The main reason cited for the failure of The Golden Compass was its treatment of religion. forbade the very mention of Dust" – Serafina Pekkala "The ruling power, fearing any truth but their own.
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That's quite a feat.īut what could have possibly gone wrong with an adaptation of a children's book about a plot to murder God, set in a world full of too many characters with hard-to-pronounce names that was overly concerned about explaining dust, and was released at a time when the public's tolerance for too-long, CGI-heavy fantasy adaptations was at an all-time low? The Golden Compass is being repeated on TV today, so this is the perfect time for a closer inspection. A bear punches another bear's jaw off in it, and it's still rubbish.
The film in this world is The Golden Compass, and it's rubbish. And worlds like ours, where the series crapped the bed after a single bloated, confused outing that was mired in meddling and flaccid compromise, and succeeded only in enraging everybody that it was supposed to pander to.
Worlds where Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy was turned into a series of blockbuster movies, each better than the last. There are many universes and many Earths parallel to each other.