A note on the religious controversy too: there isn’t one. I had to force myself to interpret the Magisterium as some kind of fanatical clergy that needed taking down, but even that was my tenuous attempt at engaging this flick. If anyone knows exactly what the issue was, I’d love to be made aware.
Well, I am glad for the review, because I planed to watch it on Monday, and it is probably a Zionazi movie.
Thanks for the linkage
Not sure what you mean by Zionazi, but the film was pretty poor on both shallow and intellectual levels. Boo. Still at least there’s Bee Movie out this weekend too…
Salaam Shakil Shaikh
Regarding Zionazism, it is everything that represents shifting in the Western world as a whole from Hellenism to Hebraism, and this is where Hollywood comes in. This a fake and very dangerous movement!
Tony Karon from Rootless Cosmopolitan has a good article on this issue:
http://tonykaron.com/2007/12/06/constructing-hanukkah/
As a huge fan of the book series (“His Dark Materials”), I want to watch the movie solely to see how it incorporated the vastness of the books.
At least the special effects look cool!
I read the books and absolutely loved the writing & plot, but I have to say I felt pretty uncomfortable with the anti-God elements and other ‘insults’ like homosexual angels (astaghfirullah). I’m assuming it’s toned down a lot in the movies – still to see it though!