Once again, Travis dragged me to another shittastic movie. The Golden Compass is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Yeesh. There's really nothing positive to say about it. I knew about three minutes in that I hated it. And it was incredibly slow and nothing really happened. Well, by the time anything happened I didn't care at all and just wanted it to be over. And cause it's one of those trilogy things it didn't really end. Man it was awful. Did you see Lady in the Water ,where they spent most of the movie explaining things to each other and not really doing anything? Yeah, take that and multiply it by four. Everyone's made a big deal about it being anti-Christian but it's like, who cares? They bludgeon you over the head with it; there's no subtlety in the anti-Christianity, so it completely loses its purpose. Plus, there's this whole thing where it's like, well, if you don't like someone else's beliefs, it's Ok to go kill them. What's that all about? Isn't that one of the central arguments against religion? This movie was fucked. And I know people are always looking for times to point out what a cold-hearted bastard I am, so here's a good on: This kid Ben Walker plays the main character's friend. He is the ugliest fucking kid on the planet. Even if I had been into the movie I wouldn't have been able to pay attention this kid is so ugly. And they gave him a bunch of closeups so it's thirty feet of ugly every time. Does that sound mean? Yeah, absolutely. But go see this movie (though you really shouldn't, it's terrible) and tell me I'm wrong.