Ms. Amused

I’ve not read any of the books so didn’t really know what the movie was going to be about.

Which enabled me to see part of why the movie underperformed. It’s not a bad movie at all but I think they relied too much on the presumption that the audience already knew the story because I felt like a ping pong ball getting batted around when it came to understanding the story and what was happening and why it mattered.

However, that didn’t stop me from enjoying the movie because the questions were eventually answered and it was a beautifully done movie. CGI wasn’t perfect but good enough to not detract.

I really hope that they do greenlight the followup movies because this one was very much filmed & told to be a part of a series, not a stand alone. It’s like Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Dead Man’s Chest… it told a story in its own right but left a lot of loose ends to be taken care of in POTC 3.

Perhaps if they’d tried to do it more like POTC 1 that was done at first as a stand alone and then built upon for a trilogy, it would have been more successful.

I’m left wondering what the heck was Mrs Coulter (Nicole Kidman) all about? What’s with the weird relationship between her and daemon? What is the Dust and why is it so taboo? I don’t think they really ever made that clear in the movie. The Magistrate (or whatever they called them) wanted to suppress & control awareness of it but the motivation was never really clear. “It’s tradition” isn’t enough because traditions have to start SOMEWHERE!!

I’d watch it again. And I really hope the rest of the story gets made.