Prince Caspian exposes closed-minded bigotry in movie reviewer

From the Associated Press...

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" dethroned "Iron Man" as ruler at the box office, pulling down $56.6 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

From BoxOfficeMojo.com...

Narnian fervor waned as Prince Caspian grossed an estimated $56.6 million to lead the weekend, while summer smash Iron Man held firm.

Odd, isn't it. The same facts but a very different take. Perhaps the BoxOfficeMojo review would explain it's apparent hatred for things Narnian...

I hated the first movie, which I thought was a boring slice of propaganda....this is religious allegory and none of it makes sense.

From reading the rest of the review, and knowing how consistent the first movie was with the book, the reviewer apparently either slept through the movie, or watched it while stoned out of his mind, because he failed to comprehend even the most elementary aspects of the story. But one must ask, since the first movie was so popular, why did Box Office Mojo choose someone who hated the first movie, to review the second? Obviously the reviewer, Scott Holleran, is pretty out-of-touch with most movie viewers if he hates a movie that made so much money. (I thought The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was fantastic and have watched it three times now) It must be his unabashed hatred for religion in general and Christianity on particular that appeals (something that becomes painfully obvious when reading his review) to the powers that be at BOM. A good reason to avoid the site.

Posted by Danny Carlton at May 19, 2008 6:57 AM