From cinemablend, The Vatican continued to bring attention to something they hope will go away by exulting in the poor box office showing of The Golden Compass. The official Vatican newspaper, l’Osservatore Romano wrote an editorial hoping that the reception the fantasy movie has received will force New Line to stop plans to make the next two movies in the trilogy. “If that should happen, it wouldn’t be a big loss.” God himself (or herself, or itself) did not comment on the record, but has previously noted that there are just too many of these movies with talking polar bears and the line has to be drawn somewhere.
In a repeat of the comments made before the movie was released, the l’Osservatore said that the movie was “the most anti-Christmas film possible”. They have obviously never seen that terrible Christmas movie with Ben Affleck. You know, the one where he is hit by a shovel. That made me want to give up Christmas altogether. The newspaper also said the film was “devoid of any particular emotion apart from a great chill.” Something tells me these guys won’t be buying the special edition DVD.
All that needs to be said about this has probably been said. Kicking a film when its down is kinda bad sport and a little more Christian charity is probably called for. That said, I don’t have any problem with the Vatican or anyone else being against a film and trying to convince people not to see it and being happy when they don’t. The author of the series, Phillip Pullman, wrote about the beliefs these people hold in a negative and derisive way and people have a right to take offense. Either way, let’s all hope that the God of your belief gets something else to focus on before the next movie shows up…if it does.
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