Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
January 7, 2011
Dominic Sena. Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, and Stephen Campbell Moore.
Action / Adventure / Sci-fi
December 17, 2010
Joseph Kosinski. Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, and Olivia Wilde.
Drama / Thriller
December 17, 2010
Darren Aronofsky. Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel.
Drama / Biography / Sport
December 17, 2010
David O. Russell. Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, and Amy Adams.
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
December 10, 2010
Michael Apted. Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, and Georgie Henley.
| Third installment of the popular family-friendly action adventure Chronicles of Narnia inspired by the Bible...I mean C.S. Lewis' Bibles! | Some kids go to the magical Narnia to help a king save some "Lords" whose disappearance has brought forth an evil that resides on a distant island. Really?!? | |
| It's like... | Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and The Golden Compass but with faith. | Alice In Wonderland meets Pirates of The Carribbean |
| Did you read the books or see the other movies? | I was actually supposed to read these in school but I'm not a reader...I prefer movies ;) I did see the first one but the 2nd one seemed to slip by me...must've been out flying. | I'm not much of a reader. |
| Did you feel like you were being preached to? | YES. I couldn't stand it...it was so blatant. | I didn't feel like it as the movie progressed, but probably because I hadn't seen any Narnia flicks before and didn't know it was essentially a Sunday Mass. That being said, after I made all the correlations, I kinda felt religion dirty and wanted to roll around in some mud. |
| Who would win in a fight, the Narnia kids or Harry Potter? | Harry Potter, hands down. He's got magic and an army of girl groupies...what do they have? God!? | The Potter kids, duhh... Magic trumps religion every time. |
| Why do Narnian animals know how to sword fight? | I have no idea...why do Narnian kids know how to sword fight? And when are we going to see some machine gun action in Narnia...they have them in the war in the real world... | All animals sword fight... Just not when man is around. |
| The Look | Have you ever stared at the ocean? It looked like that...most of the movie is set on a boat. And not like I'm on a boat! with T-Pain. | It looked like your typical live action / expensive for no reason CGI hybrid film. There's people fighting animals, all kinds of artificial scenic 'shots', and lots and lots of fake fog. The Dark Island or whatever its called made an attempt at being really dark and dreary, and I guess it kinda achieved it in the purely aesthetic sense. |
| The Feel | These movies go for the epic feel mixed with an adventure mystery. The whole movie has you pondering why the kids are there in the first place and it builds until the epic battle climax. | The movie had a false sense of epicness. It was all grandeur, yet I felt nothing ever really happened worthy of the the scale on which it was presented. |
| The Story | The two younger Pevensie kids get drowned into Narnia with their useless cousin Eustace. They board the Dawn Treader where they join King Caspian in a quest to convert everyone into Christians...I mean Narnians. | A bunch of people and animals get sucked into a picture & they have to help the people on a ship rescue their lords. |
| Favorite Part | Liam Neeson as God. | Ending Credits |
| The Worst Part? | The overbearing religious slant. | Opening Credits |
| Last Words | These movies are too much for me...they're targeted to churches and religious groups. It's kind of hypocritical for me to watch all these religious lessons and see kids wielding swords. | This movie was like a nap taking scrimmage game. Got in a bit of practice and afterwards I felt I was ready to take on a full night's sleep. |
| Dawn Treader or Yawn Treader? |