The Lion, the Witch, and the Whatever

[the_gneech]

lythandra and I finally got to see Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It was an okay movie, but after Lord of the Rings it seemed altogether flat, perfectly-done CGI furries or no. If the editing had been 15% tighter, it would have been a 150% better movie. I've never read the book, but I certainly hope it was better. I got the distinct impression that the centaur was an important character who mostly got edited out; the film sure could have used a lot more characters interacting, and a lot less panning and zooming around snowswept mountain peaks.

Tempo, people! Tempo!

-The Gneech

Comments

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

They added detail? Yeeks. I felt like the movie was just skimming the surface (at a very slow pace) as it was!

-The Gneech

[stilghar.livejournal.com]

Yes. The first forty-odd minutes of the film were exrapolated from about half the first chapter. Also, one saw little of the details of Aslan's camp, only that it was there and had all sorts of peculiar-looking people in it.

Note hallan's reply below.

Mind you, I *like* nifty little details like that. It's one of the reasons I love David Weber so much. He fills in a lot of detail, without boring the reader half to death trying to trudge through it. That and he blows stuff up. A lot.