DISQUS

larry · 1 year ago

Why is that nowadays people equate the opening weekend box office figures with the actual quality of the film? This really gets on my nerves! Just because a film doesn't have a record breaking weekend doesn't mean it's a terrible film. Just look at "I Am Legend": record breaking weekend, crappy movie.

nicki · 1 year ago

are you kidding? how do you not mention the religious boycotts of this 'film'? it's a piece of hateful propaganda in the sense that it's part of a hateful obsessive author's collection

Tom · 1 year ago

Nicki you have to remember that religion is a personal preference and for anyone to disagree with it is there own right. You can not get mad or angry about there views because realisticly they can say or do whatever they want. The only thing that I found outrageous is the fact that your getting mad over a movie. In todays society you need to be more accepting to other peoples views and religion is something that makes us all feel good but not something anyone has to believe in.

Just A Man · 1 year ago

Tom. I cannot believe you got so angry at Nicki for just asking why the boycott was not mentioned. It is a valid question and I detected no anger in Nicki's question. You on the other hand took a lot more space to vent about a simple question. You might want to listen to your own advice and be more accepting of others views.

KFC, III · 1 year ago

Just A Man, are you just plain dumb, or are you just a 'man'? You "detected no anger in Nicki's question," yet labeled Tom's intelligent, well-constructed and thoughtful response as "angry" and venting. Nicki wrote just two lines which began with the question "are you kidding?" and used the word "hateful" twice and "obsessive" and "propaganda" once each. I have a small bit of advice for you 'Just A Moron'. It is better to remain slient and be thought a fool, then to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Just A Man · 1 year ago

KFC - Hmm... No one called anyone names until you came along. I guess we found where the hate really is. By the way it is It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

the dude · 1 year ago

It seems obviouse to me that the christian boycott was a large factor in this.. and it was not mentioned in the piece above... why????
still no answere...
Just from my own observations... I and many of my friends went to see lord of the rings.. narnia .. and other fantasy type films. We accually went more than once to each of them. None of us went to this one. Why, ?? because of the anti religion books it is based on thats why. So I personally can account to a couple hundered of the millions of dollars it did not make.

Atheism is a NON-PROPHET organ · 1 year ago

I really don’t care if a movie is made by people that think we evolved from monkeys, people that believe lil green outer space men brought us here or that the perfect creation of life was created from an “alleged” Big Bang. If I think the movie is worth seeing I will go see not worrying about what anyone thinks about me for doing so. But this Golden Compass did not seed like anything anyone would want to see. I mean seriously, the previews looked like the Coca-Cola North Pole Bears were giving Hollywood a shot and did poorly in their previews. That’s one of the reasons I think many people did not go see this film. That and O yeah, I guess I kept hearing that the author of the book is a proclaimed atheist Jesus basher. Which leads me to close with a question, why would someone that does not believe in a Higher Power “God” want to do a movie that so Anti-something they believe does not exist?

Diana Sholl · 1 year ago

The books are brilliant and so is the movie. People who keep on spouting this silly Christian thing are just proving Pullman's point that their religion cannot take free speech and want everyone to be beneath the power of the church. Thank goodness there are people like Pullman around or books would become feeble and full of religious messages to bore us to sleep. It does not matter if some people do not see it because of their bigotry, Month Python had the same issues when their film came out but it is still a classic and no relgious zealots will prevent this.

ducki · 1 year ago

Well, it looks like the religious zealots already did.

The silly thing here, is that a man that does NOT believe in God, makes a movie about children killing Him. Yeah, that makes sense.

This author has made it clear that this trilogy is to come against C.S Lewis, a Christian author. His whole point of the movie is to undermind the Christian God.

It's quite pathetic for a man to claim he doesn't believe in my God, to make it his mission to undermine the very God he doesn't even believe in.

The boycotting made a HUGE impact, this movie didn't do well, because people like myself got the word out.