Golden Compass disappoints at box office
Sun Dec 9, 2007 10:27am EST
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN0835936220071209
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Golden Compass, a costly fantasy starring
Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, got off to a slow start at the North
i know of at least one person who is refusing to see the film based on the
perceived anti-religious bias. i think that can't be discounted. i bet that
can translate into at least 5 - 10 million in loss if Christian conservatives
dediced to stay away. The FX on the trailers look better than
While I personally do not have a problem with the anti-religious slant,
you got to wonder when the people who decide to make it thought that it
would be a Lord of The Rings or Narnia. It seems as if they did not
take into consideration the ramifications of the religious issue until
they had
It would appear we have finally found someone who will go broke
underestimating the American people.
JJ Mohareb
On Dec 9, 2007 1:31 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
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While I personally do not have a problem with the anti-religious slant,
you got to
The skeptic in me says that they were thinking $$...
Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I personally do not have a problem with the anti-religious slant,
you got to wonder when the people who decide to make it thought that it
would
I agree, but they were not thinking about it shrewdly. Even if they
decided to moved away from the source material, this was an inevitable
time bomb. My daughter is two young for a lot of the kids literature
that they are now turning to, but there has to be books out there that
are not
yeah, and toning down the movie isn't going to help once people understand--or
think they do--what's in the books...
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From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While I personally do not have a problem with the
The Christians protest Harry Potter and it doesn't effect it's box
office numbers. I just think that the movie didn't have the magical
push of selling a billion books that Harry Potter has. It's all about
branding and His Dark Materials doesn't have much of a brand behind it
in order to translate
well, i tend to think that Harry Potter generates less overt hostility than
this supposed anti-religious Golden Compass does. I know lots of conservative
Christians who are disturbed by the witchcraft aspects of Potter, but
nonetheless let their kids read the books and watch the movies. In that
The difference, I think is that none of the Harry Potter books had
anything to do with religion , nor did their premise specifically have
to do with being against the concept of God or religious institutions.
If you really diud not think the magic in those stories were against god
and
I still return to the fact that the premise and purpose of the Golden
Compass series of books, by the author's own words was to promote
atheism and attack religious institutions. The other is a series of
books that as you say have religious symbolism, but the author never
claimed that the
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