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Barbarosa


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About me:	I'm a theatre (stage, not hospital) technician with an eclectic taste in films. "Sin City" and "Enchanted" were my first two picks because I'd missed them on release, but my wish list includes films from every decade since the '30s - which has just reminded me it's a long time since I saw a Fritz Lang movie so make that the 20s. Musicals, noir - I've even been known to flick through copies of Empire and Cahiers du Cimema. Don't trust my ' Favorite actor, director and film' choices, because they can change on a whim depending what mood I'm in. My favorite film actress can change between Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christina Ricci, Catherine Zeta Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams (and many others) wiithin the blink of an eye. I once (during and after watching "The Bad and the Beautiful") even would have suggested Lana Turner.

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Truly dreadful screenplay. , 23 August 2008

The Golden Compass on DVD (2007)
Starring: Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
Director: Chris Weitz
Certificate:
It is probably easier to write great screenplays from mediocre books - Psycho and The Lord of the Rings spring to mind, but this is a screenplay that rips the soul out of the book and discards it [I hope that is not a spoiler]. Nicole Kidman can't help but be a villainess from the start - that is the lines and the blue eye effect. Daniel Craig is given nothing to work with. Dakota Blue Richards' accent is the weirdest since Dick van Dyke. She sounds like Dan Richie presenting the prizes at his prep school speech day. I know Ian McKellen is a great actor - I saw him as McBeth and thought his James Whale (in 'Gods and Monsters') was wonderful, but here it was just 'Rent-a-Gandalf' in a polar bear suit. It woud have been much more interesting to cast Stephen Berkoff or Kenneth Cranham. I did think that Ian McShane's v/o was pretty good, but for me the star of the entire thing was Sam Elliott, who nailed a great performance with a green screen behind him and dull child actors in front of him.
The entire 'Daemon' thing is badly introduced and inconsistent throughout. It is the major plot device: that is a real script / editing error. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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