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Posted on 12/09/2007 8:39:12 AM PST by keat
There was no Saturday miracle surge for New Line. The Golden Compass, an effects-laden family film starring Nicole Kidman with a reported budget of $200M, received a modest 16% increase from its opening day, posting an estimated $10.2M on Saturday. Assuming a Sunday drop of 33%, Compass will finish its opening weekend with a disastrous $25.84M. (For a comparison to other big budget, family-oriented films in this mold along with details about New Line’s dismal 2007 and Nicole Kidman’s box office cold streak, scroll down to my Friday Night report.)
Disney’s Enchanted blew past $80M domestic with a $4.9M Saturday, and the live action/animation hybrid with a sure-fire Oscar nomination for Amy Adams will cruise to an estimated $10.98M. This Christmas (Sony), Fred Claus (Warner Bros) and Beowulf (Dreamworks/Paramount) have finished 3-4-5 on Saturday and for the 3-day frame.
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No, I don't read fiction. I also don't feel I can properly inform people about books and movies I haven't read or seen.
A book series that aims to indoctrinate kids into thinking physical pleasures of the flesh are more important than spirituality, that the Christian religion is a fraud, that homosexual angels are the 'good guys', etc... is not something I have any interest in my children seeing.
Then don't take them to see it.
Some people are very willing to throw good money after bad to advance their agenda. We'll see what happens.
The number and volume of your posts belie that assertion. Why are you expending all this energy telling us we're wasting our energy enjoying the failure of an evil film? Why all the sturm and drang over nothing?
The word I used was tactless, meaning if someone says to me, "Don't see this movie, and it sucks" and yet they haven't seen it, its safe to say that person has little tact.
Meaning what? That it's impossible to know something is evil based on the author's claims about what he's trying to do? By your logic, I'm not qualified to advise someone to avoid a carcinogen because I've never had cancer.
Exactly right. If the church of Satan opens in town, I hope it doesn’t attract too many of my neighbors and closes up and goes away. It’s not mere shadenfreude that causes people to want this movie to bomb, but an interest in seeing anti-Christian values disincentivized.
I’d like to say that there’s no good reason this film opened so terribly. It had market-saturation advertising, big name star power, fight scenes which made one think of Lords of the Rings and children with magical animals in fantasy settings which reminded one of Narnia, and it was all presented to us on a plate pre-Christmas. It should have been a smash.
Word of mouth via the internet killed this film.
Screw the Golden Compass. Check out “Tin Man” on Scifi today. It wasn’t bad. The acting needed to be better sometimes, but the story was very unique and the hottie evil queen was a delight to watch!
If the first film bombs, a sequel is less likely. As I suspect you have heard, the anti-God agenda in this series does not really get going until the second book/movie. By the third in the series, it is at full flower. If these sequels are not made, that will be an objectively good thing.
Will a failure of The Golden Compass reform Hollywood? Of course not. But it will be a step in the right direction. In any case, getting the sequels sunk is a good enough result.
I think your energies would be better spent elsewhere, not to mention the fact that lobbying people to avoid a movie you haven't seen yourself can be perceived as tactless and arrogant.
We have lots of energy. Some for this, and some for other stuff, too. But if New Line is planning to actively promote atheism in children through this series, and there is no way to take The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass to the big screen without actively promoting atheism to children, this is an important battle to fight. People are naturally protective of children, as well they should be.
As for being perceived as tactless and arrogant, I think the opposition to this movie has been remarkably thoughtful and tolerant. People are just educating themselves and others about the content of the source material, and parents are being permitted to make informed decisions. It really is not a boycott, in spite of what you may read. It is really more of an effort to let the public know about the publically stated agenda of the author of these books. New Line has done everything they can to conceal the truth, so people are stepping in to inform the public.
My husband and I took my 13 year old son, my 11 year old twin daughters, and another 11 year old boy. All of us enjoyed the movie.
The kids really enjoyed the cockroaches.
I’m talking about Enchanted.
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That was a government funded study, wasn’t it?
Because if folks aren't concerned for their immortals souls, then at least we can help them save 2 hours of their lives from being wasted. After all, if they're atheists, it's all they've got...
“The word I used was tactless, meaning if someone says to me, “Don’t see this movie, and it sucks” and yet they haven’t seen it, its safe to say that person has little tact.”
I find it hard to believe that in your entire life you’ve never made a decision on seeing/not seeing a movie based on third party scuttlebutt, or ever said the phrase, “The reviews said it stinks(or similar adjective)” to another person.
I believe it was, but am not 100% sure.
Bravo, Cyclops08!
Sorry, I should have added a happy face. Totally rhetorical question. :)
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