Friday, November 23, 2007
Have you ever had a movie or book that you were really excited to watch or read, and then become disappointed when it doesn't live up to what you thought it would be? Well, that seems to be happening a lot to me this year. First, there was the movie eragon (a complete flop), then there was the third Pirates of the Caribbean (bad morality, to many innuendos and paganistic thinking) and the Father of Dragons (no real point to the book, some odd character changes) and the Bourne Ultimatum (not much of a plot, looked like it had been hurriedly put together) and most recently, the subtle knife. This is book two of Phillip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. the first book of the series, the Golden Compass, (which is coming to theaters soon) was an enjoyable book, and the impression I got of it was a simple little kids story. Well, when I read the second book it was fine too, until the end. In the second book many things happen. for one, the whole book felt darker than the first, but it was still okay through most of it. Then angels were put on the seen. unlike real angels, who do Gods will always (other than the fallen), these angels can be summoned by a man and commanded by anyone. that was the first problem. Then there was the obvious belief in evolution, the raising of an army to kill God, the portrayal of all churches as evil, and that there is a knife that can kill even God. this was a major disappointment to me because i enjoyed the first book a lot. I am not advising any one to go to the movie or not, but be aware of what the agenda is. In the two times that I read the golden compass I didn't even catch a hint of what direction it would take, but it became quite obvious in the subtle knife. Today I read an article done by plugged in magazine about Phillip Pullman. It is beyond a doubt that he hates the church, and Christians, but does not believe there is a God. and although the golden compass looks and sounds like something C.S. Lewis wrote, Pullman has blatantly said many times that he hates all of C.S.Lewis's works. Something to think about :)
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Not to bad....you should become a critic or something. The only thing I have to say is about the bourne ultimatium. I think you need to give a bit more credit. The director did a good job of doing the story without throwing a bunch of uneccesary crap (such as language,sex,nudity)
when he could have and most of the fans would still have went. A new thing considering it came from Hollywood. Also he used the same type of production ethics (pace of the movie,cinamotagraphy, lighting ect.) as used in the previous movies. So it had much of the same feel. I do agree that the story had some kinks but, compared to other movies such as the Pirates of the Carribean series, It still flowed with the first movie and explained alot of stuff that was not explained in the first movie (such as why did he join the CIA in the first place). The rest of the movies that you talked about I totaly agree with you, same with the books.
while i do agree that the director did keep it clean considering what most directors do, there was an abundance of the LORD's name being misused
I agree with Camon. I personly enjoyed the Father of Dragons book, it filled in alot(in my perspective), but that is just me.
I agree you should be a movie/book critic!! Thanks for the overview. I liked the creativity of The Golden Compass but can see where it is going. Good thing God is big enough to handle any bad PR about Him. . .when your pure good the bad just disapates in the light!
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