The Backlash
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Christian groups are calling for a boycott of Nicole Kidman's new film, The Golden Compass.
The movie is based on the book The Northern Lights by British author Philip Pullman, which is anti-religious and against organized faith.
Even though filmmakers are claiming any anti-Christian undertones have been removed from the movie, the Catholic League and others are worried that kids will be inspired to buy the book and are urging parents to keep them away from it.
But that will make Nicole Kidman sad. No frown lines!
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fuckin christians at it again…. 14th!
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someone please take her to mistic tan!!!!
First … well maybe. I love the Golden Compass (aka Northen Lights), one of my favourite book series!
Its based on HIS DARK MATERIALS…not Northern Lights
And your paragraph didnt make sense, read it a second time before u post it
F the catholic league….it is only one person!!!!! They need to get over themselves!
FUCK THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE! The Catholic League is one guy sitting at a computer. There is no "LEAGUE." You can't police the world from "anti religion" shit. Most people that do things in the name of religion are the worst fucking assholes in the universe.
It's based on the Golden Compass. The book and the movie have the same name
i hope kids will see it
and buy the book
and forget about religion, its the devil
I'm anti-religon and organized faith…. now I want to see this movie!
ANY movie that the Catholic Church does not want you to see you should see twice. They are startomg tp figure out that the time of thier control is at an end. Thank God! Your days of control through fear and child molestation are done. If I were them, I would worry more about explaining how it is they come to be the largest owners of arms plants the world over.
Most likely not first
Nicole Kidman should tan, redo her eyebrows, and stop the botoxing. Fast.
This will now hit number one at the box office thanks to the religious nuts.
Way to go fundies!!!!
Geeze. They said the same damn thing about Harry Potter. Who really cares. It's a MOVIE. A movie meant to entertain.
It just shows what little faith they have in their god. If they did, they would know that one little movie wouldn't provoke children into Paganism.
These religious groups get on my last nerve.
i am catholic and the way the catholic church is today. i don't think they should worry about a movie. stop touching the kids.
this is stupid, people are afraid that their kids will see this movie and stop believing in God? If a movie can do that your God doesn't have a very strong case does he…?
Of course they are worried about it.
Heaven forbid anyone actually THINK FOR THEMSELVES and not be forced into religion!
Ugh. I hate religious fucks.
BELIEVE IN SCIENCE
she looks like a ghost.
I'm sure someone's already said this, but the movie is based on a book of the same name, not "The Northern Lights" … and I'm super pumped for it!
Also, even if she is a Botox queen, I love me some Nikki K
Anti-religious my ass.
bullshit!!!! i saw the movie, it's amazing. the catholic church should get over itself. if the pope is worried about losing followers because of a fictional movie, he's got bigger problems to worry about.
You know what will encourage kids to buy the book even more? All the controversy and negative press! Keep at self righteous christian groups, Satan's plan is working.
Kids should be inspired to buy the book (books really - it's a trilogy and Golden Compass is just the first).
Fantastic series and censorship is so stupid. I am Catholic and love the books. Did it turn me athiest or satanic? No, it's a book.
LOL PEREZ YOUR A DAMN FOOL!
It's not Anti-Christian it's based on Atheist beliefs. Christians and Catholics have tried to boy cot Hairy Potter too… I think what the Christian and Catholic church need to do is work on themselves first before pointing the wrongs of everyone else. Isn't that up to God to decide.
Who cares? You can't please everyone all the time. Live with it.
If faith in God is so strong then surely a fictional book wouldn't change that?
OLD NEWS. Seriously Perez. This an the Imus thing are old news. Even the View talked about it before you! 24 hours before!
Wana know where the offering plate goes? To pay these babbling tards. Honestly, if your kids are 'inspired' by this movie, you have failed as a parent.
She is gross. I hope that movie BOMBS!! Let's make a film about a book, where in the end they kill God. He's the reason any of us are alive. And then they try and make it look like another Narnia. SICK SICK SICK
The book is actually called The Golden Compass - not Northern Lights - and is part of the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Christian groups aren't gaining anymore followers with ignorant stunts like this.
The Christian Morons are now driving kids to READ the book. WTG ya knuckle-dragging buffoons. =)
What the hell happened to "freedom of religion" on this fucking continent? I tell ya, man, the pope wears a pointy white hat for a reason, folks.
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o Mi Dios! She's disgusting. Ew.
Jesus fucking christ can't people make up thier own damn mind about how they want to live anymore?!? Oh noes the christians are saying stay away from this book. Children can't question what has been pushed on them from birth. God forbid people try to extend their knowledge. I hate our society sometimes(most of the time).
o well just burn the books why dont you
it is not anti christian! it depends on interpretation. i myself am a christian and i found it to be a pro-faith novel/series. it seems as though some people are not faithful enough to let new interpretations be presented.
who gives a flying fuck
who gives a flying fuck
The book is called Northern Lights in Europe. In America it was released as The Golden Compass. The trilogy of books is called His Dark Materials. Calm down.
just fuck religion all together
Lord, what fools these mortals be. It will only make more people go see the movie. The producers probably start this shit! The entire time the movie wasing been lensed, I never heard this, only now that it is opening.
that is ridiculous. Ban the chronicles of narnia. It is religious propoganda.
Wouldn't you think they'd accomplish more seizing this as an opportunity to (privately) reaffirm their faith than by giving the movie more publicity through a boycott? Here’s hoping no one honors this, yet another counterproductive bullshit boycott by the keepers of that Great Christian Fairy Tale.
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All kids should be raised without the brainwashing trash called religion. Kids rebel and dont live your entire life afraid, because your parents had you believing fairy tales as a child. Break free!!!!!!! Break Free!!! The Church is a business for Money and Power.
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I work in a library … kids don't pick up anything from Bill Pullman's book … just like they don't read The Chronicles of Narnia and suddenly turn into Evangelicals!
Thank God we have the Christian Right telling us what to do. What would we do without them ….Just for that, I am going to see the movie and bring my 2 kids!!!!
Just to clarify, The Northern Lights is the UK title of the book. The US title is The Golden Compass.
And yeah, all they're doing by getting their panties in a bunch over the movie is giving it free publicity, and making sure everyone wants to see it for themselves. A boycott will not work.
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All kids should be raised without the brainwashing trash called religion. Kids rebel and dont live your entire life afraid, because your parents had you believing fairy tales as a child. Break free!!!!!!! Break Free!!! The Church is a business for Money and Power.
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fuck off
bludi christians
do my nut in!!!
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The books are excellent!
This makes me so embarassed to be American and to live in the South.
Fucking Christianity.
LEAVE NICOLE ALONE!!!!!!
Oh please!!! ITS A MOVIE!!!! If it only takes one book and a movie to change minds of your children, then maybe you didn't do your job as a parent. Then again, isn't literature there to expand minds to others' ideas? Is this going to end up as an old fashion witch burning? Its 2007, not 1607.
Re: kaylee – everyone should just believe in science, then they would know at least what they believe is true and factual, not based on complete and utter bullshit
it IS based on the northern lights you thickshits!!!
This is ridiculous. Christians; if YOU choose to be Christian, then don't see this movie, don't let your kids see it. You, thankfully, do NOT get to decide what the rest of us believe in or watch or let our kids see! BUGGER OFF
THe dress is fierce! THe Catholic League and the rest of them can shove it!
It's called freedom of speech and separation of church and state. Look it up!
This is the same thing they did when Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code came out. Please, I am a Christian and I liked Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code. I'm well aware that they're fiction. Sounds to me like the parents should just spend more time telling their kids the difference between reality and make-believe. It's the hardcore brow-beating, bible thumpers that give us all a bad name by doing stuff like this. I'm Christian, but I don't try to force my faith on people, all it will do is drive others away. Why can't people learn this? Anyway, hope the movie doesn't bomb because of this.
I love Jesus Christ & I really want to see this movie & love Nicole Kidman. Come on give me a break already. Im tired of people forgeting that the huma
Re: chris – Amen to that!
I love Jesus Christ & I really want to see this movie & love Nicole Kidman. Come on give me a break already. Im tired of people forgeting that the human spicies is complex & intelligent.
It's not the book itself, but the series as a whole. The Golden Compass isn't actually that bad (compared to the later books in the series).
I am sure the Catholic League(s) will have a problem with Spiderwick Chronicles and any other fantasy movie based or loosely based on a children's book. Just like Harry Potter is teaching kids to worship the devil. They've got to keep themselves in the new somehow, no?
Are you getting paid to say these things Perez?? Why don't you take it out on the author or the movie company? I don't get the personal attacks on Nicole Kidman.
FUCK RELIGIOUS FANATICS!!!!
Actually, the book is called Northern Lights. It's just when it came to NA that they changed the name, kind of like Harry Potter … And I know that His Dark Materials is the name of the series thank you very much. In my excitement of being first (maybe) I wrote a really fast post, which is why it might not make sense.
Im definatly seeing it!!!!!
If they bothered to watch the film, they'd see that it is not the same as the story told in the book and does little to promote atheism, especially to children who would only see the story and not look for deeper meaning. But typical Catholics, think they know better than everyone and they haven't even seen the film!
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Ironically, their call for a boycott makes me want to go and see it.
When you consider that most conflict in the world right now and all throughout the history of civilisation have been cause by religion and/or ethnic differences, it kind of legitimises the need for a debate on atheism.
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Children should not feel that they have to pick a 'team' or a 'side' or indeed that someone of a different religion is any different to them. Maybe children need to hear that we're all humans and that religion is not an important thing; it just divides us.
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You can believe it god but not religion (agnostic) and as far as I know, this film does not promote any anti-god message. Organised religion is the cause of so much hatred, very ironic actually when you consider that all major religions promote messages of peace and kindness to fellow man.
no matter what..this woman always looks evil! no wonder tom tom dumped her for Katie. Hope Katie survives him!
Perez get off it already, Nicole Kidman is gorgeous and talented.
I read the Golden Compass, by phillip Pullman. It was not anti christian in anyway. It's a story where good overcomes evil, that's a good thing!!! I am christian and loved the book! I in no way found it offensive to my beliefs.
Thats whats wrong with the world today. ORGANIZED RELIGION is the root of all evil. These stupid Christians and thier holy attitude.. they are against anything that is not written in a thousand year old book. Its the 21st century people get over it. And that goes for every other fucking religion that kills people or puts grandmas in jail becuase they named a fucking teddy bear mohammed..
Yeah… my church that I attend even preached about the movie this past Sunday! They talked about how evil it is and how the writer of the books said that it's about "killing God." I think that the whole hype about it is crazy! It's a movie…. the more you speak about it (good or bad) the more people are going to want to judge it for themselves! It's ridiculous! I don't understand why this group of extremist have to pull a stink against EVERYTHING… first Harry Potter, then DaVinci Code and now this! It's ridiculous!
Re: Kimberly –
Amen to that!!!
Oh, and dipshits… books are released under different names in different parts of the world. He is a British writer. Ever think that Northern Lights is the original title of the book and that the US publishing companies changed it to the Golden Compass? No. You all jump to conclusions too quickly to think for yourselves, right? Oh the irony.
I heard the Catholic League is one guy behind his computer. The Catholics are going to always scream about anything that has the least whiff of anti-organization. They, and other organized religions, even the Fundamentalists, want to claim "God" and his word as their own. Forget that something might be deeply spiritual or have a God-like figure. No one was freaking out about the Lord of the Rings trilogy which embodied the forces of good and evil, with no Christian core. People confuse organized religion with spirituality all the time. Ask the Quakers, Shakers or Transcendentalists.
If it's against organized religion that seems pretty logical to me. Anyone with any sense is. Just look around, all the problems in the world have their roots in religion. The catholic church is simply afraid of feeling it in their greedy collection plates.
Normally the posts on this site really bug me but I agree with practically every post on here (not the ones about Nicole's tan.)
I hope we all go and see this film now that we know the Catholics told us not to!
As a CHRISTIAN….I DON'T LISTEN TO "THEM" either……I make up my OWN mind THANK YOU……"THEY" had their undies in a bunch over "Jurassic Park" too. Nothing wrong with that movie….It was a wonderful adventure! SO, use your own heads and ignore "THEM"!!!!!!!!
It's a great fucking book. So is the second book in the series. The third one? Well…..that one kinda sucks.
I'm praying that New Line did a good job on this movie! I can't wait to see it!
I've already seen the movie, as I work at a theatre. There are no anti-religious tones within the movie. All this uproar is ridicilous.
I was looking forward to seeing this movie for the longest time, but sadly is was really boring and very condensed. What a letdown.
It is based on the book called The Golden Compass from His Dark Materials trilogy. NOT the Northern Lights.
@ Dresden Doll — the english edition is called Northern Lights - the title was changed to the Golden Compass for the North American market. The entire triology is entitled His Dark Materials.
Seriously. I'm a Christian and I'm not concerned about the movie. 99% percent of Christians aren't the judgemental people you see on tv…we are normal people living out normal lives and don't go to rallies or anything dumb like that.
Number of people converted to Christianity after Narnia: 0
Number of people converted to atheism after Golden Compass: 0
And to the guy who said he will see anything that Christians boycott: How did you enjoy the DaVinci Code (widely said to be the worst movie of the year?)?
The book is called The Golden Compass. And this story has been out for a LONG as time.
It's not
NORTHERN LIGHTS,
get your literature right
The books are about the 'opressive nature of organized religion'
The film, however, is not
Best books i've ever read !! Most people seem to agree…
Re: Kristin –
Actually Kristin, I think you've not read Perez's post properly. He doesn't say it's anti-Christian, he says the Catholics are claiming it is, and the film's producers say otherwise. In fact, he doesn't express any opinion on the matter.
I liked Nicole Kidman when she was married (?) to Ms. Cruise a lot better. She had a little bit more meat on her bones, and had lovely, curly dark red hair. Now she looks like a plastic Barbie and is Botoxed to death.
Maybe they are afraid that the children will wake up and realize they are being lied too.
Whassup lovelies…
To clear a few things up, the movie is based on the title of the book "The Golden Compass" which was ORIGINALLY released as "The Northern Lights", by that amazing author Phillip Pullman. The books are incredible. Read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy ("The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass") and it will change your life. Truly. No one should be surprised that the Catholics are freaking out. They always freak out when people start thinking for themselves. The books aren't explicitly anti-Christian at all, really, they just paint a picture of an alternate reality where Christianity has gotten WILDLY out of control (picture the Westboro Baptists writ large and in charge), and of COURSE the Catholics don't like it–they've never been good at handling alternative points of view, now have they? Seriously, read the books.
Perez is a sexy bitch.
Fin.
Perez, you are such a moron. Why don't you try to read a bloody book before posting your gobbledegook. Your phrases make zero sense.
I'm Catholic, but I think the Catholic League can go jump in a lake. They're zero fun.
RELIGION RUINS EVERYTHING. IT IS BEST TO KEEP AWAY FROM IT!
Didn't they pull similar crap with the Harry Potter books?
Regardless, thanks Christian groups. Now I know what movie to go see, The Golden Compass.
I just wish they hadn't removed the supposed anti-Christian undertones.
Oh well, maybe they'll include it in the DVD.
who cares if they read the book?? let them. then they can decide how they feel about it. If their faith or your religion is so great then you have nothing to worry about.
So its ok to watch pro faith movies but not the other way round??? interesting i doubt that watching a film is goign to turn a generation of kids into Satanist?!!
God Christians are such hypocrits!!
If anyone has seen the planet earth series on the Discovery channel knows that there is a God just by visually seeing the beauty.,how in the fuck can god confined to a dumb ass book..Seeing nature and all the life around the world is amazing the esp the way they captured it. And just by seeing of few episodes of that you can understand how insignificant we all are, and how important it is to value this life, and not worry about a fuckin after life…I love science
How best to entice people, especially the young, to go and see this movie? Tell them it's evil.
Look how successful the Vatican's "no condom" stance has been with (young) Catholics.
Perhaps someone should explain "reverse psychology" to these so-called Christian groups.