I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe last night with my father and brother. It was pretty awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The camera angles were a bit too tight for my liking. It was like they were trying to stuff too much into every scene, or move too close in on a character’s face. It just felt unusual. It will be interesting to see how it translates to television.
I really, really enjoyed the music. For me, music makes a film. When I go to see a movie, I listen mostly to the music. If I ever get a novel published and someone (Zarquon forbid!) goes insane and wants to make a movie from it, it will have to have most awesome music. Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune still has, in my opinion, the greatest music of any miniseries/movie. But I do digress.
I’m posting this, by the way, because my dad told me this morning that he was surprised that I had not posted a Narnia review on my blog. So here it is, Dad. 
Unlike Serenity, which was a good movie, I am very open to the idea of Narnia sequels. Hopefully they will be as entertaining as this one. Now, of course, this would have the disadvantage of me having to read the books all over again (I have not read them since at least grade 6, if not earlier in my life… .). It‘d be worth it, though. They’re good books and the movies, for a Walt Disney production, did not let me down. (The fact that I don’t remember half the book would help with that.)
Muwahahahaha.
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I enjoyed the narnia vooks when i read them, and the movies would actually work well, none of the characters ever are in more thatn 3 or 4 books so they wouldn’t age too much.
i read in a magazine, however, that if This movie does well, which it has, they are going to make Prince Caspian and that would be it.
bummer… eh?
My middle school english teacher forced us to watch the old version of The LW&W and it was AWFUL … I spent most of the movie drowsing or wanting to punch the girl who played Lucy. And Aslan was a bad puppet 
/me is reading through the series again 
my 5th grade home room teacher was a big C.S Lewis fan so he read the LW and W with us and we saw the old verson too bad I don’t rember alot about the movie hmmm probilty be able to if I did not get perfict attendice that year :P
Hey Noyhcat nice review. I own most of the Narnia books, and I have seen the old movies. I have yet to see this one.
I saw it a few weeks ago. Very good. I too love the music of a movie. That’s why I buy soundtracks. Obviously star wars, but also lord of the rings and harry potter. They have some great melodies.
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I have never read these books, but when I saw the very first trailer for the movie, I thought that I should. Then I saw another trailer for the movie. With… TALKING ANIMALS!! That is my pet peave and I decided to throw the Chronicles of Narnia out of my life… but I still kinda want to see the movie. I went to see The Producers last night and it wasn’t bad. It’s a musical that starts out kinda dumb but gets better. Oh, and if you are looking for some very good music in movies, Star Wars, The Lord Of The Rings, and The Pirates of the Caribbean have very good soundtracks.
Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 12:32 PM