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Title: Very Disappointing Film Adaption
Review: I read all of three books of Dark Materials. I am very much aware of some "adjustments" of artistic licence in adapting the novels to the films.After screening the film in widescreen format on DVD, I felt the film doesn't do the books any justice at all. They rearranged some of plots and omitted lot of materials just for sake of compressing the novel into 109 minutes. They could have make it 180 minutes like "Lord of the Rings". I would say next to Michael Crichton's "Timeline" this is the worst ever.Those people who adapted the novel and made the film should never been allowed to ruin our experience. The author ought be ASHAMED for allowing his novels to be corrupted this way!I hope the "Subtle Knife" and "Amber Spyglass" would be better with 180-minute length.
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