Sunday, December 9, 2007

"Golden Compass" Not Doing Well

The Golden Compass is not doing well at the box office. Interesting. (Via Pewsitter)

Here is The Washington Post review. It is not too favorable.
Nothing is wrong with "The Golden Compass" that some of Sister Mary Ignatius's good Catholic discipline wouldn't clear up. She should rap the movie across its fierce little knuckles for violations not against church protocol but against storytellers' dogma: too many characters too fast; too much emphasis on design and effects and not enough on emotion; too many hoary Brit old pros. (It seems like the whole dang theatrical peerage is on hand!) And, worst of all, the wrong Dakota.

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It's very silly, and it never seems remotely real, with that dead sense of computer-generated imagery everywhere, those dramatic but clearly phony lighting schemes. And it just gets sillier and sillier when the witches and cowboys and lions and tigers and bears come aboard, oh my.
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2 comments:

Micki said...

Is it sinful to rejoice in their
failure?

elena maria vidal said...

I don't think so.