Should we anticipate "Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"?

That main image of the Prince I'm seeing around is, how you say, camp. There's a 'heroic' one but this other one has him looking straight at you with a smirk on his face and his big ol sword pointing outward.

..and its unwieldy title? - Next time around, it will be Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The first film was flimsy, insubstantial, and cute. For little kids. That makes it look darker. Hmmm.

I think I'll pass on the next five and then see how they handle THE LAST BATTLE.

the first one far surpassed my expectations. i'll be going to see this.

are they really gonna do these in order? seems ridiculous.

ya this is hardly an unwieldy title in these post-SW prequel, pirates o' caribbean days.

anyway i have to see this, i'm sure it'll be as bad as the last one.

Wld rather they were making movies of his OUTERB SPACE trilogy. Those things were trippy!

..and its unwieldy title? - Next time around, it will be Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

And following that, The Chronicles of Narnia Will Know You By the Trail of the Dead.

the first one was a giant disappointment except for tilda swinton, so, no

those fuckin talking beavers

I liked the first one just fine. This one looks like it's being marketed as Lord of the Rings: The Defender of Narnia.

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Wld rather they were making movies of his OUTERB SPACE trilogy. Those things were trippy!

^^^cosign

otoh can see how marketing a movie called "That Hideous Strength" would be sorta difficult

I loved these books (with the exception of the first one in the series).

They should just do a CG recreation of Tolkein and Lewis having a huge argument.

or a mudfight!

This was my least favorite of the books by FAR (even below the endless Horse & His Boy), the only one I never even tried to re-read later. Although I wonder how much that was to do with its flat, stiff cover:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Eaahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Prince-Caspian.jpg

Can't we just skip to Dawn Treader?

yeah this was a boring book. the rest will be great tho.

what was wrong with the first movie?

This was my least favorite of the books by FAR (even below the endless Horse & His Boy),

Interesting, cuz after admiring The Lion it took Prince Caspian to really fall hard for the Pevensies, especially Lucy. One of the more harrowing things sixth-grade Soto read was the scene in which Lucy finally sees Aslan, and he explains quietly that things won't work themselves out like they did in the last book. Lewis always wrote about and to children as if they were adults.

Also terrific: the scene with Nikabrik trying to conjure the spirit of the White Witch is harrowing in a low-key way; Lewis lets the reader understand the horror of the situation without pushing too hard.

I'll concede that Caspian's more attractive in the next book.

Dawn Treader = my favorite, and Horse and His Boy is both an Orientalist nightmare and a great story.

Although I wonder how much that was to do with its flat, stiff cover:

Haha, those were the editions I had too -- the covers were always a little weird.

I had, and FOOLISHLY donated to the school library, the seven-book box set of those. Read Dawn Treader, Last Battle, and portions of The Silver Chair over and over. I'm not sure any of the covers were really great, but all of them - including the Caspian one - are way better and less generic than any other packaging I've ever seen on the books.

i liked the magician's nephew least. it faintly enrages me that some editions put it first rather than in the order they were written

is this was the one where they were walking around in the giant letters then later they met those dudes who told them abt eating fresh rubies and emeralds deep in the earth then this was my fvorite one

im think abt the silver chair maybe

whatever, magician's nephew rules 'em all

MN was one of the best but lewis was totally wrong to suggest you should read it first (which he only ever did once, in an off-hand way, in some letter). it loses a lot of its impact if you haven't read the other books first, espec the first one.

I think I liked the one with the mugwump and swamp best.

I'm by no means a fan, but the Phish song named after this book/character makes the trailer much more appealing...

Ugh, the Magician's Nephew was my least favorite by far!

I actually loved the Horse and His Boy. The Last Battle tripped me out when I was younger.

Opens soon.

With songs from Regina Spektor and Switchfoot!

Owen Gleiberman no like

The first two-thirds make a hash out of the book. A curious decision to make up the Telmarines like Raul Julia and talk like Sandinistas.

Oof. Think I'll wait on the DVD.

BUT the movie nicely stirs up an issue the book ignores: who the hell is in charge when you got four former kings and queens and one prince bickering amongst themselves?

I saw it and it was much better than the other CoN film. The kids are stronger and braver now. The content had stuff for both adults and children. The couple jokes in the film were funny and the biggest surprise was that the cinematography and fight scenes actually kicked ass. The location where they filmed the forest and ruins was very pretty and one particular fight scene (1 on 1) was filmed to perfection.

Complaints - it did drag a bit. the content was mostly revolving around a war with the narnians and humans - which can get boring like the war scenes in Lord of the Rings. However, the war scenes in this film were actually more interesting.

Pros- graphics kicked ass, more mature than the first film, some cool fight scenes and great scenery. Story was OK (good enough). Cool creatures.

Yeah, it was one of the best sword fights I've seen in recent years.

Another complaint: the relatinonship b/w Trumpkin and the Royal Children isn't well fleshed-out.

SPOILER ALERT

Best moment: the (brief) return of the White Witch. It's so imaginatively conceived that the rest of the movie can't follow up on it. And Swinton is incredible.

I've been wondering about that (had already read a mention of it). It would be interesting if reductive if they had her play the Emerald Witch in The Silver Chair.

All the people who say "lol Xtian allegory" will have little problem with this one -- and the rest of the series, frankly.

definitely better than the first one. this one defly had its moments. but god it is so long.

and ya, it's no more xian than any other fantasy film.

The important thing to remember about Prince Caspian is that it is a coded message of support for the Palestinian people. Narnians = Palestinians, Telemarines = Israeli settlers.

I'm not quite sure where Bacchus and the Zodiac Mindwarp bit fit into this analysis.

this was really violent, but loads better than the crapheap of a first one

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/thanks-to-iron.html#more

Waldorf75: this is a film with fatal swordplay, a mass drowning, and -- unless I'm mistaken -- a minotaur getting an arrow in the crotch
Statler76: Any movie where a talking badger is carried off a battlefield, "platoon" style, is OK with me. It probably shouldn't be, but it is.