Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[Katie]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Magpie:
> > I so can't get over the changes to this movie. His family is 
> > American, and they bully him. There's fewer of them, he has a 
> little 
> > sister, his parents are emotionally cold--so bye bye to my beloved 
> > Stantons I loved so much! He's also 13 now for some reason. I can't 
> > even begin to explain the horror I feel reading this.
<<SNIP>> 
> > -m

> Alla:
> 
> Shudders. They **bully** him? Will's parents bully him? Why? Why? Oh 
never mind me. Are they indeed obsessed to create Harry's clone and do 
not want unique character?
<<SNIP>>

***Katie:
Well, at least this seemingly horrible movie has done one positive 
thing - I've never heard of these books before, and now I very much 
want to read them. In fact, I am gathering up my kids at this very 
moment and we are off to the library to find them. I plan to begin 
devouring them this afternoon while the kids nap.

And once I read them, I am quite sure I won't want to see this movie at 
all, either! (Not that I wanted to see it before!)

On the sort of same topic - what does everyone think of the Golden 
Compass movie that's coming out? I personally am pretty scared about 
Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, although the rest of it seems basically 
true to the book. I like the guy who's playing Asriel, and Lyra is a 
good fit...but still, the books are so dense...I wonder if they can 
pull it off. 

Katie