shiva333

Just saw this last night. It is very original, funny and has a great message. It's not the best piece of film-making cinematically speaking that I've ever seen, but well worth seeing and will give you a fresh look at "progress" of western civilization.

I only wish there were more films like this that had a real message to them, unlike the trite "slices of life" that are so common.

Warning that I don't the translation if very good.I don't know French very well but the title itself should be translated "The Beautiful Green" and not "Green Beautiful", plus we saw other translation anomalies. Wish I knew French better!

Me and my son hurriedly finished reading The Golden Compass just before the movie came out. Both of us thoroughly enjoyed the book and are currently engrossed in the second one. Both of us were equally unimpressed and disappointed in the movie...what were they thinking? The film has virtually none of the depth of story and characters that the film has....the movie strings together all the action sequences of the book (in different order!) and gives the tiniest bit of exposition on the plot in between. The sad part is that all of the best missing bits would have required very little extra effort and no special effects...just fleshing out the characters and stories more would have made it much more satisfying. The movie was roughly 1-3/4 hour and could have easily been 2-1/2 hours or more.

The first 5 or 6 chapters of the book are condensed into the first 15 minutes. And the last chapters are left out entirely!! Yes you heard me...the climactic FINAL scene of the book is completely missing! My advice is that if you have not read the book then you may enjoy the movie..it's beautifully done on the surface...there's some decent acting etc....but if you have read and loved the book you will be very let down at the lack of depth in both story and character development....it's hard to believe Pullman allowed his name to be on the credits of this turkey...

I took my 7 year old boy to see this and he loved it. Surprisingly I did too. I have heard complaints about the simplicity of the story, but I disagree. Most of the movie takes place in a wonderfully well crafted dreamscape. The movie segues from scene to scene with a dreamy non-linear approach. You could take a lot of the entire middle section of the film, mix it all up and you'd hardly notice a difference. Beneath the surface though there is quite a bit going on. I left the film feeling like I would need to see it again just to figure it all out. And I probably will! It is unbelievable that this film was made for $4 million dollars. Just goes to show you how bloated the budgets of big budget films are and just how safe they have to play things to make sure they get their earnings back. I hope we see more bod, beautiful and unpredictable films like this in the future.