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| Jan 3rd, 2006 12:27 PM | |
| DamnthatDavid |
I enjoyed it enough to go watch it again with the family,. Liam Neeson is god. He been a Jedi, a ninja, a knight, a Nazi and now Christ in "Passion of the Aslan." |
| Jan 3rd, 2006 08:42 AM | |
| Dole | absolute fucking shite. |
| Jan 3rd, 2006 07:14 AM | |
| pjalne |
My problem with it was that there was no dramatic buildup on a character level. Not as far as the central characters are concerned, anyway. Peter just kinda drifts through the story, and when he has to rise to the occasion, he just kinda does. There is no Gethsemane, no inner demons to fight, no motivation. The guy is suposed to be our point of view into this whole story and the thing that ties the main plot together, and he's barely visible. Which maybe works for younger boys, they often like to have a bland central character they can project themselves into anyway, but gave me no reason to care. The Lucy kid was awesome, though. |
| Jan 3rd, 2006 02:41 AM | |
| nothing4buddha | piece of shit. |
| Jan 2nd, 2006 10:06 PM | |
| Shyandquietguy |
I just watched it. Since I haven't jumped into the books at all yet, it seemed ok. Tilda was awesome as the witch. The animals were actually a bit surprising in quality. They did an awesome job with the creatures. Hell, when the thought of half-man half-animal creatures came up I was a bit scared that Kevin Sorbo would run out into the scene with a half-hearted guise of a reverse filming effect of him dancing with a leprechaun. I laughed when they gave Peter a Neo-moment and had the subtle techno music at the beginning of the movie. |
| Dec 15th, 2005 09:40 PM | |
| Ihach | this was definitely a sweet movie once it got going, i especially liked the witch's wolf secret police |
| Dec 15th, 2005 02:21 PM | |
| Royal Tenenbaum | The original version of "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode is cool as it is. She should have used that! |
| Dec 15th, 2005 02:09 PM | |
| Big Papa Goat | what's up with stupid movie stars being inspired by Marilyn Manson? |
| Dec 15th, 2005 01:36 PM | |
| sadie | entertainment weekly said tilda played marilyn manson's "personal jesus" for inspiration. |
| Dec 15th, 2005 09:46 AM | |
| AChimp |
Edmund and Susan were pussies for most of the movie. The little girl should have slapped some sense into them.  Awesome movie, though. 
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| Dec 15th, 2005 12:28 AM | |
| Protoclown |
I agree that Tilda was brilliant, but so many of those outfits of hers were fucking horrible...though when she was wearing Aslan:  HOTNESS
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| Dec 15th, 2005 12:19 AM | |
| Royal Tenenbaum | This ended up being a great movie! I was really surprised. The only problem was some wooden acting, but beyond that it was quite entertaining. The action was deftly handled, and Tilda Swinton was brillaint. They left a bit out from the book, but they covered it all quite well. I guess we will get a couple sequels now... |
| Dec 12th, 2005 03:34 PM | |
| Guitar Woman |
I saw it yesterday and thought it was great. I didn't like the Witch's frozen dreadlocks though 
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| Dec 12th, 2005 03:20 PM | |
| mburbank |
I thought it rocked, and Tilda was AWESOME! I also was very impressed that the allegory aspect was peddled no harder nor softer than the book. It was treated with respect. C.S. Lewis is a very readable and impressive theologian and it's not as if the New Testament isn't as good a story to reference as Shakespeare or Norse mythology or any other damn thing an author likes. I do wonder what the reborn audience for "The Passion" is going to make of all the half naked Fauns and Buff Centaurs. If they think Harry Potter is a manual for Stanism, what must they make of all that pagan shit? |
| Dec 11th, 2005 10:32 PM | |
| Protoclown | I enjoyed it, and the talking animals weren't really as silly as I feared they would be. I've never read the books. |
| Dec 11th, 2005 11:50 AM | |
| Emu |
It got better towards the end, but the beginning drew on for a fucking hour.
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| Dec 10th, 2005 11:35 PM | |
| Immortal Goat |
Exceptional movie. Aslan was awesome, the animals looked great, even when they talked. The acting was great, the effects were awesome, and even with the Christian overtones, I didn't care. It didn't matter at all that Aslan was obviously a Christ figure. Hell, Artie, the Strongest Man in the World could be viewed as a Christ figure. So, yeah, GO SEE THIS FUCKING MOVIE! P.S. I like it better than Harry Potter, and that is saying something. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 02:56 PM | |
| Slinky Ferret |
In regards to Lord of The Rings, I don't think Tolkien was relating it to WWII, he was relating it to the changes of the world. He was existing in a time where machines were taking over, where countryside was being destroyed. Anyway, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were professors at university together at one of the best universities in England. I think they both lectured in English mainly but both had a love for mythology. LOTR was written by Tolkien because he'd invented a language and decided to have a story to fit around it. C.S. Lewis wrote the Narnia series for children. At first glance, when you are a child, its a fasinating story of good and evil, of betrayal, sacrifice, family and friends. All of the books cover topics that can be difficult to explain at times, yet I love reading the books, they may not be the academic challenge of LOTR, but they make me happy. If you read the stories again, when a little older, they are still those fasinating stories that you read when you were younger, but you begin to see the hidden depths. I recommend The Last Battle in particular or The Silver Chair. The fact remains, C.S. Lewis was a christian and he has written some excellent books such as The Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce, which are good to get you thinking. However, I feel that the story of TLTWATW gives an interesting perspective on the very basic elements of christianity without all the politics and hangups that are present today and in regards to that I think Lewis has combined an excellent story with an underlying theme that relates to christianity but you can choose to see it that way or not. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 01:58 PM | |
| GADZOOKS | I'm rooting for the lion, but I bet the wardrobe wins. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 12:43 PM | |
| Jeanette X |
I read all the Narnia books as a kid, and I frankly don't care if its got Christian symbolism. Its still enjoyable, and this movie looks like a pretty good adaptation. I saw an live action adaptation of The Silver Chair when I was a kid. I can't remember if it was any good though. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 11:16 AM | |
| Ninjavenom | Mine goes: Magician's Nephew, lion/witch/wardrobe, horse and his boy, prince caspian, dawn treader, silver chair, last battle. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 10:27 AM | |
| Protoclown | My roommate's got an old copy of all the books collected together in one volume and they placed that story first in that one too, so I don't think the movie is to blame for that one. |
| Dec 10th, 2005 06:46 AM | |
| executioneer |
all i know is that i saw a collection of all seven books and book #1 was the magicians nephew and i was like "wtf that's book 5 you n*ggers, put them in the right order" so the repopularizing of the chronicles of narnia has already started to piss me off
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| Dec 10th, 2005 05:28 AM | |
| DamnthatDavid | Cutting through all this College level mumbo jumbo, just got back from watching the Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it is a great book to movie adaption. |
| Dec 5th, 2005 05:36 PM | |
| Emu | pjalne, let's go back to tryign to find the underlying subtext in Boston and Shaun. |
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