Another problem was pressure to make the movie 2 hours when it required 3 hours, something Jackson refused to do with LoTR. The reviews I’ve listened to and read seemed to think that taking the anti-religious message from the book out, made the movie pointless and dull. How popular are the Pullman books in America anyway? There aren’t that many atheists in America the LWM and academia where most of them reside simply lie about their number.Ĭomparing His Dark Materials to The Lord of the Rings is crazy, the difference in numbers of fanbase, readership, and fictional languages is huge. Molten Thought has these incorrect ideas about why the movie bombed:ġ. Production on those films was only going to begin depending on how the first movie did financially. In any case, this could put the two potential sequels in the trilogy in limbo. (One notable exception was Roger Ebert, who gave it four stars. What does it matter if you spend millions on a movie – love the talking, battling bears! – if the effects are cheesy, the story runs off on tangents and after watching the movie fail utterly to be the next Lord of the Rings, you just want to go home. gives the movie a combined rating of only 51/100. Check out the video here.)Ĭritics aren’t huge fans, either. (A local ABC affiliate took some of the group’s members to see and discuss the movie, along with some Christians. The movie didn’t suck, but it also wasn’t nearly as good as I hoped it would be. However the general Atheist opinion seems to be that they would hate to be represented by a poorly made Hollywood movie. It’s odd, Atheists are so used to having people think of us as being immoral, or arrogant, or evil that it no longer really bothers us so much. So, what did I think of the movie? Atheists everywhere have been hoping that the movie doesn’t suck. The movie hasn’t been getting a thrilling reception from most audiences, including atheists like the members of the Central Valley Alliance of Atheists and Skeptics (in California), who weren’t very impressed: It’s not that the Catholic League’s boycott or the various Facebook protest groups worked. Not unless the movie holds steady at or near the top of the weekend box-office lists for another couple weeks. If you factor in overseas markets, you can add another $55,000,000 in ticket sales.īut it’s still not enough to recoup the money spent on the film. “It’s below expectations, but it’s not an out-and-out debacle,” said. New Line, a struggling Time Warner Inc unit hoping to launch another franchise along the lines of its blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” series, said last week it was hoping the film would open to between $30 million and $40 million. In North America, it made an estimated $26,100,000 (more optimistic projections put the estimates at $28,000,000).įor the sake of comparison, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the first movie in that trilogy, opened at $47,200,000.
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