Not only did the Christian community want to avoid The Golden Compass, so did the secularist community. In less than a month, the movie has dropped off the top ten movie list. By the last account I read, revenue is woefully behind the production cost. Most movie critic reviews have been unfavorable. On the day of its release, Ms. Christy Lemire, AP movie critic, rated it one and a half stars out of four. I have not seen a television ad for the movie for quite some time. Looks like this movie is on the fast track to DVD land.So much for meaningful discussion about it. Not even secularists are interested in discussing it, except to comment about how they wasted their money to see it.
I will be interested to see if there will still be sequels regardless of the results of The Golden Compass. It will be quite telling if there are more movies based on Pullman’s trilogy. It would certainly confirm the director’s intent: "Whereas The Golden Compass had to be introduced to the public carefully, the religious themes in the second and third books can't be minimized without destroying the spirit of these books. ... I will not be involved with any 'watering down' of books two and three, since what I have been working towards the whole time in the first film is to be able to deliver on the second and third films." —The Golden Compass director Chris Weitz, on his plans for preserving the strong anti-Christian messages found in the second and third installments of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, should they make it to the big screen. (PluggedIn online) More of his comments can be found here.
It is a shame that so much talent goes toward insulting the loving God who provides us our talents to begin with. And it is a shame that so many fail to grasp the lesson.
As for me, I’m waiting for the release of the new Veggie Tales movie, The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. I imagine that it will be a hoot.
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Great news that it seriously bombed! I told all my friends to avoid it, and then I practiced what I preached.
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