The Chronicles of Narnia
Today's guestblogger is a good friend of mine who prefered to be anonymous or a.k.a putohman. rofl.
Merci. =)
The Chronicles of Narnia, a movie, of which has much hype around it particularly because of WETA, and like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, is filmed based on the books of which, are bestsellers themselves. But herein lies its own weakness. Had Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter respectively stayed away from Hollywood, then, the Narnia movie would be superb. But that is not the case, and, sadly, Narnia, when I watched it, felt empty; it just didn’t have that much excitement as I’ve expected.
I have not read the books of Narnia, well, I did read half of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, but I read only halfway, as it was extremely boring, and I somewhat hoped that the movie would be more interesting in portraying the first part of the book. In that sense, it failed me. The first half of the movie was rather, unexciting, but necessary, I guess, but Peter Jackson made the first half of the Fellowship of the Ring interesting to watch, even though the FOTR on paper is rather unexciting too. Even so, when the movie starts to get interesting, it ended too fast. Much too fast. The battle scene was interesting, good, by Hollywood standards, but still, fall short of the mark that the Gondorians and Rhovanion set when they defended Minas Tirith valiantly against the forces of Mordor.
I must admit, I have never been a fan of C. S. Lewis, but to me, he doesn’t seem to have the imagination of Rowling or Tolkien. In Potter, the plot is always interesting, you’ll never know what’s really happening until the end of the book or movie, well, after reading most of it a while, u tend to guess her style of writing, that everything isn’t really what it seems, which brings me to have this feeling (spoilers ahead) that Severus Snape is still on the good side, and that Dumbledore ordered him to kill him. Note that he didn’t say don’t kill me, but just Severus, please… , and that seemed to be the logical as Snape made an unbreakable vow, it’ll maintain his cover, and also prevented Draco from commiting murder. Of course, I can be totally wrong here, but still, Harry Potter is interesting to read, and, of course to watch. They better not make Order of Phoenix like Goblet of Fire. They took out too many scenes in the latter one. I shall quote, from a friend: “ I felt like I watched the synopsis of the book.” It is, in many sense, true.
Tolkien, on the other hand, invented a whole new world, rich with its own history, languages, dialects, races, culture and many more. Without him, there won’t be any World of Warcraft, there won’t be Forgotten realms and Drizzt Do’Urden; elves would be still little Santa helpers, much like Dobby, and not like Legolas or Drizzt, tall, nimble and elegant.
I’m afraid I swayed too much from Narnia, but I guess, without Frodo and Potter, Aslan and co would’ve made a huge impact on me, but alas, it’s not. Don’t get me wrong though. It’s still fun to watch, there are funny moments here and there; just don’t go in expecting something like LoTR or Harry Potter. Another interesting quote: “ It’s a Disney movie, all Disney movies have very happy endings, no heroes ever die in a Disney movie.”
Pros: Animals talking, nice battle scene, some humour
Cons: A bit boring at the beginning, loses out to LoTR
Merci. =)
The Chronicles of Narnia, a movie, of which has much hype around it particularly because of WETA, and like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, is filmed based on the books of which, are bestsellers themselves. But herein lies its own weakness. Had Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter respectively stayed away from Hollywood, then, the Narnia movie would be superb. But that is not the case, and, sadly, Narnia, when I watched it, felt empty; it just didn’t have that much excitement as I’ve expected.
I have not read the books of Narnia, well, I did read half of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, but I read only halfway, as it was extremely boring, and I somewhat hoped that the movie would be more interesting in portraying the first part of the book. In that sense, it failed me. The first half of the movie was rather, unexciting, but necessary, I guess, but Peter Jackson made the first half of the Fellowship of the Ring interesting to watch, even though the FOTR on paper is rather unexciting too. Even so, when the movie starts to get interesting, it ended too fast. Much too fast. The battle scene was interesting, good, by Hollywood standards, but still, fall short of the mark that the Gondorians and Rhovanion set when they defended Minas Tirith valiantly against the forces of Mordor.
I must admit, I have never been a fan of C. S. Lewis, but to me, he doesn’t seem to have the imagination of Rowling or Tolkien. In Potter, the plot is always interesting, you’ll never know what’s really happening until the end of the book or movie, well, after reading most of it a while, u tend to guess her style of writing, that everything isn’t really what it seems, which brings me to have this feeling (spoilers ahead) that Severus Snape is still on the good side, and that Dumbledore ordered him to kill him. Note that he didn’t say don’t kill me, but just Severus, please… , and that seemed to be the logical as Snape made an unbreakable vow, it’ll maintain his cover, and also prevented Draco from commiting murder. Of course, I can be totally wrong here, but still, Harry Potter is interesting to read, and, of course to watch. They better not make Order of Phoenix like Goblet of Fire. They took out too many scenes in the latter one. I shall quote, from a friend: “ I felt like I watched the synopsis of the book.” It is, in many sense, true.
Tolkien, on the other hand, invented a whole new world, rich with its own history, languages, dialects, races, culture and many more. Without him, there won’t be any World of Warcraft, there won’t be Forgotten realms and Drizzt Do’Urden; elves would be still little Santa helpers, much like Dobby, and not like Legolas or Drizzt, tall, nimble and elegant.
I’m afraid I swayed too much from Narnia, but I guess, without Frodo and Potter, Aslan and co would’ve made a huge impact on me, but alas, it’s not. Don’t get me wrong though. It’s still fun to watch, there are funny moments here and there; just don’t go in expecting something like LoTR or Harry Potter. Another interesting quote: “ It’s a Disney movie, all Disney movies have very happy endings, no heroes ever die in a Disney movie.”
Pros: Animals talking, nice battle scene, some humour
Cons: A bit boring at the beginning, loses out to LoTR
posted by sarah y at 4:06 AM
3 Comments:
ok first of all...to the anonymous a.k.a PUTOHMAN (if u guys dunno him, his nickname is fish, a fish who can't breath in water, have lotz of 'bulu' which u can't find in a real fish) dun try to be smart having what feeling or whatsoever that Severus Snape is a good guy
Dumbledore said 'please' because he trusted him not because he asked Snape to kill him...
next time if u r smart enough write ur own book, u wanna write bout "fish who walks", "fish who goes shopping" up to u
u r not J.K Rowling just dun pretend u know anything bout the seventh book u r the one who said harry potter is gal's stuff
hehe...that's all
Just to add on, the "bulu" mentioned by the anonymous guy grows somewhere below the chest,somewhere around the torso and somewhere below it of course. hehe...
have i said something?
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