Batman the Dark Knight Trailer

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Golden Compass – Part 2

I got a little reminder on one of my posts earlier this evening that I had forgotten to come back to it and finish sharing my thoughts.  Sorry about that, so I want to take this opportunity to finish it up.

I very much enjoyed the movie,  I have no background on the story.  I’ve never read the original story, but after seeing the movie I do plan too.  But back to the movie itself.  The story did at times leave a few things to be desired, and it felt like it was skipping over some important details.  The biggest one and perhaps the most glaring one was about the main character of the story.  A woman known to be of some standing and in league of “Bad guys” shows up at the school and invites an apparent ward of the school on a trip.  So the school then not only sends her on her way with this woman, but they give her an irreplaceable, 1 of a kind and am going to say magical Compass.  Something the bad guys have destroyed all the rest of.

I loved the technology of the universe.  The sky ships, the over sized steam boats, and the clock work little robots it all had a slightly steam punk feel to it.  Sadly it was without the steam part however.  The company that did the special effects left them looking very believable.  The only part I was disappointed in was the two scenes where they show the line of guards at the northern base with there wolves.  They looked like a bunch of bad clones of each other

Can Sam Elliot play anyone that does wear a cowboy hat, carry a rifle and act like something out of a Western movie?  I mean sure he does it well, hell he does damn well and is damn sexy doing it too.  But its a bit of tight casting.

I also wanted to comment on the Polar Bear character.  His introduction was interesting, seeing him running through the city was great, and only matched by the Polar Bear fight scene later in the movie.