The Golden Compass

[*Lyndsey*]

I know there's a thread on this already, but couldn't find it...so! this is out December 7th:

Apple - Trailers - The Golden Compass - Final Trailer

Who's all going to see it? My first thoughts on this was its not going to live up to my expectations from the book trilogy, but after watching the trailer a few times I've decided I'm quite looking forward to it now

[mothergoose]

I remember reading this in 4rth year english for my personal study thing for standard grade.
It was a great book.
I bought the whole triology after finding out about it on the BBCs 100 top reads and was really interested to starting ready them, since they scored high on the list [- top 3 or sumthing like that?]

Except i was stupid enough to not even work out wat was going on. I mean i got the basis of the story and all that. But you know when you read a story, you start playing it out in your head - seeing all the characters, what they look like, how they act etc, etc, well this was the only book if ever had trouble figuring out what was going on. And considering this was about 3/4 years ago now, i only hav a vague recollection of the whole book. I havent picked it up since then [basically cuz it just reminds me of standard grade english :S] and i havent tried to read the rest of the triology.

So im quite excited to see them film. Sometimes films based on books are good. And itll give me clear understanding of what the whole books on about!
And hopefully itll give me the motivation to finish the rest of the trilogy.
So the only thing thats left to say is; do i read the book again before or after going to see the film? Or both?

[.star*]

Originally Posted by mothergoose

So the only thing thats left to say is; do i read the book again before or after going to see the film? Or both?

Read it again.

Oh, and here's the original thread. I don't know if a mod will want to merge them or whatever.
http://www.undergroundscene.co.uk/fo...n-compass.html

[Johnny5]

I'm really looking forward to this in the geekiest possible way.

[*Lyndsey*]

Originally Posted by mothergoose

So im quite excited to see them film. Sometimes films based on books are good. And itll give me clear understanding of what the whole books on about!
And hopefully itll give me the motivation to finish the rest of the trilogy.
So the only thing thats left to say is; do i read the book again before or after going to see the film? Or both?

Read them again before the film for sure! Imma get stuck in about the trilogy soon.

On another note, total geek here too, having named 2 bunnies after the armoured bears

[Johnny5]

Not looking forward to: Child-sex at the end of film 3.

[ubermensch]

Originally Posted by johnny?

Not looking forward to: Child-sex at the end of film 3.

Looking forward to: Child-sex at the end of film 3.

[*Lyndsey*]

Hmm. Just went to see it. Wasn't as good as I'd hoped.

Spoiler: Nicole Kidman looked like a recovering alcoholic in pretty much every scene with her red eyes. Daniel Craig was pretty much just being James Bond the whole way through. They didn't even kill Roger at the end like they're supposed to! In saying that the bear fight was funny. His jaw came right off and made all the kiddies int cinema gasp! And the church thing was still obvious. Also, loving the fact Ian McKellan is Iorek's voice

[gabrillowise]

Originally Posted by *Lyndsey*

Eh???

Going to see this on Saturday.

[: : Scott : :]

Originally Posted by gabrillowise

Eh???

Going to see this on Saturday.

Asriel didn't kill Roger in the film, Roger didn't die. Instead the film implies he'll be accompanying the other characters on an "advernture". The film ends on Scoresby's balloon before they go to Asriels lab. She doesn't go through the rift either.

The witches are in it for about 20 seconds, with no backstory.

You can tell that Weitz did it though because Scoresby's balloon looks like a big set of testicles.

It's pretty shit actually.

[gabrillowise]

Yeah I understood, just expressing my surprise. Surely he needs to die at some point...

[.star*]

Originally Posted by : : Scott : :

Asriel didn't kill Roger in the film, Roger didn't die. Instead the film implies he'll be accompanying the other characters on an "advernture". The film ends on Scoresby's balloon before they go to Asriels lab. She doesn't go through the rift either.

The witches are in it for about 20 seconds, with no backstory.

You can tell that Weitz did it though because Scoresby's balloon looks like a big set of testicles.

It's pretty shit actually.

Spoiler: Hmm, the impression I got was that they've done a 'Two Towers' and reserved the ending of the first book for the start of the second film; still think he'll get shafted, pretty much has to happen, plus the alethiometer tells Lyra in the film that she's bringing Asriel what he needs. I dunno why they didn't include rest of the ending, seeing as it was featured in the earlier trailers. My only thought was that maybe the producers wanted to keep this film a PG, rather than needlessly drag it up to a 12 with the sacrifice of a child. Producers are stupid like that.

I thought it was pretty good, although it totally fired along at a relentless pace and was probably pretty difficult for people to understand if they hadn't read the books. It just struck me as being heavily edited, like there was more material in there but they had to cut it due to time constraints or whatever. The reshuffling of events for no obvious reason was quite baffling as well. I liked Nicole Kidman as Mrs Coulter! I believe she was Pullman's first choice as well. She's got a cool monkey.

[morven]

im gonna go see this soon, love the books so shall be gutted if its shit! baa!