The Golden Compass

Atlantis · January 04, 2008, 03:48:42 PM

i havent seen the movie yet, but i read the three books which were quite interesting. i defenitely agree with psychotic barber on "dont judge a book by its movie" on this one.

Haphazzard · January 04, 2008, 04:07:23 PM

Quote from: WensleydaleI'm a christian, and I was unoffended by it because it's a STORY.

Touche. However, I was talking beyond obvious common sense (as anybody who would be offended would have lacked...by being offended by a story).

Seraph · January 05, 2008, 12:43:36 AM

The thing that bothered me the most was the dialogue. You could almost always tell more of less what was going to be said before it was actually said, and at least once where I predicted it word for word. And I haven't even read the books. The plot was equally predictable, but I care more about liking the characters, so the dialogue disappointed me more. There were no surprises. The whole thing was one cliche line after another.

Stargate525 · January 05, 2008, 01:05:24 AM

Quote from: Seraphine_HarmoniumThe thing that bothered me the most was the dialogue. You could almost always tell more of less what was going to be said before it was actually said, and at least once where I predicted it word for word. And I haven't even read the books. The plot was equally predictable, but I care more about liking the characters, so the dialogue disappointed me more. There were no surprises. The whole thing was one cliche line after another.

On that note;

I was tempted to go in a second time, simply to shout 'NOOOOOOOOOOO!' right after that woman says she's the girl's mother.

SDragon · January 05, 2008, 02:13:29 AM

Quote from: Seraphine_HarmoniumThe plot was equally predictable...

I guess I just chalked that up to any memories of the book. I mean, if it weren't for the book, I think I would've been caught pretty off-guard at that one scene with Billy Costa.

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By the way, Wensleydale, I commend you. In my own personal experience, there's not very many Christians who would be able to look past the anti-Christian theme and see that it's just a story. It's not that I don't realize that there's Christians who don't go with emotional knee jerk reactions, but it's very refreshing to hear something like that.

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