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The Chronicles of Narnia

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Well, if you haven't seen it, Weta, the minds behind the special effects for Lord of the Rings, are doing the special effects and props for the new Narnia movies. They did a featurette showing some of the creatures, weapons and armour that will be in the movie.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/th ... arnia.html
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I'm fully in favor! I loved those books (especially Voyage of the Dawn Treader) and there's no way in hell this can be worse than the animated version of LWW, so hooray! *marks her calendar for "someday"*
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Pretty cool. Been decade since I rad Narnia(I may have reread the Lion The Witch and The wardrobe). But hey, looks pretty nice. :D
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This is the first I've heard a movie being made, and I was never a big fan of the books, but it actually looks pretty interesting.
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never heared of it before but if it has minotaurs in it, it can't be bad
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Bah. C.S. Lewis and his silly Jesus parallel story is too baka for me.
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Never much cared for Narnia. I thought it was pretty silly when I even when I was young. This is so only gettinng made because of LOTR.
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Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
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Sounds good. I loved the books as a kid, blatent Christian symbolism and all. The Silver Chair was the only book I found truly dissappointing in that regard, and even then I liked the characters.
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Keevan_Colton wrote:Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Yeah. I thought it was cool when I was a kid.
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I liked the pessimistic frogmen the most...

Otherwise, the evil Bird-Satan would be the coolest thing to put on-screen for me.
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Keevan_Colton wrote:Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
I have that, and Prince Caspian, and The Vogage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair all on video. Man... thinking about them makes me want to watch them again. I used to have a crush on Peter, althogh Lucy was my favourite.

Oh, but I'm not a Yank. Silly me. Ignore all of the above.

Anyway, I hope the movies are going to be as good as the BBC version.
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Keevan_Colton wrote:Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Yeah, and that one with the green witch too. I really don't see why they're doing another movie, I think its more probable than not that it won't be quite as good as the BBC version, though it would have to have better special effects.
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My only qualm is why everything has to be filmed in NZ now. The originals weren't and the BBC The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe was brilliant.

If they could put the radioplay of The Magician's Nephew on the silverscreen too, that'd be excellent.
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New Narnia movies? You're shitting me! How many?
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I loved them, and never noticed the Jesus sumbolism until it was pointed out to me. By all means, give me films!!!!
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I think maybe I read the first book once. I certainly saw the animated version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a bunch of times when I was a kid but that's about it.
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Vympel wrote:New Narnia movies? You're shitting me! How many?
For now they're only doing the one, IIRC-- probably a deal like with SW originally, see if the first one works fine and then make the sequels. I do have to wonder if they're going to do all six books, though... that always bothered me with the BBC series, they never did Magician's Nephew or Last Battle...
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Elheru Aran wrote:For now they're only doing the one, IIRC-- probably a deal like with SW originally, see if the first one works fine and then make the sequels. I do have to wonder if they're going to do all six books, though... that always bothered me with the BBC series, they never did Magician's Nephew or Last Battle...
Yeah well, Magician's Nephew was a "prequel" of sorts and isn't as well known as Lion/Witch/Wardrobe ... they probably didn't have the budget to do the Last Battle either, though that was always one wierd book regardless. The Silver Chair was my favorite, actually.
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And the official movie site, for those of y'all who are interested...

http://www.narnia.com/

Has some videos of production as well-- pretty impressive stuff...
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I've seen both the BBC version and the animated version (at least, part of the animated version...after a while I couldn't take it anymore). I read the books as a kid. I liked them and could live with the religious symbolism until The Last Battle, and that book ruined the entire series for me. I hated it with a passion. It's like how the Matrix sequels are so bad that they make the original suck. It looks cool, but not enough for me to get over my very profound dislike of the last book.

And if they do make the last book into a movie, I am going all-out militant atheist on someone's ass.
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My favourite was the Silver Chair, although I admit that was because Tom Baker (aka Doctor Who) played one of the characters. And I never noticed the Christian symbolism until I got older, and I most likely won't want to particularly watch it (didn't find the plot that great).
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I love these books! Heres hoping the movies dont fuck with them too much. As for the religious symbolism...having done countless in depth readings of Paradise Lost, I cant help but appreciate the things Lewis does with Milton's work. He's written some great papers on it, I def recommend them.
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Cairber wrote:I love these books! Heres hoping the movies dont fuck with them too much. As for the religious symbolism...having done countless in depth readings of Paradise Lost, I cant help but appreciate the things Lewis does with Milton's work. He's written some great papers on it, I def recommend them.
:wtf: Narnia and Paradise Lost are related? Please explain... I'm intrigued...
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neoolong wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:Any of you yanks seen the BBC version of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Yeah. I thought it was cool when I was a kid.
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