I loved the books, and I loved the trailer...
Though I have to say I was slightly worried about the lack of daemons...
I'm not too fussy about the title apart from the general "Grrrr bloody yanks why do they do it different thang..." But they are hardly gonna change to suit my sensibilities are they?
Ohh thanks for the info about post-production stuff, gives me a ray of hope. (for improving the film generally, as it looks like daemons are in there... Would be a pretty crap attempt without them.
Regarding the airships - I'm sure the shots in the trailer I saw was of London not Oxford. I think it should look a bit fantastic, but yeah not that different to our world. Otherwise it spoils my idea of his world really... The director's vision so far isn't how I imagined Pullman's world... Ohhh now I feel I know why some ultra-purists like members of the Tolkien Society refuse to see the LotR films, it could interfere with their imagining of Middle Earth!
I hope it's not too much like Narnia style... As I thought Pullman wrote his books partly in a kind of protest about C. S. Louis's preaching through his books... It would feel like a rather dark irony if the film of his books turned out like Narnia, style-wise.
Anyway away with the literature critic hat - I'm gonna look forward to seeing this film, and I'll ignore the hype as much as possible. Hype just sets you up to be disappointed - you'd think I'd have learnt my lesson about that by now.
I wonder if
Jude will like the films?:P