Moved from Main - the Dark is rising series and movie

[marion11111]

> > > 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>> 


marion11111:
I have looked and can't find the place where I read that one of the changes they're going to 
make is to remove the King Arthur focus.  Ummm.  Isn't that the whole point?  

I had to look on the website to figure out who the people on the poster were.  The babe is 
the plain frumpy servant girl who has a crush on Will's older brother.  And why is Will such 
a smart**s in the trailer?  "Can I fly?  You know, whoosh."  He seems completely unlikable.

I'm trying to be open-minded since this is the same studio that did Narnia and I thought 
that was a pretty decent adaptation, but this one really does look awful.

> 
> ***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!)
> 

marion11111:
Even expecting this to be horrible, I went out and bought the movie poster and have it 
displayed in the shcool library and the books are flying off the shelves!!  Mission: 
accomplished.


> 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
>

marion11111:
I think this one looks OK.  The bears look great and I like the casting of Nicole Kidman.  I 
haven't seen any daemons in any trailer and wonder how they'll do that.  I would think CGI 
animals sitting around all the time would be visually distracting, but they're a pretty 
important part of the story.

Also out in February - Spiderwick.  Again, the trailer looks pretty good.