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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

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singeivoire:
Actually, I'll be really surprised if they do all of the books: I suspect they'll stall after Dawn Treader. Maybe they'll do The Silver Chair if everyone likes whoever they get to play Eustace. It seems hard to market a series of movies that completely changes cast every installment.

I liked the movie. It was superior to the book in that it wasn't told entirely in flashback. Prince Caspian was the least compelling of the original novels in my opinion, so the fact that it was an engaging movie made me very happy indeed.

SPOILERS

Am I the only person who was mildly bothered by the kiss at the end?

ummmkay:
Definitely not. I went with a group of about 30 people and I can't think of a single person who didn't hate it.

Also that cheesy song.

Ikrik:
I never read the Chronicles of Narnia as a child and so I've totally missed the bandwagon with these movies.  Harry Potter, yeah I read the books.  Redwall? Hell yes, and they would make magnificent movies.....but Narnia?  Nope.  So when I heard there was going to be a Narnia movie I didn't understand why people were so stoked.  I then watched The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and was incredibly dissapointed.  Prince Caspian looks exactly the same to me, it seems to me like a kiddy lord of the rings but without a cast that I actually care about.

Surgoshan:
What I can recall of my impressions of LWW was that the actors weren't very good.  Since they were supposed to be children cast from the death throes of Victorian England into a fantastical countryside, it made some sense.  They're out of their element, awkward, and uncomfortable.  Peter doesn't know how to wield a sword against the wolf-captain of the White Witch's police because he's a 12 year old boy from frickin' 1940s London.  However, I also got the feeling that the producers decided that this was going to be their budget.


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It could be, however, that that's because they decided to hire children to play the children, and children make notoriously pitiful actors.  (See: Phantom Menace)

Nodaisho:
I saw it, thought some of it was good, some of it annoyed me*. I haven't read the books for maybe six years now, I still have the box set unless it is in my brother's room now, but I noticed some changes between book and movie. The battle scenes were pretty good, though both my dad and I noticed that after every cut, Susan's quiver seemed to have been refilled, and I don't remember mention of the quiver being magic in LWW, but hey, that doesn't matter. It did fall victim at some points to having people sitting around after they saw an archer so he could shoot them, rather than charge him and knock him down before he could loose an arrow, but it wasn't too noticeable.

*If I ever become an author, and someone wants to buy the rights to the movie, one of the pieces of fine print is going to involve drastic punishment if a love story is added, especially between two pre-existing characters.

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