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Behold The First Five Minutes Of THE GOLDEN COMPASS In All Kinds Of Glorious QuickTime!!
Merrick here...
The first five minutes of THE GOLDEN COMPASS are online at Yahoo.
This is shortly before the film becomes really talky and tedious - and long before the so-cool-he-almost-saves-the-movie Sam Elliot shows up.
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I hope this film does not suck
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Not this Applewarnermicrosoftimedia crap.
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Pretty nice opening.
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about that "first so and so minutes of a movie in advance" bullshit?
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this is probably one of them
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Releasing the beginning of a film in advance is fucking evil and needs to be verboten.
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Another typical American with A.D.D. who needs and explosion to happen every 3 minutes or he gets bored.
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quicktime blows goats
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Have I been reading the wrong reviews? I can't remember reading that it was talky and tedious. Not going to watch this opening as I'd rather see the whole movie.
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I read the books and was quite looking forward to this but it looks pretty 'off' to me. Even with crappy CGI animals I could have enjoyed it if the right tone/atmosphere had been present. It doesn't seem to be, the whole five minutes felt awkward.
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its true.
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but then, so does masturbation and that's never gonna stop ya, is it now?
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Are they packed in the womb with the kid or do they show up after it's born?
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Sam Elliot, in a recurring role?
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Give me another minute boys. I'll be needing a little more "alone time". Schitt, it's been a busy morning...
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On second thought, I don't see how anything could be either more talky or tedious than those joyless "classics."
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Short and sweet, too bad this movie supposedly sucks. The 2nd and 3rd books are much better than the first.
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TV trailers for this yawnfest are pretty embarrassing. All sorts of superlatives("Great", "Classic", "The next LORD OF THE RINGS", et al), squeezed between quotation marks, are superimposed over the non-action. The sources of these "raves" are reduced to fine print; and it turns out that each of the quotes are written by the same "critic" (a stooge on the E! Channel). Snoozed through a preview of this film--all lousy CGI and squealing kids (by comparison, BRATZ looks appealing [shiver]).
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Yep, it sucks.
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damn talk about a boring, talky start to a movie overly filled with exposition...just start telling the story with action and characters, you tards.
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Is one of the best trilogies of all time. It is not for kids, at least not for kids who can't understand the subtexts of the books.
These books are genius. It's really too bad none of you byatches know how to read. Especially Harry, whose little review had several errors where the books are concerned. -
I don't know.
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...and it was quite terrible. Poor script, worse direction. Technically it's wonderful, but so was Phantom Menace.
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steampunk aesthetic + armored polar bears + daniel craig = i'm all in.
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You can spot them if they suddenly have 400+ seeders when the torrent is like, 5 minutes old.
The asstards at the MPAA haven't learned a thing yet. -
Hey bub don't lump us Americans all together. It's only the unintelligent ones riddled with ADD. I enjoyed those first five minutes.
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You just made a blanket statement about millions of different people labeling them as cowards. Hmmm, you post here under a screen name slinging insults, I wonder who the coward is. Violence should not be the answer to debates but in your case I'd make an exception. Ignorance should be irradicated before it effects the intelligent.
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I read about how Christians have their panties in a bunch over this movie (and book series) and its author. Frankly, I don't see how being so close-minded can help anyone. That's why the catholic church is dying today. Philip Pullman is an atheist, yes, but he isn't trying to sell it any harder than the morons who hate him thump their bibles in an effort to win converts. I was raised christian, but frankly it doesn't mean anything to me anymore. It's just not very AWESOME!! And it certainly isn't as delicious as chocolate pussy juice.
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I don't think it is close-minded to be upset when your faith is attacked.
I read the first book and loved it. So many cool concepts. Then, when it went from cool fantasy to anti-faith preaching it became uncool and unfun and rather disappointing.
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Didn't ROTS have better CG than most movies? Did I miss a meeting...?
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So then, it should be alright for Pullman to defend his book when he is attacked, since atheism is his "religion," so to speak. But really, from what I've read, I don't think the book is any more an attack on christianity than C.S. Lewis' Narnia chronicle (which is based on christianity) is an attack on atheism or agnosticism. I'm just provoking thought here, I don't care so much either way. But I love it when devout christians insist they have MORE of a right to "defend" or advocate their faith more so than others who do not share their beliefs, but rather believe in something else (or nothing). This is a MOVIE we're talking about, right? Based on a BOOK? Shit, you'd think it's good enough that kids even read these days. After 911, and given the other evils that fill this world, you'd also think that bible-thumpers would find more worthy battles elsewhere. Shhheee-it on a shingle!
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This film's getting terrible reviews, and comingsoon has an early review of "I Am Legend", that says it has "worse CG work than Van Helsing and makes The Invasion seem like a masterpiece." Ouch. While I won't see Golden Compass, I'll probably go see Big Willie's latest "ass-terpiece" in Imax just for the Dark Knight trailer. Cancel Christmas...
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While we are at it, I would like to end the use of the phrases "cutting edge" and "state of the art." Okay, end of rant.
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first six minutes of dark knight > first five minutes of golden compass, just in the first 30 seconds.
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that was disappointing... felt like a LOTR knock-off with that intro, I was going to make this my christmas movie... now i wont bother.
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Considering it has been 2000 years since he was born, wouldnt there be at least 100 direct descendants? Surely one of them can at least comment. Unless every descendant just had one sibling? Maybe one of them is Philip Pullman.
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Dec 04, 2007 5:03:09 PM CST
You know it's bad when they start giving it away for free.....
by kai_mah'gra
......come on now, you know it's true. Just ask the neighbourhood skank. Or the guys that have taken that ride. When a movie starts offering the first 6 minutes, or the first 10 minutes free online, then you know they've realized they have a possible turd bucket on their hands and need the helping hand of good ol' word-of-mouf to help them sell tickets.
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The first movie I remember that did this was Memento, and it was great!
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.....because, of course, as we all know, Memento had the same production, CGFX and marketing budget as the Golden Compass does.
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Lord of the Rings needs the prologue because there's so much fucking backstory and it's COOL showing the Last Alliance of Men and Elves and Gollum losing the Ring etc. No other movie needs prologue narration. The book Golden Compass doesn't have it, it goes straight in with no lame explanations for anything. In a movie you should visually discover things, not be told about them before you've hardly seen a fucking frame. They shouldn't have explained daemons or the fact that this is in a parallel world, I'm sure we as the audience can work that out eventually if they just let the story flow.
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Help! The 5% of the nation who isn't Christian are persecuting us! War on Christmas! War on Christmas!
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is that they start off being truly great in terms of imagination and creativity. But Pullman squanders this with the story's descent into more and more screedy diatribes against religion. I mean, there's even a fairly extended bit where one of the boy main character meets up with a priest who smells bad, drinks, and tries hugging him a lot, and this scene does absolutely *nothing* for the plot, except to make a crude cariacature of priests as pedophiles. Pullman's increasingly heavy-handed communication of his "theme" ends up derailing these books. Which is a hard thing to do, when you start off with magical voyages of self-discovery replete with airships and armored polar bears.
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I kept hoping that Pullman would at least make some indication that he was aware of the futility (or at least, the irony) of couching a thesis about religious teachings being untrue in a freaking fiction book series. But he doesn't. Instead, he appears to take his gnostic materialism very seriously, and spends way too much time on it, instead of on things like the story.
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The ending also doesn't make a lick of sense. It feels very much like Pullman had a scene in mind he wanted to write, and although it's a good scene, it lacks even the forced-narrative tidiness of some of the books' other loose ends.
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walking into the theater late because that was NOT AWESOME. This looked like something out of a Stargate episode. Who thought this was a good idea to put online?
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Supposed to come out tomorrow, so I thought Aint it Cool would come out with it today? Can't wait to see what Adamson does with this I'm sure he's learned much from LWW although still underrated in my view, it will certainly make this Compass BS look worse than the crap it already seems to be. I read somewhere the rule of voice over is only use it if the visuals DON'T need it but only enhance it, in other words the pictures still tell a story...that's why GC's opening doesn't work as well as FOTR, PJ's pictures still tell a story, the VO just enhances it...many philosophical mistakes in the VO as well, it's surprising the author of this book thought he was even close to the level of C.S. Lewis that he could bash him when he cannot even grasp the concept of the soul. The soul "in" the body? That's what happens when a narrow minded materialist attempts fantasy. The soul encompasses the body, if you have to apply a quantity description, the body is 'less'. And don't get me started on animals representing our souls...this really looks lame...Caspian trailer anyone?
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the first 5 minutes are the best part of the movie. Yeah, really.
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Also in HD and also at Yahoo.
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Her accent doesn't fit. She's trying to sound like an English intellectual. Really bizarre that they chose her for the intro.
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Heard Lyra was rubbish in it, but she looks perfect to me so far, Wish they had not cut the end like fanny's
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but he seems to think (mistakenly) that the other 2 books are masterpieces. They aren't. In fact, the third one is the literary equivalent of the Star Wars Prequels.
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Why do these fucking idiots that adapt things think moving the end of a book into its sequel is a good idea. It isn't. It wasn't in LOTR- which had far more potential than this shitty trilogy. The reason I say it isn't is that it completely fucks the pacing of the sequel up, and creates a dud anticlimax in the first film. Sheer stupidity.
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I did not say you're advocating violence. I said you're advocating hatred and ignorance. I realize from you're correspondence you may be very young and less knowledgeable. A "blanket statement" is when you group an entire group in a blanket description. So I'll paint a lil' picture for you. All muslims do not call for the death of a teacher who named a teddy bear Mohamad. Just like all Christians don't call for the death of abortion doctors, Not all whites hate blacks, not all people in the American south sleep with siblings... Crack a book lad.
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was a really slavish attempt to recapture LOTR's opener, telling us everything in a story that could have opened out as Lyra learned about Dust. We should be ignorant of parallel worlds or Dust until we get told by Asriel. This 'YOU'RE STUPID KIDS' film-making is a serious problem. Plus the tedious green frolicking of the Oxford kids (Hobbiton anyone).
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saying that you can't discuss falsehood in a work of fiction confuse fiction with falsehood and is the stupidest thing I have heard today. You may as well say that everything Plato said was lies because he used myths and parables to express them. Dumbass.
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the first book is great, with appealing characters, a vivid setting, great ideas and a refreshingly clear literary style.
it's a genuine shame to see it underserved by what appears to be a badly cut (by the studio adaptation).
the second book was a bit of a left turn but was nonetheless an interesting extension of the ideas in the first book. in retrospect, some of the sillier ideas in the third book find their roots here, but it certainly wasn't badly written.
it was only by the third book that Pullman's beef with organised religion becomes the creaky engine driving the story forward, and the whole thing descends into the laziest and most painful allegory you've ever read.
i don't have any problem with Pullman attacking organised religion or the Church either. my beef is that the third book is so badly written and badly thought-out. you might not mind either (there's plenty of badly written stuff out there) but for the quality of the first book in particular. -
The great steampunk movie has yet to be made. Maybe only Japanese anime can really do it right.
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was a pretender to the throne, not actually the 'creator'.
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I think you missed my point. You absolutely can discuss falsehood in fiction, it just is a bit much to attack *religion* as being false with fiction, and to do so without the slightest reflexivity. For example, in the world of the HDM books, the message to the characters is "There's no such thing as the spiritual; everything is material. See, look! Souls and angels are made of wacky dark matter. Anybody who tells you different is just trying to rob you of your rightful enjoyment of materiality." All fine and good, but without the second-order statement to the reader of something like "See, the story's model of the universe is no less valid than the real world's religious models of the universe. So think critically/engage in self-reliance/etc.", the books aren't really doing anything other than illustrating Pullman's thoughts. That's very different than what Plato and others do by communicating meaning through myths and parables. Pullman's works are much more in the camp of things like Jack Chick tracts--fictions whose rhetorical force comes from a sloppy reliance on the reader ignoring the fiction/reality distinction. As such, the "meaning" (which Pullman has repeatedly and explicitly alluded to in interviews) of the works is ultimately weak and without substance. And again, there is nothing wrong with that, except that the meaning hijacks the story away from the plot, which was the only good part to begin with. Anyway, Sepulchrave, my point was not that you couldn't do it, just that Pullman did it surprisingly poorly.
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Nice article. I enjoyed reading it. I think you made some important points.
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Based on what authority do materialists claim that only the physical world exists? It would be a circular argument to base such a claim on science because science itself is based on the assumption. It's a major assumption that cannot be proven. Without proof, Pullman is relying on authority to make such an absolute claim, so what authority? It's simply atheistic dogma.
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