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The Golden Compass (2007)
Iorek Byrnisson is my favorite and he saves the movie
Friday the 7th December. The weather is horrible. Its raining like crazy in Sweden, in the city i live. There is however two things i have waited for quite long 1 Our local theathre shall open after being closed some weeks (7th December) 2 The movie Golden Compass will premiere at our local cinema.
It was with happy steps i entered our local theathre. The reason why it has being closed, was because a major touch up. They have a new super bad-ass stereo system and new comfy chairs.
There was already many people in line and the personel at the cinema sold lots of tickets to the show. After some 5 minutes waiting they open the saloon where the movie is going to be shown.
I buy some popcorn and soda and is standing in line. There are many kids around and they have already began playing with their golden compass toys. Seems like Iorek is a popular toy.
There is a little check up at the doors. They check so you don't bring cameras, video cameras and such in the saloon. I sit down on one of the new chairs and begin to relax. This is a great chair.
The usual commercial starts and there is 3 commercials related to the movie. Cool!!!. After some minutes the lights dim. A warning about not pirating the movie shows on the screen. This brings some chuckles from the public.
The movie starts. And i feel already this is going to be an amazing movie. The sound system rumbles on and even the music sounds awesome. The movie was about 1h 50 minutes or something but it felt very much shorter.
A few times i caught myself thinking about how cool it would be to have a Deamon and what if Iorek was real. He would sure getting many hugs from me, and i think the kids would do the same.
When i came out from the theathre it still was raining but i didn't care. The movie was so good i was in very happy mood.
There were some things i disliked and some i really liked. I mention them below.
SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Things i Didn't like 1 The pace: It seemed the filmmaker have rushed the scenes too much at times. The movie feel like skipping a few pages at some places.
2 : The scene when they find Billy Costa without his daemon is not as horrific as it should be. People who haven't read the book may not understand how it would be without daemons. Pan has a good reaction to the place, but not Lyra. Sad.
3: They cut the end.
4: Kate Bush song:Lyra: I really like Kate Bush. I have 5 albums with her that i listen to quite often. In this movie she sing a song that is: Bleeeach!!!!. Most people in my cinema left pretty quickly when the credits started to roll.
Things i DID like: 1 Iorek Byrnisson!!!!!: He is one of my favorites from the book and boy, would i cuddle him if i could?. Yeah, i should think so. He's so way cool and when he roared some kids almost cried in the cinema. The volume was very very high, but i like that. Also i love his line "That was all". Another line i absolutely loved was "You wish to ride ME?" My answer would be. Yes, Iorek, we ALL wish to ride you 2: The Bear fight: Oboy, now we are talking about big bears and fighting. Only bad thing with this scene is that is only about 5 minuter. Anyway, Iorek was bad-ass cool and the people in my theather cheered and clapped their hands when he killed Ragnar. That is not very common here in Sweden with people clapping at the cinema.
3: Lyra: Oh yes. Dakota did a really great job there, expect from the Billy Costa scene. She is really believable in the other scenes and i think people see here as the "real" Lyra.
4: The Deamons:Really great done and believable. Who wouldn't wanna have one with their side?. Pan is so very cool and the effects when he's changing into different shapes are awesome. Lol, funny scene with Steelmaria with Pan in her mouth. I laughed some at that.
In the end: A nice theather experience. Now i have to talk a friend going to the movie instead of him torrent it and therefore destroying a cool experience.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
oh my. This was bad. (contains spoilers)
This wasn't what i wanted to see. I bought this on DVD and under the movie i found myself irritated and turned off the movie for a moment.
Heres what i didn't like:
1 They were shooting at the father
2 The tribes was really annoying
3 the dinosaurs (mostly)looked to faked
4 The bad scientist well he was annoying
5 The picture quality on the DVD was really bad
What i DID like:
1 The music by Jerry Goldsmith. This music is really great. I have the bootleg soundtrack from this movie. Sadly the sound quality is not good, but its OK for its time.
2 The first time we see the dinosaurs they inspire a sort of awe.
3 Baby is kinda cute when he is in the water and is playing
4 That funny scene with the tent.
5 The children who sees this film would hopefully learn that evil always loses.