What You Liked About The New Movie...

Kid Centaur! Loved him. He was so cute.

I liked when Lucy told Peter "I think you've forgotten who really killed the White Witch. Very good, humbling moment there

How they did the switch between London and Narnia both times. (The tree untwisting was very cool)

How they kept the main sub-plot about Reepicheep

How Aslan's how was done. I'd never quite been able to fully picture while reading PC or listening to the radio drama, so it was very nice to see it made 'concrete'.
 
BarbarianKing said:
Yes, it is sad that some members had to leave. I remember when I first came to this forum I read posts from some members saying they were leaving because they did not feel welcome anymore. I hope they do come back someday.
I also want to thank Fifth Pevensie for this great way of putting the thread. It is uniting us, even with our differences of opinons, and I think that's great.
I think that we must always remember that each of us will disagree about many things, mainly because we are all unique and not expected to all like the same things. But I hope that we always remember the reason that unites us: WE LOVE NARNIA! And even if others think we are crazy, we want to believe that someday, somehow, after this lifetime, we are all going to find ourselves in the real Aslan's Country!
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Well said! I agree whole-heartedly! If we had but one taste of Narnia/Aslan's Country, we shall never wish to return here to our world...rather like the kids really did feel. o_O So perhaps it is for the best that we are learning from Narnia, too, just from a distance. Although actually going there would be beyond amazing. (of course Aslan's Country is Beyond Everything.) :D

Yes, some people I know think I am crazy. Haha. :p Let us stand as one!

For Narnia, and for Aslan!
 
I am just going to say that I loved Peter in the movie. Certainly, there were times that were uncomfortable to watch--because he was hurting, in pain, etc. And it showed. I thought he became very kingly and returned to his rightful, former self by the Battle at the How. "For Aslan!!!!" And with his kneeling to Aslan and when he told Lucy about not returning. He had made his peace, and the healing had begun. :)

(sorry for the double post)
 
Lady of the Lion's Mane said:
I am just going to say that I loved Peter in the movie. Certainly, there were times that were uncomfortable to watch--because he was hurting, in pain, etc. And it showed. I thought he became very kingly and returned to his rightful, former self by the Battle at the How. "For Aslan!!!!" And with his kneeling to Aslan and when he told Lucy about not returning. He had made his peace, and the healing had begun. :)

(sorry for the double post)
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Well said. I don't think I could have summarized it any better.
 
Lady of the Lion's Mane said:
I am just going to say that I loved Peter in the movie. Certainly, there were times that were uncomfortable to watch--because he was hurting, in pain, etc. And it showed. I thought he became very kingly and returned to his rightful, former self by the Battle at the How. "For Aslan!!!!" And with his kneeling to Aslan and when he told Lucy about not returning. He had made his peace, and the healing had begun. :)

(sorry for the double post)
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yes, I agree, although i thought Edmund was better than Peter in this film.
 
^ ^ Edmund was nobler than Peter in this film (and book) but, yes, shockingly, I ended up really loving this Peter. Not as much as I admire the book's Peter but he was my favorite character in the movie.

I can't say that I liked the changes the movie made to him. I didn't really and would never have chosen it myself. But I loved the resulting Peter, even when he was hard to like, because of how much it illustrated the sense of loss the Pevensies feel on their return and because I thought he -in his failures, as the titled Magnificent- gave more glory to Aslan and best impressed the fact that honor and magnificence are only blessings from God, gifted upon true service to Him.

So, I liked this faith lesson found from the new movie with Peter/Lucy better even than the faith lesson found in LWW from Edmund/Peter. Perhaps because the threat of self-sufficiency is more insiduous than the threat of betraying family. I'm not sure why exactly.

p.s. Thank you, Barbarian King, for your kind words and uniting spirit. You (and others) have been very good to be patient with the passionate excitement of us newcomers. :)

I hope that we shall find comfort and good companionship with each other as Narnia fans since we share a side of eachother. Narnia is a very positive source of commonality. There is so much goodness in it!
 
I liked all of it, but I feel like they did really give props to Edmund's character in the film. They managed to stay with his book character very well.

I also liked how if you read the book, half the lines in the movie, were lines in the book, including the one about girls and having something or other rather than maps in their heads. ;)

I basically loved all the scenes so I'm not gonna list them, but I liked Miraz's Scene At the Ford and the water god scene the LEAST. The rest are all kind of in the BEST category.

I love what they did with the CGI and I am eternally grateful to the guy who played trumpkin for playing a character that spent nearly half his time with a nonexistant badger. Really. :D
 
Best parts that were not in the book:

* All the Miraz scenes. I loved him!
* This includes the bedroom scene with Mrs. Miraz.
* Glozelle, Mrs. Miraz and her dad stepping up to go first into their homeworld (our world). That was sweet.
* Lucy defending the bridge -- that was awesome!

Best parts that were in the book:

* The bus station/into Narnia, very nicely done I thought
* The summoning scene with the werewolf and the hag! The werewolf's voice was awesome, and that scene was wicked good.
* Edmund's delivering the challenge to Miraz; he was really cute and engaging in that scene.
* When Lucy finally meets Aslan and runs to him, she knocks him over ... that was precious.
 
whitelion_bella said:
by the way, what role did Warwick Davis play?
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Nikabrik the Black Dwarf. Wasn't he great? :D

inkspot I love your list! Very cool way of organizing it, too, showing which changes you liked and which faithful scenes you liked.

Tweetsie, I thought that was neat, too, how the movie actually used a lot of quotes and situations from the book. Watching it, I knew it felt so different but when I reread the book afterwards I was in constant amazement by how much I recognized.

The "girls can't keep maps in their heads" quote is one of my favorite tie-ins with the book! :D A fun little moment in the movie when everyone seemed relaxed.
 
warwick davis played nikabrik. :)

I see saira beat me to it! :p

EDIT: You didn't like the river god, Tweetsie? Interesting. I loved that scene! I only wish they had kept the river god's lines as they are in the book...in the book, upon seeing Aslan, he says "Hail, Lord. Loose my chains."
I think that is a very powerful message that needs to be heard, similar to the silencing of the trees. The only hint of this acknowledgement in the film (which I did like, but it would have been even better with the lines.) was the river god looking at Aslan almost mournfully-respectfully, and Aslan nodding his head with this...indescribable peaceful-respectful-something-or-other expression on his face. It was like Aslan was giving him permission to run free again.
 
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Lady of the Lion's Mane said:
warwick davis played nikabrik. :)

I see saira beat me to it! :p

EDIT: You didn't like the river god, Tweetsie? Interesting. I loved that scene! I only wish they had kept the river god's lines as they are in the book...in the book, upon seeing Aslan, he says "Hail, Lord. Loose my chains."
I think that is a very powerful message that needs to be heard, similar to the silencing of the trees. The only hint of this acknowledgement in the film (which I did like, but it would have been even better with the lines.) was the river god looking at Aslan almost mournfully-respectfully, and Aslan nodding his head with this...indescribable peaceful-respectful-something-or-other expression on his face. It was like Aslan was giving him permission to run free again.
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Oh yes! That short scenes of the river god and Aslan looking at each other was very powerfull, I liked it!
 
Lady of the Lion's Mane said:
I see saira beat me to it! :p
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Hee, by a bare minute!

The only hint of this acknowledgement in the film (which I did like, but it would have been even better with the lines.) was the river god looking at Aslan almost mournfully-respectfully, and Aslan nodding his head with this...indescribable peaceful-respectful-something-or-other expression on his face. It was like Aslan was giving him permission to run free again.
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I LOVE that expression on Aslan's face. It is the most majestic, kindly, grave, dignified, wise, gentle,....! Yes, basically, I thought the animators knocked that one out of the ballpark.
 
^Yes! It made me want to cry. And say I'm sorry to the river god for chaining him up for so very long, and sorry to Aslan for everything, and to just cry because it was beautiful, and cry and run over to Aslan and bury my face in His mane. *sigh*

wow. lol. :rolleyes:
 
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