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Post by Lavita on Dec 10, 2005 13:11:44 GMT -1
or dress him up as Aurelio?
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 10, 2005 13:16:37 GMT -1
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Post by Lavita on Dec 10, 2005 13:18:43 GMT -1
;D lol
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 10, 2005 13:41:44 GMT -1
most definitely xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by Rosie on Dec 11, 2005 22:03:45 GMT -1
man some of my friends would enjoy you y'all r just as crazy. one of my friends spent like, a half hour telling me about how she planned to spend her future... and meeting Matthew McConaughey in a coffee shop was one of the highlights.
rosie
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 15, 2005 12:25:12 GMT -1
Heehee, oh yeah i've got my WHOLE future planned out like that. And William Moseley is, at present, a prime compnent in it. Omg, i SAW NARNIA!!!!!!! IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! PETER WAS SO GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!! LUCY WAS ADORABLE!!!!!!!! SUSAN WAS A WET BLANKET AND VERY VERY VERY VERY ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoox
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Post by Rosie on Dec 15, 2005 14:05:15 GMT -1
ha ha
rosie
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 15, 2005 14:22:54 GMT -1
true. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by soontobebelladonna on Dec 15, 2005 14:55:37 GMT -1
I'm so jealous of you guys. I still have to wait for like a week or so, before I finally can see it. Is it really that good as everyone says?
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 15, 2005 15:12:30 GMT -1
Oh no! That's rubbish 4 u! It's WONDERFUL, seriously. Lion the witch and the wardrobe was always my fave book when i was young and the film did not dissapoint. Where are you then? I mean, which country? xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by soontobebelladonna on Dec 18, 2005 18:04:21 GMT -1
I live in Holland. And here I have to wait untill December 23 . That really sucks , cause I really really really want to see the movie. Luckily now I have only five days to go!!!
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Post by Rosie on Dec 18, 2005 22:33:02 GMT -1
I saw it a few days ago and OMIGOSH it was seriously the best fantasy movie i've ever seen.
#1-- I liked how it followed the same basic plotline as the book, THEN added in a little bit, like the waterfall scene and the wolves tracking the 3 children and the beavers. They included all the good stuff, and made it even better. Compared to HP4 (i often compare it to HP4, seeing as it was another recent book-to-movie film) I think the director did a better job of getting the good book stuff down first and then adding cool stuff.
The WW2 scene where the fighter planes are dropping bombs and the thing with Edmund wanting the picture of his dad was nice. I was worried that they'd waste too much time in the real world instead of Narnia, but the director handled it well, giving you an idea why they were going to the professers. It also set the stage for the Peter/Edmund conflict (It also gave me my first good look at William Moseley!)
The battle scene was AMAZING. PHENOMENAL. That part, more than any of the other scenes, was the best. I think they made it almost better than the book. I was at the edge of my seat, grinning hysterically through the whole sene. There was never really much of a battle scene in the book but they added and made it absolutely INCREDIBLE. That was one of my favorite scenes because it was just so cool.
Also, Aslan's sacrifice was done remarkably well also. I do believe it was always meant to be a metaphor for the crucifiction of Christ in biblical times, and they made it look that way without making it glaringly obvious that that is what the book is somewhat based on.
The waterfall scene was a nice added touch, not way overly dramatic, yet a nice way to add suspense. When the children were being pursued by wolves was also quite thrilling; about half the people in the theater screamed (we had a bunch of ditzy girls in the row in front of us, and they contributed loudly) when Susan and Lucy were at the creek, and Susan pulled the towel back and the wolf snarled at her.
#2 The movie was cast incredibly well also. The actors were unknowns (I think) and they acted incredibly well. (Compared to sobby Emma Watson and kinda fake-acting Daniel Radcliffe) William Moseley was so cute! Man it wouldn't really matter how bad the movie was just to see him in it!! Susan was a bit of a wet blanket, I agree, but that's what her charater always was. And she did lighten up as the film progressed. Edmund was the little snot I'd always imagined, and Lucy was so adorable! She played her part exceptionally well, being both so young and such a key part. The younger three looked incredibly alike as well; Peter is set apart because he was just so hot! But the younger three all had rather large noses, especially Susan, and they all looked alike. It's amazing that they could cast such perfect matches!
The White Witch was very creepy. I'd always imagined her rather pretty, but cold and evil. She looks very weird, but she acted just perfectly for the part, and so that makes up for the dreadlocks.
The computer-generated parts were amazing. THe fauns, the centaurs (I thought they were particularily cool, the centaurs) the beavers (I liked the way Beaver and Mrs. Beaver acted towards each other) the gryffyn (which was also another majorly cool add-in) and Aslan especially were so lifelike. The nyads and dryads were very cool too-- instead of the spirits inside the trees becoming women, they became like, cherry-blossoms floating in the wind. The Witches army was very creepy, nasty old creatures and Peters (ohh!!) army was so cool and majestic.
I hope they make another movie! Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Horse and his Boy, The Magician's Nephew, The Silver Chair, THe Last Battle, all of them!! They rocked! (and William Moseley should be in all of them)
Rosie
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Post by Rosie on Dec 18, 2005 22:33:18 GMT -1
holy crap that's a long post!
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Post by Lavita on Dec 20, 2005 15:18:14 GMT -1
Narnia - not bad, not bad. A reasonable adaptation but one that could have been a little more...refined. To say the protagonists were child actors they were quite well cast.
The costume design however - armour mainly - pathetic. Resembled tinfoil more than steel.
Soundtrack was averagely good. Cinematography...impressive
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Post by alianajuliette on Dec 20, 2005 16:21:34 GMT -1
Narnia was amazing. I saw it last weekend. It was just purely amazing. And William Moseley was gorgeous. Not to mention a wonderful actor! The whole movie was just how I pictured the book. I looved it.
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Post by Rosie on Dec 20, 2005 20:13:12 GMT -1
lavita your criticsism pains me.
rosie
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Post by Mary on Dec 20, 2005 21:06:59 GMT -1
Don't know if anyone is interested in my thoughts on the movie. We saw it last Saturday as a much needed light relief after my father-in-law's funeral on Friday so I was well disposed to like it.
I couldn't imagine it being better done - the characters were well cast, especially Mr Tumnus and Jadis. I agree that Lucy was adorable and Susan a pain. Glad you all liked Peter so much - rare agreement on the site.
But, as with HP and LOTR it has the same weaknesses and strengths as the book. It is purely arbitrary which animals are on the side of good or bad (Aslan's or the witch's). Why are beavers intrinsically good and wolves bad? I adore wolves. And it pained me to see Polar Baers drawing the white witch's war chariot, since I love them too. (I want a polar bear chariot).
I thought the battle was pathetic. Post-Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields, one has to do better than that. But mainly the trouble was that two hours isn't long enough to set up the conflict that the battle resolves. LOTR wins out there. The symbols on the children's tunics, for example, when they are crowned, have no resonance because we know nothing of the cultures which produced them.
Still, Lavita, I was amused to see all our old friends like Richard Taylor and Sala turning up in the credits. Weta rides again. But the music was very unmemorable.
I am really a Tolkien girl if one has to be one or the other, as you can tell. Narnia just isn't fully realised enough for me - where are all the shops where Tumnus bought his packages and how developed is the technology? He has a photo of his father for instance but the lamp runs on gas.
Still, I enjoyed it hugely.
Mary
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Post by StarRider113 on Dec 20, 2005 21:16:50 GMT -1
Here's a picture of Wiliam Moseley, not looking 12, as he seems to in the movie...
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Post by Duchessa on Dec 20, 2005 21:17:13 GMT -1
lol, yup, Peter was gorgeous. I LOVED the chemistry between lucy and tumnus i thought they were PERF.
and yes, you're right, the battle +notsomuch. I agree, we're a post-lotr society, WE NEED TO BE IMPRESSED! Soo...who's up for king kong? xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
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Post by Anni all broked on Dec 20, 2005 21:30:49 GMT -1
I have to agree with you rosie. For once, I went into this film thinking... Ok. I'm just going to watch it. No notes (I usually take unconciouse notes during films) no analysing. No keeping a grip on reality.
I was in tears from when Aslan walked alone to about an hour after the film.
It DID deviate from the book in several places, but only to keep the flow, and to keep it for a modern audience (such as the 'wehn girls fight' line - still implied) It did what the Harry Potter films do not, and kept the feel of the books. I adored Edmund. I adored Peter. I quite liked lucy. I adored the acting of susan - although I wish they'd shown more change in her character. But I still don't like her, and never will, for abandoning Narnia for (I quote) 'stockings and lipstick and invitations.'
It was my childhood, basically, wrapped up and presented so beautifully. I didn't think that the armour was particuarly tin foil - just very shiny. and idealised. but I LIKE that - it gave it that sense of... duality. In that, this is, yes, a real battle in a real world that contains elements of fantasy, and...
Wait, this is going to being interpreted wrongly however I say it so...
OK. Well. Narnia is a real world. It's a real world with real battles and real blood and real death.
And yet, at the same time, it's THE fantasy. The fantasy land that you play in all through your youth - witches to be beaten, giants and trolls and ogres and talking animals, thrones to be claimed, forests and horse riding and saving the world. (land) There's always this very, VERY faint thread of subtext through the books that suggests that the entire series COULD just be imaginings. But its not emphasised much, and anyway, I'm deviating.
Its a fantasy, and at the same time, it's real. And the armour in the film is, fantasy armour. It's real armour that will really save peters life, and at the same time, it's the idealised image of armour. It shows the duality of the real world vs. imaginary very well.
I really like it.
(now feel free to misinterpret this anyway you want)
As for the rest of the film - loved the sound track. The set was amazing. MR TUMNUS ROCKED MANY PEOPLES SOCKS.
The way they did the animals was brilliant. I was so scared that they would ruin them.
William Moseley... well... I thought he was sort of hot, but something was nagging at me throughout the film. When we got to the wet!peter waterfall bit, I was like - yay! now I can say he's hot! wet peter.... then i realised that I didn't actu\ally find him physically attractive.
What I found attractive was not any sean maher/christan coulson/robert pattison type looks. it was the nobility. He acted The nobility and sacrificing nature he conveyed so well. I find that really, really hot. Thats probably why I like Sean Maher so much. He's not really girly enough for me, and sometimes, if hes in a bad outfit, then you're like... WTF? not hot. But when he sacrifices himself....
But I'm rambling. and offtopic too. Mods, come zap me with my own OFFTOPIC wand.
back to point. Narnia = awesome.
Although Aslans voice... Liam Neeson was amazing, and I probably would have chosen him again, but I was expecting more of a... lion voice. Less Human. Deeper. The voice of God, come on!
Actually, thats another thing I liekd about the film. you could watchj it on a purely superficial level, an moderatly christan level and a very deeply christan level. They didn't force the christianity on you, yet, if you wanted to, (and I admit to watching it from a very deeply christan perspective) Everything was there. So yes.
Although I wish they'd kept closer to the original ink drawings that everyone loves, and just ARE narnia. Black haired peter and Susan. Blonde edmund and Lucy. Stone table cracked distinctly in two to create that wonderful image... almost pyrimidy... anyone know what picture I'm talking about? But they were minor changes - and they did them so well, I can forgive them.
The only bit I really missed was the explanaition of why they were given their names. We didn't see very much of Edmunds character change through his experiance - and I admit to being a huge edmund fangirl, even when he's a traitory - We didn't see Susan becoming so breathtakingly beautiful, Lucy becoming so bonny and bright and shiny and laughing and dancing.
But again, I can live with that.
Looking forward to the next ones? Really want to see Grownup!Original 4. REALLY want to see dawn treader. And caspian. And Horse and his boy. and Eustace.
*squee*
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