The Golden Compass

Based on a beloved McCune family fantasy series, The Golden Compass was a middling film, accomplishing a thorough, vivid imagining of Lyra's world, but falling short in the consistency of the plot and its breakneck pace. Moving too quickly, the film failed to create the signature tension so pervasive in the book. All of the mystery and complexity and anxiety of ignorance that plagues Lyra and the reader in the experience of the novel is lost upon the film adaptation.

First Saw
Providence Place in December 2007 with many friends. I believe it the was the Friday premiere.