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Anybody else read The Chronicles of Narnia? If so, which book(s) did you like best? My favorites were The Magician's Nephew and The Silver Chair. The books were way better than the movies. :)
submitted by Maddy, age 15
(May 16, 2009 - 11:37 am)
(May 16, 2009 - 11:37 am)
The Dawn Treader was definitely my favorite one. Do you mean the British movies or the ones made recently in the U.S.? The first one in the US was good, but the second one was way too dark and bloody. It was especially ruined because in the books, Caspian has blond hair and it makes a big deal over that, but in the movie, he was this dark guy with a Spanish accent.
Sorry about that. Anyway, I like The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the best.
(May 16, 2009 - 3:04 pm)
Yeah, the Dawn Treader book was good too. I sort of forgot about that one. :) I mean the US movies. I think I saw the British The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie a long time ago, but I don't really remember anything about it...except for when Aslan was supposed to be flying, but you could tell that he was still and the background scenery was moving. :)
(May 18, 2009 - 11:15 pm)
*facepalm* How did I not think of these?
Anyways, yeah, Chronicles of Narnia FTW. My favourites are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Last Battle.
Also, tLtWatW movie was, in my opinion, very good and close to the book, though with more emphasis on the action and less on the Christian analogy. PC, however, was dreadful and Disneyfied. Also, Susan x Caspian? Whut?
(May 16, 2009 - 3:07 pm)
Prince Caspian was 100% overdisneyed. Although I thought that it was better made than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie.
(May 18, 2009 - 11:10 pm)
The series was fabulous, and the first movie was also good (love CSL's Catholic allegories), but PrCp was... well, let's just say that the whole ongoing Susan/Caspian thing ruined it for me. In ADDITION to just being ridiculous and put there to make it more *interesting*, why on Earth would the producers try to make Susan's semi-pitiful-and-unhappy life even worse? Everyone knows that Peter is the best character of the four, anyway... IMO.
*aah!* Abbrieviations!
(May 19, 2009 - 7:19 pm)
What does IMO mean anyway?
(May 22, 2009 - 5:21 pm)
I really love the Narnia series. My fav books are The Last Battle and Horse and his Boy.
(May 21, 2009 - 10:10 am)
I have not read many of the books but my favorite is The Magician's Nephew so far. I is there a movie of the Magician's Nephew? if so, please tell me.
Horsie E.
(May 22, 2009 - 3:55 pm)
As far as I know, there is no Magician's Nephew movie yet (except maybe the really old British version?). YellowBanana, that's funny: those are my two least favorite books. Well, I liked the ending of the Last Battle, but I didn't really like the Horse and His Boy at all. (I have nothing againgst you liking them, though.)
(May 23, 2009 - 9:23 am)
In my opinion. And I'm going to try to start typing that out instead, because if I don't have time to type three words instead of one... well, then, that could be a problem. ;)
(May 23, 2009 - 12:30 pm)
These are some of my favorite books! Especially The Last Battle! Wow!
...PC movie was horrible. In addition to what everyone else said, Reepicheep had this low, normal voice. The voice was supposed to be all high and squeaky and cute! Well, cute to Lucy anyway. She always wanted to hug him!
This is kind of off-topic, but I forgot... did Susan die in the Last Battle? I don't remember.
(May 24, 2009 - 10:46 am)
No. Everyone went back to Narnia except Susan, because she was "no longer a friend of Narnia"- i.e., no longer believed in it. So everyone else physically died in a train wreck and went to Heaven where Aslan reigned, and Susan survived on Earth but lived a life full of stuff like parties and shopping and no imagination.
Rather complicated, and the time got a little messed up, I think, with all the alternate aging, etc., but to answer your question plainly, no, but everyone else did, but not really, just physically, because they gained eternal life with Aslan in paradise...
That was not plainly. Never mind.
(May 24, 2009 - 3:35 pm)
I adored Reepicheep because the actor who did his voice is my very favorite comedian, Eddy Izzard. He was the bright point in the movies, I'd say (there's way to much action in the movies, I think--the entire of PC was either a battle, or leading up to a battle!) I liked the actors who played the White Witch and Edmund....
(May 26, 2009 - 9:34 am)
I LOVE The Chronicles of Narnia. Just look where I live! At this moment I am reading the Narnia books. For the 60th time. My favorites are The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Once when I was sailing I saw a boat named that... Anywho, they killed Prince Caspian when they made it into a movie. It was fine, but NOTHING like the book. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a good movie; they kept much closer to the book.
(May 27, 2009 - 6:01 pm)
I absolutely love the chronicals of narnia, but I hate how people are only hyped about the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. Seriosly, there are other books in the series. I have them all! I also agree that the books are better than the movies, even if I have not seen the latest one. Books include more than mooooovies. It's true!
(May 30, 2009 - 9:23 am)