based on the 1995 novel Northern Lights by Philip Pullman, the first installment in Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, which was published as The Golden Compass in the United States. It stars Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua, Nicole Kidman as Marisa Coulter, and Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel, alongside Sam Elliott, Ian McKellen, and Eva Green. In the film, Lyra joins a race of water-workers and seafarers on a trip to the far North in search of children kidnapped by the Gobblers, a group supported by the world’s rulers, the Magisterium
…The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the casting and visual effects, but criticism for its pacing, characterization, and screenplay…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(film)
- free on dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ww5zk
- a reboot / miniseries was made of this book series several years later, supposedly it’s pretty good but it’s not free anywhere I could find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials_(TV_series)
I loved the books to death and I also very much enjoyed the movie. It’s a shame we didn’t get to see the sequels. However, it had two things going against it.
Given the not just anti faith bend of the books but hte utterly GLEEFULLY IGNORANT portrayal of those with faith?
I can get being irritated, but guys. let it go. the more you scream the more people will flock to it out of spite.
I’m christian. I enjoyed the books… and honestly find the whole thing to be a wonderfully… Gnostic take on things. theDemiurge took over, somehow grew old, and is now usurped by his regent.
There was a pretty good movie series made previously that covered (I think) the first four books. I haven’t seen seen any of them for probably 30 years but I enjoyed them then!
More fundamentally, (1) the writer/director had no experience directing a big-budget film, and (2) the studio, which had just produced LOTR, wanted another LOTR-sized franchise and kept interfering – and in order to finance the movie they had sold the overseas rights, so when the movie made most its money overseas they didn’t benefit from it.