Posted on 05/17/2008 3:52:14 AM PDT by paudio
I went to see it this morning and I saw something kinda disturbing--people were giving out free tickets to Caspian. I'm not suggesting anything, but this could affect the gross of the movie. Anyone else notice this? Is it just my paranoia acting up? :)
Who are those people? I know that some companies have some kind of plan for their employees, but that’s a common practice, I believe.
I try to keep my paranoia under control. I'm not always successful. :)
Just hope they paid the ticket price for those freebies... :-)
It opened on a bad weekend. It is many children’s last week of school next week. We’re swamped. I’ll be taking my daughter and her friend next weekend as a reward for good school work.
I was going to let my other kids wait until June, but I guess maybe we better go again that week. Darn. :)
On Yahoo the critics average is a “C-”
But the USERS of Yahoo average is an “A-”
= )
Saw Prince Caspian tonight with some friends...all but one of whom knew the Chronicles of Narnia and had seen the first Narnia film.
Am not a movie critic because I see them so rarely.
This one was definitely worth the price of admission.
Clapping at the end - full theater - surprised me
I would definitely not take a child younger than 8 or 9, and at that age would want to have discussions with them for sure.
Overall - very glad I went. Want to go back now and re read the Chronicles.....and see the LW&TW again.....
Actually I prefer actual historical flms more than fantasy based ones....but of that genre - this was a good one.
OK, thanks! We just never got around to reading the third one. The first two were very good.
I don’t agree with the interpretation, but Lewis was a medieval scholar, and in medieval times there was a belief that the angels of the world, both good and bad, had entered into the myths and fantasies of men...
So Mars was originally Michael the Archangel but as men degenerated morally, they started making up bad interpretations of his role in the world. Etc.
It is more open in the space trilogy...where the Oryssa of Mars the planet is Mars the “god” (little g)...the oryssa of earth is evil and chose to do his own thing, so earth is called the “silent planet”...(the first book is out of the silent planet).
Tolkien has a similar parallel universe in the Simarillion, where the Ainur are the high angels, but Melkor turned evil...since he was the top angel of earth, he is what we would call “satan”...
Many years later, the spiritual fight was between angels too: Gandalf was an incarnated angel, as was Sauron, which is why they couldn’t kill him by killing his body...
None of this mythology is Christian, but it is seen by the Inklings as man seeing the story of creation through a “glass darkly”, and trying to tell stories about it....
The difference is that God’s version is true, but we recognize it as true because he put these stories/myths into our hearts (and the hearts of pagans) to prepare them for the real story of redemption.
Hope that part is brief....
That's okay, as long as they don't toss him...
Never toss a dwarf! And, if you do...never tell the elf about it!
ping
Just saw it this afternoon.
Only the 4:00PM show was sold out. Ours, the 4:30, had a few empty seats but thats it. One crying baby for about 5 minutes.
bttt
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.