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Anybody else as stupidly excited by the prospect of this film as me?

themagicwand wrote:Anybody else as stupidly excited by the prospect of this film as me?

Ooooooh, Sir! Me Sir!

Though I suspect they've sanitised it beyond recognition. I can't wait to see what they've made of Mrs Coulter.

What's put me off is Nicole Kidman giving a "heartfelt plea" for your money on Children In Need with a giant poster advertising this film behind her. Plea for you to see it more like, the gratuitious cow.

hahah true true ^^^ i really hate her acting also....

Poor Nicole.

Leave her alone or I'm going to lash you both to within an inch of your lives. And then I'm going to have you....

A film can NEVER be as good as the books. I read his dark materials and loved them. I won't be watching the film, for the same reasons that (even though they're really good) I think it's a shame that they had to make the Harry Potter films- So much is missed out, and you don't have to use your imagination any more. On a brighter note, the Harry Potter films introduced every hormonally-charged teen to Emma Watson.....

Lord Freddie wrote:What's put me off is Nicole Kidman giving a "heartfelt plea" for your money on Children In Need with a giant poster advertising this film behind her. Plea for you to see it more like, the gratuitious cow.

I shouldn't blame Nicole Kidman for this. As you'll be aware, Hollywood is all about making money. The decision to have Nicole Kidman appearing behind a film poster will have been agreed between the film's producers (who Kidman will have been contracted to when filming the "plea") and the BBC producers. The BBC producers will have decided that having a film poster in the shot was a small price to pay for having who is after all a gen-u-ein movie star appear on Children in Need. And of course the film producers get a bit of extra publicity.

It's not like little old Nicole would have had any say in it at all. The heartfelt plea will most likely have been filmed while she was doing TV interviews for Golden Compass.

Bicycle808 wrote:I'm going to lash you both to within an inch of your lives. And then I'm going to have you....

Nice quote, Red Dwarf by any chance?

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themagicwand wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:What's put me off is Nicole Kidman giving a "heartfelt plea" for your money on Children In Need with a giant poster advertising this film behind her. Plea for you to see it more like, the gratuitious cow.

I shouldn't blame Nicole Kidman for this. As you'll be aware, Hollywood is all about making money. The decision to have Nicole Kidman appearing behind a film poster will have been agreed between the film's producers (who Kidman will have been contracted to when filming the "plea") and the BBC producers. The BBC producers will have decided that having a film poster in the shot was a small price to pay for having who is after all a gen-u-ein movie star appear on Children in Need. And of course the film producers get a bit of extra publicity.

It's not like little old Nicole would have had any say in it at all. The heartfelt plea will most likely have been filmed while she was doing TV interviews for Golden Compass.

She could stand up for herself. I know everyone on Children In Need weeps and tells us we should sent our hardly earnt pennies to these poor kiddies whilst promoting their new book/film/CD but this was more vulgar than most.
Nicole was almost edged out of the screen whilst they got the poster in shot.

I'm confused. Where is she telling us to spend our money. On deprived kiddies or on seeing her new film?

I watched this film after lunch today. I put off watching it when it came out because everyone said it was rubbish. It's not. There are more ideas hitting the screen per minute than a Tom Cruise film has in 2 hours. And that steampunk-influenced production design is just how I imagined Lyra's world. I didn't think she'd be strawberry blonde, though.

Yes, I thought it was really good. I was terrified of seeing it also, Northern Lights being my favourite ever work of fiction. However I was pleasantly surprised. It was a good job well done.

Look forward now to the sequels.

themagicwand wrote:Look forward now to the sequels.

hate to burst your bubble but

http://current.com/items/89117948_the_g ... uel_canned

although I heard it was because it did not make enough money at the box office

Misanthropy wrote:hate to burst your bubble but

http://current.com/items/89117948_the_g ... uel_canned

although I heard it was because it did not make enough money at the box office

That is immense stupidity right there.

Tomo wrote:

Misanthropy wrote:hate to burst your bubble but

http://current.com/items/89117948_the_g ... uel_canned

although I heard it was because it did not make enough money at the box office

That is immense stupidity right there.

yes I agree people should be allowed to make films about whatever subject they care too, its inevitable that in todays PC world you're going to offend somebody

Yep. I wondered how long it would take before the vatican mafia flexed its muscles. I see dear old Narnia is still steaming full ahead because as we all know, Aslan is meant to be the christian god so no complaints there.

Perhaps I as a wiccan should write in to complain about the portrayal of the white witch?