Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Golden Compass
Joan and I were bored, so you know what that meens: Movie Review!
I was halfway finished reading this when it came out, so where most of my "reviews" are mostly spoiler free, this one is not. I feel the need to rant about a few issues, so if you wanna avoid everything, avoid this for now. I will, however, say that if you've read the book, you really shouldn't be worried about spoilers, unless you wanna keep yer head burried in the sand about exactly how the butchered it.
Okay, so I should start off by explaining that apprently I am the last person of my genoration to have not read this book. Robin tried for years to get Joan and I to read it, but she kept saying she'd lend us her copies, and then never did. It was her favorate book of all time. We would have read it for her, but like I said. ::shrugs:: So since I wasn't in a big reading mood the last few months (::cough::year::cough::) I downloaded it as a book on tape. However, when Joan then finished reading it and thought it pretty much sucked, and I wasn't really in the mood for a kids book that sucked, I kept putting it off.
So I got up until she finds the "lost kid" up north, but I just...I was forceing myself to finish it, because I hate to leave a book half finished, absoltuly hate it (yes, Sel, OCD!What?), but I just...I have no pashence for main charactors I find annoying. It's amaizing I stuck watching Buffy as long as I did, and this little girl...oh GOD did I wanna smack her.
And in the movie? Oh My God even worse! ::headesk::
Not really a spoiler, here (and if yer reading this, you've already skipped under the cut, so yer fair game even if it was), but about 10 minutes into the movie, Pan tells Lyra "remember, if you get hit, I hurt too." and she just gives him this look and rolls her eyes, and Joan and I just...froze. We just turned and looked at eachother and asked "Did she really just do that!?"
Oh My God, if a Pagan (IE: one of us) was to say that to our totems? Oh good LORD would they make our lives miserable. And rightly so, too! There is no excuse for doing something like that to your totem! Jeezus fuck, Crow would have my eyes for breakfast if I said that to him. ::shakes head::
So needless to say, she and I didn't exactly get off on the right foot in the movie. In the book, I mostly wanted to smack her for being an idiot little upstart who only thought of herself and what she wanted to do, but in the movie I wanted to smack her for being a little shit who mouthed off to people who had every right to cut her fucking tongue out, and being a little lier to boot! My God, I wanted to smack the blond right off those curls!
And oh, her mouthing off to the Bears? Excuse me? Did you really just say that to a creature four times your hight, ten times your weight, and with five daggers on each arm? Not to mention his teath, his strength, and his anger issues? ::headesk::
Now I could rant on about her for quite some time, but it's probably best to move on before someone calls CPS on me for threats aginst a minor.
Now, despite my reading this as a book on tape, I was very careful to not get an abridged version or anything, in fact, the reading was really exelent! It wasn't just one person reading, it was actualy a whole host of actors, so it was very easy to follow along with, even when I was focused on other stuff. If you have to read this book, I do recomend the new audio book version of it, definatly. Can't recomend the story, but that version is very well done.
The reason I point out that this was not an abridged copy is that because I was only halfway though the book when I went to see the movie, even 30 seconds in, I was fully well aware of how badly they butchered the plot and chractor's histories and motivations. And most of it ("most" being somewhere around 97% of the changes) was not only unessicary, but just confuseing to anyone who did read the books. Billy's Daemon was not Rattair (or Ratter, or however you spelled her name)! Billy was taken, yes, but he was not the lost boy found without his Daemon up north!! And Iorek Byrnison wasn't banished because he was defeated. Not totaly, it was because he killed! And that's why Lyra liked him so much and trusted him so imideatly, because his story so closely matched her own father's story.
And that brings up the point on just when Lyra found out about her parents! I kept wondering why in the preivews, they kept saying "an orphan girl who is thrust into a parralelle world of witches and magic" (not to mention she's not trust into the paralell world, at least not as far as I know in this book, she's born into it), when she finds out about her birth in like chapter three or four or something.
And Lady Coulter was compleatly difrent. And her story of why she didn't raise Lyra herself was... ::sighs:: ::shakes head::
Okay, after that, I'd just be ranting.
I will say, however that the graphics were exelent and I highly recomend them to any one...just...don't pay anything past matinee price for the movie. The acting was fine, took me forever to place Iorek Byrnison's voice (::smacks forhead::), though. So in the end, bad movie, doubt I'll finish the book, but we had a blast mocking it. I actualy missed half of conversation due to laughter at times. ::G::
On an amusing note, when I got home, I desided to take the "What's Your Daemon" test on the offical website. I spelled my own name wrong, which I didn't notice, and when I tried to re-take it with the correct spelling, it gave me a difrent demon (though a Coyote, which also made me laugh). Anyhow, this was just too perfect, I had to share :
ETA: Damnit, I clicked something and it changed my Daemon! ::eyeroll:: Okay, so the reason it was funny, is that it was a Crow. ::eyeroll:: Okay, it's lost what little good grace it had with me.
Is that an accurate meme or what? ::LOL:: At least for me. There was a round on the ThurstonCoPagan's list a few months back of everyone takeing this test and posting the results, and I think I took it (though didn't post) and got something random like a spider or an osolot or something totaly not me, and I was left going "waaaah?" Though I didn't remember that 'til I finished this time. This one came out much better. Incorrect spelling or no.
::LOL::
And on one last random note: the new "stearling silver" ring I got to replace one of my lost ones is turning my finger green. ::sighs:: It has the 925 imprint, though, so apprently while Kohl's is good for most stuff, don't trust their jewlory. ::eyeroll::
I was halfway finished reading this when it came out, so where most of my "reviews" are mostly spoiler free, this one is not. I feel the need to rant about a few issues, so if you wanna avoid everything, avoid this for now. I will, however, say that if you've read the book, you really shouldn't be worried about spoilers, unless you wanna keep yer head burried in the sand about exactly how the butchered it.
Okay, so I should start off by explaining that apprently I am the last person of my genoration to have not read this book. Robin tried for years to get Joan and I to read it, but she kept saying she'd lend us her copies, and then never did. It was her favorate book of all time. We would have read it for her, but like I said. ::shrugs:: So since I wasn't in a big reading mood the last few months (::cough::year::cough::) I downloaded it as a book on tape. However, when Joan then finished reading it and thought it pretty much sucked, and I wasn't really in the mood for a kids book that sucked, I kept putting it off.
So I got up until she finds the "lost kid" up north, but I just...I was forceing myself to finish it, because I hate to leave a book half finished, absoltuly hate it (yes, Sel, OCD!What?), but I just...I have no pashence for main charactors I find annoying. It's amaizing I stuck watching Buffy as long as I did, and this little girl...oh GOD did I wanna smack her.
And in the movie? Oh My God even worse! ::headesk::
Not really a spoiler, here (and if yer reading this, you've already skipped under the cut, so yer fair game even if it was), but about 10 minutes into the movie, Pan tells Lyra "remember, if you get hit, I hurt too." and she just gives him this look and rolls her eyes, and Joan and I just...froze. We just turned and looked at eachother and asked "Did she really just do that!?"
Oh My God, if a Pagan (IE: one of us) was to say that to our totems? Oh good LORD would they make our lives miserable. And rightly so, too! There is no excuse for doing something like that to your totem! Jeezus fuck, Crow would have my eyes for breakfast if I said that to him. ::shakes head::
So needless to say, she and I didn't exactly get off on the right foot in the movie. In the book, I mostly wanted to smack her for being an idiot little upstart who only thought of herself and what she wanted to do, but in the movie I wanted to smack her for being a little shit who mouthed off to people who had every right to cut her fucking tongue out, and being a little lier to boot! My God, I wanted to smack the blond right off those curls!
And oh, her mouthing off to the Bears? Excuse me? Did you really just say that to a creature four times your hight, ten times your weight, and with five daggers on each arm? Not to mention his teath, his strength, and his anger issues? ::headesk::
Now I could rant on about her for quite some time, but it's probably best to move on before someone calls CPS on me for threats aginst a minor.
Now, despite my reading this as a book on tape, I was very careful to not get an abridged version or anything, in fact, the reading was really exelent! It wasn't just one person reading, it was actualy a whole host of actors, so it was very easy to follow along with, even when I was focused on other stuff. If you have to read this book, I do recomend the new audio book version of it, definatly. Can't recomend the story, but that version is very well done.
The reason I point out that this was not an abridged copy is that because I was only halfway though the book when I went to see the movie, even 30 seconds in, I was fully well aware of how badly they butchered the plot and chractor's histories and motivations. And most of it ("most" being somewhere around 97% of the changes) was not only unessicary, but just confuseing to anyone who did read the books. Billy's Daemon was not Rattair (or Ratter, or however you spelled her name)! Billy was taken, yes, but he was not the lost boy found without his Daemon up north!! And Iorek Byrnison wasn't banished because he was defeated. Not totaly, it was because he killed! And that's why Lyra liked him so much and trusted him so imideatly, because his story so closely matched her own father's story.
And that brings up the point on just when Lyra found out about her parents! I kept wondering why in the preivews, they kept saying "an orphan girl who is thrust into a parralelle world of witches and magic" (not to mention she's not trust into the paralell world, at least not as far as I know in this book, she's born into it), when she finds out about her birth in like chapter three or four or something.
And Lady Coulter was compleatly difrent. And her story of why she didn't raise Lyra herself was... ::sighs:: ::shakes head::
Okay, after that, I'd just be ranting.
I will say, however that the graphics were exelent and I highly recomend them to any one...just...don't pay anything past matinee price for the movie. The acting was fine, took me forever to place Iorek Byrnison's voice (::smacks forhead::), though. So in the end, bad movie, doubt I'll finish the book, but we had a blast mocking it. I actualy missed half of conversation due to laughter at times. ::G::
On an amusing note, when I got home, I desided to take the "What's Your Daemon" test on the offical website. I spelled my own name wrong, which I didn't notice, and when I tried to re-take it with the correct spelling, it gave me a difrent demon (though a Coyote, which also made me laugh). Anyhow, this was just too perfect, I had to share :
ETA: Damnit, I clicked something and it changed my Daemon! ::eyeroll:: Okay, so the reason it was funny, is that it was a Crow. ::eyeroll:: Okay, it's lost what little good grace it had with me.
Is that an accurate meme or what? ::LOL:: At least for me. There was a round on the ThurstonCoPagan's list a few months back of everyone takeing this test and posting the results, and I think I took it (though didn't post) and got something random like a spider or an osolot or something totaly not me, and I was left going "waaaah?" Though I didn't remember that 'til I finished this time. This one came out much better. Incorrect spelling or no.
::LOL::
And on one last random note: the new "stearling silver" ring I got to replace one of my lost ones is turning my finger green. ::sighs:: It has the 925 imprint, though, so apprently while Kohl's is good for most stuff, don't trust their jewlory. ::eyeroll::