The bizarr-o thing about Golden Compass is if you've read the books, you know they actually cheated themselves out of a proper cliffhanger, and possibly one that could have given them the franchise they wanted. The end of the book is an actual gut-punch that you do see coming, but only from a very short distance--enough time to get your dread going. And belieeeeeve me, it would have caused some critical buzz and might have gotten butts in the seats. But instead they cut that off and went with a generic mindless semi-happy unresolved pap ending. WTF. I have never figured this one out. Was it focus-groups, like I Am Legend? Was it a studio exec who hated the product that they were putting out, like Brimstone?Grabehn said:It lookd mediocre until I heard "cliffhanger ending" FUCK THAT! A while ago I watched the Golden Compass on TV and it was fine (so it before, but somehow being in Spanish made it a bit better than in English) and It was watchable until the "Oh yeah, there's no ending cuz franchise" which obviously didn't happen, and all my GF said was "OH FUCK THIS MOVIE" and that was about it.
I get that these studios gamble on the "let's hope teens watch this shit cuz *other franchise* made it" but at least give your shit movie a proper ending if you don't actually know if you're gonna make it to the second one, that at least gives it a chance to be a good experience on its own... Fuck The Golden Compass.