I’ve enjoyed your movie reviews!
I first read the books when I was 10 or so, and have re-read them many times. I’m a crank about the text, when I’ve read the text - don’t get me started on the “Lord of the Rings” movies! - but I’ll try to put myself in a tolerant frame of mind before I go!
For me & my rather “rough” existence the past couple decades, cinema has provided me a wonderful escape to fantasy/pleasure
everyone gets something different from their experiences.
I dont go into ANY movie prejudging. I go to be entertained & thanking the multitude(like thousands) who worked for the production. I am rarely disappointed. I am a bit more discriminating than those would make me out to be but I am a whole lot more tolerant & receptive than 90% of the FRreepers who post.
You are good to read ahead of time. At one time I read more. This past summer was Ayn Rand. Her works, biops, etc.
Beginning in Jan will do one of the Harry potter movies a month & then watch the movie. I have seen all the movies but KNOW the fog I experience is due to a combo of ADD & just not knowing enough. My gal-pal patty is joining me in this journey. We will discuss book over dinner & then watch flick together. Will culminate in July. I wont read the 7 book prior to seeing the final installment on 3D big screen. will read book after & see movie again(no doubt several times, as I have all the others)
I read the series along with Mere Christianity and other CS Lewis when I was a teenager in the 70’s. My favorite is ‘The Last Battle’ but was thinking last night again what I have always felt - words cannot describe the last scene in the book and how no man will ever be able to come close, here on Earth, to being able to describe it to reality - because “No eye has seen, nor ear has heard...”