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The Golden Compass movie=corn snake daemon

midnightgallop

midnightgallop

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The movie itself I wouldn't recommend seeing by the way since it has poor story telling. Anyway, in the movie, they call the animal spirits that hang around humans "daemons" and everyone in the movie has one. It was mostly birds, dogs, cats, mice, ferrets, etc and then I saw a normal corn snake with his person holding him! One of the few non-CG animals in the movie. I was very surpised.
 
i saw that movie on Wednesday before it came out. long story dont ask. and yeah! i went with my friends and we all started yelling when we saw the corn. pretty one too. good for movies cuz they are so gentle. love THEM! (my friends and i can be a little immature when we are togeather.
 
So one vote for, one against? There was a thread in General ChitChat a while back where we all figured out our daemons. I kind of wanted to see it, but not if it sucks.
 
Have you read the books Nanci? Approaching it from that angle there is quite a bit wrong with the movie, but I still enjoyed. Casting Sam Elliot as Lee Scoresby was just brilliant. It was nice for my favorite character in a book to be the favorite character in the adaptation too. They also cut out the last like 30-60 pages of the book, but if you've read the books you know "The Subtle Knife" begins a little too subtly for most movie-going audiences, so I can see where they would have made this the first 10-20 minutes of the second movie, for a smoother transition if nothing else.

Both sides of the argument over the supposed anti-religious/pro-atheist aspects of the book/film should be satisfied. Changing God to Authority, and Church to Magisterium, seems to have scrambled the details enough for anyone who would care to still see them to be able to, while obscuring it enough for those who don't.

That said if you haven't read the books it should be a great movie.
 
Im a massive fan of northern lights (the golden compass) and Im dissapointed, the book was SOOO good and they missed bits, and changed bits, I'm mainly dissapointed because I wanted the film to be sooo good, heck the storyline was amazing...

I rate it 5/10, it was not all that bad, I just expected a little better.. It's nothing compared to the book..!

hopefully they will make the second film better, Im nearly finished the second book, it's like the best book ever so far, I'm even liking it better then HP!

they made the film fit for them pro-religion protesters too, why do they complain about everything? We don't complain about there pro-religion films! We should though!

two words : Bill Hicks.
 
It did suck. I mean, I liked the part when the ice bear punched the other ice bears jaw off. Mad cool. Other than that I had a nice nap.
HP is WAY better.
 
"It did suck. I mean, I liked the part when the ice bear punched the other ice bears jaw off. Mad cool. Other than that I had a nice nap.
HP is WAY better. "<---That's so funny because my fiance and I thought that was quite unexpected, and also the most realistic part in the movie (the bear jaw thing). It was a very "Holy crap!" reaction.

It sounds like the books are good. My fiance and I want to read them. I think that because the movie is based on a book, it just ended as adruptly as the book would, which is a big no-no for movies. You can't just end it so adruptly. it works for books where you can buy the next one right away, but not for movies where you have to wait a year or more to see it (IF they make another one). But then, I guess, it'll make you buy the book after watching the movie. Who knows what they were thinking...

And as for the daemon test thing, I didn't know there was already a thread. I took the test before the movie and got the tiger.
 
I want to see the movie and will reserve my own judgment till after it. I want to read the books too.

I did two online tests for a daemon. The official website, I got a spider. And a Quizzila one, I got a wolf.

Very cool about the corn snake.
 
It was lame. I read the book after the other thread here about it- just wanted to be able to see it having read the book already. Loved the book, but the movie was pretty poorly done.
It's like, compared to LOTR where the director/writers had to squeeze alot of reading into one film- they made it work by ruthlessly cutting out huge chunks of the story. Yeah, we didn't get to see Tom Bombadil, etc, but we got the gist of the story at a comfortable pace. The 'spirit' of the whole book was still there. Well with the Golden Compass, it just moves too quick. They would've done better to either make the film really long (I wouldn't have minded) or to just cut out a whole bunch more stuff and just let us take our time with what we were seeing.
Hopefully there will be a director's cut though that has a better 'pace'.

Visually though it was very cool.
 
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