I’m sure the religious right will declare the failure of The Golden Compass at the box office this weekend as some sort of victory for Jeebus, but the truth is the movie failed because it wasn’t that good, and audiences are getting sick of these second-rate fantasy adaptations.
The Golden Compass is the Daredevil of the fantasy film genre, and Inkheart looks like its destined to be Elektra. It’s yet another fantasy movie from desperately flailing New Line Cinema, this one stars Brendan Fraser and an obligatory kid in the story of a family which can bring books to life by reading them aloud. Evil presence, yada yada, save the world, the end.
The movie’s trailer is online. Watch it here, and pray New Line can remain solvent long enough to get The Hobbit made. They never should have dissed Peter Jackson. They need the money he makes them.
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I am a book collector and critic, I have a mini-library in my home and have read Inkheart time and time again. When I was at the movies about to watch the Golden Compass which was an excellent book AND movie (very rare by the way),oh and by the way The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass were very poorly written and I disagreed with nearly every page, I observed a trailer for Inkheart. It looked like it was aligned with the story and within at least two seconds of watching the trailer, I immediately realized that Inkheart was to be made into a movie. Judging from the fact that I immediately knew what it was, I cannot agree with the opinion that the movie, Inkhear will be horrid, bad, or whatever else people utter under their breath about it.
-sigh- after reading the book i thought it was awesome and i've read it like, a million times already!! When I heard a movie was coming out i nearly fell out of my seat thinking 'Oh no they're going to ruin another good book?!' then i watched the trailer. -ahem- the storyline seems on topic mostly, but some of the characters are horrific! Dustfinger, Capricorn, Basta, Elinor, ect, they all look completely different in the trailer of the movie than in the book! Exampl, dustfinger is supposed to have RED hair, and Capricorn isn't supposed to be BALD!
Although the movie trailer looks a bit childish (as it is PG) and will probably be something similar to Chronicles of Narnia (as in, it would have be way better if there was blood, to at least make it realistic), I have read the book, and it is pretty good. It'll be interesting to see the movie's adaption of it... I do agree with an earlier comment on the character's appearances... Dustfinger should have red hair, and his scars are nothing like described... as well as Capricorn was described as slim, and "as white as milk" ... Although I do realize that cinemas need to make money and if changing character appearances is the only way...
I think the movie looks good, I will definately go and see it. But I imagined Meggie much younger than she looks in the trailer. Also it looks as though they didn't follow the story line very well... Like in the beginning Meggie shouldn't know what her father does, and in the book she doesn't figure out she can read characters out of books until the last 15 chapters. And as far as I remember The Wizard of Oz wasn't even mentioned in the book, none the less Todo comes out of it. Sorry, it such a harsh rant, I just really enjoyed the book and feel it should have been followed better...
Terribly sorry... but what is this non-sense about the Wizard of Oz and a big storm? Ummm... Meggie definitely didn't conjure up Toto.... As I recall only a small tin soldier, tinker bell and a "the shadow" came about from the pages of books. Shadow appears to be rather big in the trailer, don't you think? I look forward to the movie, but I have the distinct feeling that it will not be the story told in the pages of Funke's book.
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I’m sure the religious right will declare the failure of The Golden Compass at the box office this weekend as some sort of victory for Jeebus, but the truth is the movie failed because it wasn’t that good, and audiences are getting sick of these second-rate fantasy adaptations.
December 10th, 2007 at 13:30
For whatever it is worth I thought the trailer looked suprisingly good oh well.