[NYer]

Advertising Media Plus, the agency promoting The Golden Compass, is trying to use a review by Harry Forbes, the director of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Office for Film & Broadcasting, as leverage against the boycott being called for by Catholics and Evangelicals.

[mnehring]

In several other threads it has been discussed that the first book didn’t have the anti-Catholic bias that the later books did and the movie didn’t carry forward any of that. Just my opinion, but I think this is a battle (for lack of a better term) between those who are reviewing the movie at face value and those who are reviewing it in the context of the full book series. Both have merit.

[Antoninus]

My advice: use the money you would have spent seeing this to watch Bella again instead.

[ClearCase_guy]

Interestingly, according to Mr. Forbes, “the religious themes of the later books may be more prominent in the follow-up films which Weitz (the producer of The Golden Compass) has vowed will be less watered down.”

This is exactly the strategy used in the books. The first book (IIRC) there is no hint that religion is ruining the world. There's bad stuff out there, and the good guys need to fight it. It's very traditional. It's only in the follow-up books when it becomes apparent that the "bad guys" are the folks on God's side, and the "good guys" are the ones trying to destroy God.

I've seen a lot of articles saying that the movies "aren't as anti-religious as the books" -- and I say "Wait for the sequel -- you'll see."

[Zhang Fei]

The Bishops of the United States are being asked to fire the chief movie reviewer for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Harry Forbes, the Director of the USCCB Office for Film and Broadcasting, has reignited scandal by praising the film "The Golden Compass" which is based on an anti-Catholic novel. Forbes caused similar controversy two years ago when he issued a glowing review in the name of the USCCB for the homosexual propaganda film "Brokeback Mountain".

[Coleus]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=goldencompass

[narses]

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[SQUID]

One thing that stands out is that he seems to target Christianity as if no other religion exists. He isn’t really an atheist then is he.

[VOA]

"Golden Compass promoters trying to advertise in Catholic press
(using USCCB positive review)"

In advance, and for full disclosure...
I'm not Catholic.
But seeing how the makers of the film "The Golden Compass" have
wisely watered down the atheistic tone of the source book in
order to get a "CASH COW" that will get a "greenlighting"
for the next film in the Pullman trilogy...

I can't help but think in terms of the Catholic bishops being the
endorsers of the film...

Somewhere, amidst leaping flames, Stalin is smiling about
today's "useful idiots".