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Thursday, December 6, 2007, 22:23
That's not how it was suppose to end!

Yay~ Golden Compass came out today, so I decided to go and have a look. And yessss, I drove there after fetching Aiman from his house. Parking was horrible, as usual, but we were lucky enough to get a parking space. Aaaaanyway, back to the Golden Compass.

So yea, I was like, "Hmm, trailer looks good. Kidman and Craig's in it. Some girl's in it. Polar bear madness. And witches. Whee,". It looks promising. After all, it was produced by the ones who did Lord of The Rings.

But then I was staring at the trailer again. Polar bears...? I mean, they didn't have much of a part in the story (I read the book, all three of 'em). It's just in the war between Monkey-woman's group and the gyptians + awesome aeronaught + witches! + A Polar Bear. But the movie had so many polar bear scene I was starting to doubt its awesomeness. But I was persistent, aaand, decided to give it a second chance, since we've already bought the tickets.

It was 5.10pm. We entered the cinema hall around 5pm.

And then it started.

...

And here is where I shall begin my rants.

First off; why was it so rushed? I mean, sure, there's a lot of plot and stuff to cover and the need to proceed to the best part (polar bears, I meant) is badly in demand. But why the rush? Man, they can spend THREE WHOLE HOURS on Lord of The Rings and there's nothing much there to explain except just adding more cool scenes like where Legolas gets a solo part to add to his awesomeness. Northern Lights (Golden Compass) is such a well-explained story (and it has a very nice plot in it too), about daemons and other worlds and Dust.

But why can't it be as awesome as Lord of The Rings? What's wrong in just following the book the whole way? LoTR was not that thick (the fact that they can combine all three volumes in one book) if compared to His Dark Materials trilogy compiled in one book.

LORD OF THE RINGS HAS NOTHING IN IT, UNLIKE NORTHERN LIGHTS (Golden Compass). SO WHY RUIN IT LIKE OTHER GOOD-BOOKS-TURNED-HORRIBLE-MOVIES?!

They can't possibly be low on budget, I mean, they ARE the producers of Lord of The Rings. It should...be better...or at least on the same level.

And they screwed up the ending as well.

God! At least show some sneak preview on the next movie or something? (2nd book: The Subtle Knife) How Lyra got to the other world and how Will got the Knife and...and...

Damn, I spoiled too much.

And Monkey-Woman was suppose to get more torture scene (as in, Pan fighting back and all, always taking advantage on the monkey. XD). Or maybe Kidman requested not to be tortured that much? *Shrug*

Anyway, all that I want to say is that...I didn't enjoy the movie. I felt like I wasted RM7 on that movie. Man, I wouldn't mind paying RM11 to watch Stardust again, even though the book was different from the movie.

My advice to those who wish to watch the Golden Compass:

DO NOT WATCH IT, IT'S NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY.
But if you're curious, go on, waste some bucks to satisfy your curiosity.
BUT DO NOT WATCH IT.