The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Dec. 12th, 2005 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megotelekSo, we went to see the midnight showing of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe the day it opened. And I was...trying to restrain myself from getting too excited. After all, I am usually disappointed in movies based on books. And this book was one I had read so many times starting in early childhood, and love so much, that it was hard to not get too excited.
And then...it started. And it was incredible. I honestly don't have the words to describe it, except that it was the book! It was everything from the book, everything I loved! And done so beautifully, that I do believe I cried several times. When Lucy first stumbles into Narnia, when the children encounter Father Christmas, Aslan's sacrifice and the mice nibbling at the cords, the list goes on and on! Jim Broadbent was remarkable as Professor Kirke, and the children were just wonderful. I loved how their characters were fleshed out and they became more real. It was just...incredible. I can't wait to go see it again!! And the soundtrack comes out tomorrow...which I also desperately want!
And now, a little linkspam:
Stan 'Tookie' Williams was denied clemency by Governor Arnold Schwarzennegger. And I breathe a sigh of relief. Hmm, let's see...he murdered 4 people directly and caused the deaths of hundreds (if not thousands) more by co-founding the Crips (one of the most notorious LA street gangs), but he wrote a couple of children's books on death row so we should let him out of his lawful jury-decided punishment? Uh, no.
Want to win a Nobel Prize? Show the world how much you hate America. That's right, folks! That shiny Nobel can be yours for the right amount of venom against the greatest country on Earth. I have no words. But the author of this article does, and uses them beautifully.
And then...it started. And it was incredible. I honestly don't have the words to describe it, except that it was the book! It was everything from the book, everything I loved! And done so beautifully, that I do believe I cried several times. When Lucy first stumbles into Narnia, when the children encounter Father Christmas, Aslan's sacrifice and the mice nibbling at the cords, the list goes on and on! Jim Broadbent was remarkable as Professor Kirke, and the children were just wonderful. I loved how their characters were fleshed out and they became more real. It was just...incredible. I can't wait to go see it again!! And the soundtrack comes out tomorrow...which I also desperately want!
And now, a little linkspam:
Stan 'Tookie' Williams was denied clemency by Governor Arnold Schwarzennegger. And I breathe a sigh of relief. Hmm, let's see...he murdered 4 people directly and caused the deaths of hundreds (if not thousands) more by co-founding the Crips (one of the most notorious LA street gangs), but he wrote a couple of children's books on death row so we should let him out of his lawful jury-decided punishment? Uh, no.
Want to win a Nobel Prize? Show the world how much you hate America. That's right, folks! That shiny Nobel can be yours for the right amount of venom against the greatest country on Earth. I have no words. But the author of this article does, and uses them beautifully.
