'Golden Compass' Doesn't Get the Lead Out

Box Office Mojo ^ | Dec 10, 2007 | Brandon Gray

[I still care]

I guess my prediction is coming true. What I found interesting about this article is total lack of how the Christian boycott may have figured into the lackluster sales.

They instead say that people may be getting tired of fantasy, just like that article I read how because all the recent Hollywood war films have bombed, people "don't like war films anymore".

[ECM]

He is correct about fantasy being more often miss than hit (prior to Potter/Rings/Narnia), but I certainly fail to see a “glut” of fantasy films in theaters.

[dynachrome]

I don’t think it is just the Christian boycott. I am hoping it is that enough people are tired of blatant propaganda from the libs.

[bvw]

the foundations of Golden Compass ... were not nearly as culturally substantial.

True that. Word up.

[Borges]

There was no propaganda in the film as it was squeaked clean of the book’s anti-Clericalism.

[longtermmemmory]

To kill god is to kill hope, the Golden Compas is there to kill god. Nobody wants to see a movie that says there is no hope.

The anti war movies were not about war, they were about demanding defeat. Nobody likes loosers and anti-war movies celebrate loosers.

[Juan Medén]

Yeah, and just in time for Christmas. What this country really needs is a good God-bashing movie at Christmas time.

[DoughtyOne]

How fitting that the Golden Compass was deemed to have lost it way, and couldn’t attract an audience, who clearly knew where it was headed.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Since the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies, fantasy has been one of the genre fads in Hollywood and Golden Compass suffered from the resulting glut.

Glut or no, the fans will turn out for the next Narnia movie in May. Content matters as much as (or more than) genre.

[dynachrome]

Only for the first one. Sequels are planned and will be true to the books (except for substituting magisterium for catholicism)

[Timmy]

Yeah. We'll see how tired of fantasy people are when Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (http://www.narniaweb.com/news.asp?id=1355&dl=14478175) comes out on May 16.

[Jeff Chandler]

Movie goers aren’t getting tired of fantasy, and apparently neither is this writer.

[Borges]

I don’t know if there will be any sequels at this point.

[Pistov Elf]

Better to see a Good Christmas Movie than this loser!!

Pistov

[Loud Mime]

I saw this movie as anti-liberal. You have the young woman leader abusing children and citizens and the militia beating her organized armies.

[VictoryGal]

A couple of my godless co-workers said they were going explicitly to stymie the boycott.

They came back reporting that it was not a great adaptation of the book, despite the delicious special effects.

[PeteB570]

Well, my daughter went with her boyfriend as the family scouts.

Their report? It just wasn’t that good a movie, save money and wait until it comes out on video.

[dynachrome]

Ideology trumps profit for these guys.

[Old Sarge]

[PeteB570]

See my post # 17.