The Golden Compass
Unlike Faulk, I had no idea of what the movie was about when I went in, not even knowing it's a series of books. I was pleasantly surprised and so were my kids.
With today's CG effects and all the bells and whistles that are becoming crutches in Hollywood, it's probably easy to make decent fantasy flicks. The acting was solid, I mean it had Sam Elliott in it and that's enough for me. But is it a requirement to put Ian McKellan and Christopher Lee in fantasy movies now? These guys should take some time off.
I like the whole daemon aspect of the Golden Compass universe, but how come no one had a daemon like, oh I don't know, an elephant or a giraffe or maybe even a whale or something?
And, as with everything else now-a-days, there's controversy that I heard the filmmakers tried to tone down.Still, it's pretty obvious that the Magistarium, or whatever it was called, is the Catholic Church.
And then there's going to be more. Can't anyone just make one movie anymore? Or has greed really taken a hold of that bastion of ethics and good-feeling we know to be Hollywood?
Rating: L/T