I just thought id put the question out there seeing as they are both based on books.
As for my answer: Nim's Island by a long way. The Golden Compass was absolutely awful!!
Nim's Island: 8/10
The Golden Compass: 3/10
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I havent read either of the books either, but I have seen both movies.
sharei have not seen Nim's Island yet
just look below there is your answer thereI am a Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, The Spiderwick Chronicles, fan
Of course you can't possibly praise one movie without insulting another.
shareThe Golden Compass was far superior to Nim....yet CGI drug it down...(as it usually does, going for the "wow" factor.)
"I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
Story wise, Golden Compass, no doubt.
Even with the "this could happen" factor for Nim, the ending was just too much.
Golden Compass brought up questions and made you think.
Story wise, Golden Compass, no doubt.
Even with the "this could happen" factor for Nim, the ending was just too much.
Golden Compass brought up questions and made you think.
I haven't read Nim's Island, but I have read the His Dark Matter trilogy. I saw the Golden Compass when it first came out and Nim's Island today. For grown-ups anyway, The Golden Compass is far superior.
Let's face it, Nim's Island is nothing more than a tedious kiddie flick except for the Jodie Foster character. It rips off Disney animated features and offers one-dimensional characters who aim at our heart strings and hit them only once or twice. I'm not a big special-effects/CGI person, but it seemed to me the animation was uninspired.
My memory of The Golden Compass is that the computer graphics were excellent. More importantly, characters were complex, the story was stimulating, and, as someone already said, it made you think. It's not a movie the younger kids could grok, though. I'll say this about Nim's Island: the 6-year-olds in the audience loved the seal farts and the flying lizards, and I loved them for loving it.
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golden compass without a doubt is WAY better than nims
shareNim's Island is the best movie yet since 'Andre(1994)'.
It a wonderful movie of the year.
Great movie and funny too...
Margaret8080
cant compare them, totally different concepts with nothing in common, besides both being story books. but golden compass seems to failed to live up to expectations....
shareI haven't seen The Golden Compass, but Nim's Island was excellent. Unfortunately, it'll go down as yet another underrated movie, simply for not being an epic masterpiece.
Does this have to happen to all lighthearted films these days? Even if they're lighthearted, as long as they provide entertainment, that's all that matters, and this movie (amongst many other lighthearted ones) did.
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i think you guys misread the OP...
OP was asking which movie did a better job translating from book to silver screen.
OP was NOT comparing the movies directly.