The Golden Compass

Running Time: 113 minutes

Rating:

“In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization” from Imdb.

I saw The Golden Compass Monday night with my friend Becca, and it’s an amazing movie. The effects in the film are fabulous. Seeing this movie made me want to go out and buy the books now! Which I will def do now This review may contain some spoilers, read with caution.

The movie starts out by telling the audience that many parallel worlds exist to our own, and in this tale we get to enter one of those worlds … of course. It’s a world where human’s souls live outside of their body in the form of an animal companion called daemons. And I have to say, after watching this film I want one! In fact, at the official site you can take a quiz to see which animal fits you (I forget what mine was, but it was a fox-like animal). The animals are all done on computer as well, and all of them look amazing. Anyways.

Basically throughout the movie you follow the tale of Lyra a kinda of tom-boy who lives with her uncle. Lyra’s friends and some other kids of her world are going missing by some secret organization and when her uncle leaves for the north in search of dust she’s left by herself. Eventually she makes her way to traveling north and ends up coming into possession of a compass, that only she can use that tells her the truth of any question she asks. She also makes friends with many other people, such as a bear who use to be a prince. More stuff happens blah blah blah and it ends in a way that tells you that they are making the other books into a film as well (I won’t spoil the film for people!).

The best scene ever is the bear fight scene, wow. Seriously amazing, you could hate the entire film but watching that moment makes it all worth it. In short, this is an amazing way to end the year of 2007. If you are you into fantasy style movies then you will love this movie, and even if you are not maybe watching this film will make you like them. This is why I give the film 4/5 stars.

The semester is nearing an end, and honestly I have been wanting it all to be over weeks ago! My finals are next week and I only have 3, because one of my professors decided 7:30AM was way too early to take an exam so we are having it this Friday instead and then we have to turn in a take home essay before next week is over. Works for me. Granted my vampire exam is at 7:30 as well so that still sucks!

I am waiting for my next class to start, my Slavic Vampire class. Actually …. I am in it now and I think we are watching a movie. I love movie days Although I have no idea what it is … I think. It may be Blade since we’ve talked about that some or it could even be Interview With a Vampire since we read a different Anne Rice book recently. I feel so out of the loop, watch … we won’t even watch a movie now haha! Edit: We’re only watching 10 minutes of Blade, oh well! But we are learning about Slayers and have already discussed buffy so woot. 

Enough of boring babble. WHEN DID IT BECOME DECEMBER?! Seriously. I mean sure I am not complaining but wow, time flies. And now it’s time for the typical December question: What do YOU want for Christmas/Holidays?

For me, I had a hard time thinking. I gave my mother a small list since she’s been helping me pay for stuff since I have moved (didn’t seem right to ask for a lot, even though my mother doesn’t mind but I do!). But the big item that I would like is a new phone! I am waiting until probably January (so it can be a Christmas/birthday gift) or maybe even a few months after. I even organized my Amazon wishlist into categories for my friends haha. Here are the items I told my mother I would like:

• Bathrobe
• Jurassic Park DVD Set (or just the first Jurassic Park)
• Blueberry Candy Canes
• Disney DVDs
  • Aladdin
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Lion King
  • Beauty & The Beast
• Plus anything random (clothes, shoes, etc).

My mom is good at picking things out that I like, which is fine with me! Since last week will be marking the end of the school semester that means I’ll be working more plus have more time for site stuff, I have a few smallish project ideas that I have started to work on slowly Hopefully I actually do them …