MINing of Life

Friday, 14 December 2007

The Golden CompassY

I met up with Sharon to catch this movie which I initially thought would make me wow about. If you actually read the papers, there's been lots of criticism about this film and the average rating was 4 stars. To my disappointment, it didn't met my expectations and hence I shall give it a 3 out of 5 stars.

Having read that book, I must say Philip Pullman is an amazing writer, unfortunately, director Chris Weitz wasn't able to turn the words into an exciting movie which I was waiting for. I remembered reading the book with great excitement, just like being on an adventurous with

Lyra However, the director didn't really interpreted it that way. The movie seemed like the director was desperate to shorten the story and hence reshuffled a huge part of the story and cut away a few important scenes. As someone whom have read the book, I could understand how the story was running, but like Sharon, she was still rather lost.
The other point was that some facts of the story were wrong just because the production team wanted to change the storyline to fit the entire 300+ -page book into a

roughly 2 hours time limit, which kind of make the story out of place.
Well, the film-makers probably focused more on the costumes and the animations of the daemons and polar bears. Sadly, I was only impressed with the Gyptians' costumes and the looks of the daemons.

I was actually waiting for the ending (according to the book), however the last few chapters were actually cut out or summarised into 1 sentence which made no sense at all.

Overall, I think The Golden Compass is fine. I won't recommend it, neither will I say it's a bad movie. I felt that my eight-bucks-worth ticket was a little wasted though.

Oh, well, SiYuan's reading my book now, then it'll be passed on to Yuyi, then Sharon. I can lend it to anyone with 2 conditions : 1. First come, first served; 2. Please take care of my poor book. Though it's a little scratched and torn (because it was the last book on the shelf and I had to snatch that best-seller), make sure that state is maintained as it is, not worse, unless you know some plastic surgery which can turn my book into a brand-new-looking one (which is totally impossible -.- )

8:43 pm;

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