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My daemon is Lutheus, the wild cat.

I am so incredibly excited for this movie. I've read the books several times over the past few weeks and I can only hope the movie does justice to the books. I think this is the one movie I've looked more forward to then any others (including LOTR!)

*does excited dance*

Ooh, rereading the book, what a good idea. I wish I'd remembered to do that before going to see Stardust. I'll definitely have to do that now.

I won't get to see the movie until next Wednesday, as my best friend and fellow fantasy geek/movie goer doesn't have time off until then, but I'll survive. Just knowing that it's soon is enough to make me happy.

Nithreus the Fox is my daemon. Works for me. ;)

Oooh Aspasa the crow is my daemon, nice.

Haha... I got Ariel the Butterfly. Not that I object to butterflies... but I'd rather have the wild cat, heh.

I would actually quite like to see this. I enjoyed the book, and I've been hearing positive things about it, so I hope I get the chance to.

I've got Diodium the Jackal as my daemon. Man, I wish my finals weren't all this week and next or I'd be in to see it opening night .

I must be in a minority, I think this movie looks abysmal. I won't be going to see it.

My daemon is Anicetos the Crow.

I was pleasantly surprised; I was fully expecting a bird of some sort, and in the grand scheme of things, a crow isn't half-bad.

I'm either going to see the movie this Friday or on Saturday with my sister. Here's hoping it's as good as I think the trailers make it out to be....

ETA: Plans changed. I won't be seeing it until next Sunday, I think.

Mine is a snow leopard named Kyana. I'm weirdly fascinated by this test's results -- it's unusually nuanced and well-produced for a personality quiz, certainly for one attached to a children's film; film websites in general tend to be abysmal, let alone children's film websites, let alone the widgets on children's film websites. But the results are also near-meaningless, especially the names, and I guess that that meaninglessness is at the same time powerfully evocative is what makes them so interesting to me.

I'm overthinking again, aren't I.

I like that the test has so many different results -- here on NC alone, we almost all got different animals. Usually quizzes like this are lazy and have, like, five different results. I think my fox fits me fairly well, too. I took the test a couple of months ago and I believe I got a raccoon, which also works.

I read the book again last night. I enjoyed it even more than I did the first time, now that I know how the whole trilogy ends and can see all the little setups. I'm also noticing the organized religion stuff more this time around (this is an excellent article on that, btw).

Ironically, I just stumbled across that "God in the Dust" article on my hard drive today. I think it's an excellent article, although I also think Pullman himself would probably not endorse some of the article author's interpretations. However, I don't think the author is necessarily the last word on a what a story means (stories mean different things to different people.)

My daemon, Tarquin, started as a snow leopard, but when I posted him on my LJ for my friends to rate, he turned into a hare, back into a snow leopard, and then into a wolf. Phooey. I like snow leopards much better. Let me see if I can turn him back into a snow leopard.

Dammit, no, I turned him back into a hare.

Still a hare.

I should have stuck with the wolf.

I'm glad everyone's enjoying the quiz.. I couldn't keep such a coolio feature to myself!

Mine's Gabriel, the Fox. So perfect...I made it my new desktop. I found it interesting that the stats on the website say that the fox is not the most popular daemon, yet on this forum it seems to have the most results.

I'm hoping to see the movie on Sat., and I am hoping beyond hope that the reviewers actually like it, or none of my friends wll go with me. They already think I'm crazy for dragging them to see another fantasy movie.

There aren't many reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes as I write this -- just 30. Of those, 12 are good and 18 are bad, which worries me a little. The main complaints are that the plot is too involved and too rushed, and that non-book fans might be confused. I'm not sure that's a real drawback for me; I think I would have been more annoyed if they'd left out a lot of stuff from the book, and obviously the plot won't confuse me, since I've read the book twice. I'll have to see what my mom and brother, who haven't read the books, think of it when we go. In any case, reviewers agree that the special effects are amazing, and I haven't heard any complaints about the acting. Newcomer Dakota Blue Richards has to carry this movie (Pullman specifically instructed Weitz to make this one all about Lyra), and by all accounts, she does.

Cranberry wrote:There aren't many reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes as I write this -- just 30. Of those, 12 are good and 18 are bad, which worries me a little. The main complaints are that the plot is too involved and too rushed, and that non-book fans might be confused.

Sounds fine to me. I go to films of this category expecting enjoyable visual guides to the books, not actual good movies (q.v. the Harry Potter films: delicious eye candy, but basically incoherent drivel -- admittedly based on books much less well-crafted than the His Dark Materials books are). As long as they deliver on the effects and the acting, I'll be happy. I watch a lot of fanvids, mostly with my partner the cinema geek, and more and more I find myself approaching book-adaptation films in terms of whether they make good fanvid fodder. It's made me a much happier moviegoer. Now if I could just get to that place with comic book-adaptation films.

Cleolinda was impressed which is usually a good sign for me. <b>Spoilers</b> within of course, but not too strong. A bit about how it's worked as an adaptation (ie, what's been switched around or whatever) and obviously if you've not read the books then you'll get spoiled because she's working from the assumption that people have.

Cleolinda wrote:Other than [cut for spoilerness], which is a major moment of departure (it's pretty much the biggest departure that I can recall. If that's all we have to complain about, they did a pretty good job), they do a fairly good job of staying faithful.

That makes me hopeful.

I don't have the first clue when I will see this though. I don't have anybody to see it with. And I'm not sure I want to risk waiting until January when I will do.

Go by yourself! I go to movies alone sometimes and I enjoy it... I especially like it when the theater is almost empty. Once nobody sat in front of me (I think it was a showing of Red Eye shortly before the actual DVD came out) and I felt like I had the whole place to myself.