narni-eh

just got back from seeing the narnia movie.

eh.

well, it was all right, but inevitably comparing it to lord of the rings, i did find that it suffered from being a children’s book in that the movie was very simple and not that deep. there were really no subplots, and if it wasn’t happening on screen you didn’t have to think about it or keep track of it. which is fine for children perhaps, but maybe not for adults.

oddly enough, i did read the chronicles of narnia several times when i was younger, and never did read the lord of the rings, so you’d think i’d have more fondness for the source material.

as for the film, it just felt like lords-lite: the battle scenes were sort of impressive but not quite in the same scale, the monsters were cool looking but not “HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE OLIPHAUNTS” cool, and once again, there’s really a clear difference in having martial artists do your fight scenes instead of having your actors do your fight scenese. a really bad difference.

still, i liked tilda. she’s a nice swath of calculating cruel, although i still can’t figure out what’s up with her witch costumes.

on second thought, don’t pander films down for your kids. start them off with dr. mabuse and then work your way up to wages of fear! otherwise they’ll end up loving fantastic 4!

Posted at December 15, 2005 11:34 PM