# I just watched "The Golden Compass" for the first time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554 "2009-10-04T15:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554/21 "2009-10-05T02:09:49Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I can’t find the interview with Pullman about Lyra and Will sleeping together. Anyway, I’m not so certain that was the case. I found this quote on a messageboard: > [@](#): > > In the readerville discussion, when the question of what Lyra and > Will did comes up, Pullman doesn’t deny that they have sex: he says “It’s > none of my damn business! My imagination withdrew at that point.” (message > #31) … Pullman goes on to say “If you want to follow them > under the tree and watch what happens, you must bear the responsibility for > what you see. Personally, I think privacy is a fine and gracious thing. I > describe a kiss: and there are some turning-points in life for which a kiss > is quite enough.” So it’s kind of left up to the reader. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554/22 "2009-10-05T10:51:17Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > No \*way \*would a PG film show a 13 year old having sex. That would take it to a hard R or Unrated, if not NC17. > > The ratings go: > G (general audiences) > PG (parental guidance suggested) > PG-13 (may be inappropriate for kids under 13) > R (Restricted. Those under 17 must have an accompanying guardian 21+) > NC-17 (No one 17 & under admitted.) > NR (Not rated. Usually used for foreign & independent films.) This is the second time I’m having to say this: not ‘show’, 'imply that it may have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554/23 "2009-10-05T15:24:37Z")
> [@astro](#): > > The bears had dead eyes with almost no expression. It wasn’t the eyes at all. It was how they looked and moved. It just seemed like the animators didn’t have enough time/budget to spend studying how actual polar bears move, so they just did their best with how they _thought_ they did, which inevitably edges towards some sort of uncanny divot, where you look at it and say “That looks sortof…off, somehow.” The other problem was that we had “animals with human features” going on for a lot of the daemons - Pantalaimon had this the worst, where you had something vaguely ferretlike or whatever, but always capable of doing human expressions, which really, really just makes it look like some sort of creepy talking animal film. Ugh. Oh, and I don’t even _remember_ the supposed “off screen sex scene” so it couldn’t have been _that_ important to the plot. Of course, pretty much all of the Amber Spyglass is a muddled blur in my head, so to heck with that. I agree that the movie tried to grab too many of the plot elements from the books - the witches absolutely could’ve gotten dropped, for example - The BOOK was really quite compelling though. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554/24 "2009-10-05T15:45:24Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > By the way, was anyone else disappointed at the dramatically different ending the movie had? They cut the entire sequence that reveals…a lot about certain characters. I think this was rejected as being too much of a “downer ending”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-golden-compass-for-the-first-time/512554.md?page=1)