Posted on 12/31/2005 8:00:09 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded
22 days to get to $200 million, should make $300 million before it closes out in late March/early April. If you haven't seen it go watch it and my 4 1/2 year old watched it with her mom today and had no problems, she loved it.
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We went with our five year old granddaughter and she sat on the edge of her seat the whole time. It was amazing to this old fan of C.S. Lewis. When Beaver said, "further in" I wanted to go with him. Only complaint, I wish they had shown the unicorn being healed... and maybe the butterfly too. I guess that it was in before the cut.
Such an enchanting movie.
Ya gotta like Tumnus. A great faun to have tea with.
My main complaints were turning the charmingly domestic beavers of the original into the stereotypic wise-cracking CGI animals which now constitute a whole genre of film, the overly-eccentric appearnace of Prof. Kirke, and the cutting down of the conversations between the children and Prof. Kirke.
(I would also have liked the scene with Aslan and Peter discussing tactics, where Aslan says he can't promise to be at the battle, left in, and used to make the very cinematic bombardment by the griffons be based on a blitz-inspired flash of tactical genius by Peter--would have shown him rising to the role of High King rather nicely.)
oo, I loved the beavers. I guess they were a bit Disneyfied. I don't think Lewis would have minded. And the strategy was, to me, obviously Peters. I know what you mean about the conversations... the movie needed about another hour to really do the book justice. We spent more time on the witch and her conversations but it's always easier to show evil than divinity and good. All in all, a good effort tho.
Lucy is perfect.
My wife and I finally found time to see it on New Year's Day (a fairly well-attended matinee). We do not go to movies very often, and had to endure a couple of crying babies on the other side of the theatre, but wanted to support a good film for "children of all ages".
LOL! You know when the White Witch did in the butterfly the only thing I could think of was the Blue Meanie in Yellow Submarine stomping on the butterflys in Pepperland!!
The friend I was with says that the Professor was Prince Caspian...anyone confirm this? I have only read LW&W.
No, the Professor as a child was the protagonist of The Magician's Nephew. Read the others: if LTWW is a retelling of the Gospel to shake the jaded modern out of antievagelical complacency, Prince Caspian is a retelling of the persecution and triumph of the Church, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader a disquisition on the sacraments, The Horse and His Boy a consideration of repentence, The Silver Chair a critique of secularism, The Magician's Nephew a retelling of Genesis and the traditions concerning a noetic fall (in the real world of Lucifer), and The Last Battle, the eschaton.
(And an eerily prophetic eschaton it is: the Narnian antiChrist is a fake put up by an alliance of secularists and thinly disguised Muslims.)
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