Happy sigh
Dec. 12th, 2005 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vr_trakowskiI had a lovely weekend, despite my cold. I saw the Narnia film on Saturday, with CSI friends, and went to a party on Sunday with more CSI friends. And I used to have no social life. :P It was so good to see everyone, and to meet new folks with whom I can babble about things that make my family look at me sideways. Fandom--there's nothing like it, and I meet the BEST people.
And on a greedy note, WOW, that was terrific pudding, Millie! *grin*
The movie, now...it was very, very good. The special effects are amazing and the soundtrack is great, and when Aslan first appeared I cried. But for this diehard, raving Jack Lewis fan...they changed too much. The plot changes I could have dealt with (and I must say that the Stone Table scene was done almost perfectly) but the attitude changes got to me. The whole "let's just get Edmund and go home" theme was, well, wrong. And far too much emphasis was put on the children as the fulcrum of change, rather than Aslan himself.
But the acting was superb--especially the White Witch, yowza!--and the additions I expected; it's a short book, they had to expand somewhere. Father Christmas forgot the Beavers' gifts and the tea, but the Beavers themselves were marvelously done. If one isn't a deep Narnia/Lewis fan, then by all means, go and see and enjoy.
And on a greedy note, WOW, that was terrific pudding, Millie! *grin*
The movie, now...it was very, very good. The special effects are amazing and the soundtrack is great, and when Aslan first appeared I cried. But for this diehard, raving Jack Lewis fan...they changed too much. The plot changes I could have dealt with (and I must say that the Stone Table scene was done almost perfectly) but the attitude changes got to me. The whole "let's just get Edmund and go home" theme was, well, wrong. And far too much emphasis was put on the children as the fulcrum of change, rather than Aslan himself.
But the acting was superb--especially the White Witch, yowza!--and the additions I expected; it's a short book, they had to expand somewhere. Father Christmas forgot the Beavers' gifts and the tea, but the Beavers themselves were marvelously done. If one isn't a deep Narnia/Lewis fan, then by all means, go and see and enjoy.