Thread: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

It was really entertaining. I'm a big fan of anything with monsters and creatures in it. I don't particularly like playing video games, but I like to watch people play them when there are cool creatures in it. God of War and World of Warcraft look so amazing I almost peed when I saw them on the Video Game Awards last night. Anyway, so that was a really cool part of the movie, all the characters. They just looked really, really good and there were so many different ones. Plus they've got cheetas and white tigers running around too. It was awesome eye candy in that regard.

I didn't like how on four separate occasions I could see that the characters were standing in front of a screen. Really made me lose focus and took a while to get back into the movie after that. I like to lose myself in movies like this and it was a total distraction. I was dissapointed that considering how good the charcters looked, they couldn't get something like that right. My boyfriend on the other hand didn't notice, so I quess it depends on how picky you are or just the state of mind you're in. He normally does notice stuff like that, I think he was just way too excited about the movie in general to even notice.

Well worth the money though, very entertaining two hours.

I though the movie was pretty close to the book but I can't say for sure seeing as how I have not read it in a while.But I though the most graphics in it were amazing, and the monsters were like none I have ever seen.This is one of the few movies I could watch for months stright( really I have nothing better to do). I have heard that the movie has not gotten good reviews.I'm not sure, but I do know that I hope they make movies on the other books. This movie was just so great it gave me a good feeling after I watched it.

The C.S. Lewis books are some of my favorite books ever! If you haven't read the series go and read them if you are into fiction. I haven't seen the movie yet but I hope they don't ruin and make the whole series into movies that would rock!

Chronicles of Barbarism… Narnia

Only the British, and their American Colonialists, could seriously see C.S. Lewis as a ‘Christian’ writer. I can’t say I’ve read him… he frankly bored the hell out of me when I was a child and I could never get through the first chapter of anything he ever wrote, but I wondered what all of the fuss was about and went to see “Chronicles of Narnia”.

Well, what I saw was the British up to no good again. It was frankly an anthem for English Barbarism. The story, in short, regarded the predations of a group of 4 young interlopers to steal a Throne from its legitimate holder with the help of anybody with treason in their heart and mind. Of course, we weren’t given any justification for such treason and general disloyalty, and the best rational the Movie could present was that the Rightful Queen was unkind, and that her followers were darkly colored and badly-formed. Hmmmmm. Is this not what the English have always said about all of their enemies, or indeed what the Barbarians in general always project upon Civilization? – Civilizations are scheming and sinful, and the luxuries of Civilization have made the civilized weak and mutant, but that Barbarians are Pure, even in their vices and indulgences (what is sin for the Civilized is just good clean fun for the Barbarians, who, after all, are the ones keeping score), and it is their superior strength, and, yes, their ambitions to Power that allow them to say they deserve it. The English are always ready to maintain that all of the rest of the World are their physical and moral inferiors. They can’t prove it Reality, but give them Fiction (and even History, written by an Englishman, is little different) and they can flesh out their Fantasies to make the rest of the World as deformed and perverted as their imagination can indulge.

Then, this being a Story by an English Protestant, it is interesting to note the specific attacks against Catholicism. We find that the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a caricature of Her, is held up as target of universal contempt. Just look and see -- the primary object of our hatred is a Queen, accused of being a Witch, who is dressed entirely in White, who had an icicle on her head (translating the virtue of the Chastity of the Blessed Virgin into mere frigidity). She has Supernatural Powers, but since they are rendered against the traitors and the interlopers, we must suppose they are evil in their source. Again, we are given no justifications. We are supposed to hate Her not because she is wrong, but because her character is presented as unsmiling and unkind. The Movie teaches us to prefer an amiable and endearing Ambition and Terrorism, to a defense that can only be blamed for taking itself very seriously. It is an English Protestant view that indoctrinates children to despise the Blessed Virgin Mary. Indeed, the British frankly require such lessons for the sake of their National Self Respect. They have been at War against Europe and the rest of the World continuously, 800 years, almost from the commencement of the Norman Invasion; and they were the first Nation to deliberately unite against Catholic Civilization to destroy it (their own Parent); so it stands to reason that the English Consciousness needs heavy doses of whatever can convince them that Treason, Ambition, Murder, War, and a Hate for All Things Holy and Good are to be applauded as laudable traits of the English Character. And nothing in this Movie was at all subtle. The Picture concludes with the British Lion biting off the head of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The sad part was I was in an auditorium full of Catholic mothers who were glad to hear their children clap and applaud. Yes, Conservative Policies to retract funding and support for Universal Higher Education is paying off in dividends for those in Power who are still struggling to suppress every Civilized and Religious Impulse still carried by the Cultural Inertia of what had been Catholic Civilization, when such thinly veiled and sugar-coated propaganda can cut so decisively and with so little resistance. Indeed, it is with amazing “Brave New World” irony that the Movie is advanced as being “Christian” when Christianity, as an expression of Civilization, is frankly its target of attack, and the Christ-Figure we are given to worship and admire is at first the Symbol for Great Britain (not a Catholic Europe), and secondly, is the Primitive King of the Jungle – a Lion… The Beast. We are supposed to applaud when Civilization is renounced so that Humanity might again return to the amoral equation of Might Makes Right. A Pro-War movie for children. To be a good murderer, you can’t start learning too young.

Barbarism has come a long way when it has such a control over our Media.

Leo, while I think most of the stuff you have said about other things have had quite a bit of depth, these criticsms are crazy. You are pulling this stuff out of the air! I am pretty sure that C.S Lewis meant for the book to be light entertainment for children. Neither the book or the movie were supposed to be be heavy or religious.....His theological writings can be blatantly seen in his other writings, such as "The Screwtape Letters".

Sheesh, I would hate to know what you think of Lord of the Rings... JRR Tolken was one of CS Lewis' best friends, FYI)

Anyway, I thought the movie was pretty faithful to the book, and it was a good movie. I thought the BBC version was better though....