Golden Compass Getting Bad Reviews

rottentomatoes ^ | 12-6-07 | self

[arderkrag]

Tabletop. There may be one, But I stay pretty abreast of this stuff, and I haven’t seen one.

[arderkrag]

A quick search shows no matches, but several MUD/MUCKs and some homebrew D&D conversions.

[mbraynard]

Yeah, they always do that.

[SkyDancer]

A lot of current movies just are not worth seeing - but - the graphics are great .... so sometime I just go to see how the graphics were done and not bother with listening to dialog .... plus of course if it’s one of my favorite actor(s) I’d see it anyway ... like Johnny Depp or Matt Dameon(sp) Brad Pitt, etc .....

[Tanniker Smith]

The problem is, the Catholic League will give this movie more publicity than it deserves.

Perhaps, but at least they aren't plucking it out of obscurity (it has a decent ad budget) nor hammering it so hard that they are "forcing" people to see it to make up their own minds.

[tx_eggman]

The characters in the tv ad say things about learning the “truth” that “they” don’t want you to know. “See things as they really are...”.

"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil

[mdmathis6]

“I think that’s C.S. Lewis’ writing style, start slowly, get the characters in place, and then end with a bang.”

Sort of how God might play chess with the Devil!

[JOAT]

The film is not as silly as it sounds; it's much sillier. Remember the worst line in "Star Wars"? "But I was gonna go to the Tashi station to pick up some power converters!" Imagine a whole movie like that.

Heh.

[Tanniker Smith]

Prince caspian looks okay, I guess. Personally, I hate trailers like the second half of that one. Fade in/CUT/fade in/CUT, etc. Kills my poor eyesight. Before I can focus on anything, it's gone.

At least the first part was watchable, and the movie won't be like that.

[Billthedrill]

I could barely make it through the dreadful trailer...

Yeah, me too. Caught it in a mall whilst Christmas shopping and my lunch partner takes one look and asks me "uh, do you really want to see that?" in the tone of voice that implied she'd just spotted some dog poop and was asking me if I wanted to clean it up.

But it'll turn a profit, IMHO. It's a big-screen CGI fantasy and it's close to Christmas. But I've been wrong before (ie "Polar Express")...

[Red6]

“PARENTS, PARENTS, PARENTS....it is up to YOU “

Kids don’t grow up in a vacuum. Some people intentionally put a subliminal message into a story that is colorful, full or adventure, and surprises. This is not the first and it won’t be the last. Typically when they make their movies like this they don’t publicly admit what their agenda is. It is a package deal with a motive that is highly appealing to a kid who does not even realize what’s going on. As you said, that’s where parenting comes in.

That movie will never come in my home.

[Antoninus]

The problem is, the Catholic League will give this movie more publicity than it deserves.

Uh, do you have any idea how much they're spending to market this movie? The idea that it's better to be silent than to risk helping to promote an evil film by denouncing it is a non-starter for me when you're dealing with one that's already got a multi-million dollar ad campaign behind it.

[Antoninus]

I know that the trailers for this movie look bad. I wouldn’t waste my money seeing it. But that’s my choice.

Yeah, the whole armored polar bear thing looked pretty gay to me.

[Antoninus]

I’m gonna disagree with you on this one. This is a major studio’s major release for the holidays. The Catholic League comments and discussion thereof will be swamped by the movie’s advertising. The basic word of the author’s intent will get through to balance the studio’s subterfuge. Were it a smaller offering I’d agree, but in this case, no.

Bingo, bango.

[Kieri]

A friend of mine is in England, working on “Caspian.” He’s got some great ideas for “Dawn Treader,” and we’re pushing him to just leave a few hanging around his work area!

My family will see “Caspian” in the theatre. We’d rather give our money to keep Tom employed for a long time than that idiot Pullman.

[Landru]

"Those guys never lose their shirts, though he may have a hard time selling a second screenplay."

Yes and no.

The populations living in the subcontinent nations love America films, the lousier the better it'd seem.

...& the Hollyweirdos know it.

[AppyPappy]

God doesn’t get killed in this movie. That comes later. Glenn Beck was right. No matter how badly this movie flops, they will make the last movie so they can kill God.

[NavyCanDo]

“When I saw the trailers I wanted to see the movie.

When I heard about the idiot who wrote the story, I decided not to.”

Same here. 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 so on this one.
His review, backs 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

[MrB]

The only “bad review” that I want to see on this movie is a negative return on investment for those that sank money into it.

[Verloona Ti]

I am amazed the critics didn't fawn all over this movie, because of its "important message", ie antireligion. Medved, in his Hollywood versus America describes a critic's viewing of The Last Temptation of Christ. Critics laughed at the film, scoffed at it, mocked it mercilessly-then the next day, their reviews for it were glowing, even reverent. Medved confronted one of the biggest detractors, who wrote one of the most glowing reviews. "Why did you write such a positive review for a film you hated, at the screening?" And the critic replied, "Because if I didn't , I'd be lumped in with those crazie fundies protesting it". So what has altered that late 1980s dynamic? I am guessing it's the net-too many amateur reviewers who tell the truth, so professional critics know they'll only look like an ass if they try to help a crappy film succeed by praising it-we're past the days when word of mouth was the only way besides the critics to know a film's quality.

PS. If a film tanks in the US, it can still turn a huge profit in the overseas market-especially if it failed here because it's antiAmerican. Medved discusses the impact of the global market , too.

PPS I hope The Water Horse (a film about a baby loch ness monster) is good.