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Jack the Giant Slayer
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FilmPG-132007
The Golden Compass
Directed by Chris Weitz
In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny. From TMDB
142 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 22, 2026 · How this works
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The Golden Compass is a 2007 adventure fantasy film, directed by Chris Weitz, starring Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
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60 of 142 · most liked firstFinishing the Golden Compass book and then @lumdumgum.bsky.social having me watch the 2006 movie is psychotic
negative · AI labelView post →The gutless movie they made of The Golden Compass will not see heaven for wasting "Eva Green is the leader of a group of powerful matriarchal witches" nor for doing poorly so this rather lovely Kate Bush tie-in track slipped away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHsu...
negative · AI labelView post →I think the one that really cemented my hatred for live action adaptations was “The Golden Compass” film. Yes, however bad you’ve heard it is, it’s worse. By a factor of at least 3.
negative · AI labelView post →@realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is political alternatives? Think Ai Odyssey or how the Golden Compass was in part a counterargument to Narnia. Or how Starship Troopers movie is a satirical response to Starship Troopers book Let me know your favourite remakes, revisions and replies
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: THE GOLDEN COMPASS (Northern Lights) One film: THE THING (1982) One TV show: STAR TREK: The Next Generation One album: PURPLE RAIN (Prince & The Revolution)
neutral · AI labelView post →Kathy Bates #KathyBates Known For: Annie Wilkes Movie: Misery Year: 1990 Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_B... Notable Voice Roles: Janet Benson - Bee Movie Hester - The Golden Compass Mrs. Kayoda - When Marnie Was Here Sea Hag - Popeye's Voyage: Quest For Pappy #Misery #BeeMovie
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently read "The Rose Field", the final book in the series Book of Dust by Philip Pullman. It's a follow up trilogy on His Dark Materials, which recently had a TV series adaptation made by the BBC, and previously a film was made back in like 2006, "The Golden Compass." Pullman writes a story about a world where people's souls live outside of their bodies, taking the shape of an animal that speaks and lives side by side with their person. He calls it their Daemon, and it's a terrific…
neutral · AI labelView post →back when our ma was still suffering Dubya Fanatic Disease she forbade us from watchin the Golden Compass movie bc it "promoted atheism". watched it behind her back to rebel and realized smth worse: it just kinda sucked on its own -O
negative · AI labelView post →I would've sat there the whole movie making a sour lemon face but those two girls had a great time and it rubbed off on me. That's the power of communal cinema. Also the maybe 12 year old boy who stood up at the end of The Golden Compass and yelled "WHAT? THAT'S IT? C'MON!" Sorry, buddy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Its from the movie of the first book in the series His Dark Materials, titled The Golden Compass. In that world, everyone has their soul split in two: a human half, and a shape-shifting animal companion half that is by their side always. Reading this turned many people into furries/therians
neutral · AI labelView post →Next week on 𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐊: The Golden Compass (2007) Dir. Chris Weitz Sometimes a movie is so well received that it inspires a whole wave of new films. And sometimes a movie flops so hard that it stops the wave dead. This movie is the latter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dakota Blue Richards. Remember her from The Golden Compass movie as a kid and honestly, I think she's quite underrated as an actress. Haven't seen much of her since. The last two pics are courtesy of @amcvagrant.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't read the books before watching the films because I don't want the base recipe affecting my feelings on an adaptation. If a film is ... not good and I can tell it's a bad adaptation I read the book right after, like The Hitchhiker's Guide or The Golden Compass.
negative · AI labelView post →Still mad at how they did The Golden Compass movie
negative · AI labelView post →Most people assume THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2007) was a flop, but in fact it more than doubled its budget! The problem: to help finance the film, New Line Cinema pre-sold international distribution rights... where the movie ended up earning over 80% of its box office.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know I'm very late to this party, but I discovered that His Dark Materials was made into a series. I remember when the Golden Compass movie came out and how disappointed when they didn't follow it up with the rest. But this series was more than what I could have imagined. I loved it a lot. ☺️✨️
positive · AI labelView post →It’s a sad day when you hear that Jack Shepherd has passed away at age 85. Jack played the Master in the Golden Compass film among many other highlights to his career. Much love to his family and friends.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am slowly working my way through Pokemon Sun on my 3DS. I found a copy of The Golden Compass based on the early 2000s movie and that may be my next one. Either that or TMNT, I played that one before but I really enjoyed it and wouldn’t mind a replay.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Golden Compass deserved sinking, terrible film and an insult to the books it was loosely based on.
negative · AI labelView post →I guested on Unnatural Selection to talk about The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman and its 2007 film adaptation! Check it out! pnc.st/s/unnatural-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Philip Pullman said that he always struggled to put his finger on what literature is. What makes something literarure? Then when working with the studio on the rubbish The Golden Compass movie, he realised that literature was everything the studio wanted to cut out. 🙂
negative · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman One movie 🎥 — Addams Family Values One album 💿 — Blindman’s Zoo - 10,000 Maniacs One TV Show 📺 — Dead Like Me One Videogame 🎮 — Slime Rancher
neutral · AI labelView post →The film version of this was fun - anyone want to do books? 10 books to get to know me: The Left Hand of Darkness The Golden Compass Gideon the Ninth The Fifth Season Ancillary Justice Lirael Darius the Great is Not Okay A Wizard of Earthsea LotR: The Return of the King Watership Down
neutral · AI labelView post →Bill Simmons using Chat-GPT to do Roger Ebert necromancy is soooo pathetic, even for him. AI cannot predict what Ebert would have thought about a movie. He gave the Golden Compass, Salt, Babe: Pig in the City, Cloud Atlas and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 4/4 stars!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Golden Compass 2007 does not get enough hate for sucking. (i have not read his dark materials i was just a hater of this movie when i saw it in high school) oh actually, Epic Movie from the same year was the worst. I saw that in a double-feature with PANS FUCKING LABYRINTH. that was the worst
negative · AI labelView post →Still bothered me the movie called the alethiometer “The Golden Compass”
negative · AI labelView post →unquestionably when they ended The Golden Compass with a happy ending right before The Thing That Happens at the End of That Book happens. sorry to do a children's movie but I was a teenager
negative · AI labelView post →My very Catholic mom did that until she watched the first Harry Potter movie and liked it. She did however block me from reading the Golden Compass because our archdiocese sent out a warning about the book.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched “The Golden Compass” for the first time since release. His Dark Materials is one of my favourite book series and I remember thinking this film was not great. I totally forgot they cut the child murder from the end? I’m normally against killing kids but come on, it’s vital to the plot
negative · AI labelView post →-The Blade Itself (and series) by Joe Abercrombie. The books are great but the audio is TRANSCENDENT. Hands down best narrator ever -The Golden Compass (and series), live cast version. No movie/show will ever compare to this -The Broken Earth -Stormlight series -Piranesi -Small Gods
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm still sad the Golden Compass movies didn't get the full trilogy on film with her I mean the TV show was good, but Nicole Kidman was such a powerful screen presence in the movie
positive · AI labelView post →The 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoyed the Golden Compass when I read it years ago. Very happy that HBO did a better job with the show than the movie did.
negative · AI labelView post →The Golden Compass movie is fundamentally hostile to good writing or narrative (also yknow anti-religion)
negative · AI labelView post →An A180 Watches a Movie a Day Monday, October 19, 2026 The Golden Compass Dir. Chris Weitz 2007 ★☆ #A180Watches2026
negative · AI labelView post →How about a His Dark Materials series/movie that wasn't awful? They made The Golden Compass, saw it sucked and that's a shame cause it's a great series of YA books.
negative · AI labelView post →Which while maligned also wasn't as awful as the Golden Compass film a decade before it.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you didn't go through a school and church-wide satanic panic when The Golden Compass movie adaptation came out then we fundamentally are not the same
neutral · AI labelView post →The Golden Compass!!! I'll never forgive anyone involved with that movie. I love the HDM books and was so excited to share that world and see it on screen. I did enjoy the HBO adaptation though 🐻❄️
negative · AI labelView post →With the winter season in full force, something that's both snowy and wintery, and left many feeling cold - www.patreon.com/posts/123197... Thank goodness we got "His Dark Materials" to make up for this mess. Also my friend Leafy cooked with this one. #Movie #Commentary #Podcast #TheGoldenCompass
negative · AI labelView post →Remember when The Golden Compass movie hired Sam Elliott to play their Texas cowboy and the TV show hired lin-manuel Miranda to play the same character? He must be stopped by any means necessary.
neutral · AI labelView post →I worked for Shiny Entertainment on their last game "The Golden Compass" (yes the movie tie in) right after they finished Enter The Matrix and the other one(?) and the reminiscing about the W. siblings involvement was either "wow!" Or "fuck those guys" so I am very sorry/not sorry I missed it.
neutral · AI labelView post →#StuffToDoBecauseYouDidNotReceiveTheRoseField A good friend led me through the whole of #DowntonAbbey this year. As I just rewatched #TheGoldenCompass today after a long time, my sraffie life is now transmuted as I realize that King John Faa and Charles Carson are one and only person: Jim Carter. 🤯
neutral · AI labelView post →Gnostic influence is just one of many reasons The Golden Compass would have stomped harry potter if those movie and marketing executives had been brave enough
neutral · AI labelView post →The first book was made into a movie almost 20 years ago (nooooo…. it can’t have been that long…) The Golden Compass. The main character of the trilogy of books is name Lyra pronounced Lie-ra
neutral · AI labelView post →The Golden Compass movie, and the epic polar bear fight. One bear gets its jaw punched off and my friend yells 'OW!' on instinct. Whole cinema cracked up
neutral · AI labelView post →Without spoiling the books, the scene at the end of The Golden Compass where Lord Asriel does something irredeemably bad to start opening holes in space, is not in the film at all. It goes right up to it and then, roll credits. We were like "so are they planning to open movie 2 with that??"
neutral · AI labelView post →✨ NEW EPISODE OUT NOW ✨ We’re wrapping up our journey through The Golden Compass with a bonus-style finale—Part 3 is here! 🎉 Hosted by Crystal this episode dives into the movie adaptation & compares it to both the His Dark Materials TV series & the original book! 💙📚🧚🪐⏰ 🎬📺
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a distinct memory of being at my parent's friend's house when I was young. They had a very fancy house with a diver suit in the foyer. I watched The Golden Compass movie on a crt screen in a tall library study full of books and a large window. It sticks with me
neutral · AI labelView post →🤭 He is SUCH a babe. Lee Scoresby is my favourite ever fictional character, the Golden Compass film was atrocious but he was the most perfect casting for anything ever and I'm never recovering from it 🥰
negative · AI labelView post →D'you ever think about how they actually filmed the entire final act of The Golden Compass movie and cut it. People have tried to reconstruct it from clips in trailers & the video game but the whole final part of the movie does exist, or did
neutral · AI labelView post →Opened up the German movie tie in boardgame for The Golden Compass, and 45 minutes later after sorting through the cards and calling a friend for a chat, neither of us has the energy to go on further. I do love the visuals, and also appreciate starting in Oxford. Maybe tomorrow, or on boxing day.
neutral · AI labelView post →#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 13: Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most disappointing and why? The Golden Compass feature movie adaptation was pretty weak. Utterly unwilling to even try the dark and wondrous atmosphere of the book, the whole thing was both tooth- and flavorless.
negative · AI labelView post →I knew they were based on novels! (I was prime age for The Golden Compass movie when it came out) I didn't expect this series to be so dark and sad!
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using... One book - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman One movie - Amelie One Album - Wicked Girls by Seanan Mcguire One TV show - Sailor Moon
neutral · AI labelView post →Similar to the Golden Compass movie that ends with Lyra and crew flying triumphantly over the horizon into the North. I’ve wondered how many kids read the book to find out what happens next, and how they felt about it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My eyes just popped out of my skull because I hadn't thought about the Golden Compass movie in YEARS. oh my WORD.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was so much better than the Golden Compass movie, though, imho!
negative · AI labelView post →When I first read Northern Lights / The Golden Compass, I imagined Lee Scorsby would be played by Sam Elliot if they ever made a movie adaptation…
neutral · AI labelView post →They do, but there's also a question I have of "there's a ton of fantasy novels so if you're changing this to be something else, why are we adapting THIS specific work?" like the things that went into making The Golden Compass movie suck open up "Why did you decide to do this anyway?"
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