This movie looks interesting to me. I think me and Mary Magdalene will take our daughter to see it this weekend.

-Uncle Jesus

I saw The Golden Compass this weekend, and the HuffPo hatchet job is BS. The film is well-done. Kidman is superbly cast in a cast you couldn't possibly improve. The plot has been brilliantly streamlined; within ten minutes the pace is a brisk jog. I watched a ten-year-old sitting with her parents: she was rapt.

The ending simply comes a few pages before the terrible final revelation in the book. Those discoveries will begin the second film. That way Americans -- with the attention spans of Jack Russells -- will "remember" them.

It was the "top" (not "flop") at the boxoffice the previous weekend, and the audience with me was triple that for Beowulf a few weeks earlier and vastly larger than that for Stardust on its first weekend.

They were not seedy atheist intellectuals either, but apple-cheeked Americans getting a dose of Milton, Blake, and heavy thinking slathered with good ole Merkin violence and no sex. (There ARE children present!)

Highly recommended. Whoever write the smear here should go buy a sequined shirt and try to sing like Jonny Cash. Or whatever his name was.

I just listened to an excellent interview with Pullman on Freethought Radio and earlier in the show they were saying that PUBLIC schools were sending home notes with their students telling parents not to take their kids to see it because the book was written by an atheist. Now, I haven't seen that anywhere else, but if it's true it's terrible. Also, how do you fight that if you're a movie studio? (Although personally, getting a note from the school would make it MORE likely that I'd take my non-existent kids.)

Are the fundies & catolicks writing HP headlines? The other MSM have a different take. Reality is a crutch....

Maybe they all went to see "Redacted".

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Why is Huffington spreading around this misinformation?

The headline should read: "Golden Compass Boffo Box Office Points to Numbah One"

I'm sorry for posting yet again but this just fascinates me for some reason. It's just so..so..obvious.

Though I understand Nichole Kidman was well cast for the part, why is everything about this movie branded has her movie? She had nothing to do with the plot, the direction or the special effects, just a hired puppet.

Branding has gone too far. One cannot read simple news without a tie in to some other product

Not to mention the MAJOR ICE STORM that covered half of America.

Don't believe the critics. I read the books and now I'd like to see how it translates to the screen. Nothing is perfect. That's life. I heard a lot of negative talk about Beowulf also, but today I was told to see it in 3-D. That sounds interesting! It's just entertainment folks, not your inheritance or another declaration of war. Lighten up!

Have you taken your family to the movies lately? It's either that or eat for the week. And the last 3 movies I went to see, SUCKED!!! I'm tired of wasting my hard earned money on shit that Holleywood wants to spew out.