I WAS happy to know that Ian Mckellen played the voice of Iofur though.

And Rotten Tomatoes is a pretty good review website, I'd trust what score they have averaged for Compass, but that wouldn't prevent me from actually going to see it.

Gandalf (who plays Ian McKellen in real life) was iorek not iofur

Iofur wasn't even in it (lol ragnar sturlusson???)

I guess Iorek Byrnison and Iofur Raknison are pretty similar names for a movie to have

yah you knew what i meant, iorek blah blah blah

Definitely didn't live up to the book... then again... what movie ever does? The pacing was pretty hurried and poor... but the look and feel of it was nice. I'd recommend the movie to people, sure... I'd just urge them to also read the books if they haven't yet. That's one thing I'm hoping this movie will do... get people into reading the books! Oh, and for those that don't have time for reading these days... there are pretty good audio drama versions of the books available that you can put on your ipod or such!

Definitely didn't live up to the book... then again... what movie ever does?

I know that this is unrelated to the topic at hand, but I just want to say James Clavell's Shogun.

Definitely didn't live up to the book... then again... what movie ever does?

The Stand.



I am very meh about this movie.

I saw it just cause all my friends are idiots and religious and all DONT GO SEE THIS MOVIE.

so I took a pic of me watching the movie and sent it to all of them

shows them

This movie was very, very disappointing. :/ I didn't even really like it as a standalone film (ie. if I hadn't read His Dark Materials before).

Okay, I don't think I fully expressed how much I hated this movie, but here I go again. They completely trashed the whole story! I was so disappointed with almost everything in the movie and I felt like the only good actor was IOREK, who of course wasn't even real. And Kidman (who I love) was completely wasted with the trashy screenplay behind the movie... the transition from Lyra loving her to Lyra hating her was incredibly SLOPPY and was especially confusing to people who didn't understand the story. They also left out the true ending to the first part, which should have been the real climax, and left the movie as an incomplete (and never to be completed) fragment. I just don't think stories like Compass, with such controversial themes about religion, etc, can ever be effectively translated onto film because of the constant onslaught of religious protest. The dumbing down of religious overtones proved to be completely useless, because the movie had A LOT of protest anyway.

Man here is the thing that bothered me the most about this movie:


When Lyra was with.....Nicole Kidman (I couldn't even follow the story enough to learn their goddamn names) and it cut to them at some sort of dinner party for about two seconds then cut back to whatever was going on....it was just the worst placement of any scene ever.  It was entirely useless, I can't even express how bad that was.  Oh, we're talking and then DINNER PART--and back again.

I noticed that they tried to force the transition of Lyra's feelings toward Coulter (Kidman) with Pan, and it was so incredibly sloppy. I felt like they were running out of time, and they said "QUICK! Let's demonstrate a major change of character in Lyra by the use of a 5 minute scene involving sloppy one-liners!" In the book, the transition was gradual and carefully planned. Lyra was able to hide her emotions and LIE (she's so clever, which is a part of her character that was almost entirely dismissed), and gradually, elegantly, understand Coulter's treachery and plan her escape.

Yeah, instead they should have spent half an hour of screentime carefully working with Lyra's change in feelings toward Coulter and cut down on. I don't know? The Polar Bears perhaps? Yeah, I think that was almost the same screentime as the "demeanor" scene would have takne.

Less than a minute is not what I'd consider "screen time".


The scene I was talking about is literally over before you know it started.  You see it come up on the screen, you start to try to figure out where they are and why they're there, and it's over before you can try to come up with an answer.  It's entirely USELESS.