I know that movies based upond books are always a little bit disappointing, but The Golden Compass has been my biggest disappointment in this respect so far. It seems like writers have scarcely read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, the trilogy upon which's first book Northern Lights the movie is based. I'd like to explain here, why that is, but this movie is just so weirdly gone wrong, that I can't. It's probably best, if you find out yourselves (or actually, it isn't, just read the book and leave it to that).
I wonder how the two excellent novels Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel by Susanna Clarke and Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl will turn out as movies?
By the way: I really liked both the movie and the book Atonement by Ian McEwan.
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