The Future of TIME
Posted on 12/06/2007 8:55:37 AM PST by icwhatudo
Exactly. The parents have to review and make the right decisions for the best mental health of their kids. Glad you won’t allow the movie into your home. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. Why can’t parents realize this themselves????
I hope this movie tanks. That would be a real wake-up call to our cultural betters in Hollywood.
I have to say the opposition to this movie has been well reasoned and calm. There has been very little of the foaming-at-the-mouth type of vitriol that Hollywood usually counts on to sell tickets. Just providing information to the parents, so they can make an informed decision.
It won't matter. They'll just blame the failure on the audience's stupidity. The fact that all the anti-war films have tanked big time hasn't stopped them from green-lighting a new wave of them.
Tell me about it. The RPG guys thought it was "too Christian" and the hard-core evangelicals looked at it as "a tool of the devil"! Release was so isolated the first time around, the guy went broke and had a garage full of them...I learned about the game in the Letters column of the old Dragon magazine. Ultimately, I probably wrote about 30,000 words amplifying the game, spent two years thinking and planning, and three months setting up the website...and there are still probably about 300 people who have actually played the game. Stioll fun, though.
Every time a Liberal candidate or issue fails at the polls, my local talking heads say "It's because we didn't get our message out." (Translation: "Our idea is brilliant...the only way it could fail is that you idiots in front of the TV's shoveling Cheetos into your fat faces don't understand it.")
My very widely educated daughter would like to see "Pirates of Pensanse" done with the cast of "Pirates of the Caribbean." Jack as the Pirate King, Harrington as the head policeman, the young pup as Frederick, the girl as Mabel, Her dad as the Major General...but we can't come up with a female second lead to play Ruth!
Roger Ebert's positive review is in our morning paper. Not that I ever pay attention to anything he likes.
That is true, of course. But at the end of the day, in Hollywood and everywhere else, money talks. Sometimes it talks so loudly, it cannot be ignored.
New Line dropped a lot of money on this production. Pissing away $30 Million on Lions for Lambs is one thing, but this movie is the big budget anchor flick for New Line for this entire season. A major flop by The Golden Compass would have reprecussions.
The very first one, of course, would be that the producers would drop any consideration of making a sequel (and the third, by extension). As bad as The Golden Compass is, it is cotton candy compared to the next two potential movies, which are much, much worse.
If they were faithful to the original material, I would pay $30 a ticket to see that movie on the big screen. Provided, of course, that they can sing. I know Jonathan Pryce can. Don't know about the others.
They're saying that the anti-war movies have flopped because the audience is so war-weary that we want only escapist stuff. In other words, anti-war movies have failed because we're all so anti-war! These people can rationalize anything.
Good News in re “Golden Compass.”
Bob Shaye’s Big Gamble Won’t Pay Off: ‘Golden Compass’ Looks Leaden This Wkd
My box office gurus are telling me that New Line Cinema’s holiday tentpole The Golden Compass is going to be a huge bomb. They predict an opening domestic weekend starting today only in the high $20s million from 3,528 theaters. That’s disastrous because, with a pricetag of $200+ million without P&A costs, the fantasy epic should be making a minimum $50 million debut. Not to mention that the studio has spent big bucks marketing the heck out of the PG-13 pic based on UK author Philip Pullman’s young adult book trilogy His Dark Materials.
Problem is, Golden Compass has sparked the ire of the Catholic League, which is calling for a boycott of the film by parents with children due to Pullman’s supposedly anti-Christian notions. It’s the kind of action rarely taken by the Catholic League against a movie, not even last year’s The Da Vinci Code. Worse, it cements Nicole Kidman’s status as box office poison.
The pic couldn’t even muster big audiences for its Wednesday overseas opening; it debuts day and date in 27 markets this weekend. So much for NL chairman Bob Shaye’s hopes for a fresh franchise. Seriously, he’s had so many disappointments at the box office month after month after month, year after year (everything in 2007 except for Hairspray) that he should have a big “L” for “Loser” branded on his forehead.
No doubt, that’s why New Line suddenly leaked this Sex In The City: The Movie trailer onto YouTube ridiculously early even though the chick flick won’t be released until May 2008. Even that is no reason to renew Shaye’s contract set to expire in 2008. After all, Time Warner is a public company, his New Line is no longer a private fiefdom, and he pisses away shareholder money.
Good news, indeed! Let’s hope it pans out. Shaye ought to lose his position over this fiasco, marketing this sort of harmful stuff to children...
The Future of TIME
“Judgment implies standards. Standards imply truth.”
Follow your logic back up the tree and you’ll see why the left denies the existence of an objective truth.
If there is an objective truth, that means there are standards _by which to be judged_.
It all comes down to desiring “no consequences for choices or behavior”, and that includes natural consequences - hence the “social safety net” for those experiencing the natural consequences (judgement) of their choices in life.
So I have learned.
Disgusting, isn’t it?
But if the film company looses ITS shirt, the writer’s stories are dead in the future, aren’t they?
Hmmmm - how about Haley Mills?
If Christians hate it, it must be a good movie. I will definitely see it.
I think you are skirting your intent here.
The public in a free market place and a free society has a God-given right to express their opposition to products they find repellant and offense through organized and unorganized boycotts.
The author of this story has made statements offensive to the majority of Americans who still believe in God and resent militant atheists.
If they choose to boycott this production and are successful, it will make the movie producers reluctant to make such productions in the future, adversely impacting the careers of individuals like this, who will still be able to market their sordid product to that small assortment of misanthropes who concur with their peculiar worldview.
I think this is what happened with that movie produce by Michael De Plama and Mr. Cuban which besmirched the character of American fighting men and women in Iraq.
In the future, movie producers may elect to either not create such pieces of anti-American propagandist filth or create them in Arabic and market them in Waziristan. The latter however, will, I’m sure, be a rather limited market given the amenities in an Islamic “paradise”.
Hoepfully the same situation will happen with this piece of trash - although I don’t think it would even sell in Waziristan.
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