I just bought tickets for tonight.
Saw Iron Man last week and loved it. Don’t think I’ll see this. The only thing wrong with Iron Man was Gwyneth Paltrow. The WORST actress I’ve ever seen.
Awesome movie. The audience cheered at times. Go see it in the theater. :)
I took my family to see this movie last night. Excellent movie. The audience in clapped at the end, a rare enough occurence to be noteworthy.
I took my daughter. It is real good.
I just watched Ebert & Roeper this morning. I don’t go along with everything Roeper and his guest buddy say, but from the preview clips I’ve seen so far, I’d tend to think they are pretty accurate when they describe this movie as having too many fights involving too many generic characters that the audience knows next to nothing about and doesn’t care about. They said that what took maybe a page or two in the original book has been stretched out to 10- or 15-minute CGI battles. Meanwhile, the development of the main characters suffered.
I’m not into fantasy too much anyway, so that’s another strike for me. But if enough human elements and character development were in it, I might go see a fantasy film anyway. Sounds like this isn’t it.
Ignore the detractors and malcontents. They probably like foreign films. You’ll love it.
I’ve got mixed feelings over this one Dawnsblood, on the one hand, CS Lewis was such a compelling writer and intellect, I’m quite happy to see his ideas and writings become movie successes..
On the other hand, the company that is making the lion’s share of profit holds all gay cruises and has Gay Weekends at it’s theme parks where stuff goes on that shocks the conscience..
Conservative take on “Caspian”:
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/
scroll down to read review.
I took my daughter to see it yesterday. We loved it!
Haven’t seen “Prince Caspian” yet, but I won’t hear a word against “Iron Man.”
It stays surprisingly close to the spirit of the Marvel Comics original vision. Tony Stark is a bad boy genius inventor who has taken his Dad’s company to amazing heights. The important thing to us is that just as the original Tony Stark made his wonder weapons strictly to be used in the fight against godless communism so to does our hero mean for his killing machines to be used in the GWOT. Like the original, Stark is wounded and captured in an ambush while on a demonstration tour in the Near East and forced to labor for an evil warlord of nebulous affiliation. With the help of another captured scientist, he instead constructs the prototype of his suit and uses it to fight his way out. His new friend sacrifices his life to buy him time.
Director John Favreau is a crafty one (by the way he plays Stark’s driver, you’ll recognize him as the main character in 1995’s “Swingers”). He wants to sell tickets, not pander to his friends prejudices, but at the same time, he does not want to risk being Van Goughed either, so he walks a fine line. Tony Stark is a patriot and the U.S. military is the good guys. However, the middle-eastern baddies are not made islamists and an evil conspiracy at home accounts for his sighting of his company’s weapons being in the hands of the enemy. I won’t be spoiling anything if I mention Jeff Bridges does a great villain turn. Of course, any character named “Obadiah Stane” has to turn out evil.
For the life of me, I don’t know why so many people love to hate Gwyneth Paltrow. Yes, I’ve read a few interviews and she ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, plus she has all the usual lib opinions but she does a good enough job of playing a smart chick in the movies. Like her mother, she seems to be maturing gracefully.
If you loved the first one, you’ll most likely love this one. I thought the first was pretty good, this one was pretty good, too.
“Iron Man” was fantastic. “Indy” next week!!
After I read the review at Boxofficemojo, I decided I absolutely HAD to see this.
Their reviewer hates Christian movies and reviews only secular, godless, progressive movies favorably. His review drips with disdain as anything Christian is obviously stupid and irrational.
Here are a few lines...
“I hated the first movie, which I thought was a boring slice of propaganda. I expected to hate this one, too. The good news is that Caspian is less horrifying and more logical, which is to say more linear—this is religious allegory and none of it makes sense—with an exciting opening and a galloping escape into the woods by the handsome young prince, Caspian (Ben Barnes).”
The only thing he liked about the movie was the witch, who he said was “at least coherent”.
‘Prince Caspian’ pushes ‘Iron Man’ off throne
I hate when that happens.
CS Lewis knocks comic book icon!
I’d recommend this for all Freepers and their kids.
Loved it!
I’m going to see it shortly!
Will report back afterwards!
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We went to the first showing at an all-digital theatre. The audience applauded at the end, which I haven’t seen done since the 70s. There was so much to see that I’d like to see it again. Minimally, I’ll buy the DVD, and rent the HD version from iTunes. One would have to have seen the first one to understand this one.
Good flick. Doesn’t follow the book as closely as LWW, but the battle scenes are excellent.
A thumbs up from RD.
I LOVED it!!
The mouse is hilarious!
A keeper!
Just saw “Caspian” today and “Iron Man” on friday. Both good, but Iron Man takes the prize in my book. Much more exciting and, I mean, who doesn’t want one of those awesome suits of armor?