I can't believe no one has posted this yet!

Hope to see it tonight.

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I'm hoping to be able to make it out tomorrow night or maybe Sun night.  I'd love to see it tonight, but I have a busy weekend ahead of me (Church duties from 8-10 tonight, and again from 8-6 or so tomorrow all day, motorcycle run on Sun morning, and then hopefully stopping by my buddies to get my saddlebag supports fabricated Sun afternoon--finally). 

I've been waiting for this one, though.  I don't get excited about many movies, but I love Narnia (read the books when I was little, so there's a bit of nostalgia in it for me)!

didn't fancy the first one that much.  hopefully this one is better.

I enjoyed the first one, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. This one looks to have turned the badass up a bit more. I reeeeaaallly hope so.

Ahh bust. It doesn't come out here till 2nd of July.

Sometimes... it's hard to believe that you ever like anything ;)


Melissa and I are going tonight with the college kids from our church. She's not too excited about it and honestly, I'm not sure I am either.

The first was a good film and I'm sure this one is going to be as good or better. My thing is that I just don't like fantasy.

And this is a good reason to be proud that I'm an American! ;)

^ It certainly is.

Global launches FTW.

That sums up my thoughts!

It's the cronic (what?) cles of narnia!

we will be seeing this sat night for sure. im a cs lewis junkie  8)

has anyone read the space trilogy novels he done? cos i want to but don't want to spend £40 on them if they turn out to be rubbish...

I really liked them, particularly the middle (second) one.

Ahhhhhh  lazy sunday

i love those men.


AHHHHHH Id completely forgotten about this!!!! Im tempted to go after school but there will probably be a bunch of dressed up people sitting at the doors to the theatre as i write this :( poop!

"THIS" being the fun filled not a care in the world apart from dance music lovers forum? or narnia?

yes they are really good. you have to be willing to understand that they were written before humans knew that mars couldn't support human life. so... theres a lot of walking and breathing on mars and the other planets etc.

i'll admit it, i'm pretty picky when it comes to music and movies.  my fiance calls it being "snobby" or some such rubbish  :)

No. It's called being a fanboy.

hahaha...HOW could I forget TASTY?!

i think it was chris who said " no matter where i roam, tasty is my home"

hehe

Well... it was too violent for my wife and it was in a bad theater filled with chatty youth groups.

I'll have to go see it again, alone, before I can really say it was great.

It was very well done. The casting was excellent. I wasn't expecting to see Tim Curry and Warwick Davis in it. Seriously... awesome casting.

I was impressed.

Some of the "timing" of lines and animation seemed rushed to me.

Overall... at least 3 stars.

Tim Curry?

I don't see him anywhere in the credits (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/fullcredits#cast).

But Warwick Davis is in there.

Is that a good sign? I think so.

Isn't the movie rated PG?  ;)

Yeah, but 80% or more of it is fighting. Just no blood and gore.

I think he's mislabeled there. It looked like him as General Glozelle. I understand that's supposed to be Pierfrancesco Favino but... I dunno.

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vs.

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The cheeks and jawline are very much the same. I see some resemblance in the eyes too.

I miss Tim Curry. I often say to people "Have a WONDERFUL day", thinking of Home Alone 2.

 :smiley18: I didnt like the first one, it sucked, no offense to anyone who liked the movie, I just dont see what all the hype was about. Prince Caspian, seems to be a tad more bit promising, but then again, I could be wrong. I didnt even like lord of the rings, so yeah, that also did not go as well, oh well. In this day & age of emo hair cuts and Ipods, good movies are hard to come by. Except for the Super hero movies from comic books now those are great movies to see, whootness.  :-[ ??? ??? ??? :smiley30:

Saw it last night with Stumblebum, and I actually really loved it! There was A TON of violence but they shot it in a way that kept it from getting a PG-13. I was never bored and very captured by the story and the way it was delivered. Serious Bravo!

It's funny in an ironic sense that I should be reading this subject now. I just got back from my night-job at the local theatre and I couldn't help but over hear a mother speaking to her young daughter (about 5-6-years-old) and it went like this:

"Are you going to be alright. Well, Ms. [I-didn't-quite-catch-the-name] said that there wasn't any violence but she was wrong about that."

I don't know for sure of which film she was speaking of but it was most likely 'Prince Caspian.' I think it unlikely that she would've been speaking of the other family-film showing there: Speed Racer, since it doesn't have as much violence, and I don't think she would've been speaking of Iron Man either.


You may just have a more unique taste in movies. Though I'm curious to know just what you didn't like about 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.'


Well I'm not exactly sure what haircuts and Digital Audio Players have to do with good films, but things are better than they were fifteen-or-so years-ago. Mostly because of the increase of fan-input/criticism via The Internet and the decrease in cost of film equipment. Before, we were mostly at the mercy of the major film industry and our best defense were the professional critics. Things could still be better, though. Most better films are limited to smaller market because theatres don't like to give the screen-time of a formulaic-film that's doing well to a more creative film that's more unpredictable. It still upsets me that an awful movies like Harold & Kumar played for as long as it did while great films such as Bella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_(film)) don't always play as long.


Well it's great ones that stand the test of time--Batman Begins and Spider-Man 2 being the current benchmark--but there've still been a fair share of stinkers; Ghost Rider anyone? :/

I did not like this movie.

It started out OK, then went downhill pretty fast.

again... sometimes I really wonder if you like anything ;)

some recent movies i've been really digging are the savages, iron man, lars and the real girl, and forgetting sarah marshall.

there ya go dave   :)

Oh ok... :)

I totally missed that it was even coming out.

I have off the next 2 days. Maybe I'll go see it.

I saw it this weekend, and it was OK, nothing amazing, but decent.  I think I want it to be as good as the Lord of the Rings series, but they are trying to stay somewhat in the kids vein I think with these films.  Overall it was done well, but for me this series lacks the intensity that I liked so much in the LOTR flicks.  I still like to support films that stem from authors like CS Lewis, and I was somewhat entertained for a few hours...

Well, C.S. Lewis did write the books for children.

So did Tolkien.

That's right, but they do have a different feel to them, and Peter Jackson's directing obviously lent them a certain way. And LOTR is more adult than the Hobbit. Anyone read Children of Hurin yet? Word is that's not for children.

The dialog / screenplay was horrid and awkward.  The movie had no rhythm or flow, it was chunked up way too much.  I felt it was a bit more adult oriented than the last one but then they had to throw that shitty vocal track at the end of the movie and have that "unneeded love tension"  between Susan and Caspian, what a bunch of bull that was.  Please try to sell me something a bit more believable, stick the story and keep it simple. 

I burst out laughing so many times watching this movie, and the funny thing is its the Narnia story i remember the least and it took everything I could muster not to mock that movie up and down while I was in the theater.   In fact there were a few times when I knew something cheesy was about to happen and I buried my face in my hands in disgust. 

1/2 a star from me.  I won't recommend it to anyone and that stupid director/screenwriter should quit and do something else because he is completely ruining the stories.   

Who knows, maybe by the time the Silver Chair comes around Puddleglum will be a giant bear that awkwardly mumbles "Aslan" in a drunken voice at inopportune times, but hey this is Disney, their track record right now is crap. 

wow... pretty harsh review. i understand most of your complaints, but i think overall i still really liked it. then again, i'm a person who has never read the books, and honestly has no idea what happens in the story... maybe thats why i liked it?

i do wish it was made by someone other then disney though... and even though this is a kids story i wish there was some gore in it during the battle scenes. i know it would lose it's pg rating, but i just hate it when violence is un-realistic because there is like no blood.

Yeah the song at the end was super funny, and irritating actually.  The fight scenes always stink in those movies really, PG means nothing realistic, unfortunately.  I guess I'll just wait for the Hobbit now.  

The more I think about it, the less I like the film. Joel, you're pretty close.

As far as Disney goes, I wonder how much of a hand they really had in it. Walden Media filmed it, Disney just distributed it.

it still smells like disney though.   there are at least two castle w/ fireworks scenes in the movie that look almost identical to the disney intros for tv lol.   

LOL Yes! I knew I wasn't alone. I wanted to run out of the theater to escape. Worst song choice evar!


This movie has disney written all over it. More-so than the first movie in my opinion.

This movie twisted/added to the original book a lot! (Prince caspian was my fav. of the 3 books)

I would give it a 2/5!

ha, nice.  another unneeded, potentially mockable moment was near the end when the mouse was asking for his tail back.  it was at this moment that i turned to my friend and whispered, "first candidate for worst movie '08."

we had a few chuckles.

The tail thing... that was in the book and was what my pastor's wife went to see the movie for (among other things). My beef with that part was the timing of the scene, not the scene itself. It's like the director said "Oh... we only have 3 minutes of film left and 20 pages of book!"

yeah.  timing, besides dialog, is its biggest failure.  i wouldn't have minded the scene if it was at a better time and written a bit better.

Yikes! It's as if Gobo has been using Joel and noah's usernames to post movie reviews. :-\

See, I was a bit biased in that (shame) I've never read the book. So it was all new story to me.

My one real critique is sort of in line with you Joel, in that they should have bit the bullet and made it PG-13. The story was obviously intended to be very violent - you've got mice slicing people's necks open and guys getting beheaded. So basically you have PG-13 content with a PG rating because the cameras pan real quick so you don't SEE the blood spurting out of sliced-open carotid arteries, or the entrails spurting forth from a severed neck.

I've now heard stories of parents being upset because their 10 year old girls were really really scared and frightened by all of the violence, but because it was only PG, they took their kids to see it anyway.

What I'm saying is, they ought to have completely watered down the violence and left it PG, or made it gory and taken the PG-13.

crazy thing is Repicheep is one of my favorites from that book and Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  They really watered down how noble a character he really was.

And they were both friends  :)

While they were both written for children, there are some major differences though.

Not only were the Narnia books written for children, but they actually have children in them!

Also Narnia was written for children, but also had a planned spiritual teaching behind it.

LOTR for the most part was just pure entertainment.  (Yes, it does have deep things in it, but he didn't have the same goals for it that C.S. Lewis did for Narnia.)

The tone of both series is completely different from each other too.

LOTR is more of an older childrens book, I would think.  Definitely darker and more serious.

My favorite things I took away from the movie were all spiritual content.

Peter (and the other kids, except for Lucy) had a hard time believing Aslan (Jesus) was still around, and was the answer to their problems.

Peter says something like, "I just wish there was some proof he was still here, some sign" and Lucy says:

"Maybe it's not him who should be proving anything to us, maybe WE should be proving ourselves to Him."

I also liked how Peter kept trying to do things in his own power, on his own without Aslan's (Jesus') help.

Then as it all comes crashing down he realizes not only did it hurt him, but his choices also hurt others too, as so many of the Narnia creatures die in a useless battle.

I liked how even though Lucy was the one who still believed in Aslan, and saw him, she was not perfect either:

Something like:  "Why did you not come to me?"

"I knew it was you, but no one else would believe me and I was too scared to come on my own."

After they failed in their own power, they were also tempted to turn to the witch (Satan).

Yeah, they did a good job presenting the spiritual parts of the film. They could have done it better though. It also didn't make up for the fact that the movie was 80% battle.

I honestly left thinking they should just make and Aslan movie and then slapped myself silly for saying such a thing ;)

well from what ive been reading... you have all lost your minds.  :D the movie was great! why is everyone on this forum becoming so jaded? really?

it makes me wanna  :hurt:

yes it was a little disney i will give you that... but ive read all of the books more then once and they kept it in line with the book very well. about 95%. i was very impressed with that. one thing that should be pointed out is that this book was always the "slower" or "less a popular" book in the series as it is actually leading up to the dawntreader which will be much better. i remember when the BBC made the first live action movies of these books they made price caspian and the dawn treader back to back and they played one right after another...

i dont think you should be able to give this a negitive review unless you have read the book at least once.

anyway this was well done. the first was better but this certainly filled the shoes of the second book in my opinion.  :-X

I agree that the movie was not as good as the LOTR movies, didn't flow well, and was lacking in some areas.

I still enjoyed it and thought it was a good movie though, just not a great one.

Sure it's not LOTR quality, but it still beats the crap out of movies like Eragon.  :laugh:

Before this, all we had were those guys in the awful animal suit costumes, now we have Narnia movies that are much cooler looking, even of they aren't perfect yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruUBf2Ln7L0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsSVoOZRO8&feature=related

lol those old movies were classics i have the whole dvd collection.  8)

Don't agree, it should be able to stand alone as a movie, but it doesn't.  It is a terribly done movie as movies go.  There no excuse for it.  And don't come back at me about reading them, I've not only read them all many times but I've had them read to me many times.  I'm not complaining about accuracy either so that argument doesn't stand.

Well... one thing is for sure. No matter how bad Narnia was, it shines like perfection up against Speed Racer.

lol... a good friend whose opinion on movies I seriously respect loved Speed Racer. He said it was some of the best escapism wild-ride cinema he'd seen in years.

I'll say this. Speed Racer is eye-candy. But... come on... paying tribute to the original series? Don't think so.

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I can't comment myself.

apparently the world thinks otherwise...

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Speed-Racer-s-Box-Office-Flop-Explained-8805.html

Wow, well I'm now convinced. :laugh:

Yeah, I'm aware of that. But the world can think what they will :) I still haven't seen it, so I have no idea. I'll rent it or watch it in Finnish cinemas a year from now... ::)

even the eye candy didnt save this movie. at times i didnt know who was winning or what was happening during the races. some scenes seemed to just drag on and on. i thought this was geared towards kids. the only thing that caught my daughters attention were the races and even then she couldnt make out what was going on. the movie was waaay too long.



what¿?

 :-X   :laugh:

NOT...

Helping... :laugh:

Speed Racer:

You need to know going in that it's got plenty of cheese, and a lot of the fighting and action are very campy.

Here's a good Spritle clip to give you an idea:  http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808406004/video/7633142/

It's more video game than Anime to me, and reminds me of Tron that way (but it's not that good.)

It does have some good things in it though, as one of the main themes is art vs commerce.

Do you do what you do because you love it, or do what you do to make money?

Once money enters the equation, can it still be art?

That theme was probably my favorite thing about the movie.
 
Not being able to tell what was happening in the races, or who was winning...NOT my favorite thing.

If you're looking for a family movie where good triumphs over evil, this is "ok."

yeah... the clip sealed it for me. I won't see it.