I gotta look this up. Apparantly it is angering liberals to no end so it must be good.

Sorry, no. It’s not a movie to walk out on, but I won’t see it again. The kids were fine actors, nearly every effect was beautiful, and the lion was a great piece of work. But, the battles were awful, the editing and camera-work were very poor, and a lot of it was mirrored from the Lord of the Rings. The big emotional moments all fell flat.

I’m looking forward to seeing it. I hope the music is better than Lord of the Rings. That was a real distraction droning on during the battles especially. Tolkien and Lewis were good friends for a long time as I’m sure most everyone knows.

Lord, I forgot the music — it really was bad, and constant. It almost never let up!

I am sorta in between. I think I need to watch it again. I re-read the book this week and I kept noting when they didn’t follow it precisely. This was distracting. The soundtrack was also off in our theatre.

I thought it was a good movie not great but very good. Part of the problem is that the original story is really a simple - but powerful - children’s fairy tale. It is hard to bring that to the screen in today’s environment. They tried some compromises (the battle scenes, the children’s sybling rivalry, extra action in the flight to the stone tablet, etc.) to make it more of an action adventure. I don’t think it all worked, but enough of it worked that I enjoyed it quite a bit.

BTW, I can’t believe I was cheering for the Cowboys today JYB! But I needed KC to lose. Man, I hope you have a strong heart with the ‘Boys trying to make the playoffs. Every game comes down to the last minute.

Howard Shore’s score for Lord of the Rings is magnificent, and it adds immeasurably to the power of the movie.

Yay! A good movie, Narnia.….

.…and the Cowboys win in ANOTHER thriller, beating Kansas City 31-28! Man if the Cowboys make it to the Super Bowl it could be the coolest and most thrilling championship ever. Would certainly be an OT game…=P

Re the Cowboys, I was spared from watching today’s heartstopping action. I was on the road, drumming as the away team in a church a ways from my own. Sometimes it’s better just to plop down on the net and see the score as a done deal. Nearly every Cowboys game this year has been like that—too tense to actually watch and enjoy.

Re the score in Narnia, I honestly didn’t notice it much. I loved the kids and loved the film. It has one or two slow spots, but it’s otherwise well done. I didn’t like the score in LOTR so much—it’s great here and there, and sounds like generic cinematic production music here and there. But I’ve listened to A LOT of production music over the years, so I’m a little more jaded on that stuff than most people. I don’t think the score in Narnia gets in the way.

Narnia and LOTR are similar in some ways, but Lewis and Tolkein were longtime friends so it’s not shocking that their stories would have a little overlap. Fwiw, Tolkien considered Narnia superior to LOTR. Personally I think Lewis is the better writer, and Tolkien is the more imaginitive.

Wow I thought the score for LOTR was the best ever. In fact I thought LOTR was overall the most artistic set of films I ever watched.

I haven’t seen Narnia yet I’ll probably go sometime this week.

I finally watched Star Wars Episode 3 on DVD. I thought it was only “just OK”. I think that has a lot to do with the story, music, and visuals just being really, really old after 6 movies though.

SW III is just okay. Better than the other prequels, but nowhere near as good as the original trilogy. But the score is great, particularly the Mustafar battle scene.

I also didn’t notice the music in TLTWaTW.

My son and I have played the LOTR video games. When you have to keep replaying the same scene/level until you get through it, you notice the music much more. While watching LOTR-Two Towers last night (on TNT) the music was much more poignant for me.

Once we get the Narnia video game I’ll probably appreciate the music more - if I don’t mute it!

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