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10+ Years Later: THE GOLDEN COMPASS, a Failed Footnote in Fantasy Adaptations

Oct 26, 2017

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by

tederick

in Columns

I’m reading La Belle Sauvage this week and I’m happy as a clam, and the timing feels right to tear (yet another) strip off The Golden Compass, which was an abjectly terrible adaptation of (my favourite) book.
Review: THE GOLDEN COMPASS

Dec 7, 2007

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by

tederick

in Reviews

One ring to rule them compass I feel sorry for The Golden Compass. Of all the fant-lit-to-film gimmes in the half-decade since The Lord of the Rings, Compass is the one which most painfully wants to wear Daddy’s clothes. Its every nook and cranny is so painfully subservient to that frantic desire that the film that emerges is utterly naked.…