2008-07-09 
 

caspian in storage

Enjoyed the air conditioning at the Loring theater today and saw Prince Caspian. Watched from up in the balcony because...well, when else do I get to sit in a theater balcony for a movie?

I admit to having a hard time at the very beginning since the movie quickly diverged from the original text with a fight in an train station involving Peter. It took me about half of the movie to get over the fact that Peter's personality diverged so much from what I remembered. Don't get me wrong. It worked out pretty well for the movie, but it made it harder for me to "let go" as I kept wondering if I'd missed some subtext in the books about Peter being such a prat.

This in turn made me want to reread the books for the umpteenth time. Then I began to wonder exactly which storage box held my copies of the books. Naturally I had to start imagining where in the storage locker that box was buried and when, if ever, we'll ever get to have our stuff within easy reach again. Fortunately, before I turned into a pity party of one, Susan made googly eyes at Caspian. That was all it took to snap me back to the reality of watching a movie adaptation that needed to conform to certain standards if any more sequels were to be made. Since Prince Caspian was never my favorite book in the series, I decided to give in and stop being so picky.

So, though it continued to diverge from the book here and there, I still left the theater a bit dazed as if I'd woken up from an odd dream. That, in my book, is what a good movie ought to do to you so I give it a thumbs up.

Labels: dose of mikey, linkage, random review

* posted by me at 8:45 PM

Comments:

I lurved it. I love the books, but it's been long enough since I've read them (and my memory is bad enough) that I don't really notice the changes from the original. I've loved both of the Narnia movies so far; I hope they keep going.

# posted by  Brian : 1:22 PM, July 10, 2008

 

Me too. My favorite book in the series was always Dawn Treader which is already in preproduction. (The box office for Caspian has been good enough to warrant a third one for sure.)

# posted by  Mike : 1:42 PM, July 10, 2008

 

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