December 28, 2005

Nada

I leave on Saturday to visit my parents for a little over a week. I'm at work, coming down with something, trying to get stuff done ahead of time. No one 'does my job' when I'm away, so that means getting as much pre-done as possible. Including doing month end closing on Friday, instead of Tuesday, since I won't be here. In amongst all that, my blogging muse seems to have taken a holiday in Tahiti, cus there's not much happening here, gentle readers.

I realize I never told you how I liked Narnia when we finally got to see it. For me, it could have been a rental. It was a fine movie, but I had no emotional investment in it, I guess. I'd never read the books, and I don't have kids. Oddly enough, the part that impacted me the most was the first minutes of the movie with the scenes of the Blitz and the children being sent away. That made me cry. The end annoyed the heck out of me. If I'd read the book when I was a kid, I would have hated the ending! Bleah! :) One of my fantasy pet peeves.

However, the 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest' trailer rocked!!

Posted by Ithildin at December 28, 2005 1:20 PM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

You know what? I've never read the books either. It's odd, because I know I always had friends raving about the series, but I think when I tried to start the first one I couldn't get into it. And now this:

The end annoyed the heck out of me

--has me convinced I probably didn't miss much. I get so furious over endings that let me down.

Maybe I'll just rent the movie when it comes out.

Posted by: ilyka at December 28, 2005 2:01 PM

Well, to be honest, it's probably my own little peeve, and not one widely held. And it is a great BIG SCREEN sorta movie. So it's well worth a matinee, I'd have to say.

Posted by: Ith at December 28, 2005 2:08 PM

And ironically the blitz scene at the beginning was not in the book.

Posted by: Ursus Trollkin at December 28, 2005 6:57 PM

You know, that blitz scene moved me to tears also. But I really enjoyed the movie, even though I felt it lacked some indefinable "something" (quite what, I'm just not sure).

Posted by: Cathy at December 29, 2005 2:25 PM

I've read the series many times, twice aloud to my kids; to me, the movie fails to capture Lewis's unique voice, which is by turns droll, avuncular, heroic, emotionally piercing, tart, and cozy.

To me, the movie was a rental. Not sure what was objectionable about the ending--can't quite remember exactly how they ended it, come to think of it. Except that it suggested there were more adventures to come.

Posted by: Eclectra at January 14, 2006 7:55 AM