Captain_H Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 You find that is the same way they did it in the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladimir-Vlada Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I saw the film. Not bad. But still, the Lord of the Rings is uncomparably better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinkle Posted January 5, 2006 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 You find that is the same way they did it in the book. Except in the book Aslan gives Peter advice about battle strategy and army placement, etc, while they're moving the army from The Stone Table to the Fords of Beruna, making it *slightly* less immediate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade Puma Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Okay Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe was a very good movie. I enjoyed it very much. But let's get one things straight. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EVEN COMPARES TO The Star wars movies Or The LOTR movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Merlow Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 keep an open mind. I'm a massive fan of the above, but Narnia which i have finally seen, deserves a place with both of them. Personally thought it was a great movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm probably going to be stoned out of town for saying this, but: Star Wars is cliched, unoriginal and (particularly in the new films, but also in the old ones), has some truly appaling dialogue "That's no moon!", All of Jar-Jar Binks' lines, "It is a prophecy that misinterpreted, we may have." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Smaug Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm probably going to be stoned out of town for saying this, but: Star Wars is cliched, unoriginal and (particularly in the new films, but also in the old ones), has some truly appaling dialogue "That's no moon!", All of Jar-Jar Binks' lines, "It is a prophecy that misinterpreted, we may have." What are you doing on these forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 ^^^^ You have to admit that Yoda's dialog in Ep. 3 was a bit annoying, can't they raise his IQ a little and have him speak normally? He's supposed to be a powerful Jedi Master and he talks like he's taken one too many blows to the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladimir-Vlada Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Star Wars is cliched, unoriginal and (particularly in the new films, but also in the old ones), has some truly appaling dialogue "That's no moon!", All of Jar-Jar Binks' lines, "It is a prophecy that misinterpreted, we may have." You have a point there. I experienced the same thing several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 ..... The biblical symbolism was a tad...blatant...but it didn't really bother me....... lolz...maybe it was because Im not Christian but I missed most of that stuff... Ive heard this about CS Lewis work, but havent read Narnia recently enough to know its extent.. All I really picked up from LWW that sortve reminded me of Christianity was the Father Christmas character and the fact that the "white witch" is bad(a denouncement of white witchcraft/the Wiccan Religion) Ive read that in the US in particular, this film is being shown to kids by Church groups etc and linked in with Bible Lessons...sortve weird.. too bad they dont do it with SW because theres alot of quasi-religious inferences in it(most of which bore me....) give me a good space and saber battle any day!! mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
90SK Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Well, primarily, Azlan was pretty much a "four-legged Jesus", from an outspoken point of view. That was the thing that really stuck out to me personally, after someone mentioned the comparison. Though, to be fair, it hadn't crossed my mind at first. I was too lost in the plot. I mean, it wasn't like it was an elephant in the room. More like a kangaroo, or a small deer. The whole "re-birth", and his line after he slays the witch, "It is finished", are both pretty pungent of the theory. And as for the rest...I suppose that with some creativity you could derive a lot of Christian metaphoric symbolism from the movie (Then again, the same goes for just about everything, if you put your mind to it). Now, mind you, I'm just speculating on all this. I'm really ambivalent, like I said originally. It was a very good movie, and I saw it a few times. That's it. Mind you, I'm sure this is more or less widely known. In rumor or otherwise. So in case I sound repetitive: sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 lolz....sorry, "four legged jesus" just sounds...funny ! ........ maybe he should have been wearing a loin cloth, or maybe even a lion cloth !! So basically Narnia was an attempt to make Christianity fun for kids....??? I better get to work on an Islamic equivalent.... might call it "The Genie, The Bush & the WMDs" Robin Williams can be the Genie, of course mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinkle Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 lSo basically Narnia was an attempt to make Christianity fun for kids....??? Kind of. LWW was (according to Lewis, can't offer documentation on this atm unfortunately) his attempt to write the children's book(s) that he would want to read, because he wanted to write something for his god-daughter Lucy but had never written for kids before. Though there's definitely a Christian symbology at work in LWW, there is also a very heavily Pagan [sic] symbology at work as well, which later gets reduced and eventually discarded over the course of the other books. (The Magician's Nephew basically discounts most of what gets said about Jadis the White Witch in LWW, and disempowers the Pagan aspects almost completely) The Christian aspects of the series increase exponentially over the course of the series...if anything (other than the ressurrection), LWW is the *least* Christian of the books, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 lolz....sorry, "four legged jesus" just sounds...funny ! ........ maybe he should have been wearing a loin cloth, or maybe even a lion cloth !! So basically Narnia was an attempt to make Christianity fun for kids....??? I better get to work on an Islamic equivalent.... might call it "The Genie, The Bush & the WMDs" Robin Williams can be the Genie, of course mtfbwya According to Lewis, it was unintentional, and he only really noticed it afterwards...Kinda like looking at a doodle you'd doodled and thinking "hey...that looks kinda like an apple..." @rockbunger/Smaug/Jedivangelist: I like KotOR. In any case, admitting that the films are somewhat cliched doesn't mean I don't think they're reasonable films. It's just the dialogue is somewhat...lacking. Particularly "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in Episodes III + V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I found the movie corny.....it was a decent movie nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 I -The plot: ... it takes more than 30 minutes to even GET to Narnia. At once everybody is in, Narnia isnt that impressive. I got the impression that almost noone lives in Narnia. Very slow moving. I couldn't imagine being 8 or 9 and not having read the books and sitting there. They kind of had to go slow or they would have left a lot out. If I hadn't read the books when I was kids I would have been less patient with it. Also no humans live in Narnia only animals and other creatures. I loved these books when I was a kid. When I re-read them a couple of months ago I recognized the fact that they were written for a child. THey are good enough for an adult to enjoy. I'll see the sequels if they put them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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