Went to see this at the VUE Cinema at The O2 last night. As I've said in previous threads I place His Dark Materials as for sheer enjoyment my favourite ever read so clearly I was eagerly awaiting the film. Overall I was satisfied. I knew going into it it was always going to be a disappointment as anyone will tell you with 99% of books that have been turned into films that screen will never beat imagination. However the effects are spot on and it really is good to watch. The biggest gripe is simply that it moves too fast and could do with taking a bit more time over certain scenes. However it is aimed at children so I suppose their attention spans aren't that great!
As an aside it was the first time i'd been to The O2 since the revamp and I was quite impressed, had a meal with the Mrs etc. and it was very pleasant. Not sure about the £11 per hour price for the little ice rink in there tho! No Sir!
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Going to see the film tomorrow night though and looking forward to it. Have read some really good reviews and some really bad ones but like with most of these things it's about how close the film comes to how you interpreted the book that'll swing it and that's quite a personal thing.
Was very impressed with what they had done there, and although I was disappointed that Les wasn't prepared to mug some kids for take that tickets, we left the area satisfied. had a nice tapas meal, avoided the restaurant called "spur" for obvious reasons, but will definately go back as want to try out some of the other food places in there. got there at about 4.30 so missed the TT rush, and got out at about half 9 so missed it that time too.
I'm not too sure about the golden compass, saw the trailer and watched Film 2007 the other night, i'm not convinced i'd enjoy the whole film.
I want to see Enchanted instead :-)
Its a PG at The O2 I reckon they'll be fine, the ice bears could be quite scary but other than that its your normal fantasy stuff.
Have just checked myself and it is PG - Hmmm, maybe I've just rumbled my other half's plans to go without us! TVM!
I'm with you on that. Like a 5 star review as far as I'm concerned.
It is a plastic Disney/Truman-Show-style world!
I did like the Dome though :-)
When I went quite a few eateries not open so should be less crowded now.
wasn't very busy we I went and it was sit where you like but that wasn't first week of a run.
Most cimemas have this buy tickets where you buy food idea which saves time and staff for them but means you have to queue behind some woman/man who waits till they get to the front of the line to decide what they want, asks the five kids, changes their mind, spends hours paying by credit card and all with staff don't know how to work a till and are in no hurry to learn.
But otherwise OK. Book the tickets on-line before you go if you hate queueing like me.
I assume you've seen all the Harry Potter films then DJDD?
on sunday at the 4.50 showing, there were 3 tills open and only 1 group buying anything, 2 people said "can we help you" and were very helpful and alert! (which is important!). about 20 people in a big cinema.
i liked the old dome too and wish the media had given it a chance, however, i think better than it standing empty, there is a lot to do there. there is a restaurant opening soon that sounded nice, brazilian i think!
ice rink looks crap.
Off to the one in Holland Park on Monday week
Do read the book and do see it; Dakota Blue is astounding as a movie debutante; don't go to drool over Daniel Craig 'cos he isn't in it very much. Enjoy the CG daemons, the airships etc. Will number 2 (the subtle knife) and number 3 ever be made? Well Golden compass ends about half way thru Northern Lights so perhaps there will be 4 in total if they are in fact made!