Chronicles of Narnia trailer

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Looks like it could be cool.

I kept getting a Harry Potter vibe during the trailer. Don't know if it was the just the kids in a magical world thing or what.

Also the music sounded Harry Potterish too.

Still cool though.
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I'm looking forward to these.
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The wife has the book series, so I read "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."
It was incredibly simple. You're half way through the book before anything happens. Yet, I enjoyed it. I liked how the author didn't try to explain too much.

Then I read the second book, the one about Prince Caspian. It wasn't nearly as good. I decided to stop reading after that one... until I read the description of book 4, and wanted to read it. So I started book 3 last night.

Like I said, it's a fairly simple book. They should be able to do it pretty accurately in the movie. I mean, LotR was *dense* and they did a pretty good job.


**SPOILER**
**SPOILER**
**SPOILER**

A goes to Narnia and back.
B goes to Narnia, meets X, and returns.
A, B, C, & D go to Narnia and meet E.
B goes to X.
A, C, D, & E go to meet Z.
X takes B to get A, C, & D.
Santa makes a cameo.
A, C, D meet Z.
Z sacrifices himself to save B.
A & Z go to X's place and get reinforcements.
Climactic battle where the good guys win.
A, B, C, & D live long happy royal lives.
A, B, C, & D go home and are kids again.

Hmmm... maybe that's more complex that I thought.
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I thought book 4 had kind of a bummer ending... no matter how much "redemption" there is.
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How many books are there in the series? My mom said she felt it was a little simple and she could never get into them growing up, so she didn't recommend them to me like she did LoTR.
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Technically there are 2 Narnia book that preceed, (One with the origins of Narnia, and one called A Horse and His Boy) TLTWatW, and there are 3 that follow it.

I read all of them a couple summers ago.

The bad guys, in the books, are usually thinly disguised muslims. Wonder how THAT will play out on screen.
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7, right?

But I seem to remember a whole lot of boring. It's been about 17 years since I read em.
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Apparently there's a "written in order" and a "chronological order"

Written in order:
1) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, 2) Prince Caspian, 3)The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 4) The Silver Chair, 5) The Horse and His Boy, 6) The Magician's Nephew, and 7) The Last Battle

Chronological order:
1. The Magician's Nephew; 2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; 3. The Horse and His Boy; 4. Prince Caspian; 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; 6. The Silver Chair; 7. The Last Battle.
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I found the last story to be a might boring, especially when it got heavily into the religious christian imagery.

And to me it was kind of a "drag," like I said, so that didn't help my impression.
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Apparently there's a "written in order" and a "chronological order"

Written in order:
1) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, 2) Prince Caspian, 3)The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 4) The Silver Chair, 5) The Horse and His Boy, 6) The Magician's Nephew, and 7) The Last Battle

Chronological order:
1. The Magician's Nephew; 2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; 3. The Horse and His Boy; 4. Prince Caspian; 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; 6. The Silver Chair; 7. The Last Battle.
Hmm. I read them chronologically, and I thought that was also the order in which they were written.
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The bad guys, in the books, are usually thinly disguised muslims. Wonder how THAT will play out on screen.
Yeah, I'm not expecting them to make The Last Battle. The one where we find out Allah really IS a giant man-eating buzzard-headed monster.
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The bad guys, in the books, are usually thinly disguised muslims. Wonder how THAT will play out on screen.
Yeah, I'm not expecting them to make The Last Battle. The one where we find out Allah really IS a giant man-eating buzzard-headed monster.
They'll turn them into white supremacists.
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Saw the movie.

I have a sneaking suspicion that maybe... just maybe... it has a bit of Jesus Christ allegory in it.
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The hell you say.
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No... I'm serious.
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Post by TPRJones »

Here's a spoiler: Edmond is a right bastard.

This whole movie would be a lot shorter and less annoying if British children during the war just followed the simple advice: Don't talk to strangers. And especially don't eat the candy they give you.
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Yeah, Edmond sold out his family for some candy. Good stuff.
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Apparently there's a "written in order" and a "chronological order"

Written in order:
1) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, 2) Prince Caspian, 3)The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 4) The Silver Chair, 5) The Horse and His Boy, 6) The Magician's Nephew, and 7) The Last Battle

Chronological order:
1. The Magician's Nephew; 2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; 3. The Horse and His Boy; 4. Prince Caspian; 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; 6. The Silver Chair; 7. The Last Battle.
Hmm. I read them chronologically, and I thought that was also the order in which they were written.
I liked reading them in written order better.

You didn't hear about people and things before you needed too and I seem to remember that you would know how some stuff turned out if you read them in the order they took place.
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