The book, if you haven't heard of it, is amazing. All three of them are actually. They're set in a sort of other world, thats kind of parallel to ours, except there, our souls are outside our bodies and take the shape of animals. The souls are called Daemons.
The movie does not esatblish this, which to anyone who hasn't read the book is very confusing. Why are there talking animal beside people? Why is that leopard not eating the guy, but instead having a conversation with him?
The acting isn't terrible, but if no one has any idea what's going on, I highly doubt that people will care weather or not the acting is good or bad.
Here's the trailer:
It's sad when you can understand more from the trailer than the movie. The movie would have been good, but nothing during the movie was really explained that well. Needless to say, the two other parts of the series most likely wont be completed. But really, read the books. They're worth the read, the movie definitely not. But you can't win em all.
A really big difference, one that bothered me was that there was this boy, a friend of Lyra (the main character), his name was Billy Costa, they combined him with another character. Here's the thing, that would be fine if it wasn't the whole fact that one lived, and one died. They killed this character that was supposed to live and return to his family. Unnecessary.
The movie also bounces around the settings waaaay too fast. I understand time constraints, but they could have at least pretneded that this took days, instead of seconds.
Anyways, obviously the book is better than this movie.
Books: 8 Movies: 2
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