Video: Watch the First 5 Minutes of The Golden Compass

Looks boring. Sorry, but it’s true.

It’s a book about a girl who kills god, and supposedly they’ve taken out all the references to religion. How sad.

I’ll still go and see it. :)

I hate how they spell everything out at the beginning. But, I guess they have to about the daemons.

If you google around a bit on this subject you will find that the author of this series is a strong Atheist whose goal was to combat the Christian undertones of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. As a result, the later books in this series supposedly have somewhat relaxed moral standards including pre-marital sex amongst other things. Christians and/or those with strong feelings on the subject would be wise to further investigate before getting hooked to this series.

#3 - That will guarantee ticket sales

#8 - God forbid that Christian movie-goers get hooked on this series and end up reading Pullman’s books.

#7 - This movie looks like it might be good, but I’ll be interested to see if the themes of the book are preserved. Remember, Peter Jackson’s LoTR ommitted a lot of stuff, and changed some story elements, but overall, everyone still praises it as a faithful adaptation, and a great trilogy of films.

Hopefully we’ll see the same with this movie.

Looks awesome to me and would even pay the money to see it on the “big-screen”. (I’m single, so rarely go to the cinemas).

No, Thadd, it is definately not atheism! It’s Demonism (!!) made palatable to the young, with major overtones of Godlessness as to Christianity. Subtility with great mistical and magical aura have always intregued youth as well as young adults. The message, here is quite clear, even in the first 5 minutes. The message is that you (the viewer) think you know that God is real and we are here because of Him alone, but what you do not really “know” is that you have been duped. You have not been allowed to know that there is really a different dimensional realm, where truth lies and where souls (outside of self) called daemons are really leading each individual into “truth” and it’s real and it’s wonderful. This is the portrayal of the movie.

I am a friend of one who must see all of these movies in order to give family value to them, for those who want their children to know only truth, and he states, unequivically that this movie is a means of changing minds of those who are innocent and can be swayed into wondering if God really does exist, or is there another way. Harry Potter movies were blatent about their Demonic Witchcraft and tried to make Witchcraft out to be between “good” and “bad” witches and, even after those movies were watched by so many youth, the interest in Witchcraft soared and many Christian children, who saw them, began to doubt their own faith in God.
This is even more devious, for it works on the premise that there are other valid ways to live in this world, totally without being encumbered by God and his “rules” or Truth.
What most do not realize is that Demonic forces really do seek to create means to counter God and overrule any faith in Him and take allegience to themselves, by courting people with lies of self-rule, self aggrandizment, self-awareness, self-gods.
It is true that this writer is a Godless athiest and that he has used his writings to not only make fun of God, but try to get societies children to feel that they, alone, are their own gods and can choose their Demeons to lead and direct themselves. There is a sad ending to that!

WOW! There is no worse reasoning than false reasoning. Evil was created by God as well as good. Otherwise man would have no choice but to live in a land where there is no choice. Challanges to faith, which are thrust upon us, are those with which we overcome and become better and more wise, as we choose to follow and partake of good rather than that evil. Wisdom certainly does not come through doing evil as a practice, but keeping from the evil. Otherwise, God would have said to Adam and Eve, I have put this tree in the midst of the Garden and I want you to partake of it, so that you might learn not to partake of it. They failed the commandment not to partake of it, because someone (Demoen) came along who challanged God’s authority and right to be given allegiance to, and Adam chose to believe the lie rather than the truth. Well, the Apostle Paul, talking about the wonderful grace of God that is freely given to us, said “Should we sin so that grace can abound to us all the more?” Of course, his answer was a resounding NO. It is not the doing of or partaking of evil which serves to strengthen us, but the trials that come to us as we refuse the evil and choose the good. My challange of faith is to say no to these media travesties, even though I love a good allegory and a very well done movie. But, I will wait for those whose purpose is not to shake our faith, but to build it and reassure it. I would rather have the Spirit God, in me to guide me, a thousand times over than the titallizing Demoen by my side to guide me and take me down the very real path to destruction. Believe me, believe me, believe me, in the end God really is true and really does conquer.

It is possible to imagine that in the book it is not God who died, but simply a bad angel. It would then have been that the humans had misplaced their faith. Their faith should have been placed, not in the angel that decieved them in the universe, but in a being who exists entirely outside the multiverse.

Dear Golden Compass Fans (of the books)

Just got home from the theater… Im warning you if you havent yet seen the movie, in my opinion it outright sucked. I was particularily upset by the watered down version of the strongest side characters story (if u see the movie u will know) also the ending… wow the ending biggest let down EVERRRRR!!!! I rest my case on that because when the screen went blank half the theater said “WHAT THE *@!#”

the end.

anyone know where u can see the movie online with good graphics like these?