| THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| GOT BOOST |
Hi Everyone,
I just came out of this movie. I must admit this is a very, very, very good movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it to be very well done from the start to finish. It was visually stunning, lots of action and great sound.
If you have read the books and enjoyed them, then this is a must see movie. I would rate it 10 out of 10. I feel my money was well spent.
To view the trailer(s) click on link below.
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers....oniclesofnarnia
Thanks for reading,
Mike Nikolai |
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| bigmack000 |
| i also loved it . the costumes were jsut what i was thinking of wonderful job. i migth go read the rest ofthe books now :) :thumbup: |
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| S2KPWR |
I thought they did an excellent job on the movie..
I read the books like 10yrs ago though.. lol
8/10 for me. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
I was forced to read the books back in like grade 5, we even went to they play downtown... Aslan(i think i spelled that right)
The play was cool, I might have to see this... |
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| SketchifisT |
| solid movie its a recommendation to everyone i meet.. The only beef i have heard so far is the lack of realism in the fight scene. For me i didn't really care because its based more on a kids movie then grown ups but with that being said when the only fault you can find in the movie is the lack of blood... it tends to be a pretty decent movie |
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| Inzane |
| I will probably see this movie. But the supposed religious undertones will probably dampen the experience for me. I read one of the books (the first one I think) when I was a kid, and was oblivious to the analogies at that time. |
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| S2KPWR |
| There is some biblical messages in the movie. |
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| bigmack000 |
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Originally posted by S2KPWR
There is some biblical messages in the movie.
hes right. but if you dont think of them then it will be fine. i went into it just thinking its a movie i didn't relate any thing to the bible at all. might not be that easy for others tho. :dunno: |
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| SketchifisT |
If you go into the movie not knowin that its based on christianity and has a message then you will be fine. But to me that means you are missing a huge portion of the movie. The bible part to the movie by NO MEANS is being pushed on you and if it makes you feel uncomfortable then i think you have outside issues altogether,
CS Lewis was an athiest who became a christian by "logic" his words not mine. Mere Christianity is the book if you want to check it up. The entire Chronicles of Narnia series has christianity in the background but it does not intefer with the story plot it just flows along with it. And if you understand the christianity part of it .. most time the story plot will flow smoother with no hinges or bumps that you may get without knowin the full story. Either way readin or watchin the movie .. it is worth whatever you pay for it .. CS lewis was easily in the top 5 most brilliant minds to be published in the 20th century |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by SketchifisT
CS Lewis was an athiest who became a christian by "logic" his words not mine.
Wow... I hadn't heard that part. Interesting. Seems kinda counter-intuitive, doesn't it? I would've thought logic would be more able to disprove than prove many of today's popular religions. Go figure. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by Inzane
Wow... I hadn't heard that part. Interesting. Seems kinda counter-intuitive, doesn't it? I would've thought logic would be more able to disprove than prove many of today's popular religions. Go figure.
There's Blaise Pascal's look on it(well he was a Catholic..but the same principle applies)
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If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously disbelieve in God, you lose everything (eternal damnation).
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| SketchifisT |
I leave at what silverneon said. Inzane if you are one that is going to get upset and argue over this i dont want to start a flame war on a forum. I was bringin his point from his book. I can go get the book and fully quote it .
But i would suggest you read it. I will even re-type the couple pages where he argues the points but its up to you. Im not going to force this specially since im sick and dont want to screw this up. But logic does dictate that religion is a solid choice. Albeit through many different means. Like i said if you want to continue this further PM me or we can start a different topic.. |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by SketchifisT
Inzane if you are one that is going to get upset and argue over this i dont want to start a flame war on a forum.
To quote Peter from Family Guy:
"Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... "
Where in ANY of this did I give you the impression that I'm upset over this? Or that I want to make an argument?? :dunno: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by Inzane
To quote Peter from Family Guy:
"Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... Whoa.... "
Where in ANY of this did I give you the impression that I'm upset over this? Or that I want to make an argument?? :dunno:
Precautionary use of an antiflame suit? Just incase? maybe? |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Precautionary use of an antiflame suit? Just incase? maybe?
I'm not upset in the slightest regarding this topic.
In fact thanks Silverneon for the Pascal quote. That's certainly something for people to chew. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Back in like math 10 I had to do some report on a mathmetician of my choosing, I chose Blaise Pascal... quite the crazy near the end there..
I originally found the shorter verson... but couldn't find it this time.. it's like:
If God does not exsist and you believe you risk nothing, but if God does exsist and you do not believe you risk everything.
Or something like that.. it's not quite verbatem |
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| Inzane |
One could make a weak argument dissecting this statement:
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If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing
...that you stand to lose ____ hours of your life going to church. 1 hr per week x 52 weeks/yr x 70+ years = 3640+ hours.
But that's insignificant compared to a different observation I've observed in some coworkers over the years.
There is religious... and then there is RELIGIOUS. I've known some people that are so into their religion that it saturates every aspect of their social existence. Its like they don't have any friends or activities outside of their church. They go to movies with their church's youth group, they go on camp-outs and retreats with their group, they play volleyball ... you guessed it, with their youth group. Etc. Forget alcohol. Forget birth control and premarital sex. These people aren't even choosing to experience normal safe and benign life activities with anyone other than members of their own church. Why is that necessary??
That may be taking things to the extreme, but if we revisit the statement:
"If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing "
Those people I just described stand to lose a lot more in life than just mere time spent during devotion and prayer. Heck even if they correctly believe in God, they still stand to lose a lot because all the people that also believe in God and practice their respective religion, but don't take everything to the excess that these "youth-group goers" do, will reap their respective rewards anyway.
I guess I can't understand the choices these seemingly excessive (obsessive?) people make, assuming they don't necessarily have to be that way to still accomplish the goal of being of faith, and faithful.
Sorry I'm rambling... and risking turmoil on a forum by breaching the "don't talk about religion, politics... etc." edict. OOPS, not to mention a major thread-hijacking. d'oh. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Me personally I hate religion. Religion is one persons or a group of peoples interpretation. etc Baptist, penticost, etc.
I believe in Faith. I used to go to youth group, and ski trip and such with my youth group, but that stuff was once a week, some times twice. But my life didn't revolve around youth group. I went to youth group because there I had friends, I didn't have many at school.
But yeah... we should get back on topic.. before we're shanghi'd or whatever.
I saw the movie.. it was great.. Much longer than the play, included a bunch more than I remember, the stone table thing took longer than I remember.. but hey tis all good. twas like mid-late 80s when I saw the play.
Come to think of it.. I didn't even notice the lack of blood and gore even though it's been mentioned. |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
I saw the movie.. it was great.. Much longer than the play,
I read the book when I was a kid, and liked it.
I saw the play when I was a kid, and liked it.
I will probably enjoy the movie too. (I was just totally unaware of the religious inspiration/parallels before)
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Come to think of it.. I didn't even notice the lack of blood and gore even though it's been mentioned.
For a movie like this, that has a huge target demographic for kids, its totally understandable.
For a movie like AVP, which came from two FOX movie franchises that were previously R-rated, it was inexcusable. (I'm still a bit sore over the toned down violence in AVP.) :mad: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by Inzane
For a movie like this, that has a huge target demographic for kids, its totally understandable.
For a movie like AVP, which came from two FOX movie franchises that were previously R-rated, it was inexcusable. (I'm still a bit sore over the toned down violence in AVP.) :mad:
Heh I never noticed the lack of gore in AVP either.. but ya now that you mention it, it was quite tame.. every time an alien attacked a human, fo rhte most part all you saw was a shaking limp here and there suspended with the gore out of site..
Spent too much $$$ on the pyramid I guess.
With Narnia, at the end, I found my self asking, this is a 2005 release? There's CGI, but it's not noticable... like the wolves in the day after tomorrow.. they where so horribly cgi it sucked. Aslan, the wolves, the beavers, etc, had a realistic, hand drawn kinda cgi look to them. Quality wise I'd say it was very well done. |
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| SketchifisT |
Inzane sorry to jump to conclusions i just figured you were getting defensive when you said
" Wow... I hadn't heard that part. Interesting. Seems kinda counter-intuitive, doesn't it? I would've thought logic would be more able to disprove than prove many of today's popular religions. Go figure."
That is not my comment is it CS lewis .. either way like i said above you will hardly notice the biblical background to it unless you know and understand it and search for it. Pretty much its like Lord of the Rings.... Good vs Evil ... however in Chronicles of Narnia they have Aslan who is suppose to be more of a Messiah figure unlike Lord of the Rings which does not truely have one... even though the arguement could be made that the white wizard ( IE Gandalf when he comes back in the 2nd movie ) is more of that figure.
And for those who did not think that Lord of the rings had biblical stuff in it... search into JRR Tolkiens history and see who he spent some most of his time with.. Yes Lord of the rings was not hugely based on christianity but it was written from a christians perspective with loosely based points.
Anyways if this doesn't make sense ill edit it later im under Ny quil power at this moment ... stupid flu
BTW .. i was born into a christian family but as i have grown up i have found it hard to follow the faith. I do believe in religion and i hope to one day find the faith i lack. |
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| Inzane |
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Originally posted by SketchifisT
BTW .. i was born into a christian family but as i have grown up i have found it hard to follow the faith.
Ditto.
I had to attend the obligatory Christmas eve mass with the family last week when we were at my parents' and I found I'm still as bored in church at 31 as I was when I was 4. If that hasn't changed by now, it probably never will....
.....major life-altering experiences (such as a near death experience, the death of someone close, or birth of children) notwithstanding. |
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| oldraven |
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Originally posted by Inzane
I will probably see this movie. But the supposed religious undertones will probably dampen the experience for me. I read one of the books (the first one I think) when I was a kid, and was oblivious to the analogies at that time.
It is a parallel to the gospel, and you won't find those parallels in any of the other books (that I found). Even still, for most people, if you weren't told it had those religous undertones, then you never would have noticed. I've yet to hear of someone who read LWW, and said "Wait a minute. This Aslan guy's kind of like a Christ figure, isn't he?". It can't even be thought of as subliminal, since nowhere in the story does it try and sway a person towards Christianity. :)
I read the books when I was a kid, and can't wait to see this movie. I'm hoping they go ahead with some of the other books. The Magician's Nephew, or the Dawn Treader would be awesome. The Silver Chair was by far the best of the series.
On a side note, Tolkien berated Lewis big time for writing childrens stories and using religious undertones. Any Christian parallels you find in LOTR come from trying to find them, rather than them actually being there. |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
I didn't enjoy the movie as much as I thought I would.
It seemed like it had a very "rated PG version of LOTR" feel to it, which I guess any movie will undoubtbly draw a comparison to from hereon in.
I didn't catch the religous hints, perhaps I'm either not educated enough or just didn't plain care. |
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| oldraven |
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Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
It seemed like it had a very "rated PG version of LOTR" feel to it, which I guess any movie will undoubtbly draw a comparison to from hereon in.
That makes total sense, since the Chronicles of Narnia were childrens books, and LOTR were mythologies. :) |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
All the wishy washiness of some of the characters really was a bit of a turn off as well.
I found it odd how some pretty "fresh" kids who weild a sword in a manner most ridiculous, can have the the ability to be thrown into combat on a horse and not have his arms taken off.
Maybe it's just me :) |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by BlueTurboEGG
All the wishy washiness of some of the characters really was a bit of a turn off as well.
I found it odd how some pretty "fresh" kids who weild a sword in a manner most ridiculous, can have the the ability to be thrown into combat on a horse and not have his arms taken off.
Maybe it's just me :)
It's the Powa of Aslan.... heh |
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| Inzane |
I think I'll wait for video.
Many movies higher on my to-see list. |
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