Posted on 12/10/2005 7:21:20 PM PST by mithradates
I just saw the Chronicles of Narnia. I have only one thing to say: don't listen to the media critics!!! It is easily one of the best fantasy/mythology movies that I've ever seen. I expected to have wasted good money on a ticket, but it actually turned out to be a clean and decent movie that still managed to be extremely entertaining. I would have to say that this movie is better than LOTR Fellowship and Two towers.
Seriously!!! Where did that middle-aged beaver come up with such splendid armor and that recurve bow?!? :p
If you're going to make me take sides, I won't go see it. Don't make them in opposition to each other!
Here's what CNN entertainment say:
Narnia, a land of fauns, talking beavers, a dastardly White Witch, and a solemn savior of a lion, may sound like the stuff of filigreed fairy tales, but it's really a place of holy war, where the imagination darkens the more it expands.
In the lavish, spirited, at times naggingly literal-minded movie version of the hugely popular first Narnia tale, you're often aware that you're watching child actors romp through a land of concocted creatures and special effects. The snow is too studio-set frosty, and Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, voiced by Ray Winstone and Dawn French as an engaging pair of fussbudgets, come a little too close to the goofy polar bears in Coke commercials; you can see the digital seams. The centaurs, satyrs, and assorted other magic folk of the wood often look as if they'd just stepped out of a makeup trailer.
Director Andrew Adamson, in his live-action debut (after "Shrek" and "Shrek 2"), stages "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" with a wide-eyed prosaic eagerness that reminds me a little of the Hollywood fantasy films of the late '60s. Even when Adamson brings off a lovely touch, such as the White Witch (Tilda Swinton) tempting young Edmund (Skandar Keynes) by creating ice sculptures that turn into fruit-filled Turkish Delight, we don't quite feel how the devilish dessert has corrupted the boy's heart.
"talking beavers"
There's a band name!
That lion looks like he's contemplating a Hobbit meal.
I've heard enough pigs/hogs squealing to know what it sounds like when I hear it. I have no idea what "creature" is supposedly making the sound in the movie because my eyes glaze over if I try to watch it.
Nicely done.... I'd use that, whenever I get around to starting a new thread... 'cept I spose we should decorate for Christmas :~D
Can you put up a tree and some lights? Not too big, not too expensive? :~D
The critics are being pretty good to Narnia.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
The black riders are undoubtedly the noise... I thought you ~saw~ pigs.
Sorry about the eye bleeding thing! Sure glad I'm me :~D
Maybe it was my ears that were bleeding. I know hearing those things was pure torture to me. But my wife can't seem to get enough of it.
Absent the hog squealing, the whole thing is way too ponderous for me. Enough already.
I love LoTR dearly, so obviously I can't relate... But I'd probably like your wife :~D
Good night :~D
Now I need some windex. LOL
This isn't an "Ain't It Cool News" talkback.
If you can't share your enthusiasm for a movie without trashing another movie, you obviously have nothing to say.
Spiderman 2: Great action, as well as a tremendous message about laying oneself down for others.
TPOTC (The Passion): My favorite Jesus movie. The best "Pontius Pilate" I've seen (Rod Steiger a close 2nd).
Go to http://movies.yahoo.com, and ignore the "critics". The "users" are always on the money. Anything rated 'B+' or better is marvelous.
The critics rated The Passion, and Narnia lower than the users did. No surprise.
Not possible.
Now that's scary that politics is that big in your life.
>>I'll see it again next week
>It is exactly that sentiment that Disney is hoping for. As am
>I (to poke the liberals in the nose).
I'm so happy to pay the movie industry when they produce a quality product. It's too bad that the regular fare is enough to make all of them rich, otherwise, they'd try harder to make quality, and we wouldn't have to go only 1-3 times a year.
Then again, movies are seasoning, not Life itself, so I am happy to go 1-3 times a year.
If I were 35 years younger, I'd have enlisted and probably be a Lifer.
Oh well....
I'm looking forward to seeing the movie - hopefully after Christmas break, when there won't be too many children in the theater.
I expect to like it too, though, since "Narnia" was directed at kids, while LOTR was directed at adults, I don't expect it really to compete with LOTR on all levels, except maybe in special effects type of stuff.
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