Posted on 11/26/2007 8:46:29 PM PST by Mr. Silverback
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This is from Focus on the Family about the movie
http://www.pluggedinonline.com/thisweekonly/a0003516.cfm
That has got rave reviews, hasn’t it? Pardon me, the plot sounds kind of boring, but many good movies seem boring until you watch them. The Pianist for example...
I believe it’s being made by Walden Media; who gave us Narnia. I have been hearing that Pullman’s anti-Christian themes have been totally bleached out. That it’s just a rousing fantasy flick.
There’s a couple of good articles on “The Golden Compass” in the latest issue of This Rock magazine (December, 2007), but unfortunately they don’t have it on-line yet.
It is deliberately designed to undermine Christianity. Even if the movie draws back from that, it will be dangerous if it sends kids to the books.
Also, the anti-Christian bias is not very evident in the first volume, but grows as the trilogy progresses. Also deliberate, so kids will be drawn in before they realize what they are getting into.
Yes, it did win in the Toronto Film Festival. It’s an incredibly moving and powerful film.
http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/compass-pullman.htm
More here about the movie. This is a very good article at the link.
It comes from New Line Cinema. The “problem” with bleaching the elements comes when kids want to get the books, which are not bleached.
Nope, New Line. And a pig with a gold earring is still a pig.
Yep. It is a NO-GO in this household.
I noticed how they are even trying to play it up as a Narnia-type vehicle in the trailers with, “The last time a little girl wandered into a wardrobe...”
Nice try, but unlike Ms. Lewinsky, I say NO CIGAR.
It's a remake of The Omega Man with Charlton Heston. That was a good movie based on the Story "I am Legend" by Richard Mathieson. Every good horror film or movie seems like it was written by Richard Mathieson.
I don't know why they think they can improve on the original....
I was a kid, yes, saw Omega Man. Very good, but typical 70s “bad ending”. Think about it, all the movies back then, the good guy died at the end. I hated that...
“The only movie for the holidays that looks interesting, is that one called I am Legend.”
I just reread the short story and will be interested to see if they stayed at least partly true to the plot. It certainly could not be more of a stinker than The Omega Man was.
But the hero dying at the end, and so passing into Legend, was the point of Matheson’s story. I think the earlier version, “The Last Man On Earth,” starring Vincent Price, made that point more clearly than “Omega Man”.
Vietvet
This movie won't see a dime of my household's money, ever.
Actually, the first take on “I am Legend” was “The Last Man on Earth”, with Vincent Price (circa 1964).
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