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As I'm sure most of you already know, the trailer for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has appeared online.
I can't wait to see this. The trailer looks good and I am hopeful. I'm not a book purist by any stretch of the imagination. I'm never a book purist, just so long as the movie tells a good story and tells it skillfully I'm one happy li'l camper. I've been thinking that it might be fun if we organized a joint rereading of Lewis's opening chapter in his Chronicles of Narnia opus. Perhaps a little closer to December we can all get together and reenter that marvelous world. It's funny, one of the things that shocked me the most about the trailer was how young the children are. I think that those characters have kind of grown up in my head as I have gotten older. I guess they really were a formative part of my young psyche. I cannot wait for this movie to come out.
This feels like a bad year for movies. I look at the things that are coming out and I'm less then enthused. Here's hoping that some of the Oscar bait movies coming out in November and December are at least vaguely interesting. Well, if nothing else this year will give me the chance to make a sizeable dent in my Netflix queue.
Have begun the next reading cycle with Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel. May the learning commence.
Oy, I have no Narnia icons. This must be rectified.
I can't wait to see this. The trailer looks good and I am hopeful. I'm not a book purist by any stretch of the imagination. I'm never a book purist, just so long as the movie tells a good story and tells it skillfully I'm one happy li'l camper. I've been thinking that it might be fun if we organized a joint rereading of Lewis's opening chapter in his Chronicles of Narnia opus. Perhaps a little closer to December we can all get together and reenter that marvelous world. It's funny, one of the things that shocked me the most about the trailer was how young the children are. I think that those characters have kind of grown up in my head as I have gotten older. I guess they really were a formative part of my young psyche. I cannot wait for this movie to come out.
This feels like a bad year for movies. I look at the things that are coming out and I'm less then enthused. Here's hoping that some of the Oscar bait movies coming out in November and December are at least vaguely interesting. Well, if nothing else this year will give me the chance to make a sizeable dent in my Netflix queue.
Have begun the next reading cycle with Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel. May the learning commence.
Oy, I have no Narnia icons. This must be rectified.