Movies that start out as books...
usually are better books than movies, IMHO. This is a classic example - it's a good movie, worth seeing, perhaps not great for the under-10 crowd but good effects and such. Nicole Kidman did a superb job with her role, I thought; we enjoyed Daniel Craig's performance; and the girl playing Lyra (whose name escapes me at the moment) seemed pretty good.
And yet, and yet... if you've read the book, then you may well be bothered - as not only I was, but also one of my children, who'd read the book, was as well - by the lack of fidelity to the original storyline. Books that are turned into movies always have to have adaptations, yes, and some details will change; but we thought that too much of the plot was changed, so that this was too different. I found it a bit confusing afterwards as well since a month or two later I had trouble remembering which details/plot showed up in which format.
Still, I loved the book, and will read the rest of the series (before those movies come out ;)
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