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The Golden Compass (2007)
Shiny and Hollow, Great and Terrible...
On our 12-hour drive to our honeymoon destination, my wife and I listened with rapt fascination to the audiobook of The Golden Compass. We both agreed that it was a wildly imaginative tale with colorful and interesting characters engaged in grand plots and battles.
To put it mildly, the movie version fell disastrously short.
Giving credit where due, the movie was visually dazzling. Well-rendered daemons and special effects were just what I had imagined them to be. However, the director and screenwriter fell into the George Lucas trap and viewers who knew the story and were expecting some semblance of a faithful representation were left sorely disappointed - Bringing all the graphic whizbang Hollywood can muster while ignoring the pivotal points and most of the character development.
Don't expect it to be like the book... in fact, don't expect much at all.