Looks like the Golden Compass isn't doing as good as they thought it would

[Quackers]

I think that part of the problem might be that the average Hollywood producer really doesn’t understand that most Americans value religion, faith and strong morals.

I agree. It seems to me that the G-rated and PG-rated movies always seem to fare better at the box office than the R-rated ones. I think Hollywood is out of touch with most Americans.

 

[jmcrae]

The only reason I have any desire to see it is because I want to see why people are making such a big deal about it. I never read the series and I generally don’t like these kinds of movies. Of course, if it’s just a badly made movie I’m not sure I want to spend the money to see it in theaters.

I was reading in a review yesterday that the technical aspect of it is of very uneven quality, which the reviewer found to be rather distracting.

I have no plans to see the movie.

 

[Joe_5859]

Thankfully, I can’t imagine “The Golden Compass” being one of those movies like “The Sixth Sense” that builds and builds with a stable weekly income at the box office.

With “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “I am Legend” this week, and “National Treasure 2” next week, I think that “The Golden Compass” probably will not be around for long.

 

[tomarin]

Yes, that would be absurd, which is why I didn’t say or even suggest that they are not interested in profit. But filmakers also fancy themselves as cutting-edge artists and unfortunately that generally translates into irreverence. Meaning that along with the sure-win blockbusters they are also willing to bankroll flagrant attacks on faith knowing pretty much that they will be box-office stinkers. Check out the video from a library if you can find it and decide for yourself.

doesn’t the case of “the golden compass” even go against what you’re saying?

that is, if hollywood has a conscious, explicit anti-christian agenda, which prompts them forgo the bottom line and bankroll anti-religious box office stinkers, wouldn’t one expect them to have left in more of the explicitly atheistic stuff from the book?

instead they toned it down in order to make a less offensive and controversial movie. not because they’re pious souls, of course, but in order to attract a larger audience and – gasp – make more profit.

if most of the stuff hollywood produces is vile and has no values or suspect values, i think it’s because of changes in the culture at large since the early 1960’s. the coarseness, secularism, and moral relativism in the movies today simply reflect the ethos of the dominant culture, which is no longer a christian one.

one can sometimes even find a glimmer of christian values in a movie that is otherwise trashy, coarse, or hedonistic, like in “knocked up”.