His Dark Materials

[phyco126]

Anyone else hear that they are turning Philip Pullman's trilogy into a movie trilogy? Starring Nicole Kidman even. I have to say I am quite excited, though I hate waiting this movie will be worth waiting for. I hope. Unless they butcher it. Then I'll be mad, but I have faith and I have been too disappointed before with other movies!

[Sonic#]

Interesting.

I adore the books, of course. As for the movie... I'm going to remain entirely unexcited about it until I see a preview. Then I'll get giddy for a few moments, and calmly mark my calendar. When the day arrives, there will be a calm enveloping me... until the first ten minutes, when hopefully I can tell that it's at least *pretty* good. And afterward I'll rave like a geeky fanboy, "OMG, did you see that? DAEMONS!"

[Kizyr]

Nicole Kidman's been looking funny lately, like she hit anorexia or something. I mean, she looked fine around 2000-2001 or so...

I know nothing about the books, however. So that's about all I can comment on. KF

[phyco126]

Well, appearently there are some fans of the books who arn't happy with Nicole Kidman as a leading role. Ah, fans, always hard to please. Having read the trilogy and reading the first book several times, I think Nicole Kidman is a fine enough actor for the role. Not like they will be picking Paris Hilton for anything.

And I meant to say "haven't been too dissapointed" not "Have been too dissapointed."

[ilovemyguitar]

Nicole Kidman's been looking funny lately, like she hit anorexia or something. I mean, she looked fine around 2000-2001 or so...

I blame botox.

[Kizyr]

Nicole Kidman's been looking funny lately, like she hit anorexia or something. I mean, she looked fine around 2000-2001 or so...

I blame botox.

I hate to say it, but that's likely. Now that I look at her picture again, she's got the botox smile... KF

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

Anyone else hear that they are turning Philip Pullman's trilogy into a movie trilogy? Starring Nicole Kidman even. I have to say I am quite excited, though I hate waiting this movie will be worth waiting for. I hope. Unless they butcher it. Then I'll be mad, but I have faith and I have been too disappointed before with other movies!

There is a great deal of probability that you'll think they've done this regardless. Books are simply better due to you visualizing everything to your own liking.

I recommend that you suppress your expectations and just try to appreciate it. Even if you can't manage that, you'll still get to be someone who jumps into a conversation about the movies and say "the book was better!" and everyone will listen in on your reasoning.

[phyco126]

Anyone else hear that they are turning Philip Pullman's trilogy into a movie trilogy? Starring Nicole Kidman even. I have to say I am quite excited, though I hate waiting this movie will be worth waiting for. I hope. Unless they butcher it. Then I'll be mad, but I have faith and I have been too disappointed before with other movies!

There is a great deal of probability that you'll think they've done this regardless. Books are simply better due to you visualizing everything to your own liking.

I recommend that you suppress your expectations and just try to appreciate it. Even if you can't manage that, you'll still get to be someone who jumps into a conversation about the movies and say "the book was better!" and everyone will listen in on your reasoning.

No worries there mate, I'm not one of those people Sure I do it a little, but normally I don't even expect the movies and books to be too similiar. This has come in handy, allowing me to fully enjoy both

[Werefrog]

Books are simply better due to you visualizing everything to your own liking.

Books are just different, not better. There are plenty of movies that are on par with books that wouldn't be nearly as good when converted to a novel format.