We’re planning to see the movie this weekend.
Prince Caspian and Voyage of the Dawn Treader were my introductions into Narnia when I was 11 years old and received them as a birthday gift. The Voyage absolutely captivated me!
sounds like they’re trying to change the story more than they did the second one.
I took my 12 and 14 year old girls to see it ASAP. By the end, the older was crying tears of rage. Out of all the Narnia books, this was her favorite, and the one that looked best suited for translation “as is” to the film genre. But the writers didn’t consider the real story “good enough” and “improved” it with mechanized magic and McGuffins.
I found the film to be entertaining, and worth our time (and money) to go see it...
Of course it does not follow the original book storyline to a “T”...No films really do, but I enjoyed the imagery come to life, so to speak, when this and the preceding films came out...
I have read all the books in this series when I was younger, and reading to me, regardless of the genre and content was always an escape for me...I urge the parents in this forum to get their kids to read things beyond what you or others might believe to be beyond their kids comprehension or attention span...I’ve read books many times over in my life, and when I was younger I had been told my comprehension and reading level was way over the age and grade I was currently in...
If these types of stories do nothing more than exercise the grey matter between the ears, and the more you stimulate that the better in the long run...
okay :-). love the books . . .
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I remember being a little girl and waking up at about three in the morning to read the series before school. I know, kinda weird. Even though the last of our kids are almost out of the house we still keep the series on the bookshelf. It will stay there as long as I am around.
Thanks Making_Sense [Rob W. Case].
I loved the books and am a big C.S. Lewis fan in general. I thought the movie was very exciting and even a little old-fashioned (like a CGI laden Ray Harryhausen film). I was a little disappointed with some of the changes they made to the story, but a lot of things they got very right (bratty Eustace, brave Reepicheep, noble Aslan, bizarre Dufflepuds, etc.). It’s really a very imaginative story.
Get out there and see this one, folks! We need to support films that actually promote a good moral message for once. If movies like this fail then Hollywood will just continue to crank out more and more garbage.
Agree. Love the books. The movie is great. Go see it!