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Golden Compass Adaption - good or bad?

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Opinion by angel_02 posted 5 months ago
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I read the books of this series before seeing the movie as I always do with book to movie adaptions and have just seen the movie. I think they did quite well with it but I'm not sure it lived up to the books. They changed hair colours of Mrs Coulter, Lyra and even Serafina, small details that may not matter too much but is it hard to dye hair? Already that is beside the point as the actors playing the characters did a very good job and i think were well chosen. I was a bit disappointed that the cut a fair bit out, the movie wasn't long and they could have easily added more in without it getting tedious, I was also disappointed with the ending as they didn't finished it in the same place as the books as i would have liked to have seen. All though i do think the movie was quite good for and adaptation of a book and did very well, but thats just my opinion.
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In all honesty the books will always be the best for me. However, I went into that movie theater, after keeping an eye on the trailers and news associated with the film for YEARS prior with no expectation that the movie would beat the books. But I did expect it to be a fairly decent movie. And it was for the most part. I really enjoyed it as a movie. Then the credits started rolling... I was absolutely appalled that the scene I had been looking forward to seeing the most and had gotten tantalizing glimpses of in most of the trailers leading up to the film's release had been CUT! That just killed it for me. I could not stop my mind from being disappointed even though the movie had kept me entertained up to that point. The disappointment was just too much and it overwhelmed the rest of the merits of the film. So while the movie was ok and COULD have been GREAT I think the cutting of those final exhilarating scenes really killed it for fans of the books more than anything else.
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