# Anybody See "The Golden Compass"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555 "2013-03-10T14:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/41 "2013-03-20T20:48:48Z")
The movie is weird-no coherent plot, but the visual effects are OK. The ending was very strange-witches flying around…but they can be killed by bullets. As I said, I liked the steampunk look, the plot was pretty lacking, however. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/42 "2013-03-20T22:56:40Z")
I rented the DVD a couple of years ago, but the only thing I can remember about it is the spirit animals following everyone around. I also remember that evening while I was watching it, I was eating something for dinner that the cat thought she ought to have a share of and wasn’t going to leave me until she got some (barbecued spareribs, IIRC). So, all the time I was watching this movie about people being constantly accompanied by their various animals, I had a little grey kitty at my feet. If I went into the kitchen, she went with me. If I went to the bathroom, she followed me. Wherever I was that evening, she was never more than a few feet away. It made it a bizarre sort of viewer-interactive experience. No talking polar-bears in my living-room, though. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/43 "2013-03-21T05:18:40Z")
People liked Thomas Covenant? For my tastes, he was a bit too much of a self-loathing, rapey, ineffectual, whiney, depressed, douchebag. And that’s _after_ his character developed. He’s the hero of the story like bubonic plague is the hero of the Middle Ages. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/44 "2013-03-21T06:25:31Z")
Nom. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/45 "2013-03-21T15:43:20Z")
> [@moriah](#): > > People liked Thomas Covenant? > > For my tastes, he was a bit too much of a self-loathing, rapey, ineffectual, whiney, depressed, douchebag. And that’s _after_ his character developed. > > He’s the hero of the story like bubonic plague is the hero of the Middle Ages. You are absolutely wrong. Thomas Covenant was NOT a _bit too much of a self-loathing, rapey, ineffectual, whiney, depressed, douchebag_. Thomas Covenant was **LOT** too much of a self-loathing, rapey, ineffectual, whiney, depressed, douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555/46 "2013-03-21T16:27:03Z")
The books were great. In my opinion, the third one sufffered when the author got carried away trying to be the atheist C. S. Lewis and the story was weaker for it, but I still enjoyed all of them and cared enought about the characters to see what happened. I’d definitely recommend them. The movie was fine but moved way too fast in my opinion. There was a lot of story crammed into a very short time and it just fealt rushed. I knew what was going on for all of it, but I had read the books; I can’t say for sure, of course, but I got the feeling that seeing it without having read the book would have been confusing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-see-the-golden-compass/652555.md?page=2)