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June 05, 2007, 04:48:09 PM Last Edit: June 05, 2007, 04:48:50 PM by A Twig
The film of the book Northern Lights as it was called over here (it was called Golden Compass in the states). Part 1 of Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy. Saw the trailer of it when I went to see Pirates, and it looks absolutely epic. Done by New Line, hopefully they're gonna do a job similar to that they did with LoTR.

Excited already... :woot2:

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/
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A Twig

#1
December 04, 2007, 12:31:46 PM
It comes out tomorrow, I shall be seeing it, and will let you know. I really hope it lives up to what it could be - I recently re-read the book again so will do my best to let you know how close it stays to that.

Anyone else going to see it?
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December 04, 2007, 12:59:11 PM
Hopefully will be going at some point. Have read the books as well and really liked them. My girlfriend is being a bit more rabid about how good it will be/however. As in she suspects it won't be anything like as good as the books ;)
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#3
December 04, 2007, 03:02:20 PM
Planning to see it at some point.. Liked the books a lot and Im re-reading them at the moment :D
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December 04, 2007, 04:16:56 PM
Quote from: A Twig;214831Anyone else going to see it?
I'll be taking Number 1 son to see it for his birthday - he read all 3 Dark Material books and was hooked after the 1st one.  I've read them myself and thoroughly enjoyed them.
 
I like the fact the US Catholics are all up-in-arms about the film, saying it'll turn people against the church, but they didn't make such comments (to my knowledge) about the books....  Can't/don't they read? :g:
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#5
December 04, 2007, 04:29:58 PM
They don't care I suspect. Noone publishes stats of this kind of thing, but films are certainly more well publicised than books, even if more people will read the book than see the film (something which i think is unlikely, I think far more people will see the film), so I suspect it hadn't crossed their radar strongly enough until various adverts for it started appearing.
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#6
December 05, 2007, 11:34:48 PM
Right well here goes, my review...

If you are a huge fan of the books, the films will disappoint you. A lot of the story is fudged or spelt out in blindingly obvious patronising terms so apparently retarded audiences can understand. Some of the Oxford scenes are pretty much completely re-written. Large bits are glossed over to aid narrative flow.

If however, you're into fantasy films, it's pretty special. Some of the dialogue is a touch shaky, but the film as a whole is pretty good. Great CGI, great battle scenes, Nicole Kidman puts in a pretty good performance as Mrs Coulter, and even whosername that plays lyra has her moments. Eva Green makes a really good witch :woot2:as well!

As for the religeuse bit - yeah, the obvious RC/Magesterium aprallels are drawn with Dust = Original Sin but it almost feels like the film makers chucked it in because they felt they should.

*SPOILER*

The Mrs Coulter "I'm your mother" scene is pretty awful and as far as I remember didn't happen in the book like that at all - I recommend closing your eyes. Oh and it finishes a touch before the book does I think. Subtle Knife is clearly on the way...  

*/SPOILER*

So yeah thats it overall - it doesnt follow the books as closely as lord of the rings did, occasionally it meanders a touch or is a bit incoherent due to the glossing over, but worth the cinema money - just don't expect to be utterly blown away...

Overall - 7/10 - Not bad, slightly disappointing given the source material they had to work with...
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December 07, 2007, 02:17:24 PM
Quote from: A Twig;214950Right well here goes, my review...
 
If you are a huge fan of the books, the films will disappoint you. A lot of the story is fudged or spelt out in blindingly obvious patronising terms so apparently retarded audiences can understand. Some of the Oxford scenes are pretty much completely re-written. Large bits are glossed over to aid narrative flow.
 

 
So it's been re-written and glossed over for the American market then :doh:
probs why they still havent got the Charlie Jade.
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#8
December 08, 2007, 02:13:55 PM
saw it last night. tbh i was surprised i enjoyed it. was expecting it to be like the harry potter films or LoTR (which i hated) but it was done a lot better than i thought. the nice thing about it is that (for brits anyway) it doesn't have the same name as teh book, so you don't expect it to be the exact same.

i agree with you on the blindingly obvious plot and important parts of the book totally missed out, twig. the way they portrayed Pan it was as if he only had 3 or 4 different shapes, not that he could change into just about any animal. an mrs coulter's daemon looked evil and, well, manky but in the books it's always described as being beautiful and sly (and that sort of thing)

on the plus side, daniel craig was barely in the film so i didnt have to hear my friends sighing about him too much ;)
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#9
December 08, 2007, 11:03:09 PM
I liked the films, but its definatly not a PG way to much violence for PG!
I should be a critic! :O Future job ftw :D
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