FYI

[ramblin_rosie]

Narnia movie news from NarniaWeb: Walden Media's film option expired, and there is a moratorium period before the Lewis Estate can sell the rights again. So when that period is up, the estate might sell the rights to Walden again, or they might go elsewhere. However, as they note, Douglas Gresham is committed to seeing all seven movies made, so... there's that.
To be perfectly honest, I've had to write the Walden movies off as their own AU, more so even than the LOTR movies. They're good enough for what they are--the actors are fine, and the visuals are amazing--but having grown up with the BBC versions, which might not look pretty but are almost word for word from the books... Dawn Treader, especially, felt very meh, given the ridiculous plot arc that they shoehorned in (what, just *finding* the seven lords wasn't enough?!) and the fact that they got the islands completely out of order. They did get the undragoning mostly right, though, so that's... something.


Speaking of Narnia, I *finally* finished the Winchesters-watching-LWW fic I've been poking at for a couple of years! It's here, along with a couple of other hoodie_time pieces. (I owe y'all a fic roundup, don't I? Maybe I'll remember to do that this week. Those of you who've friended me just for the fic might be better served watching sarosefics instead, though.)


ETA: Also, MONKEES FANS (and others who like oldies)! There's a new Internet radio show called "Niagara Falls"--short for "Needle In A Groove, Absolutely Righteous Analog, Forty-Fives and LPs Living Still"--that's on at 7 Central on Tuesdays and Thursdays, rebroadcast Sunday afternoons from 3 to 5, AND one of tonight's features is the Monkees' "Goin' Down" followed by the song on which it was based, Mose Allison's "Parchman Farm"! Check it out here. :D

Comments

[kisaoda.livejournal.com]

I've always had a major gripe with the BBC's Dawn Treader, especially for their undragoning scene. Their take has Eustace doing it all on his own, with little to no help from Aslan... and more or less turns into a very new-agey message that left me disturbed.

I also sensed C.S. Lewis would more or less have hated them, namely for their puppet Aslan, which he wrote in a letter once that he especially abhorred the very idea. Of course, I can't imagine him weeping with joy over the new ones, but I'd make the argument that, as far as special effects go, he probably had no idea how far we could take them... even to the point of believability.

[ramblin_rosie]

*poke* Hey, you!
The BBC version's undragoning is weak, I'll grant you, although I disagree that they had Eustace do it all himself--Aslan roaring until Eustace backed into the pool just doesn't have the same punch as his skinning Eustace and then throwing him into the pool. But I'm willing to blame that one on trying to cram it into only two hours instead of three. Not really defending the VFX, either. I'd still rather have less-than-stellar VFX with a plot that mostly adheres to the books than fabulous VFX and a plot that's barely connected to the books.
Not that the new Dawn Treader was bad in and of itself. It's just... very AU. :D