 01, 2008

Netflix movie viewings continue

Tonight's flick was The Golden Compass. Now, Pullman's books present a huge problem for a movie-maker. They're rather slow-paced most of the time and somewhat philosophical, unlike, say, the LOTR trilogy which is bang bang action from almost the beginning. But the director tried mightily. The movie manages to get about 2/3rds of the way through the first book and breaks off in mid-action. Bummer. Hopefully it did well enough that Dakota Blue Phillips will still be young enough to play Lyra in the next sequel, she did a good job of capturing Lyra's essential pluckiness, but if not... (shrug). Read the books.

Read the books anyhow. If you did not, this movie will be utter nonsense to you, because it has to skim so rapidly over the material. But if you have read Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, this makes an entertaining way to waste an evening.

-- Badtux the Movie Penguin

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