Whooo!

Ok. I saw it.

And…

[SPOILERS]

I don’t know. There were some parts that exceeded my expectations and some parts that had so much potential but just sort of failed… I loved Lucy and Edmund and (shock of shocks!) Caspian. Susaspian wasn’t so bad as I thought it would be, it wasn’t overdone The kiss was cheesy and the lines about “it never would have worked” even more so, but Ed and Lucy’s reactions to it were hilarious so I guess I can forgive that.

Until the very end Peter was absolutely horrid, I couldn’t stand him.

The River God was super cool. Forget Skandar and Will, I’m going to be a River God fangirl.

There was a rather too much Battle, and this is not because I’m a book purist, I like watching battles but it gets to be all the same after a while!

Miraz was awesome. That bit with Sopesian/Glozelle (I always get them mixed up) and “How many men were lost?” “Three…” *shivers* Or whatever it was. Though actually I didn’t understand that part until my dad explained it to me afterward. The Night Raid was alright, and the ending of it was so sad… *likes sad parts*

Other favourite parts: The very beginning, the Cair Paravel/beach scenes, the drawings on walls, and the transition back into our world from Narnia.

Some cheesy one-liners were stuck into it, but they had a lot more lines almost from the book (I can’t remember any that were quoted word-for-word but they were pretty close). Still annoyed that they took out all the 1940s slang–not even “Bother, I’ve left my new torch in Narnia!” survived unscathed. Really glad they included that line though. And the “Geeky Boy” when he hears it looks so utterly confuzzled. LOL.

So yeah. Two main complaints: Peter, and the fact that it was ACTION ACTION ACTION all the way through at the expense of everything else (character development, Lucy/Aslan/Trees scenes [though I loved the bits that they did have] the “walk of faith,” Bacchus and Co., and the pacing–it rushes through everything else and then gets stuck on the battle scene for a frighteningly long amount of time).

Other than that I liked it. I want to see it again now…

And I CAN’T WAIT until VDT! yayw00t!

Questions for the General Public: What was your favourite part? Who was your favourite character? Did you cry? Did the other people in the theatre say anything interesting?

The people at my theatre were generally well behaved, except that they all laughed during the bit with Peter and Edmund during the duel–the shoulder relocation and all that. Ack.

Did you think that the first Lucy and Aslan scene was a dream, or not? Everyone else I talked to did, but in an interview they said that they wanted to leave it open to interpretation, so I’m going to pretend that it wasn’t.

I didn’t even notice that about This Is Home. Despite the weird title I liked Dance Round the Memory Tree more, actually…it just fit the mood of the movie better.

So are you going to see it again? *is scheming*

Well, I saw it today! It was a good *movie*, though it deviated from the book. With the whole castle thing, and butchering Peter’s character with the attitude thing. So bleck to that, but I really enjoyed it as a movie. The river god was pretty impressive. And Edmond pretty much rocked.