The Golden Compass

[El Roranous]

I saw it and I loved it! I really do hope we get some sequels. If people are passing on this movie because they think it's offensive to their religion I say get over it. You are missing out on a beautiful movie and there are many ways to interpret events. A song can have a 1000 meanings you know.


I end with- GIVE ME SOME MORE! I love anti-authority movies.

 

[King Darkness]

I saw it yesterday. I didnt like it much at all. It felt rushed and their was zero character and/or story development. By the end of the film I felt nothing for the characters, and was left wondering why any of these characters were even together.

My wife read the books and was REALLY looking forward to the film. She was less than impressed with it too.

Oh well. If you have kids this would be a good film for them. For me it felt cheap and rushed.

 

[Darth Caedus]

I saw it yesterday. I didnt like it much at all. It felt rushed and their was zero character and/or story development. By the end of the film I felt nothing for the characters, and was left wondering why any of these characters were even together.

Pretty much what I thought too. The ending didn't have a climax, it just ended. Plus, they never really showed HOW the girl new how to read the compass.

 

[Eli26]

Pretty much what I thought too. The ending didn't have a climax, it just ended. Plus, they never really showed HOW the girl new how to read the compass.

It still made for passable entertainment. But alas, I agree with you two as well. I can't believe I actually agree with something that Chase said. Oh how I have lowered myself. hehe

I just wanna see someone dropkick Nicole Kidman's character in that movie.

 

[King Darkness]

I can't believe I actually agree with something that Chase said. Oh how I have lowered myself. hehe

 

[galactiboy]

Finally saw this over the weekend, I had planned on reading the book first... but with a shipping delay I got bored and went to see it. I enjoyed it overall, but it did have a rushed feel to it. Things happened real quick w/o a lot of purpose behind them.

My wife was less interested than me, we both did like it... but just didn't quite click as nicely as LORT or Narnia. But I'm interested in seeing sequels if they happen and I'd really be intersted in a directors cut.

Also, totally agree with Les, the Bears really get the movie moving... I love how the showdown ends!

 

[Rogue Trooper]

I saw this yesterday and i really wanted to get a refund, it was rubbish. Ive read the books and always thought the first one would be so simple but apparently not.
It was'nt like at the end of FOTR when i was actually glad it finnished because a thought the film was great and my butt was numb, it just ended a couple of chapter from the end.
Best part was the bear and the peanut m&m i bought.

 

[galactiboy]

Finished the first book the other day... and it was interesting to see that the major elements of the book were there, but the way everything came about in the movie was so simplified that it took away a lot of the interest and adventure.

Still would be interested to see if they ever release a Directors cut... but this is one where the movie really pales in comparison.

 

[Eli26]

Given the Golden Compass' enormous budget, the fact it needs existing sequels to continue on the story, and most notable the fact it just isn't bringing the money in... spells doom for this franchise. What respectable or intelligent producer/production company would put more money into something that fundamentally is suffering losses on a financial level?

I could be totally wrong, but I think this movie has the potential to be much worse than we originally thought. Base that on the lack of box office interest, I don't see why anyone would be crazy enough to make two more movies. At this point, I think you would have to cut your losses. If that's the case, (which it could potentially end up being), this movie has no appropriate ending. I don't care how good a book is, if you only read a 150 pages in and it's 450 pages long, you're only 1/3 into the story. It's incomplete, and because of that reason it is insufficient. You don't get to know how things end for the good guys and the bad guys.

 

[Darklord Dave]

I doubt we'll see the sequels. I just finished the trilogy again after seeing the movie I just can't see New Line, which is part of Time Warner, taking the risk on something that's going to piss off so many people when they aren't guaranteed an enormous economic return on the project.

The church nuts are protesting this film although it really has nothing anti-religion in it. But the last book especially is impossible to do without going into the themes of what happens after death and the existence of god and angels etc. The vocal minority would just shout them down and cause more problems than it's worth.

 

[galactiboy]

And the first movie just wasn't done that well to begin with. I think if had been a quality film that people liked the sequels may have been worthwile and likely. But a so-so movie + angry religious right don't make for good times