If you want to see a closer adaptation of the books, they should just make it for BBC. And it wouldn't have been good material for a feature film.
But I'm still going to see the film. I'm not boycotting it because it's not like how some executives made dumbass decisions regarding "Eragon" (I'm sorry, but you can't put a 700 page book in under two hours. And the fact the most important scenes were cut out of the final cut got me more annoyed.). And there were some good points in "Eragon"...though I think I have a weakness for long-haired baddies that look like they stepped out of mangas... But anyway, even the movie-tie in cover claims it was 'inspired by', not 'based on' the book.
As for "His Dark Materials", I'm going to wait to see what the Catholic newsletter my mom gets will say. I had tried to read those books, but I got very bored, pissed off and annoyed about the reveal of her parents coming so early in the book. In short, I think I can say, don't put things on pedestals.
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Date: 2007-10-04 03:31 pm (UTC)If you want to see a closer adaptation of the books, they should just make it for BBC. And it wouldn't have been good material for a feature film.
But I'm still going to see the film. I'm not boycotting it because it's not like how some executives made dumbass decisions regarding "Eragon" (I'm sorry, but you can't put a 700 page book in under two hours. And the fact the most important scenes were cut out of the final cut got me more annoyed.). And there were some good points in "Eragon"...though I think I have a weakness for long-haired baddies that look like they stepped out of mangas... But anyway, even the movie-tie in cover claims it was 'inspired by', not 'based on' the book.
As for "His Dark Materials", I'm going to wait to see what the Catholic newsletter my mom gets will say. I had tried to read those books, but I got very bored, pissed off and annoyed about the reveal of her parents coming so early in the book. In short, I think I can say, don't put things on pedestals.