[jimbo123]

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Sorting all this out yields a clanking allegory (Church bad; secular skepticism good) that sucks all the fun away while much more enticing-looking stuff - fanciful zeppelin docks and mysterious pirate ships - hovers frustratingly in the background.

[aruanan]

I stopped reading sci-fi and fantasy when I was 15. It was the nouns.

Poor Kyle never did do much reading of science fiction, or else he has a faulty memory.

[Nathan Zachary]

"with giant polar bears wearing suits of armor and punching each other in the face, reminded me why I stopped reading sci-fi and fantasy when I was 15."

Plus is makes people dress up in "star fleet" uniforms, speak kling-on, carry around pretend phasers, light sabres, or whatever the case may be, and become left wing lunatics who believe in such things as "global warming", vast right wing conspiracy theories, and "big oil" that goes around suppressing technology that can generate "free" electricity.

[AnAmericanMother]

Best three-word capsule summary: “Chronicles of Yawnia.”

[agere_contra]

It’s kind of neat that the evil villain-lady is called Coulter. But otherwise, I’m glad it’s a tired and confusing film.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Another flop for Nicole Kidman? We’ll see. As I said on other threads (re boycotting The Golden Compass) if a movie is poorly written, directed, acted (special effects notwithstanding) it will tank. Look for Golden Compass product tie ins at a Dollor Store near you...

[IronJack]

Journeyest then to the plain of Septien

Thank ye, but nay. I'll keep to my abode and verily miss thee when thou comest to DVD.

[CASchack]

This is nothing more than a thinly veiled Michael Newdow-style attempt to eradicate God in the culture. It should be about as successful as Air America.

[jalisco555]

I can’t remember the last Nicole Kidman movie that anyone actually went to. She’s made one flop after another.

[ChessExpert]

My wife read me some of our local paper movie review, from the McClatchy newspapers. Apparently, I can count on McClatchy to point people in the wrong direction. The movie reviewer, Roger Moore, complains about Narnia’s “Christian propaganda” and likes the atheist propaganda of the Golden Compass.

[Tribune7]

in the second hour, Lyra finds an ally in a fierce, enslaved polar bear (voiced by Ian McKellen), but he too reels off a few pages of grudges and legends. They say you'd pay good money to hear an actor like McKellen read the phone book. How about the Dungeons and Dragons manual?

LOL

[NavyCanDo]

I have received several chain-letter emails warning me of this movie, and I mostly shrugged them off, thinking I was seeing the same senseless hysteria I was seeing when the first Harry Potter movie was coming out. — But after listening to Medved’s review on this movie yesterday, I am dead set against seeing this piece of anti-Christian garbage.
Medved came out in strong defense of the Harry Potter movies, but he said he could not do the same for this one.
His review, back up everything that is being said about the anti-Christian content and the blatantly anti-Christian writer of the books. Even though the movie is a watered down version of the book, Medved seemed horrified by the content- for example the “good characters” in the movie each had a demon and that was a “good thing”, and the bad people, The Church, were set on casting out or destroying the demons. Medved was dead serious when he said young minds could honestly come out of this movie, wishing they had a demon, even buying demon toys if they came out and they probably will if this movie is a hit.

[knuthom]

I started reading the book, after it was recommended to me. It was so awful, I didn’t finish it.

[Constitution Day]

All this whining about the movie makes me want to go see what all the fuss is about.

[discostu]

It’s at 42% on Rotten, 20% with the cream of the crop reviewers. Kidman is having a really hard time putting out movies anybody likes since Moulin Rouge, and really 90% of what anybody liked about that movie was what her costume didn’t hide. She needs to take the hint.

[Alouette]

Those polar bears look like the same ones who pulled the wicked witch’s chariot in “Narnia.”

[Aquinasfan]

reminded me why I stopped reading sci-fi and fantasy when I was 15. It was the nouns. “Hark thee, my fair Stenerud, and wield well this ancient benirschke. Journeyest then to the plain of Septien, and unleash these yepremians with the longbow of Herrera . . . "

Hark! Vinatieri kicketh a winning review!

[Gen-X-Dad]

My favorite part of the article was how they named Nicole Kidman’s character that is the evil enemy in this flick, Ms. Coulter. The writer even joked how Ann Coulter would get a kick out of that. I believe there was a TV series that had a Ms. Coulter as a whacked out militant religious person that was killing people who disagreed with her. Ann really drives the Hollyweirdos nuts and they play right into her hands by giving her massive free publicity.

Between books, TV series, and movies the secularist-athiest content providers are getting green lighted on everything. Most of it will probably not be very profitable, but I am sure they will keep cranking this stuff out. Meanwhile, any semblance of a traditional movie (think the 40’s and 50’s) that a family could enjoy will never see the light of day. Much like network news, the ability to shape the opinion of the masses is more important to the decision makers in Hollywood, than running a good business.

[Lurking Libertarian]

giant polar bears wearing suits of armor

Everyone has missed the point of this movie. It has nothing to do with religion. It is an allegory about the Second Amendment, supporting our right to arm bears.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The movie’s only at 39% at Rottentomatoes.

[Billthedrill]

“Hark thee, my fair Stenerud, and wield well this ancient benirschke. Journeyest then to the plain of Septien, and unleash these yepremians with the longbow of Herrera . . . "

ROTFLMAO! Um...them there's NFL kickers. Not that they wouldn't make great fantasy fare...