> This is not a review. My review will go up on At-A-Glance Film Reviews hopefully later this afternoon. Until then, suffice it to say that I have not been so breathlessly enraptured in the theater since this past summer's Moulin Rouge, and before that, I don't even remember when.

This is not a review either, since I'm tired and don't have time to write much. But to sum things up, I could count on one hand the number of things I *really* liked about the film. It was okay, and maybe on a second viewing I'll be able to evaluate it as a movie instead of mentally comparing it to the books the whole time.

But I'm not optimistic. Even leaving aside the content itself, there are several stylistic points on which I really wished the movie had been different. It's good, but not good enough by a long shot. At least I wasn't expecting it to blow me away. And at least I've gained a renewed appreciation for the grandeur of the books by comparison.

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