"The Dark is Rising" - Honest Assessment Required

[dumbledore11214]

> Andromeda now:
>  They are wonderful books!  I would get them out of the library 
and 
> read them every Christmas starting when I was 10 or so.  Now I've 
> bought them all for my own children to read.  And I do still read 
> them myself now and then. You can find them used, too.  
> 
> But this is terrible news about the film. To have a movie version 
of 
> one of my all-time childhood favorites and have them completely 
> destroy it...  better not to do it all.  American? Cold, bullying 
> family? Ack! I mean, the whole reason I'd read it at Christmas.... 
> oooo!
>  I suppose if it gets folks interested in the books, I shouldn't 
> complain too much.  I had heard a while back that the film company 
> that bought the rights to "Dark is Rising" leans evangelical 
> Christian, and the book does not.  Maybe they're wrecking it 
> deliberately.  Or maybe it's just crass commercialism.  OK, I'm a 
> little bitter.  I would've thought that HP and Narnia showed that 
> American audiences will (gasp) go see a movie starring British 
people.
> 
> 
> But thanks for the warning, everyone.  Maybe I'll give "Golden 
> Compass" a try instead. Liked the book.
> 
> Sigh,
> Andromeda
>


Alla:

I **hope** not. I hope that they would not deliberately destroy a 
story that is not christian allegory, because that I would find just 
despicable.


And, and, and those are such loving books, I mean they are. I 
shudder to think that somebody could think that the books as they 
written would not carry christian message or something.

So, yeah, I prefer to think that it is just commercialism, not that 
it makes me feel much better, but somehow it makes me just bitter, 
not disgusted.

As to making folks interested in the books with the help of movie, 
well SURE plenty of folks got interested in HP after they saw movies.

But the thing is what if folks will find the movie so horrible that 
they won't even bother.

Nah, I am afraid even that reason would not make me less upset.

I guess if folks will be entertained by a movie on its own merits, 
maybe they will pick up the books, but oh boy will they be surprised.

And I am sure the movie **COULD** be entertaining on its own, it is 
just not the story of the Dark is rising to me, not even close  :(