I actually liked Chronicles of Narnia (and hated the first Lord of the Rings and skipped the rest) but this review of Narnia is hilarious.
Let me break this down for Harry Potter fans, since there seem to be a lot of you: it’d be like if someone rewrote the Harry Potter books, and instead of having a clearly defined world populated by a hierarchy of wizards and witches where everything makes consistent sense within the reality of that world, Harry Potter was suddenly teaming up with Merlin, Robin Hood and Zeus to fight the Easter Bunny and a talking elephant that’s also Ganesha. I hope your reaction would be “What the fuck?”
The Narnia series was written with the Aslan character representative of Jesus Christ. You did know that, didn’t you?
I only watched one LOTR at the cinema, the rest at home. Draggy and not fathful enough to the book IMO. Could say dull and draggy about the star wars 6 films (except empire strikes back and the bits of the third one without the ewoks in.
Actually J. R. R. Tolkien, who was a good friend of C. S. Lewis, strongly disapproved of Lewis mixing so many mythological creatures together in one tale.
It’s true they were good buds and make “appearances” in each other’s stories.
The tall Lewis with the booming voice is the Treant (tree creature) in The Two Towers.
The little Tolkien is the Beaver who likes to sneak off with his buddy the badger to the pub in Narnia.
I can’t believe you gave up on LOTR. Return of the King ranks among my all-time favorite movies-right up there with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens and Terminator 2. ROTK certainly was a strong ending to a series that deserved an Oscar.
The trouble is I read the books when I was 12, and that’s the period that suits the reading of this stuff (please, no insults implied or intended). the films were not true to the book enough (Saruman invaded the Shire, for example, and was known by the name ‘Sharkey’: completely cut out). They should have considered that a trilogy of 3 big books could have made 4,5 or even six less lengthy, more faithful films. Your other film choices are pretty good, but I’d have included Bladerunner as well. we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.