Seems Rod Hilton(above) was right.
An unbelieving friend of mine knowing I am a believer and wasn’t planning on seeing it told me he’d check it out in my stead. He said exactly the same thing Rod said. My friend walked out because it sucked.

Even I didn’t anticipate how much better this movie would do overseas than it did in the U.S.

It made over 3 1/2 times as much outside of the U.S. as it did inside! That seems pretty unprecedented to me.

Vic

Also, what doesn’t make any sense to me, or any of the Born Again Christians I know, is why make a movie about a God that you don’t even believe in? That makes absolutely no sense. If you don’t believe in God, then you shouldn’t care if someone else does.

Those of you that don’t understand the boycotting, or agree with it, you never will. You can only truly understand it if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Your eyes are opended.

I participated in the boycott, and I am glad to know that the movie didn’t do very well here. I praise God!

In fact, for sheer visual beauty, it is hard to imagine a better effort.

But, Chris Weitz who provided the unsolicited screenplay used as a basis for the movie (which replaced a more introspective screen play by Tom Stoppard which was in the works) did a miserable job of translating the book onto the screen, remaking the characters and order of the plot and feel of the story wholesale. He got overwhelmed by the project and quit, and was replaced by a more talented director who did all the wonderful artistic work but then was sacked in turn, with Weitz brought back to finish the project after the ard word was done. He direction managed to thwart the well cost leading female actors and to continue the sorely deficient scripts existence.

Also, the book is less anti-religious than either Pullman as a publicity stunt, or detractors, claim. In the metaphysics of the series there are really multiple Gods — an unknown and uninvolved creator who is a bit like Newton’s clockwork god; “Dust” which is something akin to karma or the Star Wars notion of “the Force” or “chi” in Eastern religion or the “fates” all of which are universal in impact, omniscient, reasonably powerful and acts with moral purpose; a “God the Father” called the “Authority” who dies of old age and is demented

Vic

http://www.the-editing-room.com/goldencompass.html

Oh, one weird thing though. Did anyone else notice a part of the movie that seemed like everything had been sped up by 5 or 10%? I’m certain it happened but i don’t know if it was only on the one i saw or on all of them.

Anyway, i highly recommend it.

Steve: Hahaha! Kim got bashed for no good reason!!

Vic

Got her confused with bassinger.
Shheeeshh feel like a major dork..
Sorry all the bassinger fans.:o

Vic

Cruise and Travolta may be scientologists, but they didn’t come up with any movies that slam Christianity or call it a falsity or anything like that.

The reaction from the Christian community is pretty amicable – It could be anti-Christianity.. if you don’t agree with it, just don’t watch it. Simple as that.

Imagine what would happen if it’s something anti-Islam..

Vic