The Golden Compass

Great movie! I read the book series decades ago, and barely remembered the story line… so watching the film, I didn’t have expectations of seeing the entire story, since I can barely recall the story. That said, there were enough familiar elements to feel like it was true to what I remembered. The books were controversial at the time, because they appeared to be critical of religion. The ‘daemons’ were the manifestation of a person’s soul, but in the books, they were physical and the person could talk to…

A fair movie, loosely based on the book This was a very good movie , with star power in all the character parts. Meant to be a three part movie series, it never made it to part two for unfortunate reasons. It came just before the beginning of the Marvel Iron Man, etc. movie super hits and a new Star wars. The movie stayed pretty true to the book except the ending. They didn’t use the emotional ending they should have like in the book. The death of a character to open a portal and create a desire to see that scoundrel pay for…