I remember reading an article saying the movie had currently grossed over 300 million dollars. Seems to me it did pretty well although I didn’t go see it.
It really freaked me out when I was reading up on new age garbage, and found out that communicating with “spirit guides” is foundational to their occultic beliefs. I read that the humans in the movie have little animal “guides” that go with them everywhere. The movie was totally pushing new-age occultic crap on children! Yikes and double yikes!
Good.
Good News!
I hope that this is true.
“The movie tanked so badly that the second and third installments are not going to be made”
While I pray this is true, I can’t find conformation of it anywhere else, just a few blogs parroting each others comments. New Line is bragging about how well it did overseas. Unless I’m mistaken, they only sold foreign distribution rights for the first film. They may well decide to swallow their domestic losses and distribute the sequels themselves.
Sweet.
I just watched this movie. Wow, was it dumb. And the song at the end was one of the 10 most idiotic things I’ve ever heard.
What I do expect is an entertaining movie. While Golden Compass had a lot of great special effects, the acting sucked, the plot was formulaic, and the plot elements themselves seemed like they came from a random grab bag of ideas.
In short, I ended up watching the first 45 minutes and then finding something much better to do with my time...