"i know it was written by an atheist and all, but i'm sure some christians and catholics do, well, i don't, cause it looks dumb from the commercials"
what? lol
Christians are screaming out because the books are about defeating god---ultimately the series culiminates (sp?) in a war against god
All this does is attract more attention to the movie, though, since it makes people curious. If they really wanted to protest the movie they should have just left it be...by drawing all this attention to it all it will do is draw more people to it. It's like saying "omg that movie was awful" and then your friends want to see it to see if it really was awful or if it was good and you just didn't like it etc
*eric* I screamed i was so excited when i saw this preview. i was going to drag my b/f to it too but he gets out of cal poly the day it opens and he has to go home for christmas break =(
You pretty much hit the nail on the head - the right wing conservative christians have their feathers ruffled up because it's a story written by an atheist and in the story, the church is the "bad guy"
Otherwise - it's just banking on the money that was made on other "epic" fantasy type films and trying to catch that audience and make a few dollars... just like any other movie in Hollywood. (My g/f is uber-excited by the film -- she's read the books so she's looking forward to dragging me along to it)
I have NEVER seen any commercials for "His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" so I have no idea what the movie will look like. I only would see it if the special effects are decent enough or awesome looking. I am a Christian but not devout, if you are wondering.
I know in the movie that they eventually kill God, and the movie suppose to show kids that they don't need God!! i think this is soooo wrong!! I would never support this movie. the guy who wrote the series is trying to make it look like C.S. Lewis's narnia, so it can attract kids, even though he hates C.S. Lewis!! thats just down right dirty!!!
My family will NOT be seeing this film. First of all - my main objection to this movie is that the theme and purpose is underhandedly hidden and attempted to be passed off as a movie for children. Although in some of the answers to this question we are told that the atheists don't "react" to Christian and Jewish productions, I beg to differ. I can't think of any Christian films that attempt to "hide" their theme or purpose. These same people are the first to insist that our nativity scenes be removed from public view and insist that prayer and any form of religious reference be removed from our schools. They are angered that all of us won't blindly submit to their insistance that we become like them and they loudly voice their opinion while calling Christians and Jews violators of "their" rights. They want to take away our choice to worship and display our faith while they expose theirs regularly and expect us to just take it and not react or complain. If we do react and stand up for OUR rights, they call "foul" and hire an attorney or the ACLU. Unfortunately, the land of the "free" is not so "free" anymore if you are God-Fearing. "In God We Trust" was once our country's theme and now these people who fear us are being given more rights than those of us who stand firm in the faith that made this country what it was and what it should be again (if we continue to stand up and not fold under pressure and political correctness). The atheist community won't be pleased until our coins read more like "In NO God we trust".
I also believe the reaction is a "UNrighteous indignation" because they had hoped they could "slip this one by us" and spoon feed our children these submessages under the disguise of an innocent fantasy movie, even releasing it during the month of our most precious Christian and Jewish Holidays. That is NO mistake, it is just another attempt to slap us in the face (or more like a sucker punch as they had hoped we wouldn't discover the underlying theme of this trilogy).
Research this issue online and you will find atheist websites glowing over the movie, others will try to play down the purpose of the movie and still other atheists are disturbed that it isn't MORE blatant as to the anti-God theme. Check also snopes.com and you will get a more accurate idea as to the underhanded purpose of this movie; to distort the minds of our children towards thier views, yet they cry foul if we expose their children by daring to pray in public or in school or to even say the pledge of allegiance because of the "one nation under God" phrase. It is very sad that the very rights that they hold up as constitutional and deserved (but yet want to deny us) are the rights that were given to them by our GOD FEARING and GOD TRUSTING forefathers.
I am not an extremist either, but I don't like it when others expect more respect and rights than the rest of us and I do not like the underhanded attempts to slip this message through to our children. The author ABSOLUTELY intends to and admits that his goal is to kill God in the minds of our children. The third book in the trilogy ends with the children KILLING GOD and being able to do whatever they want (what chaos THAT would be!!!) Boycotting this movie is an important stance that should be taken by Christians and Jews as well as anyone else who believes that our children should not be fed subliminal messages in such an underhanded, distorted manner under the disguise of "friendly fantasy".