{"id":616,"date":"2008-09-01T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T12:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2008-10-14T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:16:34","slug":"the-golden-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/the-golden-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Golden Compass\" title=\"The Golden Compass\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Golden%20Compass\" rel=\"tag\">The Golden Compass<\/a> yesterday. What a train wreck of a film! There were a number of changes from the book, and I can accept them. One or two I might have disagreed with or wondered the point of the change, but on the whole that wasn&#8217;t the problem. The real problem is that they tried to make it a 1 hour 40 minutes film! It therefore becomes an absolutley fast forward through events that doesn&#8217;t allow you to pick up anything from the characters. The plot just zips buy that it becomes incomprehensible. You feel nothing for Lyra and as to why she does things, or indeed why anyone does things. In order to keep this plot going dialogue is thrown in that means too much exposition. I wonder if anyone who has not read the books would get anything out of it?<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Golden Compass\" title=\"The Golden Compass\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Golden%20Compass\" rel=\"tag\" >The Golden Compass<\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Golden Compass\" title=\"The Golden Compass\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Golden%20Compass\">The Golden Compass<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/15\/the-shawshank-redemption\/\" title=\"The Shawshank Redemption\">The Shawshank Redemption<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/08\/harry-potter\/\" title=\"Harry Potter\">Harry Potter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/08\/captain-correlis-mandolin\/\" title=\"Captain Correli&#8217;s Mandolin\">Captain Correli&#8217;s Mandolin<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/18\/sideways\/\" title=\"Sideways\">Sideways<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched The Golden Compass yesterday. What a train wreck of a film! There were a number of changes from the book, and I can accept them. One or two I might have disagreed with or wondered the point of the change, but on the whole that wasn&#8217;t the problem. The real problem is that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/01\/the-golden-compass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Golden Compass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[225,81,82],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-film","tag-golden-compass","tag-northern-lights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-9W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}