Everybody thought the movie was evil because Philip Pullman, who wrote the books, is a staunch atheist, but they altered it enough to please a more general audience in the film.
@ninjacolin It was a great film, and the books were great, too, just different because books and movies are different. Any book compared to its movie counterpart is going to be infinitely better (except when the book was terrible, like _The Da Vinci Code), and books can get away with things movies can’t. As far as movies go, it was very good, a bit ahead of itself, but it was better and more compelling than a film like Harry Potter.