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Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the movie)
Unless I'm mistaken, no one has made a thread about this, so I thought I'd go ahead. *clears throat importantly* If you are a Narnia fan, like myself, you are in for a big disappointment. They totally twisted the plot of finding the seven lords to uniting the seven swords of the seven lords and banishing "the mist", a.k.a. as superstitious green cloud that tempts you and makes people disappear. The diaglogue was quite bland too. They added in two completely unnecessary characters, a little girl and her father, whose mother/wife had been devoured by the mist and were hoping to find her. Though in the book Lucy never actually utters the spell that will make one Beautiful Beyond the Lot of Mortals, she does (of course!) in the movie and becomes Susan for a few minutes. Afterwards Aslan appears and tells her that if she were Susan, she never would have discovered Narnia. Excuse me?! While that may be an acceptable message, the real message is to be happy with what you are given!
Eustace was a dragon for about half the movie and at the end, he started *crying.* Ack. I started sinking lower and lower into my seat and wanted to crawl down on the floor and hide. Speaking of Eustace, one of the only parts I liked was where Reepicheep befriended Eustace while he was a dragon. They did a good job with that. Oh, good news!!! Prince Caspian laid off the fake Spanish accent!! I don't see why he did it in the first place, 'cause English accents are so lovely!
So overall, I give it a 3. Sorry about my disorderly paragraph with run-on sentences and rants and abrupt changes of subject. <-----run-on sentence.
submitted by Mary Jo, age 14!!!!!!!!
(January 2, 2011 - 1:00 pm)
(January 2, 2011 - 1:00 pm)
Another Sev/Lily shipper! Yes. Much better match than James/Lily, and it might have been good for Snape (as in, it might have influenced his Death Eater decisions/life).
So you've seen it now, TNÖ? Are you currently in NY?
(January 9, 2011 - 5:09 pm)
@ ZNZ-I know, the Governer Gumpas part was awesome in the book!! I was also annoyed that they didn't have the part where one of the seven lords bought Caspian. Instead they just happened to find him in their prison cell. :P
@TNO--um...I barely understood a word you just said. I tend to skim things when they're really long, so I was left thinking, "Wha??" But I did catch that you adore Tilda Swinton. And I think it's probable that they'll use her for the Green Lady.
(January 5, 2011 - 1:45 pm)
Hahahahaha, TNO's long comment....and usual dry wit and humor. What would I do without you, TNO?
(January 5, 2011 - 11:34 am)
Be bored? I dunno.
(January 5, 2011 - 7:29 pm)
Well, You do have a very good point there, on how the movie is so far from the book! But if you stop comparing it to the book, and take it out of context it really is an awesome movie!
(January 4, 2011 - 10:28 am)
I watched it, and yeah, I was disappointed. The book wasn't my favorite (took me about five tries to get through it), but they murdered it. There was no "mist," and what was up with that little kid and her dad?
I DID like what they did with their whole "mist" idea. That was kinda cool how Edmund was struggling with the White Witch, but he overcame her again! It took him a LOT of courage to do that.
But all in all, I think I give it a 4 out of 10. (Would've given it a 4.5, but my dad kept falling asleep while watching it.)
(January 4, 2011 - 11:57 am)
I thought that it was pretty good, better than Prince Caspian at least! Thank goodness Prince Caspian got rid of that awful fake accent...:)
(January 4, 2011 - 6:03 pm)
You must be outa your mind girly!
VOTDT (NARNIA movie)
'WAS A 20!!!!!!!! iT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(January 5, 2011 - 1:53 pm)
I think I liked the movie Prince Caspian more that VOTDT. There were more battle/action scenes and mainly, I like seeing the four Pevensie children together, no matter how lame their acting may be. And also because I like Peter. ;)
(January 6, 2011 - 8:11 pm)
I didn't think the move was bad; I liked it.
(January 8, 2011 - 10:31 pm)