The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
POSTED BY: dante144
UPDATED: Monday, December 19, 2005 04:23
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The CGI wasn't all that. We've seen better. (The dragon in Harry Potter, anybody?) Sorry, saw both films back to back this weekend.
However, Liam Neeson's voice was the perfect choice for Aslan. Gentle and kind, but strong. Aslan is no Lion King. He is gentle and wise.
Was anybody else distracted by the usage of identical locations in New Zealand that were used in LOTR?
When they pan up to the city at the end, I was thinking, Hey! That's not Minas Tirith!
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I love Michael Eisner. I love Michael Eisner's "Disney". I think of the Disney that Walt built and I'm "feelin groovy".
You go Michael Eisner! Woot n stuff.
Market the 1st installment of the Narnia Chronicles to holy rollers. Remain loyal to the book. Send executives out there to show it in churches. Promote it as a "parable" of faith.
Of course, make sure those same salespeople are talking to CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the whole rest of the circuit. Let them shrug and wonder why fanatical Jesus freaks are trying to lay claim to this show.
Stir up some controversy, because politics puts buts in the seats. Most of the time.
Politics didn't sell Kipling's "Jungle Book". Of course, the "movie" didn't even remotely resemble the book. The animals didn't talk, and Shere-Khan didn't get his arse whooped by Mogli. It was a kinder, gentler kind of "Jungle Book". Curse you imperial Britain! Curse you! Great white hunters.
This NC installment, LW&W, was loyal to the book. But, we have several more sequels coming up that won't be. Just a prediction. Eisner's empire now has enough buzz to justify them taking artistic license with the rest of the storyline.
It's the law of the jungle.
XG
Where in the hell is the outspoken Roy Disney? did Eisner buy him?
Save us Obi-Roy-Knobi. You're our only hope.
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Quote:
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
This NC installment, LW&W, was loyal to the book. But, we have several more sequels coming up that won't be. Just a prediction. Eisner's empire now has enough buzz to justify them taking artistic license with the rest of the storyline.
I completely agree that this movie was indeed very loyal to the book, but I'm crossin' my fingers that the last part you say here isn't true. I know crossin' fingers and such don't make things happen, but I think it would be an utter shame if they took too much liberties with the storyline, and I hope they know that.
Psolaris
"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"
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You just don't get it. Disney is a monster. It used to be the opposite, but Eisner who ruled it for nearly 20 years went nuts at the helm. Absolute power makes people lose their minds.
He sold Disney down the river, gutted the company, drove out all the oldtimers, and made it into a corporate moneymaking machine (merger with ABC anyone?).
Go type "Roy Disney" and "petition" in google.
Disney is getting sucked down the drain and it's simply cashing out it's chips. It's not the same Disney that used to make cartoons. Hell... it's being run by a friggin ex-politician (Eisner's hand-selected successor). Can someone out there please quote me "free press" political theory, and then explain how a politician running Disney jives with the lack of government control?
Eisner has a hand-chosen successor, heir to his throne, because he raped that company for every bit of profit he could manage and left it doomed. Disney is making Chronicles of Narnia but it will the last dying gasp of successful entertainment they can ever manage. Investors are already planning for the major bailout. They drove out the Disney family, all the loyal employees, and pillaged the company for as much money as they could get. Disney has been bled dry. Eisner crucified the entire creative brain trust, and drove them out of the fold.
Whatever happened to the good ole days of making cartoons? The theme parks will be out of business within the next 10-15 years. You'll see. It'll start when the stock starts to tank. They can't afford another run of bad grossing films. I wish the merger with ABC had killed off the name. It was simply ABC sucking up Disney, not the other way around.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Depite any of the Disney nonsense..This movie is still extraordinary!
It rox my sox!!
The graphics are A class , top shelf.
The story is a great story. Moving! Beautiful!
I cried a couple of times and I am a big burly man with a handlebar mustache who owns guns!
It's that good!
"Jesus saves, everyone else takes damage" -tee shirt some girl was wearing at Megacon.
http://dantedreams.com <-my webcomic
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Dante (replace 144 with inferno?)...
I look at your posting history and I have to wonder... You're new to the forums. Mostly posting in this thread. In fact, you exist solely to post in this forum.
I look at you and I wonder... disney goon?
Monopoly-occupied Disney either has a very good net-savvy employee who (i r coup'Koo for koko pufz) goosesteps for paychex (ya it kinda rhymez_) (<== no not typhoidal typo). Or.
Roy Disney (nephew, heir-apparent) is the one true king. He must be restored, and his loyal "fight-to-the-death" soldiers are rallied and ready.
Return the Disney company back to the Disney family. Let's make cartoons again!! Or lets make stock profits! You go Eisner&crew! "Rape ahoy, this island is plundered, let's move on!". You've sploited Disney company enough, now move on (we could even add a .org to it an all will be set right again).
(shhhh! here they come... bury this thread by posting a multitude of "whatevers"). There is $$$ on the line. droidwars /on
I once read about a psychosocial experiment with rats. A limited environment was built for them, they were given uncrowded space to expand, seemingly "unlimited" food sources, etc. It was perfect harmony for several years. Then one day, the experiment moved to the next level, the rats were artificially overpopulated, artificially exhausted the "natural" food supply, and began to kill each other. It was ruthless rat cannibalism in a perfectly controlled environment. The mothers protecting their rat babies were the most ruthless of the cannibal-rats. Every rat acted like an artificially starved independant rat would do. Survival became an opium. Rats were the masses. I was lucky enough to live in a time when I could see the results of that experiment. Now, it's too controversial.
Replace survival with "filmmaking" and you have the new Disney. Bring back Roy! Bring back that rat we all love and know "Mickey"! Prodigal son.
XG
I keep thinking I already responded to this thread but alas my old post exists only in my memory.
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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ps - if Jesus saves, does Moses invest?
I've read a few bumper stickers in my day.
XG
where's my caps?
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Dear Xerogravity,
I'm not usually one to wade in and start throwing rude opinions around (there are others much better at it than me)
but I just have to say get off dante's back!
New to the forum? he's been here since June, he's posted on at least three other threads that I can see, and his two other contributions were to (very succinctly) answer somebody's question, comment on the fact that it was very un-disney and therefore very well made, and finally to express the fact that he loved a movie.
oh, my god, I've only been here since november! I only really post on my own and one other thread! I loved the movie!
christ. I'm a disney goon. someone shoot me.
Just come off it, start practicing that old adage 'if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all'
And before you say something else you might regret, bear in mind that I'm not going to argue with you, on the forum or in private, at all.
I'd just like to be able to read a post of yours with out thinking 'oh god, what now' i.e. I'd like to be as warmly inclined to you as I am to everyone else who posts in this (damn fine) forum
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I loved the film, apart from giggling whenever Peter pointed a sword at anyone, and being unable to restist shouting out 'no! no its not!' when Aslan said something like 'this is something Peter must do for himself'
and Weta, yet again, have made me want to upsticks, move to new zealand and refuse to leave the workshops until someone gives me something to do.
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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'
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You ready to come down off your cross Seryn?
I'm a Disney goon too. A real one. I'm part owner of the company. Ok, I only own 1 stock, but it makes me a shareholder and I can raise hell all I want about that Nazi bastard Eisner.
Let's see... everything in this thread has been "Disney nonsense" according to Dante. Or in other words, what I'm saying about Disney is nonsense. This is the last dying gasp of a company that is soul-less (those are Roy Disney's words ~ mouthpiece of the disenfranchised Disney family).
Disney can't make new stuff, only recycle crap they've already done. Chronicles of Narnia is loyal to the book now (and a moneymaking bonanza), but when they make a sequel it won't be. Won't be loyal, but it'll make money the first or second sequel out. That's a fact.
On a personal level...
Dante has a handlebar mustache and guns? Ya I have a leather bondage zipper mask and I give baptist TV sermons to millions while wearing it. I'm thinking Brokeback mountain cowboy. Sorry. I know dudes who ride horses, wear cowboy hats, and carry guns for hunting. I know a 1000+ of them (well, not all of them wear cowboy hats ~ most wear truck and tractor ballcaps instead). I keep having this vision of the biker bar from Police Academy when I read his post. I don't know any gunowners with that kind of mustache, nor have I ever met a biker in assless chaps (but I know hundreds of mustachioed-bearded bikers). Only handlbars they have are the ones on their bikes.
In fact, only 2 people I've ever seen in assless chaps in the whole of my life were Pauly Shore in some movie and David Roth (lead singer of Van Halen who shortly-thereafter got booted from the band). They are about as common as handlebar mustaches in the real world. Kinda like that little square Hitlerific mustaches. Don't see much of those anymore. Thank God for small miracles.
Handlebar mustaches are a fictional stereotype of hollywood and it incenses me. Saw a few handlebar mustaches in black and white photos on bartenders (on the history channel when Kenny Rogers was narrating). But that's about it.
One last thing to you Seryn...
There's others in this forum better able to argue with me? You mentioned not taking it private? Are you talking about SR the guy who sent me private mail? The guy I have a thread with in the Troll forum? Is he the one "better able" to argue with me? You want to identify with that assclown? Scary stuff.
I love what he called me in private mail. You must have read it to be saying that. I reposted it in our troll thread, so it doesn't bare repeating here. But still.
XG
ps ~ I saw the movie and loved it too. The CGI graphics were very average (poorly funded) considering the inevitable profits it would make. But hey... it's Disney. The company that is all formula, no art (thanks to the brain drain holocaust of Eisner). I just wanna hold hands with the Disney boardroom and goosestep down mainstreet during the parade.
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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Quote:I agree with Seryn. I think paranoid posturing and political rhetoric about Disney don’t belong in this thread, and I don’t think Dante needs to be the target of them. Take it to the RWE discussion board where this kind of stuff is appreciated. You’ll find all kinds of people there who will be ready to jump on the bandwagon with you. But this thread is about a movie, and trying to pull it off into some political debate is annoying.
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
You ready to come down off your cross Seryn?.
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