[Billthedrill]

In Lewis's dedication - to his god-daughter named Lucy - he notes that books do not grow as quickly as little girls and that by the time it will be available to her she'll be too old for fairy stories...but that there will come a time when she is no longer too old for fairy stories, and at that point he wants her to read it. I'm hoping that happens for Morford if he hasn't managed to kill off his own imagination by then. He's working at it as hard as he can. I make it an even bet.

"It is always the stupidest children who are the most childish, and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown up."

[sandbar]

This is one of my alltime favorite movies! My kids and I have seen it three times (first time EVER I have paid the theatre to see the same movie more than once, much less three times) and we just purchased the GBA game of Narnia (which is just as good!). I noticed not alot of Christian overtones in the movie aside of the Son of Adam and Daughter of Eve references.

This movie was definitely worth the wait! All the actors were really good and even the inexperience of the younger ones made it seem more real. I've read one review on here dogging it, but I disagreed with his opinion on it.

[Always Right]

This is like one of those posts that starts out, "I am a Republican, but...."

[colorado tanker]

Gee, Mark, you mean it might have been a good idea to see the movie before declaring it "sucked"???

[JohnnyZ]

Like many intros, there's more intro and less substance to LWW than some of the others, such as Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair -- or the Horse and His Boy. Eustace and Shasta are perhaps the best written characters in the series.

[Logophile]

It's revealed "The Chronicles of Narnia" books to be what they actually are: a rather lean slice of delightfully wrought but fairly simpleminded, largely hobbled fantasy for the imagination-deprived single-digit set.

What is the author's complaint against people who have the misfortune to possess only one finger?

[Rocky]

The books are great, the movie was great. Morford sucks.

[Ramius]

Hah! His inner child loved the movie and he hates that. He spanked him and sent him to his room without dinner.

I learned a lot about Morford's basic bitterness about life in general by reading this review. He's actually giving the movie a good review, and it gnaws at him that he can't bring himself to fully hate it.

A telling view into a twisted soul is his view of the actress playing the White Witch as "sexy" and that devils and villains are always the most interesting characters.

While villains certainly do bring complex themes at times, it is curious that he cannot grasp the magnificence of the role of the hero across the history of literature. He identifies with the wrong side of the story. Not the first or last time that's ever happened.

And if a sickly, gaunt, pasty villain with a clearly diseased mind can somehow be viewed as "sexy" then perhaps we've learned all we need to know.

[subterfuge]

Leave it to hoMorford to get the words "sucked" and "fisted" in in the first 50 words.

[Rockitz]

Well excuse me for enjoying it, Mr. Mofo........, er I mean Morford.

[HitmanLV]

Rather, Hollywood has done something even more depressing: It's revealed "The Chronicles of Narnia" books to be what they actually are: a rather lean slice of delightfully wrought but fairly simpleminded, largely hobbled fantasy for the imagination-deprived single-digit set.

Kind of like the Democratic Party's platform these last few elections?

[Moose4]

A Miss Mark Morford rant. Spray the screen with Lysol after reading.

}:-)4

[presidio9]

ping

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

I need a question answered:

I watched the movie and we just loved it...

Can anyone confirm what I though I heard during a scene :

When the witch was about to kill the lion, did she say (what I thought I heard)

"appease today and die tomorrow"????

[Sensei Ern]

"Burger King tie-ins"

He was wrong about this as well. It has McDonald's tie-ins.

[Alouette]

all from the director who brought you, ahem, "Shrek 2."

"Shrek 2" ROCKED!

[SpinyNorman]

Well, we all know Mark Morford sucks, both literally and figuratively.

[bray]

a rather lean slice of delightfully wrought but fairly simpleminded, largely hobbled fantasy for the imagination-deprived single-digit set.

By the appearance of his scribbling to include this author!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Democratshavenobrains]

I can't believe Morford didn't make single Republicans are sex deviants observation. He must be slipping.