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I'll see the film, but I'm wary of it. With the amount of spoilers I've read....each seemingly getting worse that the previous, I have little hope for the story I love so much and grew up on. It will be a movie masquerading as one of my favorite stores (pardon the sick feeling I have while even typing that), and I don't have the power to change what it will or won't look like. I just want to see it in order to see just how butchered it is.
Ah, don't worry so much in advance. We're all taking a pledge to go to the movie with no preconceived notions and see if we just like it as a film. Of course I haven't seen or heard (I'm guessing) all the spoilers you have. Still, I want to go into it ready to enjoy it. 
Aravis Kenobi
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Ah, don't worry so much in advance. We're all taking a pledge to go to the movie with no preconceived notions and see if we just like it as a film. Of course I haven't seen or heard (I'm guessing) all the spoilers you have. Still, I want to go into it ready to enjoy it.
Specter has been saying over and over again not to fret, so I tend to think he's right. He obviously knows quite a bit more than most people, so I'm not worrying.
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Ah, don't worry so much in advance. We're all taking a pledge to go to the movie with no preconceived notions and see if we just like it as a film. Of course I haven't seen or heard (I'm guessing) all the spoilers you have. Still, I want to go into it ready to enjoy it.
I never took any such pledge and after the last film, there's no way I ever would. Not to mention that with spoilers released, they're not just preconceived notions.
To me it's bigger than a film since the dialogue claims to represent what is dearest to me in this world. It's no longer "just a film." By all means enjoy it, but I will worry in advance. I'm a pastor waiting to see the way Hollywook adapts a book that does well with prevenient grace and I'm wary of the changes that impact the way people perceive my Lord and the church. The books are not Scripture, but they're known as "Christian books" and the world is paying attention. Thus, so am I.
I love Paul to bits and he knows it, but in regards to the films, the two of us have rarely agreed...ever. He still thinks Prince Caspian was a great adaptation. I don't. Nothing against him, but he won't be a calming force for me.Specter has been saying over and over again not to fret, so I tend to think he's right. He obviously knows quite a bit more than most people, so I'm not worrying.
66 days and counting!
On this site we're all allowed to speak our minds. If you want to like it and be happy that's great! Go for it. But for the rest of us wary ones, you'll have to put up with it nicely. We're allowed our thoughts too. The franchise has done more than enough to give us reason to be wary. It's ok if we are.
Aravis Kenobi
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To be perfectly honest, most Christians don't know what Narnia really is about, so I don't see how the "world" can be paying attention when most christians are clueless.
Heck, I didn't know what Narnia was about, and I really don't know why all of a sudden I had realized that they included symbolism. Most people don't look at Narnia that way; any symbolism in them goes over their heads and goes fast and high. If they don't get it with the books, they aren't going to get it with the movies.
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I am sooo excited to see VDT!!! I'm going to (hopefully) go on the tenth!! I really, really want to go! Too bad about the people who don't want to see it, but, hey!, it's their opinion not mine!
Too bad about the people who don't want to see it, but, hey!, it's their opinion not mine! 
Yeah... I try to be a voice of calm with regard to the movies. And yes, I do feel the Caspian was more than just a good adaptation, I feel that it redeemed what I felt to be the weakest book in the series (upon finishing it, and then Dawn Treader, I nearly forgot all that had happened in the book version of Prince Caspian, because it became more of a set-up for Dawn Treader to me). But that's another story for another day.
What is happening right now is a dichotomy shift, or a paradigm shift, take your pick as both apply. As every time a movie comes out based on a book there are three camps that are created: (1) The book was better, (2) The movie was better and (3) The movie and the book are both good in their own right. People that enjoyed either the books or the movies fall into one of those three categories.
As long as people realize that there are people in each of those camps and that not everyone is going to love the movies, or even the books, as much as we do, then we're in pretty good shape.
All I ask for, when a movie comes out, is if the movie is edifying. I don't really put much emphasis on if the movie captured every scene that I loved in a book, because my imagination is very cinematic and I will undoubtedly have imagined scenes different than they appear on the big screen. If the movie captures what I feel to be the spirit of the story, and gets the characters from point A, where they started the story, to point B, where they were at the end of the story, then it's done the job. Then I look for moments that are the powerful ones, for the times that it teaches something. Is there something that I can learn from this? Is this a lesson that I need to learn? What am I supposed to learn from this? What about my reaction to the changes from book to film? What does that teach me about myself?
The next thing I look for is if the film is one that I wouldn't mind watching again.
Mostly though, does the movie help to bring me closer to God in some way?
Anyway... from everything that I have seen, I have no reason to believe that this Narnia is going to be as much a departure from the source material as Prince Caspian was with the restructuring of the order of the events in the book as well as the Pevensies meeting an older Caspian earlier in the story and all of that. There is a bit of restructuring as far as one event is concerned, but it makes more sense as a climax rather than a mini-battle toward the beginning (...and in my mind a group of sailors merely pushing a very large serpent over the tail of the Dawn Treader to get rid of it doesn't jive).
Anyway, I was going to say more, and wrote it, but then I removed it because I was becoming too specific. I guess I'll end with this: enjoy it for what it is, which is the best that they could do. Since the movie changed from Disney to Fox, there were many re-writes that involved a scrapped screenplay and more. What we would have seen, had the movie stayed at Disney, would have been unrecognizable. What we're getting was fought for by the very people that are making the movies.
What is happening right now is a dichotomy shift, or a paradigm shift, take your pick as both apply. As every time a movie comes out based on a book there are three camps that are created: (1) The book was better, (2) The movie was better and (3) The movie and the book are both good in their own right. People that enjoyed either the books or the movies fall into one of those three categories.
As long as people realize that there are people in each of those camps and that not everyone is going to love the movies, or even the books, as much as we do, then we're in pretty good shape.
All I ask for, when a movie comes out, is if the movie is edifying. I don't really put much emphasis on if the movie captured every scene that I loved in a book, because my imagination is very cinematic and I will undoubtedly have imagined scenes different than they appear on the big screen. If the movie captures what I feel to be the spirit of the story, and gets the characters from point A, where they started the story, to point B, where they were at the end of the story, then it's done the job. Then I look for moments that are the powerful ones, for the times that it teaches something. Is there something that I can learn from this? Is this a lesson that I need to learn? What am I supposed to learn from this? What about my reaction to the changes from book to film? What does that teach me about myself?
The next thing I look for is if the film is one that I wouldn't mind watching again.
Mostly though, does the movie help to bring me closer to God in some way?
Anyway... from everything that I have seen, I have no reason to believe that this Narnia is going to be as much a departure from the source material as Prince Caspian was with the restructuring of the order of the events in the book as well as the Pevensies meeting an older Caspian earlier in the story and all of that. There is a bit of restructuring as far as one event is concerned, but it makes more sense as a climax rather than a mini-battle toward the beginning (...and in my mind a group of sailors merely pushing a very large serpent over the tail of the Dawn Treader to get rid of it doesn't jive).
Anyway, I was going to say more, and wrote it, but then I removed it because I was becoming too specific. I guess I'll end with this: enjoy it for what it is, which is the best that they could do. Since the movie changed from Disney to Fox, there were many re-writes that involved a scrapped screenplay and more. What we would have seen, had the movie stayed at Disney, would have been unrecognizable. What we're getting was fought for by the very people that are making the movies.
I'm thinking yes, I know my sister wants to
Lucy's maid
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I want to!!
