Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Signs hint 'Compass' may miss blockbuster territory (heh heh heh)
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 7, 2007 | Josh Friedman

Posted on 12/08/2007 6:17:51 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-116 next last
Heh
1 posted on 12/08/2007 6:17:52 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o
Some box office info points to a very disappointing opening weekend.

Rating by people on Yahoo! is a C+ (Lions for Lambs was a D- and proved to be a major bomb).

By contrast, Bella is running #1 on Yahoo! users of currently playing movies... Golden Compass is off the radar (no where near the top ten)...

2 posted on 12/08/2007 6:21:21 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

Saw this extremely odd movie last night. Intriguing special effects, incoherent script, EXTREMELY annoying random moment ending right at the obvious beginning of a sequal.

Can’t say I would recommend it.


3 posted on 12/08/2007 6:22:08 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

I don’t know too much about this movie. You seem to take pleasure in it’s proposed failure. Why?


4 posted on 12/08/2007 6:22:24 PM PST by kinoxi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o
But the ruckus may actually end up boosting the movie, said Karen Covell

Yeah, sometimes it works that way. But with a $30M opening weekend, I don't see evidence that controversy has helped them out.

5 posted on 12/08/2007 6:23:57 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

Ya know, I’m really not buying the contraversy=dollars argument very much anymore as it hasn’t helped a great many films this year at all.


6 posted on 12/08/2007 6:24:31 PM PST by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi

Because it is anti-Christian propaganda, aimed at our children.


7 posted on 12/08/2007 6:25:00 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Your choice if you take offense.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

What’s the big deal with the animosity toward this movie? Some people seem to hate it-—why?


8 posted on 12/08/2007 6:25:14 PM PST by Rudder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Constitutionalist Conservative; Borges; GratianGasparri; icwhatudo; wagglebee; NYer; Coleus; ...

FYI


9 posted on 12/08/2007 6:25:31 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi
Image hosted by Photobucket.com because his books are about killing God and the church and the movie is just a hook yo get the kids to read the books...
10 posted on 12/08/2007 6:25:36 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

director of the Hollywood Prayer Network. “The more riled up everybody becomes, the more publicity the movie gets,” she said. “It just ends up helping at the box office.”

Not if instead of geatting angry, and getting riled up (every Christian) simply let their friends, and neighbors whom they know good people about the dangers of this film, then there is not “negative publicity” merely the telling of the real theological dangers of this film..(then people will not go, and it will make less than it may would have).


11 posted on 12/08/2007 6:26:32 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi

I can’t speak for the poster, but I will say that since the author of the books has spent considerable energy denigrating CS Lewis, I am taking special glee in watching his movie fail to approach the theatrical treatment of Lewis’ work (never mind the fact that the author’s stated purpose with the books is to “kill God.”)


12 posted on 12/08/2007 6:26:43 PM PST by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi; Mrs. Don-o
You seem to take pleasure in it’s proposed failure. Why?

The author expressed extreme hatred for God, Christianity and C.S. Lewis (the Author of The Narnia stories). He stated his goal was to “Kill God.”

Atheist groups complained that the books Anti Christian theme was watered down.

Does that about cover it Mrs. Don-o?

13 posted on 12/08/2007 6:27:47 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi
To: Mrs. Don-o

I don’t know too much about this movie. You seem to take pleasure in it’s proposed failure. Why?

4 posted on 12/08/2007 6:22:24 PM PST by kinoxi

1. You don't surf FreeRepublic much, do you?

2. This movie was written by an anti-Christian author who has sworn to destroy Christianity.

3. Hollywood has adopted this author and movie as their next attempt to destroy Christianity and America.

4. Are you really this naive or are you a plant?

14 posted on 12/08/2007 6:27:49 PM PST by american_ranger (Never ever use DirecTV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi
I don’t know too much about this movie. You seem to take pleasure in it’s proposed failure. Why?

The author is some kind of raving demented off-his-meds atheist, who claims this peculiar movie and its sequel will kill organized religion.

After seeing this completely incoherent, computer graphics to the annonying hilt jibberish last night, God remains safe in the human heart.

15 posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:12 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o
Anti-war, anti-religious movies are not selling this year, this should be a wake-up call to the liberal elites in Hollywood, but its not.
16 posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:24 PM PST by RatsDawg (Hsu out the Democrats in 2008!, Go Hsu-less vote GOP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kinoxi
It based on books by a very atheistic/anti-Christian writer.

This movie would be very good for liberals and others who undermine our children...

There is concern that if the movie succeeded, then children would be negatively influenced by the books.

We have enough trouble with children. Example: Syracuse, NY 11-14 year old girls sharing nude photos with boyfriends. Boyfriends make CD, and selling the CD becomes child porn (eleven year old girls are children).

I think President Bill Clinton was part of that negative influence on girls (girls in grade school started doing the Monica L. thing because of Clinton).

17 posted on 12/08/2007 6:29:43 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Chode
...because his books are about killing God

That can only happen to people with dubious Faith.

18 posted on 12/08/2007 6:30:29 PM PST by Rudder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2007/12/golden-compass-2007s-biggest-bombs.html


19 posted on 12/08/2007 6:31:22 PM PST by traderrob6
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o
This was a LOW BUDGET FILM to attack Christians -- $140 million.

Atheist writer stands to gain lots from book sales as well as movie box office.

20 posted on 12/08/2007 6:31:27 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-116 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson