I just watched LWW at the cinema this weekend, and I just felt that I had to give my opinion about it. For those who havent read the book or seen the movie. There may be spoilers!
I would like to start it by saying that I have gorwn up with watching the BBC tv-series of LWW from 1989. And I really enjoyed the series, so naturally I would compare this new movie to the old series.
After reading the books I`ve been a fan, and I really believe he have something important in the books that has to be told, but also it is a childrens book where there are alot of magic in the story, but also magic outside the story, if you know what I mean. And it is with sorrow that the new LWW hasnt been able to fully adapt this magic into the movie. What I by magic, is not how many cool scenes they are able to put in, or how good the cgi are. And btw, the cgi were really bad also!
First. The Lion. The voice were ok, even there were a minute I always thougt he would say end a sentence with: "May the force be with you", but the cgi were crappy. The animation was good, but it was too blury. In the last few years I havent seen any worse cgi. Even on Jurassic Park, witch came out many years ago had better and clearer cgi. They should have used WETA workshop (they did a great job on Lord of the Rings).
The story startet good. I liked the intro with the WW2 over London. Really good contrast to what will come, and the reference to the birds who droped stones over the Battle between the Witch and the King Peter. Really good.
From the start till they arrived at the beavers house, the storytelling were amazing and really good.
Then it started to tear appart. The waterfall and riding on ice were actually ok, but they started to drop off the story too much. They didnt slow down the movie, but jumped to the next thing to quick. They needed to dwell on the importent things and put more meat on the characthers, put some more depth in the movie. Ex. The audiense understod too quick that the Lion hided something to the others, after Edmund weas freed. They simply made the story too sweet and shallow. They barelly toucthed the importent and essantial parts of the books by jsut mention it quick.
I wasnt too happy about the actors either.... Peter, Lucy and the Faun were the only one who seemed believable. The Witch looked more like she weared the latest and hottest dress they could find at in a fashon show. The professor looked like the crazy jerk from the movie "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". Susan and Edmund just looked too different from what I imagined from the books.
My conclution is that I still love the old BBC series. Even when it was imcomplete and had even worse special effects, they kept the magic.
But hey. I really had high hopes on this movie, but I guess Disney still hasnt got the magic back into the movies...
I would like to start it by saying that I have gorwn up with watching the BBC tv-series of LWW from 1989. And I really enjoyed the series, so naturally I would compare this new movie to the old series.
After reading the books I`ve been a fan, and I really believe he have something important in the books that has to be told, but also it is a childrens book where there are alot of magic in the story, but also magic outside the story, if you know what I mean. And it is with sorrow that the new LWW hasnt been able to fully adapt this magic into the movie. What I by magic, is not how many cool scenes they are able to put in, or how good the cgi are. And btw, the cgi were really bad also!
First. The Lion. The voice were ok, even there were a minute I always thougt he would say end a sentence with: "May the force be with you", but the cgi were crappy. The animation was good, but it was too blury. In the last few years I havent seen any worse cgi. Even on Jurassic Park, witch came out many years ago had better and clearer cgi. They should have used WETA workshop (they did a great job on Lord of the Rings).
The story startet good. I liked the intro with the WW2 over London. Really good contrast to what will come, and the reference to the birds who droped stones over the Battle between the Witch and the King Peter. Really good.
From the start till they arrived at the beavers house, the storytelling were amazing and really good.
Then it started to tear appart. The waterfall and riding on ice were actually ok, but they started to drop off the story too much. They didnt slow down the movie, but jumped to the next thing to quick. They needed to dwell on the importent things and put more meat on the characthers, put some more depth in the movie. Ex. The audiense understod too quick that the Lion hided something to the others, after Edmund weas freed. They simply made the story too sweet and shallow. They barelly toucthed the importent and essantial parts of the books by jsut mention it quick.
I wasnt too happy about the actors either.... Peter, Lucy and the Faun were the only one who seemed believable. The Witch looked more like she weared the latest and hottest dress they could find at in a fashon show. The professor looked like the crazy jerk from the movie "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events". Susan and Edmund just looked too different from what I imagined from the books.
My conclution is that I still love the old BBC series. Even when it was imcomplete and had even worse special effects, they kept the magic.
But hey. I really had high hopes on this movie, but I guess Disney still hasnt got the magic back into the movies...
