Painful Dawn Treader Bashing

I found that rather irritating, too.

Aravis Kenobi said:
This article was obviously written by an anti-Narnian type of person who doesn't understand anythin about Narnia. The sheer ignorance exhibited by this author is what is most infuriating.
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That's certainly what it seemed like. I mean, calling Narnia "Jesusy." These are the type of people whose opinions on anything Narnia-related I ignore.
 
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Aravis, if you have just now discovered the Narnian haters out there, consider yourself fortunate. There are people out there that accused Lewis of being prejudge to women and Arabians just because of the allegory in Narnia. It's all nonsense. Laugh at the article's writer's cluelessness and be thankful that you can enjoy something that others can't even understand.
 
And that on the page of a Newspaper?
That's very poor journalism :p

Narnia can be critcised, but by posting random statements for scenes and pictures out of context in a 2 minute teaser is very poor journalism indeed. This piece is more akin to juvenile ridicule.
 
That's what's called envy. The English intelligentsia, either atheist or very liberal Christian, has always hated the success of Lewis and Tolkien, and sniped and sneered at every opportunity. Even during Lewis' lifetime he never attained a full professorship at Oxford because his colleagues kept voting against him, even long after he'd proven himself professionally time and again. That's why Tolkien ultimately lined up the job at Cambridge - he knew he'd never attain the full professorship which he deserved at Oxford. Of course, now C.S. Lewis is one of the most known names in modern literature and Christian apologetics, while nobody even remembers those petty scholars. And you should have heard the apoplectic response from the intellectual snobs when the common people voted The Lord of the Rings as the most notable work of English literature in the 20th century. Why, the impertinence of that rabble! Did they know nothing of Joyce, of Woolf, of Pound? How dare they vote for a fairy tale above those defining works of literature?

So don't sweat this. It's simply some petty nobody venting his spleen because he can't appreciate greatness. He's already forgotten, while Lewis' works (and Tolkien's) have already been written into the annals of the classics.
 
I laughed out loud when I read it. The writer had no clue what he was talking about. I'm so glad I can enjoy something other people don't get. The only part I actually agreed with was that about PC trying so hard to be LotR that you almost felt sorry for it. That part was actually true; when I saw LotR for the first time, I noticed all sorts of things in PC where they were trying to copy.
I think the reason PC failed in the epic department was because Walden Media, Disney, and its writers and directors made their movie to make money. New Line Cinema and LotR writers and directors made their movie to make a good one.
 
Just so you know good English Literature from bad, I've given you a couple of colour swatches you can use to perform your own litmus test:

BAD ENGLISH LITERATURE
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"As I surveyed the wreckage of war, the battlefield was rife with the spirits of young men whose promise went unrealized. The chill November wind caused me to draw my cape more closely about me as I watched the distant advance of iron grey clouds coming to anoint the hallowed dead with a chrism of Heaven-sent rain."

GOOD ENGLISH LITERATURE
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"As she stood by the beside the bed, the moonlight glinting on her alabaster form, I thought back on the foolish old man I once called father who, like all men of his era, submerged the longings of his nature in an amalgam of superstition and mores. Now I laugh at the endless sermons he used to deliver, realizing how it was I who could have indeed taught him a few things about life. Tonight it was Matilida...tomorrow perhaps Persephone. How, I wondered at times like these, can one hope to experience the richness of womanhood in one single specimen. That is as if to experience the entire beauty of the sea in a single seashell. I did not need vows and ivy covered columns to know I wanted her."

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE it should be clear that the Chronicles of Narnia are a mere trifle, not worthy of serious consideration. Right? :rolleyes:
 
Since AK mentioned me, let it be clear that I am criticizing the movies because I love the stories and CS Lewis dearly and I don't like the way movie makers take liberties and trash the stories for the sake of entertainment. I am not bashing Narnia, or CS Lewis (I have read several of his other books), but I am allowed to criticize the movies, just like anyone else. Please do not be so immature to confuse criticism of the movies with Narnia bashing.

So please, lay off the personal attacks.

*imitates Elvis* Thank you. Thank you very much.
 
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^Apparently nobody knows how to take a joke. I suppose nobody noticed the :p at the end of that comment. :rolleyes:

@MissReepicheep: the publicity was also another reason PC did so terribly. I remember all the publicity for the first film; I think it was the main reason why LWW did so incredibly well at the box office. That and all those resources available to small groups, churches, youth groups, etc...
 
The main problem with reviews is that people who haven't seen a movie nor plan to ever watch it want to be able to say something intelligent sounding about it. Much like the old joke about Cliff Notes University or, as I'm fond of saying, I got my music education at Record Jacket U. These people will take what the critics say as gospel and peddle it about to their friends.
 
BarbarianKing said:
*imitates Elvis* Thank you. Thank you very much.
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*Applause* Peanut butter and banana sandwiches all around!

Do your staff have nothing better to do. Are we now getting reviews of movies solely based on their trailers? Both past movies in this franchise gave us exactly what was written on the tin and were both hugely enjoyable children's films. Prince Caspian was a well-written and immensely satisfying film, true to the book and it's darker undertones.

May I suggest that Mr. Heritage keeps his opinions to himself until he has actually viewed the finished product before he makes his assumptions.
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I liked this comment that someone posted after the story, except for the part about PC being true to the book.

But, yeah, the article's actually hilarious. That guy is Clueless with a capital C.
 
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BarbarianKing said:
Since AK mentioned me, let it be clear that I am criticizing the movies because I love the stories and CS Lewis dearly and I don't like the way movie makers take liberties and trash the stories for the sake of entertainment. I am not bashing Narnia, or CS Lewis (I have read several of his other books), but I am allowed to criticize the movies, just like anyone else. Please do not be so immature to confuse criticism of the movies with Narnia bashing.

So please, lay off the personal attacks.

*imitates Elvis* Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Mikey,note that there was a :p at the end of that comment. *eats peanut butter and banana sandwhich*
 
Sopespian said:


*Applause* Peanut butter and banana sandwiches all around!



I liked this comment that someone posted after the story, except for the part about PC being true to the book.

But, yeah, the article's actually hilarious. That guy is Clueless with a capital C.
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Apparently that person never read PC...or remembers it very well.
 
The warning signs were already there when it came to 2008's Prince Caspian adaptation – a horrible, commercially underperforming mess that wanted to be Lord of the Rings so badly that you almost felt sorry for it.
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I agree with this.

But that guy didn't really know what he was talking about.
 
Just a thought:
*pulls out lightsaber and prepares to hunt down author of article*
Wait a minute, no, it's just a sword.
Ah! But it's a glowing sword, so therefore it must be a lightsabor anyway, right?
*shrugs and charges toward link*

I know, dorky joke.
 
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