[NYer]

Another film from Hollyweird.

[dragonblustar]

Kidman told the magazine: "I was raised Catholic, the Catholic Church is part of my essence.""I wouldn't be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic."

She's not too bright.

[gondramB]

I know nothing about this film but how sincere of a Catholic could somebody who married and then divorce Tom Cruise be?

[Oztrich Boy]

Narrator: "[This] is a world dominated by the Magisterium, which seeks to control all humanity, and whose greatest threat, is the curiosity of a child."

Hasn't this movie already been made?

"Our plan would have worked too, but for those meddling kids and their dog"

[silverleaf]

.””I wouldn’t be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic.”

She’s either a liar or a stupid twit who hasn’t read the trilogy or read about the author. But someone in the family has to pay Keith’s rehab bills.

[Old Seadog]

She is pretty,though.

[kanawa]

Self ping for when I finish the trilogy. 230 pages to go.

[Porterville]

It is true, the talking polar bears are from my favorite passage from the bible. I’m especially enamored with the part of the bible about shape-shifting ferrets and monkey-cats. But, by far, the most bible like part was the wicked witch to the north who lives where Santa Claus and his elves make toys.

[vladimir998]

I never even heard of this book, and now that I have, I have reason to never purchase or promote it in any way.

What gets me is that Hollywood could make soooooo many movies based on good books that affirm Christianity instead of this crap. The idea that Hollywood does everything to make money is a lie. They do everything to promote their agenda.

[x]

Nicole and Daniel Craig are also opening in the new Invasion [of the Body Snatchers] remake.

The tag line -- "Do Not Trust Anyone. Do Not Show Emotion. Do Not Fall Asleep." -- left me thinking: "Well, at least she shouldn't have any trouble with the middle one."

[El Cid]

The movie features an organisation known as "The Magisterium", which kidnaps children to remove their souls.

Sounds like a Documentary...
(he says while running out the room...)

[ladyinred]

I am starting to believe the Catholics on FR who say they are being discriminated against in the country these days. Seems Hollywood is determined to discredit them, and all Christians along with them.

[Salvation]

**The movie features an organisation known as “The Magisterium”, which kidnaps children to remove their souls.**

Not what the Magisterium does!

[DesScorp]

Thanks for this review...the only movies I go to now are ones I take my kids to, and not even children’s movies are safe from Hollywood’s filth, it seems.

What’s a parent to do?

[A Longer Name]

I’ve read the series. The first book is actually pretty good. Yes, the Catholic Church is bad guys, but it’s an alternative universe and alternative Church. Martin Luther is mentioned as a past Pope, and there are other hints at a divergent history.

As I said, the first book of a series is very good, probably one of the best within its genre. The author has great imagination (I particularly loved the panzer bears.) Unfortunately, the following books devolve into nonsense. And not particularly interesting nonsense, either. The ending is pretty strong, though.

[ClaudiusI]

If only they knew....
His Dark Materials is not atheistic, it’s actually Satanic. And I’m not using that in a pejorative manner either, its mythology closely matches that of the Church of Satan.
The main enemy in the series is not the church, but God himself, and you learn in the second book that Satan was a good angel who tried to stop God at the beginning of time.