I've also found them complicated to eat. Sometime last year, I vaguely recall some radio personality saying a good way to take apart a pomegranate is to do so in a bowl of water. The details escape me, as I was drifting in and out of sleep during that radio show. (Plus, my memory sucks anyhow, heh.) However, a google search comes up with a lot of hits describing the "bowl of water" method, frex:

http://pomegranate-juice.info/how-to-eat-a-pomegranate/


I also vaguely recall the radio show person saying this method helps get the white (bitter) center out of the seeds, but I can't imagine how that'd work.