The Golden Compass or as we call it Northern Lights

17. Aug, 2008 0 Comments

I just watched the film on DVD and aside from the thrills, I would have to say I was truly disappointed from this movie. Although I thought the movie was well made and the actors were adequate enough, I think the movie jumps from scene to scene too quickly and parts of the novel that I found quite interesting are unfortunately cut out. In addition, it seems that since they ran out of time towards the end, the last part of the book was entirely erased, which is an extremely important part of the plot that I assume will be added to the beginning of the next movie The Subtle Knife. I have heard nothing whatsoever of another movie being made however but if they did add the ending of Northern Lights to the beginning of The Subtle Knife it would look extremely stupid. But it maybe that I am a great fan of the the Philipp Pullman novel and therefore, I believe that the movie does not even come close to justifying the masterpiece novel. However, I do look forward to seeing some improvement in the next installment of films but I doubt I would be very impressed.