Forbes hopefully understands that there is only one religion on Earth that has a Majesterium.

And it absolutely matters to take into account the larger issue at hand which is the book series the movie(s) are supposed to be based on and that the makers promised to include more deliberately overt references to Catholicism (although I do not know how "Majesterium" could be considered an oblique reference) in later films.

That matters.

The DaVinci Code comparison is even more nonsensical. Brown hates religion and he hates Christianity and the Catholic Church, but he at least tried to confine his hatred of the modern Church in the considerably small and exclusive organization Opus Dei.

Pullman pulls no such punches. His hatred extends not just to some small organization but to the entire Church, her worshippers, her doctrine, religion in total, and God Himself.

How could this not be understood to be much much worse?

I also find it annoying that he includes no reference to one of the greatest criticisms of his review: that he had good things to say about a movie that sucked.

The Golden Compass has been out for weeks now and, even with the holiday movie audiences, it has yet to earn a single dollar of profit for New Line -- even if you include its international box office returns.
StubbleSpark | 12.25.07 - 2:20 pm | #