“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass Nowhere near as good as the book, so reader/viewer beware. The good is the casting, the wonderful special effects, and most of the dialogue, and cinematography. Love the nobility of certain characters and aspects of the message and morality. The bad, too much exposition, too much jumbled action that is anti-climactic (how is that possible), because it doesn’t feel like the writer loved, knew very well, or understood the source material. Still, much as I disliked this in theatres, the flick is…

A movie that is one thing that keeps me getting up to meet another day I can’t think of a better YA film than this one. They made some great voiceover choices with Ian McKellan and Ian McShane doing the ice/armor bears. So many great characters – it seems like they thought this would spin into sequels or trilogies at least, because some famous actors got relatively small parts as though anticipating bigger ones in the future. Alas, of course, it has not panned out. However, there was something about the many kinds of heroism in this movie that affected me very…