New Line are putting The Golden Compass movie in 800 theaters around the USA on Saturday, December 1st (that’s today) – a week earlier than the fullscale national release date of December 7th. You can check IMDb to see if a cinema nearby is showing the film.
Watch The Golden Compass: Tomorrow
December 1, 2007
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I am! I’m leaving in just a half hour to buy the tickets!
They’re previewing it a couple of days early at the cinema near where I live (in the UK), too :). They do the same with Harry Potter movies. It’s something to do with independant cinemas or something I think… only problem is, we get people from miles and miles away coming to see films like this first and it’s very frustrating when I (as a local who lives only 5 minutes walk away) can’t get in because of the queues!
I gots me a ticket for tomorrow!
My nearest theater that’s showing it is 2.5 hours away, according to mapquest. Oh well, only an extra week. On Friday I’m seeing it with my parents and on Saturday with my two friends I made read the trilogy recently. =]
There are screenings in Canada too. I just confirmed it with a rep from a local theatre, the screening is open to the public. If possible, try to purchase the tickets on-line.
eeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! so excited! 😀
Does anyone know if the screening will be any different from the movie? I don’t want to go if I’ll miss something, but how much can they change in a week?…
I can’t wait… I’m going! I’ll go by myself if I can’t get anyone to go with me
magspags.
Don’t worry, the movie should be exactly the same a week from today.
There’s one just under two hours away from me on Sunday… I’ll see if my parents will go for it, but I’m thinking they won’t. Ah, well. Waiting in line on Friday will be fun, either way.
Wow.. Can you believe that it is already here?
Felt like just yesterday it was six months to go.
I feel all blown away and stuff.
I’m going!!!!!! Thats all I can say!
Booh, I found out about this too late. 🙁
I’ll just wait until Friday.
Just got back from the advance showing here in Ottawa. It won’t disappoint and – yes! – IT IS VERY CLEARLY ANTI-RELIGIOUS!!! Excellent.
There are some flaws but it is impressive looking and pretty spot on casting. Sam Eliot rocks as Lee!
Saw it tonight. I really liked it overall. Things I had problems with:
*Some parts seemed really rushed. Lyra as Lizzie in Bolvanger was one of my favorite parts in the book and it lasted a whole five minutes in the movie. I understand they have a lot to fit into those two hours but…
*Svalbard before Bolvanger
*Billy/Tony replacement
*SPOILERS The ending made me mad. I think Weitz really wanted to play it safe with the first movie so he can go on to make the next two. But not killing Roger leaves the whole movie without much emotional depth. The book ending was perfect and it would’ve worked in the movie, too. It would’ve added more depth to the movie and set up a cliffhanger.
All that being said, it was a lot better than I was expecting and I look forward to seeing it again. 🙂
WOW! That was a… a… fenomenon!!! A VERY beautiful adaptation! You can almost think that Peter Jackson directed it. (besides the length) { :
Very disappointed with the relationship development and movie in general. Peter Jackson did a great job of setting up scenes that showed why characters loved each other and would die for one another. There was absolutely no relationship development in this film other than Lyra and Roger, which was pretty bland, but could have saved the film if Roger died at the end by evoking some emotion in the audience. The scene where Ma Costa reunites with severed Billy Costa and says “we’ll find you a new daemon” almost made me walk out. Billy Costa then lives on, where his death would have made the terror that much more real. People forget that it is the scary and sad parts that kids remember best and have the most impact on them. If Mufasa walks away with a limp is Lion King a classic?
Overall the acting was good, casting was great, but the script, directing and score were horrendous. If anyone’s seen Pan’s Labyrinth or Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, you can only wish Cauron or Del Torro were put in charge of this movie. There was no heart, no soul, no power, nothing. Lyra’s character is the only thing that might make people interested in seeing the sequels because she is just rebellious enough we have an interest in her. But, the villian on the other hand has no motive and does not seem to do any harm to those it kidnaps, so who cares if it is defeated or not?
The fact that Mrs. Coulter does not have a scene where she interacts with the kidnapped children was a huge huge mistake by Weitz. She is meant to be the biggest villian in the book, but the lack of this scene never confirms her as the villian she truly is.
Scoresby automatically knows Lyra needs the service of an armored bear just by looking at her? Iorek was defeated so he is outcast? Serafina Pekkala just decides to drop in on Lyra and tell her about a past lover?
There are no establishing shots, no explanation or reason for any of the things that happen in this movie. Weitz trys to remove the dark elements of the book by keeping Costa alive, moving roger’s death to the next movie and making it so Iorek was simply defeated in battle, but then can’t escape the brutality of the bear fight or the fight with the bolvangar guards. Instead there is not blood or even scratches in bear fight, and he distracts the viewers with big puffs of gold smoke when daemons die in the bolvangar fight. What he comes away with is a movie too trivial for an older crowd and too confusing for young kids.
Hopefully Lyra’s character and the strength of Pullman’s imagination can earn enough box office money to get to The Subtle Knife, which is not written by Weitz, and hopefully not going to be directed by Weitz, to the screen. Because if the relationship between Will and Lyra is handled like the relationships in The Golden Compass, not even an armored polar bear fight will save the movie.
I just watched it, and I have to say that it was everything I was hoping for! And like Andrew who posted above said, I think it was very clearly anti-religious. I doesn’t seem like they watered it down at all. I wish (like so many other people here) that they had kept in the book’s ending, but overall I still enjoyed it. I just can’t wait to see SK now! While I’m waiting for that, I’m just going to watch GC over and over again.