Who has seen the movie Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian?

[martincisneros]

For anyone not aware, before our boards crashed in the summer of 2007 because of all kinds of technical problems, this was pretty much the board where not only clean humor was posted with some liberty, but this is also where we'd talk about movies.  I started a thread way back then, that no longer exists on the Spiderman3 movie, so, within reason it wasn't limited to [overtly] "Christian movies."  Had the boards not crashed, there'd of been all kinds of old threads here with "humor," "poems," "songs," AND "movies" talked about -- beyond the threads that are here now.

For anyone thinking that it's kinda late to start this thread, you've got to remember that a lot of times that a movie made in the U.S. will [sometimes] take a month or two to hit some of the European countries.  That, and some people take a while to see a movie in the U.S. 'cause they wait until it's at a dollar theatre or whatever.  And with the price of gasoline, some people may be really thinking about whether they want to really see a movie, or skip movies all year and buy the DVDs of the ones at the end of the year that they're still hearing good stuff about.

Anyway, has anyone seen the latest Chronicles of Narnia movie?  What did you think?  Were you a little disappointed after the first one?  Did you like it more than the first Chronicles of Narnia movie?  Had you previously read the book and thought this one followed it pretty faithfully?  If you've read the book, was the movie better or not up to par?  Any particularly favorite scenes?  My favorite scenes are towards the end when Aslan causes what almost looks like Pseidon to come up out of the water to deal with the remaining part of the enemy army.  And then immediately after that when the little girl (oh, what's her name?) asks the Narnian if he finally sees Aslan!  That was a classic allusion back to Thomas seeing the Risen Jesus after his 8 days of unbelief in the Gospel of John.

I'm still processing what I thought about this second of the seven that they're supposed to make of the Narnia series.  I saw it twice, so obviously I liked it enough to go back a week or two later.  But I'm not sure if it came up to the expectations that were created for me by the first Chronicles of Narnia movie: The Lion, Witch, & The Wardrobe.  It really was pretty good, though.  Anybody else seen it yet?

[rhellis]

The movie-- quality slightly less than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The singing at the end was really out of place-- it felt cheesy, felt like something from one of those cheap youth films they used to show at church on Sunday nights.

Overall, though I would say it was pretty good. It made some great points of course, stayed mostly faithful to the book. C.S. Lewis played an important role in getting me to the writings of the universalist writer George MacDonald so I am thankful for that, but MacDonald's stuff is so much better, and I wish someone would make movies of his fiction.   

[martincisneros]

The movie-- quality slightly less than The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The singing at the end was really out of place-- it felt cheesy, felt like something from one of those cheap youth films they used to show at church on Sunday nights.

I was wondering if the quality wasn't there, or if it's a bit of a bridge story between the first and third novels.  I've personally never read any of the 7 novels, so I don't know what they had to work with to start with.  Around the time that the first movie came out, they'd said that if there was enough interest that they'd probably make all 7.  As far as some of the music, that might have been their thinking on their target audience, forgetting that C.S. Lewis is read by pastors, seminary students, theologians, professors, etc.  There were parts of it that seemed rushed to me, which is making me wonder if perhaps they were filming the second and third movie together or working around the schedule of any of the actors.  Why that would have had any baring on final edits, musical score, etc., I don't know.  But there was a sense of it having been rushed that I felt when I saw the movie, although I did like it a whole lot.  Perhaps we'd of preferred that in the movie edition that the Witch scene would have gotten taken a little further??  Some of our wishing that it had been just a teeny bit more might be from wishing that they'd taken more liberty with some scenes.  We're not too used to someone trying to do it by the book these days :laughing7:

Overall, though I would say it was pretty good. It made some great points of course, stayed mostly faithful to the book. C.S. Lewis played an important role in getting me to the writings of the universalist writer George MacDonald so I am thankful for that, but MacDonald's stuff is so much better, and I wish someone would make movies of his fiction.   

George MacDonald's probably next.  There's only so long that his books can be overlooked, since they are the better genre.  Maybe a couple of directors/producers have already wimped out of it, not sure about how to work with material that's as preachy and thoughtful as the dumbed down stuff that they're accustomed to making.  I'd be surprised if the decade ended without our hearing about someone that's at least looking over MacDonald.  It likely won't be one of the current heavy weights like Steven Spielberg or Rob Reiner.  Either an independent or someone that's just now starting to make the industry some money.