Happy Halloween!

So it’s already been already been another week since I last posted, How quick is the time going? Loads to talk about so it could be a long old post.

I meant to post yesterday and wish my sister Jo a really Happy Birthday, but I just didn't get round to it. Anyway, hopefully she had a good day even without my virtual best wishes.

I have changed the trailer of ‘The Golden Compass’ to a You Tube one rather than the one from the official site as the way it mucked up my formatting really annoyed me and the quick time thing was driving me mad. Now you can choose to watch the trailer rather than being forced to have it on. It’s a slightly different one and the film looks even better in my opinion. Take a look and see what you think.

You’ll remember Lynnie Lou and I went to see “Dark is Rising” last week. I am pleased to report that as a film it is very good – the special effects are excellent and it is an interesting and thrilling story with generally good acting. However, as an adaptation of the book it is truly diabolical. Apart from the title, the names of some of the characters and about 4 lines of dialogue almost the whole film bears no actual resemblance to the book in any way. As a long time addict of the book I spent quite a large part of the movie confused as plot after plot was discarded in favour of a different story. Eventually I gave in and decided to ignore the fact it was supposed to be based on the book and just enjoy it as a film and it worked. For anyone who thinks that the Harry Potter films have hacked the story (and that includes me) they are nothing compared to the butchery that has taken place with “Dark is Rising”. I would definitely recommend the film for entertainment value, but would even more recommend reading the books and getting the full and proper story. To be honest I find it hard to believe that they will be adapting any of the other books in the series, all are far too interwoven with Arthurian and other British legends and the studio appears to not want this type of film. I suppose they could just rewrite the scripts so that they bear no resemblance to the original stories, but the first film seems to have been designed as a stand alone, so perhaps they’re just not going to bother with the others. Perhaps one day someone will make them properly.

OK well Halloween’s been and gone now so I’m late posting as usual. Tomorrow I’ll add some pictures from Saturday night after the pub’s Halloween Party when we all descended on Den and Lynne.