Dec 9th
The Golden Compass** (PG)
Flicks Clacton
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In a parallel world similar to England, a girl travels North to rescue her friend from Magisteriums who are trying to separate children from their consciences.
Slickly packaged CGI adaptation of the first of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, "Northern Lights", with the controversial Godless element removed (but remaining as an obvious subtext), and a heroine who drops her T's a lot. I find the world it creates a little impenetrable and hard to engage with, but with some impressive individual characterisation and a good, measured Lord of the Rings-style climax (for whom the studio clearly hopes this will emulate.)
d: Chris Weitz
s: Dakota Blue Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Ben Walker, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Lee, Simon McBurney, Clare Higgins, Jack Shepherd; voices of Ian McKellen, Freddie Highmore, Ian McShane, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kathy Bates
The Golden Compass** (PG)
Flicks Clacton
.JPG)
In a parallel world similar to England, a girl travels North to rescue her friend from Magisteriums who are trying to separate children from their consciences.
Slickly packaged CGI adaptation of the first of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, "Northern Lights", with the controversial Godless element removed (but remaining as an obvious subtext), and a heroine who drops her T's a lot. I find the world it creates a little impenetrable and hard to engage with, but with some impressive individual characterisation and a good, measured Lord of the Rings-style climax (for whom the studio clearly hopes this will emulate.)
d: Chris Weitz
s: Dakota Blue Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Ben Walker, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Lee, Simon McBurney, Clare Higgins, Jack Shepherd; voices of Ian McKellen, Freddie Highmore, Ian McShane, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kathy Bates
Labels: fantasy
posted by Joe at 12:01 AM
3 Comments:
We should be going to see this flick with my sister and her husband on boxing day, that is if Nuneaton Odeon is open! It looks ok, especially as I like special effect fantasy films.
We went to see this today. I thought it was bland and mediocre. Little kids might like it. I was hoping to see all that heavy-handed Christian-bashing (at least that would have made it interesting), but to be honest I was mostly distracted by the curious red veining in Nicole Kidman's eyes and trying to spot the hairpins holding down her spit curls.
Oh well.
We ended up seeing it today (30/12).. .not bad, but rather dull to start with. It picked up when Ian McKellen arrived voicing the warrior polar bear, and there were some interesting bits and bobs with him. The end battle was a bit of mess - what was all that with those witches?!? Still, our leading gal played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards was good to watch.
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