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I finally got a chance to watch The Golden Compass tonight and all I can say is, “what a cluster f**k of a movie.”  There is a central storyline that could have been very good, but either the studio didn’t want to spend the money needed to film the extra scenes that would connect all of the various scenes together properly, the studio didn’t want to make another three hour marathon movie, or they had some of the crappiest editors of all-time working on this film.  I’d guess a combination of the first two. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a major Hollywood movie such as this that was this jerky from scene to scene and then simply seemed to go absolutely nowhere. Also there was too much piss poor CGI throughout the flix. I’m not going to go into a synopsis of the movie, because in some ways I’m not exactly sure what I saw (seriously), but just in case you’re interested, here is the Wikipedia entry for the movie.

There have been so many young adult and children’s novels made into movies over the past decade (such as the Harry Potter and Narnia films) that now every studio out there is jumping on the bandwagon.  They’re rushing them out to the theaters and because of this some of them (like the The Golden Compass and Inkheart) are falling flat.  Surprisingly, even though this movie didn’t do well in America, it did extremely well world-wide, so I guess we might be seeing a sequel to The Golden Compass in the next couple of years.  I doubt I’ll take the time to watch it.

I’m giving The Golden Compass only two out of five stars. **
I have seen worse films, but they were all really bad B-movies.

My next movie review will be Pandorum that just came out a few weeks ago.

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