[ SECRET POST #3200 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3200 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Poor Adaption but a Good Movie

[replicantangel]

Trite answer, but "How to Train Your Dragon" is nothing like the books, but a lot of people (myself included) think the movies are vastly superior to the books. I think most fans of the book concede to the point that the movies are highly entertaining.

"The Golden Compass" on the other hand was an awful movie, even though it had some great actors that did far more with that lackluster script than could be imagined. The thing is that it was very close in many respects to the source material, but the few things they changed took the meaning out of it. Some changes were necessary/understandable because of time/expositional constraints, but cutting all religious overtones from the Magisterium was just bizarre and made it seem like a bunch of old dudes had nothing better to do than chase after a little girl. And they cut off the ending, which made sense in the fact that you didn't want the book ending to be the last thing onscreen, but it took the entire climax of the film away with it! I was not disappointed that they decided not to continue those films.

Re: Poor Adaption but a Good Movie

[(Anonymous)]

The Golden Compass is such a sore point with me, because I really wanted to love that movie, and it just came up short in so many ways. :( It's especially heartbreaking because Nicole Kidman was the perfect Mrs. Coulter for me, and the girl playing Lyra was surprisingly great at what she was doing (I don't normally care for child actors much). But the pacing, the cuts, the changes in general...ugh. Not to mention the genuinely terrible score, which surprised me.