[Vision2020] Narnia

[keely emerinemix]

Shelly,

Just my opinion, but I wouldn't take four-  and six-year-olds to King Kong.  
One, it's a three-hour movie, and this grownup found it difficult to stay 
put for 180-plus minutes.  Two, its imaginative and dazzling graphics make 
it exciting for teenage boys, but the sight of enormous, deadly cockroaches 
and such attacking people -- and this goes on for way too long -- would be 
pretty disturbing for that age group.  Kong, while ultimately gentle and 
sympathetic, is also a little scary.

I'm the only Christian in the English-speaking world, I guess, who hasn't 
read any of the "Narnia" series, but the menfolk in my family are going to 
see it today.  Said menfolk are 45, 17, and 12; they can see a lot of things 
that I find utterly mind-numbing.  (Give me the DVD set of "Dragnet," 
though, and I'm one happy camper.  Sad, huh??)

Hope that helps.

keely


From: "Shelly" <CJs at turbonet.com>
To: <chasuk at gmail.com>
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narnia
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:43:41 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Thanks for the clarification Chasuk. So the movie is just now coming out?
After 50 years? Did it start as books?

Let me know if I can take my 4 and 6 year old Grandsons to King Kong.

I will post after I see Narnia as well. I assume it is for children.

Shelley

-------Original Message-------

From: Chasuk
Date: 12/17/05 22:30:41
To: Shelly
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narnia

On 12/17/05, Shelly <CJs at turbonet.com> wrote:

 > Hey - anybody seen the movie Narnia? Is it another Harry Potter Trilogy?

First, The Chronicles of Narnia predate the Harry Potter series by
nearly 50 years.  Second, Harry Potter is not a trilogy.  Third, The
Chronicles of Narnia is not trilogy, but comprised of seven volumes.
Therefore, you might be able to refer to the Harry Potter series as
"another" Narnia, but not vice versa.

Harry Potter does borrow from a lot of earlier works, but not from
Narnia, especially.  Rowling takes a lot of the same tropes and
combines them in marketable way.  Bravo for her.  I understand that
she is now one of the wealthiest women in the world.

Thursday, the family and I are going to go see The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  I'll post my review
afterwards!

Tomorrow, I'm going to go see the new King Kong.  Has anyone seen that?


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