The Chronicles Of Narnia Movies: Prince Caspian

[tolkienfan]

Now that I've simmered down, I'll say that I have a higher opinion of it as a movie than I did before. It just could have been so much better, as a movie and as an adaption...

[Nautipus]

It seemed to me they tried to "pop-culture" it up a little bit, especially at the end with th you know what and that idiotic song. Overall, though, I rate it pretty high, but not as good as the first one, definately.

[inked]

tolkienfan, your criticisms are apt.

I was very disappointed.

It is a movie and therefore not the book. But this is sooooooo NNNOOOTTT the book.

I will have to re- view it with the cathartic purgations induced by the first viewing before I can further comment. But I will say I am vastly disappointed in the Director Adamson and Douglas Gresham. The script "writers" should be sent to remedial reading classes or vats of boiling oil, I have not yet decided which...

[ayra]

I agree with tolkienfan. I not only saw it friday, i also saw it sunday. If i had not expected it to be like the book, i'd of liked it very much. even so, i still do. I guess i just have to call it not a part of the Narnia series. Really good movie, not a good series-continuer.

[The last sane person]

Bleh! I liked the trailers more than I liked the movie. I just got back from watching it an hour ago... What on god's green earth were they thinking? This is so far from the book I just can't call it Narnia.

[Ingwe]

Originally Posted by Amael

I went to see it yesterday and it was quite good!! They got some of the stuff wrong if compared to the book, but itt stands well on its own. The ending scene just seemed a little, well, rushed. 'Well we are victorious yet again, let's leave our friends and live in a boring world that is not full of magic.' They had to leave and everything but it just seemed so quick. I was thinking the whole time, if I were there, I'd choose to stay. Where else do you have a lion as a best friend? But the movie was pretty good.

Yea I liked it too, Amy, but it's obvious that there were a number of flaws. Watching it with you made it quite worth it though, so I could easily over-look the problems with it. It's not always what you're doing, it is usually who you're with.

Want a movie series with an obvious number of problems (like 500), try the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. It was great too, no doubt, but GOD, did they screw so much of it up.

Next movie based on a popular book series should have a disclaimer like "the events outlined in this motion picture do not necessarily reflect the actual events of the books on which it was based." Then it may just be a slight bit easier to 'inhale'. Food for thought though.

[Azrael]

(spoiler alert!!!!)

ARG! it was a good movie but so off from the book. They made susan and caspain fall in love(in the book they rarly talked) peter was a jerk, and they never stormed the castle!

all in all if i never read the book i would have liked it but i didn't like it all that much.

[Varnafindë]

I still have to wait nearly a week before I can see it.
In Norway it only comes on 2nd July.
I'm doubtful as to some of the changes I've been told about, but there are also people who have said that they accept most of those changes, so I'll try to keep an open mind until I've seen it myself.

[GrayMouser]

Originally Posted by Azrael

(spoiler alert!!!!)

ARG! it was a good movie but so off from the book. They made susan and caspain fall in love(in the book they rarly talked) peter was a jerk, and they never stormed the castle!

all in all if i never read the book i would have liked it but i didn't like it all that much.

Uhh, stormed what castle?

[hectorberlioz]

Well I liked it quite a lot, and if you read the book again they got more right than you think. For instance, I hadn't remembered that one of Miraz's own men killed him. I thought that was a movie invention so that Caspian could seem all moral.

The most blatant change was Caspian himself. In the books he is so obviously a blond person. His mother was Narnian, even if his father was Telmarine.

[GrayMouser]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

The most blatant change was Caspian himself. In the books he is so obviously a blond person. His mother was Narnian, even if his father was Telmarine.

[Varnafindë]

I saw Prince Caspian this evening. It's less Lewisian than the first CoN movie, but I liked it anyway.

[Butterbeer]

ah...here's the thread...

well, as i believe i posted some time back..i absolutely reviled the LTWW as a complete and utter contemptous waste of .... well, what comes natural to Bull's after a hard days' eating grass...


and to be fair, i hadn't intended to see it... But Aslan works in mysterious ways and i found myself in a wardrobe ..i mean on a train... and then LO! ... i was outside a cinema one time with some unexpected time on my hands..and it was just about to start


now, perhaps it was the fact i went in expecting the worst...

er, but i rather enjoyed it

So...Disney messed with the Book...anyone suprised??

I actually rather liked the fact they went so off story, it at least gave me some interest in just where the ***** they actually would meander off to...

That was rather enjoyable and kept my interest ... a much better film than the lamentable and highly-scented and fully bio-degradable first ... "film"

I agree the end was rather bolted on... but heh ho


well... there you go... you just never know, heh?

best BB

[frodomerryandaragornrock]

I went to see the movie May 15 with my dad, my friend and his dad. I enjoyed it very much, but there are a couple things I need to mention:

1. Lucy didn't get in trouble with Aslan when Edmund, Susan, and Peter were sleeping.

2. Susan and Caspian didn't kiss.
Now don't get me wrong, I really loved the movie, but those things stuck out. the Caspian and Susan thing I really didn't like, but then again, it's Hollywood, right?? And Lucy not getting in trouble, well, that's not really so bad.

[Curufin]

These little things bother you, while you're perfectly OK with the changes they made to LotR?

The mind boggles.

[Midge]

The whole Susan and Caspian thing bothered me. Hollywood can't seem to fathom a good story without romance in it. Those were children's books, and C.S. Lewis was pretty much a genius. If he didn't see any reason for romance, I don't know WHY that idiot director thought the movie needed it.

The thing that bugged me most was the random attack on the Telmarines' castle. I realize the movie was simply BASED on the book and not C.S. Lewis's book put into a movie. However, C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful story and unlike Tolkien, his books were not long-winded and impractical to make exactly into a movie as they were written.

It does bother me that Hollywood is okay with just disregarding the deity of Aslan. The river-god part made me SO INCREDIBLY MAD. In the book, he says, "Hail, Aslan! Loose my chains!" and then Aslan has the tree people tear down the bridge. They completely ignored the part where the river-god asks Aslan to get rid of the bridge and just go with utter destruction. How cool would it have been if the river-god had said, "Hail Aslan!... etc." and Aslan turned to Lucy, who was just standing there with a knife, and said, "Lucy. Deliver him of his chains." and she stabbed the bridge with the knife and it shattered, and then the river-god takes care of all the charging Telmarines? How sweet would that have been???

I can't remember, did they say "To know what WOULD have happened? No, child, no one is ever told that."? I forget. All of the books have a specific lesson-thing and that is one of the Prince Caspian ones.

[Varnafindë]

In the movie, Aslan didn't say 'no one is told what would have happened'.
He said, "We don't know what would have happened."
Which takes away Aslan's omniscience.

[frodomerryandaragornrock]

Lotr was ok because the main point was still there, but with Caspian, some of the main point was gone.

[Curufin]

I disagree - strongly. The main themes of Lord of the Rings were changed a lot.

[The last sane person]

They butchered both series, in my opinion.

I'm glad I never saw ROTK or TTT or even LOTR in theater, and have only since caught bits and pieces of them when they pop up on TV.

But I DID go to LWW in theaters, I semi enjoyed it; it wasn't too terrible... Then Caspain and bleugh... That killed it for me. I don't care if they do them ALL, I ain't gonna watch.