I forgot to mention yesterday that we finally watched The Golden Compass. I read the books a while back (maybe a year or two ago) and loved them. The movie is…okay. Fun. But it misses so much of the story. It really couldn’t help but be disappointing, I think. The most jarring part of the movie, though, was the ending. The movie ended before the book did. That may have been a good choice for the movie. I remember being surprised and a little dissatisfied with the ending of the book. (It helped that I already had the next book, of course.) The ending of the first book goes very well with the beginning of the second, so, if they’re planning a second movie, it kind of makes sense to put it there. Anyway, I wasn’t expecting it to end where it did (the movie). So that was a little weird.
Today, we went out to the movies to see Last Chance Harvey (Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman). It was a really nice movie. And I LOVE Emma Thompson. No crying (although I did tear up once – no, twice). It’s set in London, and John spent the entire movie working out how we can move there. The current plan is for him to pursue his doctorate there. I need to work out how I can be friends with Emma Thompson. 🙂
Jessica
I agree that the movie isn’t nearly as good as the book. I think they had to really water down some of the blatantly anti-religion things to begin with if they had any hope of it being successful in the box office. (In the current religious climate (highly encouraged by our present-but-not-for-much-longer administration) you can’t have movies that are so strongly against the idea of God as the books are.) But I still love the movie because it’s just so beautiful to watch.
I love the books (you probably already gathered that from my posts). Not just the story itself, but I think the story telling is excellent. It helps that I’m pretty anti-religion myself, I suppose. And married to a Catholic of all things. 🙂
Jessica
Hey, you can be friends with Emma Thompson and I can be friends with Kate Winslet and we can all move to England (where John and I can both get our doctorates) and everyone will be happy.
I like it.
Zannah
Great plan!
momma betty
Can I come and be your char lady? I’ll cook, too. And read drafts of dissertations…as long as I don’t have to write another one myself!
Zannah
Do you have another British actress to add to our growing circle of friends? That’s the only requirement. 🙂
Jessica
Helen Mirren.
Jessica
Just a suggestion. You of course get to choose your own. 🙂
Zannah
Or Judi Dench. I could be friends with either. 🙂 I think John prefers Helen Mirren.