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Entry: The Broken Compass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_broken_compass#11499 Post contents: No doubt “The Golden Compass” is tanking in part because Catholics have crossed it off their must-see lists. Good for them. But its box office egg-laying may have a simpler explanation: It sucks. Friends who’ve seen it are pretty dang uniform in describing the movie as “charm less”, and even more devastating, “dull.” No wonder Pullman is so dismissive of “Lord of the Rings.” It’s like Michael Stipe calling The Beatles “elevator music”: What he can’t match, he slags. Gotta pass the word to these guys that envy is so… unattractive. But at least Pullman and Stipe have put themselves in the top-five for “Silly Punk Bitch of the Year.” Director Weitz may envision even more “iconoclasm” in his sequels, but since Number One hit the fan and spattered the wall, he should be envisioning his way into the next crappy teen comedy. Maybe he can work some iconoclasm into titty jokes and screwed pies. (Weitz… hmm… something tells me he won’t helm a guilt-trip documentary on the Great Israeli Wall… right?) PC propaganda is, by definition, dispiriting. If you’re setting out to destroy everything a person, or a society or an ethnic group hold dear, you’d damn sure better have the power of life and death over them – or be a very entertaining little dancing monkey. You can grab folks’ attention for awhile with smoke and mirrors. But don’t let it go to your head. As C Matt points out here, the author and makers of “The Golden Compass” aim big. But “creative destruction” must have a suitable replacement for the rubble it leaves. And its advocates MUST realize that. If not… the next load of destruction may be headed their way… Sent at: 2008 10 12