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The Golden Compass
2007
In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. Read more
| Starring | Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green |
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| Director | Chris Weitz |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Golden Compass
In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.
| Starring | Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Sam Elliott, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane |
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| Director | Chris Weitz |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | New releases |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Apr 2008 Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2009 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
The Golden Compass (2007)
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"I wish I had a daemon," my son said to me, after we finished chapter five. I said I knew how he felt; it's hard to imagine anyone reading Philip Pullman's "The Northern Lights" and not... read more »
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164 out of 177 people found this review helpful
Don't waste time and money
The movie is a let down on all the levels. Excruciatingly boring, I was fighting desire to sleep, very slow and the plot doesn't make any sense.
And the worst of it, noone ever tells you that the movie is not completed, so that you would have to come again to pay again to see the end of this nonsense. After 2 hours of boredom they don't even tell you what the 'dust' is.
What a joke! Movie makers don't have any respect for audience any more. Anything would do to get money. -
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Pretty Good
I went to see this, dreading that it would ruin the books (which are incredible-you have to read them before watching this film) for me. It was actually better than I thought it would be, although it felt like it tried to fit in too much action into too short a space of time, whilst missing out a lot of the less exciting stuff - including important plot devices, development of some of the characters, etc - completely. Many scenes from the book were cut (notably a key final scene), others moved around and, in some cases, completely changed - Iorek Byrnison's reason for being exiled and his rival being randomly renamed for the film, for example. My main gripe was Sir Ian McGandalf as Iorek - the voice just didn't go with the character at all - it was like he was doing his 'you shall not pass' voice all the way through, which was too overstated for my liking.
That said, Nicole Kidman was fantastic, Daniel Craig was pretty good, and Dakota Blue thingie was really, really good - I was prepared to be groaning in pain throughout the film at more Harry Potter-style kiddie am-dram acting, but she was really convincing and made a great, likeable Lyra. The animation was mostly great and the inclusion of the daemons was handled really well. All in all, the film was cobbled together pretty nicely. If I'd not read the books first, I probably would have had a lot fewer holes to pick in it. -
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The Golden Compass stays at #1
- 19 Dec 2007
Fantasy epic The Golden Compass has stayed at the top of the UK box office chart for another week, suggesting that the film might be just as popular as the books on which it is based. Starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman, The Golden Compass has now taken more than £12.2 million in ticket sales, according to AC Nielsen. It kept new entries Enchanted and Bee Movie from the top spot, in addition to pushing Fred Claus into fourth place. Another two new entries - Mr Magorium's Wonder... Read more
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The Golden Compass
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