The Golden Compass

**Snowy Egypt** · 12-05-2007 01:36 PM

This movie is AWESOME!!!!!!!!

"HOW DID YOU GO SEE IT?!?!?!" you ask? My dad won advance screening tickets.

It was really Cool, with a capital C. And since there wasn't a topic about it already, I thought I'd put it up for everyone. Of course, being the person that I am, I won't spoil anything for anybody.

Who's going to see it when it does get released???

**Umbrasquall** · 12-06-2007 01:20 AM

Is it really? I'll probably see it when I go home for Christmas. Guess I have the movie to look forward to. ^

**Snowy Egypt** · 12-06-2007 02:43 AM

Yes, I highly recomend it. I think you'll be pleased. I wonder if Burns is going to see it?

**Grod** · 12-06-2007 04:13 AM

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

This movie is AWESOME!!!!!!!!

"HOW DID YOU GO SEE IT?!?!?!" you ask? My dad won advance screening tickets.

It was really Cool, with a capital C. And since there wasn't a topic about it already, I thought I'd put it up for everyone. Of course, being the person that I am, I won't spoil anything for anybody.

Who's going to see it when it does get released???

Actually, there is a topic about this....

But anyway, I'm seeing it.

**Snowy Egypt** · 12-06-2007 04:45 AM

Darn, I thought I was the first!! Oh well... ( that means it must be old, or no one has posted in it for a very long time)

**Burns** · 12-06-2007 05:20 AM

I thought the previews looked pretty good. And Daniel Craig is lovely as usual..

And I like those fantasy type films.

That's cool you got advanced tickets!

**Snowy Egypt** · 12-06-2007 01:34 PM

My dad's just a VERY lucky person. (He's always winning contest like these)

I forget, who's this Daniel Craig person???

**Burns** · 12-07-2007 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

I forget, who's this Daniel Craig person???

He was James Bond in Casino Royale.

pj · 12-07-2007 04:18 PM

The other topic is in R&S - it isn't really so much about the movie as the controversies surrounding it.

I'm looking forward to this... I'll be going with my 17 year old son.

Let's see - spoiler coming below, so I'll try using the spoiler tags.

Spoiler for Plot element revelation:

**Oros** · 12-08-2007 01:02 AM

I have read the book but i haven't seen to movie, yet

**Kacper** · 12-08-2007 07:56 PM

The movie got very mixed reviews according to Rottentomatoes and Metacritic. Still, seeing the trailers prompted me to buy the book (I usually avoid fantasy, mostly because of the lack of genuine fantasy and imagination in fantasy movies and novels) and I have to admit that I have found Pullmans storytelling captivating.

**Siиdяed** · 12-08-2007 08:05 PM

Book = VERY good

Film = hopefully will compare nicely, though I doubt it. Too much Hollywood commercialisation will probably dumb-down anti-religious themes

**Carôusoul** · 12-08-2007 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

Book = VERY good

Film = hopefully will compare nicely, though I doubt it. Too much Hollywood commercialisation will probably dumb-down anti-religious themes

damn fuckin straight.

**A dreamer168** · 12-08-2007 08:15 PM

The daemons look nice

**PatienceMarie** · 12-08-2007 10:46 PM

I heard the movie was based on religion and how the plot is actrually supposed to be about "killing God".

I'm a pretty religious person, but I'm still going to go see it.

Plus, alot of movies were based on religion. Look at the Chronicles of Narnia for an example.

What is the movie about over all, anyways? I watched some previews but I still don't get it too well.

-patience

**Carôusoul** · 12-08-2007 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by PatienceMarie

I heard the movie was based on religion and how the plot is actrually supposed to be about "killing God".

I'm a pretty religious person, but I'm still going to go see it.

Plus, alot of movies were based on religion. Look at the Chronicles of Narnia for an example.

What is the movie about over all, anyways? I watched some previews but I still don't get it too well.

-patience

The following synopsis is extremely brief and misses out loads; I've also tried to not include conclusive spoilers either.

Essentially, it starts with a little girl in a parralel universe, where everyones soul is manifested in another being which runs around with them and can shapeshift. She discovers something called "dust" which is a magical substance which is in and around everything "think star wars the force".

[there are loads of smaller story arcs, but the overall one is that she manages to leave her universe]

Then we are introduced to a kid named Will, who is our second main character [we dont see him til the second book/film]. He is from present day england in our universe. so the england we know. he discovers a knife which can cut through the fabric of space time and hence use it to travel inter-dimension.

Together they go on some wild adventures, involving all the beings across the dimensions coming together in rebellion against the angels who govern them, and the "authority" [taken by most to be god].

Essentially the latter stages of the overall plot concern the war on heaven, where the authority is, and the establishing of heaven as a republic, rather than a dictatorship.

But, as far as "the golden compass" goes; you only have to worry about the first part of that synopsis.

The golden compass ends before we meet will or hear about the authority.

**Siиdяed** · 12-08-2007 10:56 PM

Third book is where they go off on killing God really. First book not so much on the religion, more a build-up.

Mostly it should be fantasy, I guess, but next two films (if they get the rights to them, which last I heard they hadn't) should be solidly controversial.

I'm going to see it tomorrow, I thinks.

**Burns** · 12-09-2007 03:48 PM

Thanks for the run-down, Carousoul

That sounds really interesting!

**Snowy Egypt** · 12-09-2007 07:37 PM

No one has ever told me that Narnia was based off religion. And this controversy with TGC is BULL. I'm Christian, but I went to see in. (it was AWESOME by the way, if I didn't state it before) The author can be Atheist all he wants. The fact of the matter is; he has an EXCELLENT concept. The movie rules and I bet the book is even better.

(IOREK IS SO COOL!!!! [if that's how you spell his name])

**Siиdяed** · 12-09-2007 08:05 PM

Eurgh, just got back from seeing the film. Bitterly disappointed. It felt like it just jumped through the plot, I didn't feel any overall epicness (as with Narnia and other similar films), the battle scene was way too contrived, the characters felt flat and didn't develop, didn't feel any emotional connection with anything that happened. Visually unispiring, music might as well not have been there.

I'm now an aethiest cynic with no love for anything no more.

**Carôusoul** · 12-09-2007 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

No one has ever told me that Narnia was based off religion. And this controversy with TGC is BULL. I'm Christian, but I went to see in. (it was AWESOME by the way, if I didn't state it before) The author can be Atheist all he wants. The fact of the matter is; he has an EXCELLENT concept. The movie rules and I bet the book is even better.

(IOREK IS SO COOL!!!! [if that's how you spell his name])

You didn't see the religious symbology in narnia?

Seriously?

**Carôusoul** · 12-09-2007 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Siиdяed

I'm now an aethiest cynic with no love for anything no more.

Welcome!!

**Siиdяed** · 12-09-2007 08:19 PM

It's cold this side.

**Mes Tarrant** · 12-09-2007 09:10 PM

I'm going to see it in a couple of weeks when I go home for the holidays. I don't expect it to be very good, though. There was too much unnecessary hype around it.