Golden Compass - spoilers (book and movie) discussion

[Allegra]

Re: His dark materials movie

The trailer looks really good. Thanks J.D. Yes I'm looking forward to it!

 

[Majimaune]

Re: His dark materials movie

You know (I don't want to say this to sound mean or anything, I want to see it too) they always put the best parts of a movie in the shorts...what if the rest of the movie is really bad.

 

[Fried Egg]

Re: His dark materials movie

I heard that they have taken out all references to God in the Films to appease the American market. So think if you love the books this film may annoy the hell out of you. However that said I really want to see an Amoured Bear

I might be wrong, but if I remember correctly, Pullman never referred to God as "God" in the books, only the "Authority", so I don't think that'll matter. Although the inference is crystal clear and I can see why it could well upset a few christians...

Spoiler

Especially the scene where God (at the end) is seen as a pathetic, helpless old man/angel and is devoured by cliff-ghasts.

 

[Connavar]

Re: His dark materials movie

I saw the trailer and it looked pretty good.

Since i havent read the books i dont care how much they change.

Its hollywood from this kind of movie the best you can hope for is a visual feast and alittle decent story.

Great actors like Craig,Kidman should make the story alittle better

Must say the world and the animals thing reminded me alittle of Narnia i hope it as good as that movie.

 

[Soggyfox]

Re: His dark materials movie

Great actors like Craig,Kidman should make the story alittle better

be careful there, Malkovich and Carlyle didn't do anything for Eragon.

 

[Connavar]

Re: His dark materials movie

Yeah but thats Eragon it was clichè feast from the start before hollywood people touched it.


Plus in a min of the trailer you could see it wouldnt be nearly as bad as Eragon.

 

[Majimaune]

Re: His dark materials movie

be careful there, Malkovich and Carlyle didn't do anything for Eragon.

Eragon was a bad book and you can't do anything with bad books.

Plus in a min of the trailer you could see it wouldnt be nearly as bad as Eragon.

Damn right.

 

[purple_kathryn]

Re: His dark materials movie

I think if you failed to like LotR because you don't think they did a very good adaption of the book then I think it's going to be safe to say that you are not going to like any movie based on a book you've read.

I'm looking forward to the Northern Lights (which btw I cannot seem to call the Golden Compass). Fortunately it's been a while since I've read the books so I've forgotten pretty much everything about them - except that I liked them

 

[Soggyfox]

Re: His dark materials movie

Eragon was a bad book and you can't do anything with bad books.

i don't know about that, seems a little harsh, predictable maybe but it was enjoyable.

 

[purple_kathryn]

Re: His dark materials movie

i don't know about that, seems a little harsh, predictable maybe but it was enjoyable.

It had Jeremy Irons in it!

Nothing can be unwatchable if it had Jeremy Irons in it

 

[Soggyfox]

Re: His dark materials movie

It had Jeremy Irons in it!

Nothing can be unwatchable if it had Jeremy Irons in it

as i said Robert Cralyle and John Malkovich, seems the went all CGI and forgot about something called a script. Some of it was truly dire and way off the book.

 

[Majimaune]

Re: His dark materials movie

I'm looking forward to the Northern Lights (which btw I cannot seem to call the Golden Compass).

I can't seem to call it that either. I seem to force myself if I do.

 

[Connavar]

Re: His dark materials movie

Its not only you guys alot of people get confused by the name.

I had to wiki it up to see what the series was really called.

 

[purple_kathryn]

Re: His dark materials movie

Its not only you guys alot of people get confused by the name.

I had to wiki it up to see what the series was really called.

Oh well i know the name of the series all right and it's not that I'm confused by the names it's just that I find it hard to bring myself to call it the Golden Compass.

 

[ice.monkey]

Re: His dark materials movie

Just saw the trailer and I'm looking forward to this. I've given up ever seeing a really good adaptation of a book and just treat films as completely separate entities. The books are always, always, far better than the films and the two are completely separate mediums so there'll always be vast differences.

The trailer does look good and the armoured bear (one of my favourite things from the books) does look cool. I want one. I want one now!

But I'm not certain about the actress who's portraying Lyra. She wasn't particularly convincing in the trailers - her lines were very flat. Well that's how it seemed to me. Hopefully she'll come across better in the movie itself.

Oh, well, we'll see...

 

[Connavar]

Re: His dark materials movie

Oh well i know the name of the series all right and it's not that I'm confused by the names it's just that I find it hard to bring myself to call it the Golden Compass.

I knew the book series by name cause its pretty famous but i thought the movie was totaly new and not a book cause of the movie's name.


I only saw with wiki that its the same as the book series.

 

[Culhwch]

Re: His dark materials movie

The Golden Compass trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies

The newest The Golden Compass trailer. Still looking quite good, though I thought whoever they had doing the stand-in voice for Iorek in the teaser sounded far more suited to be an ice-bear than Ian McKellan. I don't know, McKellan just seems to smack of stunt casting to me. He's not gruff enough for Iorek. Hopefully in the fullness of the film he proves me wrong.

 

[Majimaune]

Re: His dark materials movie

Hmm I think Sir Ian is the wrong choice.

 

[Connavar]

Re: His dark materials movie

What is Ian Mckellan play a bear, why?......

I actually saw a talking bear in the trailer that must be Iorek.

Unless the armoured Bears can change to human form which i havent seen can happen in the first book atleast, its a stupid idea no matter how great the actor is. Why not a CCI bear.....

 

[Majimaune]

Re: His dark materials movie

Yeah thats what I thought, must be Iorek.