The Golden Compass (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition)
Golden Compass, The: 1-Disc (WS/DVD)
Based on the first volume in Philip Pullman’s best-selling,award-winning trilogy, His Dark Materials, THE GOLDEN COMPASS unfolds anepic fantasy adventure set in a parallel world, where science and magicintertwine.Twelve-year-old Lyra Belacqua (played by newcomer Dakota BlueRichards) sets out to rescue her best friend, and ends up on anextraordinary quest to save not only her own world, but ours and othersas well. Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and stars with Daniel Craigin this triumph of the imagination. Filled with fascination, depth andwonder, Pullman’s saga presents the eternal struggle of good vs. evil –and the power of one young girl heal a rift torn in the fabric of theuniverse.
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Product Features
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
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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 When I discuss this movie with people, they are often surprised to note that it is based on a series of Novels known as the “His Dark Materials” trilogy. The Golden Compass is the first of the three novels, and to date the only one made into a motion picture (and based of the general controversy and dismal box office number in the US it’s likely to remain that way). I should start by noting that I’m not one of those people who always believes that the book is better than the movie. There are…
A lot of loose ends with this one. I liked the premise of “dust” almost like Spinoza’s “substance”… and even that something like a freemason secret society absurdly tries to control it all… but, the plot turns were many and hard to keep up with. If you’re going to introduce this many sub-plots and characters at once, you absolutely need three films to make sense of it all! So, one film doesn’t work for me. Though, it does make me want to read the books, so not all is lost…