The Golden Compass Movie

[GOLLUM]

For anyone interested here is an extended trailer...

YouTube - The Golden Compass: Extended preview (Comic-Con) (July 28)=

[Majimaune]

Thanks Gollum. I was disappointed when I didn't see a trailer for it today when I went to the cinemas.

[Wiglaf]

So I take reading Northern Lights would be a good idea. Although with the movie hype, it will probably only be available as The Golden Compass. Northern Lights was all I saw for sale before though; perhaps they thought this was Mexico.

[Connavar]

Movie or no movie its a very good book and series.

[Majimaune]

Connavar you just said it.

[Lirael]

I read these a few years ago, and I have to say I really enjoyed them! There were moments where I had struggled to keep on reading, but they were ever so original and rewarding! I ended up buying the audio cassettes for all three, as well as owning the books. Phillip Pullman is an excellent author, and these are, without a doubt, his best books. I adored the characters, I adored the plot, and I adored the writing style.

[Majimaune]

Sounds like you thought them the best but which one did you like the most out of them?

[Connavar]

What i found refreshing is that even when he was building the world, the story flowed on. There werent slow part in the hole NL which is surprising in a fantasy book.

I recommended NL to my brother and he read it one day and just came home with the other two books in the series. Good to see you can make fans of others and specially when they save you money by buying books for you

[Majimaune]

I did that with a friend of mine who doesn't read much, recommended them to him and he loves them now and I felt good for having gotten someone to read more.

[GOLLUM]

Yeh, a guy at work's son is in his early teens and was just getting into reading and fantasy. I recommended these books to his son and now he loves them. So much so, that I've been asked to attend with their family to watch the movie when it comes out in December. Cool.....

[Majimaune]

Thats pretty good Gollum. I'll just end up going with friends.

[Urlik]

I wish I'd seen this thread earlier
I love PP's His Dark Materials trilogy and can't say which is my favourite book of the three.
when I was given the recommendation to read them I was warned that the ending of the Amber Spyglass was a bit weak compared to the rest of the trilogy, but I found the ending very fitting to the story.
I just hope that when they make the film of the third book, they don't do a Disney and change the ending to appeal to a more comercial audience, but from the trailers I've seen (which are almost exactly as I imagined the characters) I think my fears may be unfounded

ETA
just watched another trailer and they keep refering to the Alethiometer as The Golden Compass which doesn't make sense (especially as it isn't a compass, it just resembles one, and is always referred to as an Alethiometer in the books)

I'm still going to watch the films though and I'm looking forward to the religious outcry when all the implications of the story are widely known (should be bigger than the Da Vinci Code as the conspiracy goes deeper and much further back)

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by Urlik

I'm still going to watch the films though and I'm looking forward to the religious outcry when all the implications of the story are widely known (should be bigger than the Da Vinci Code as the conspiracy goes deeper and much further back)

True except that a lot of the religious references have been removed in order not to offend the Catholic Church amongst others.

[Majimaune]

Originally Posted by Urlik

ETA
just watched another trailer and they keep refering to the Alethiometer as The Golden Compass which doesn't make sense (especially as it isn't a compass, it just resembles one, and is always referred to as an Alethiometer in the books)

The book isn't even called Golden Compass but the movie is. Damn Americans...*wanders off ranting about Americans*

[avs]

I finished the series last night...and thought it was awesome. The ending is brutal, it even made made me cry (and I am a 25 years old guy) and I've been thinking about it all day at work....but at the same time it is what sets helps to make this book so brilliant. I don't think it is anything like the hobbit battle at the end of LOTR.