The Golden Compass

[jerome]

anyone else looking foward to this movie?

[Raph's Girl]

I am!!! I LOVED the book and totally can't wait to see the movie! I haven't read the next 2 books in the series...altho I DID manage to aquire the audios of em...just haven't had time to give a listen.

[PipingPringle]

I read all of them! But it's been like 8 years, so I have to reread - don't remember most of it I do recall absolutely loving them, though.

[jerome]

Yes! I thought i was the only one in the world who was excited about this. When I saw the trailer for this infront of spider-man 3 everyone seemed to be really confused and not really sure what was going on. I thought more people had actually read the book! but i guess not.

What do you guys think of the trailer? I think Nicole Kiddman as Ms. Coulter is awesome and the Iorek (sp?) and the bears look awesome although i pictured their armor to cover more of their body...

[Mandi-chan]

I've never heard of the books (thus, I've never read them), but I did see the trailer for this movie and thought it looked great!

How many books are there?

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by Mandi-chan

I've never heard of the books (thus, I've never read them), but I did see the trailer for this movie and thought it looked great!

How many books are there?

There's 3 books in the series: The Golden Compas (called The Northern Lights in the Europe), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

The series is has some religious stuff (god is a character in the 2nd book. ), paralell universes, and other stuff

The first story is set in a world where your soul appears in the form of a creature called a demon. Everyone has one and you can see what yours is if you go to the official movie site.

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/

Mine's a Lynx



The whole series tho is called The His Dark Materials trillogy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

There's also other books in the series:
Lyra's Oxford - A sequel set several years after the events in the first 3 books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra%27s_Oxford

And coming in 2 years:
The Book of Dust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dust

If you ignore the religious tones it's actually a really good series.

[jerome]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

There's 3 books in the series: The Golden Compas (called The Northern Lights in the Europe), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

The series is has some religious stuff (god is a character in the 2nd book. ), paralell universes, and other stuff

The first story is set in a world where your soul appears in the form of a creature called a demon. Everyone has one and you can see what yours is if you go to the official movie site.

http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/

Mine's a Lynx



The whole series tho is called The His Dark Materials trillogy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

There's also other books in the series:
Lyra's Oxford - A sequel set several years after the events in the first 3 books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra%27s_Oxford

And coming in 2 years:
The Book of Dust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Dust

If you ignore the religious tones it's actually a really good series.

to me its a very anti-religion book. its main villian is the church and raises many questions about religion and the abuse of power. Philip Pullman is not very well liked in religious circles and it was always my point of view that these books were somewhat controversial for the many anti-religious undertones. (which i personally like anything that questions authority and inspires kids to think for themselves.)

I just hope this movie has more in common with the lord of the rings than the chronicles of narnia in terms of production value...i don't want to see any community theatre quality costumes in this...

[Swany]

Awsome, all the religious stuff confused me so I hate to say I just ignored it and enjoyed the story.

I cried reading those books.

Spoiler:

Especially when the ballonist died, I cant remember his name

[gobo]

Dakota Fanning enrages me. The first time I saw her act and she was doing her mature rugrat routine, I was impressed. Now that I see that's the only character she can play, it just irks me. Fern was supposed to be devastated when her dad was going to euthanize Wilbur, not all pissy like Fanning made her. The term 'primadonna' comes to mind.

I expect this to be an interesting story, anyway. Maybe I'll check it out on DVD.

[Jo Dawn]

Interesting... I may have to check this out. The books, too. I took the Daemon test (though, they kinda remind me of Patronuses,no? Hehe. )

I got Photion, a Spider Daemon. It says that I am Modest, solitary, spontaneous, inquisitive and dependable.

[Blithe]

I got the tiger daemon, but I love how so far we've all been pegged as "solitary". We are one, big group of solitary Dromers

[Scandia]

As a librarian who works with young adults, you bet I am. I even listened to the entire trilogy on audiobook earlier this year.

[Courk]

I read the first book when I was 12 or so. I must have liked it since I finished it, I just never had a firm grasp on it. I think I was confused for most of the book. I may have been too young when I read it. I never did seek out the other two. I had forgotten about the polar bears -- they look pretty cool in the trailer.

My friend and I went to see a movie, and they had a poser for "The Golden Compass" outside. I mentioned that I had read it and had no clue what was going on. During the previews they showed the trailer for "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising." At first I thought it was "The Golden Compass" trailer. That really threw me for a loop, I was like "I must have been really lost reading that book. I thought I remembered it better than this..."

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by gobo

Dakota Fanning enrages me..

Gobo...that's not Dakota Fanning playing Lyra...it's an unknown actress named Dakota Blue Richards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Blue_Richards

[gobo]

There's another child-actress named Dakota? Whoops.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by gobo

There's another child-actress named Dakota? Whoops.

Yea.. and they're the same age!

Dakota Fanning's from Georgia, Dakota Blue Richards is from jolly ole England.

They almost look the same too but Blue Richards looks slightly older (even tho she's 2 months younger than Fanning).

Dakota "Not Lyra" Fanning:


Dakota "Lyra and the Moon Princess that's not Sailor Moon" Blue Richards:

[jerome]

Originally Posted by Courk

I read the first book when I was 12 or so. I must have liked it since I finished it, I just never had a firm grasp on it. I think I was confused for most of the book. I may have been too young when I read it. I never did seek out the other two. I had forgotten about the polar bears -- they look pretty cool in the trailer.

My friend and I went to see a movie, and they had a poser for "The Golden Compass" outside. I mentioned that I had read it and had no clue what was going on. During the previews they showed the trailer for "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising." At first I thought it was "The Golden Compass" trailer. That really threw me for a loop, I was like "I must have been really lost reading that book. I thought I remembered it better than this..."

Well The Dark is rising is also based on a series of awesom young adult books called the Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. The movie is based on the second book in the series which is actually just called The Dark is Rising. It really bothers me that they tagged "The Seeker" on the front. I haven't seen the trailer for this yet but i love those books especially the Grey King.

As long as both movies get the lord or the rings treatment instead of the Narnia treatment they should be really really good

ok well actually i just watched the trailer for the Dark is rising movie and what a steaming pile of poop.

That has about as much in common with the books as the mario movie had to do with the actual video game.

I don't know why people can't treat the properties like pete jackson did with the LOTR trilogy.

This is just depressing.

[PipingPringle]

hrm, I though it was Fanning when I was the trailer as well!

[Scandia]

Why do you dislike the Narnia treatment? I thought the LWW movie was great. I just wish the Emperor had been mentioned- no, I am not trying to score brownie points.

[jerome]

Originally Posted by Scandia

Why do you dislike the Narnia treatment? I thought the LWW movie was great. I just wish the Emperor had been mentioned- no, I am not trying to score brownie points.

To me the narnia movies (i say movies because i'm including what i've seen of the Prince Caspian set) just look cheap. I thought the costumes for the 4 Pevensies looked like the were thrown out the back door of a medievel times. The special effects were also kinda so-so. Aslan looked real bad half the time and just wasn't very scary. And i know the series is written and appeals to a much younger audience than lord of the rings but i was just wanting a more "real" movie. The LOTR movies could have just as easily ended up looking like Narnia or even the wizard of oz but Pete Jackson just brought a sense or real danger and darkness and adventure to it. There is pleanty of room to expand the battle scenes from the books in narnia and really give them a sense of danger and excitement...The movies just seem like wasted opportunities.

Walden Media is pretty much worthless in my opinion. They wasted narnia and the only thing The Dark Is Rising has in common with the books is the name. These movies just look like cheap ABC Family channel movies.

I just hope the Golden Compass gets more of a mature, dangerous, tone than narnia.

Oh and i just remembered that Walden Media did Bridge to Terabithia. And that movie was just as good and sad as the book. So maybe they aren't completely worthless.