Dawn Treader sucks

[Elok]

I like the Mahabharata, but I'm not a Hindu.

This is what being open-minded means. You don't need a Christian bone in your body to appreciate the almighty allegorical body-blow that is "The Last Battle". Anyone shying away from it by going "Ooooooooo it's Christian which means I don't like it" is a blinkered dolt.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend, I just figured TLB would hold the same appeal for you as Left Behind, even though it's much smarter. I didn't especially like it, myself. I found it depressing. What I'd really like is a Till We Have Faces movie. Not going to happen.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

No offence taken. I've heard that "Oooooo, you couldn't possibly like "The Last Battle"" line many times before, but it's an opinion I find incomprehensible.

[Elok]

By-the-by, did anybody else on Poly see DT in spite of my warning, and if so, did you actually like it?

[Elok]

No offence taken. I've heard that "Oooooo, you couldn't possibly like "The Last Battle"" line many times before, but it's an opinion I find incomprehensible.

Well, I'm a Christian, and even I was pretty weirded out by the "Good News, Everyone: There was a train accident, you're all dead!" ending. But I guess that might be just me.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Lewis's Christianity was utterly uncompromising. If you accept the all this "life" guff is just so much fannying around before the real question of whether you're heaven-bound or hell-bound, then finding yourself dead at a tender age and best buddies with an allegorical Christ-figure should be considered to be an utter blast.

[The Mad Monk]

Exactly.

[MOBIUS]

Lewis's Christianity was utterly uncompromising. If you accept the all this "life" guff is just so much fannying around before the real question of whether you're heaven-bound or hell-bound, then finding yourself dead at a tender age and best buddies with an allegorical Christ-figure should be considered to be an utter blast.

Yet another thing I find unfathomable about religious people: If they're so sure of their religion and how their afterlife is some kind of paradise - why on earth are they all so keen to stick around down here for as long as possible!?

[MOBIUS]

To be honest, I don't think MOBIUS really knows about the HP series and was just thinking of the first popular young adult fantasy he could think of. Less of a troll than a comment born out of ignorance.

Well, I haven't read either sets of books past The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child, if that's what you mean - I wouldn't waste my time.

But I have watched the first few HP movies and the first Narnia movie out of curiosity. So my point still stands unless the last HPs have suddenly 'found God':

HP = just about watchable for a laugh if you've got nothing better to do

Narnia = Christian Horsecrap shoved down your throat to the extent that you feel you're watching a religious propaganda movie

As someone afflicted with Christianity, I doubt you're even aware of how it pervades the Narnia series so much.

[Lorizael]

As someone afflicted with Christianity, I doubt you're even aware of how it pervades the Narnia series so much.

[C0ckney]

i just read that too...

[MOBIUS]

[Imran Siddiqui]

So "a comment born out of ignorance" it was

[Egbert]

By-the-by, did anybody else on Poly see DT in spite of my warning, and if so, did you actually like it?

Yes. I went to see it anyway. I grew up on those books so I had to go to see it anyway, to find out for myself. I recall reading The Dawn Treader but it was so long ago that I couldn't remember a thing about it apart from it being about a voyage to the Lone Isles in a ship called The Dawn Treader.

The movie was a big let down which fell far short of expectations. That movie is not Lewis, it is a butchered creation. I wouldn't say "it sucked". It was just a mediocre movie. It was watchable but wait until it comes out on video and rent it for a couple of dollars if you are a Narnia fan who feels he must see it regardless of reviews.

I concur with all of Elok's previous comments including: QUOTE; Really, truly, profoundly, in a made-by-committee way. Good casting, decent acting, nice special effects, okay music, whatever, the script is an abomination. END QUOTE

The sea serpent episode was like a lousy video game. The serpent was grossly overdone.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

So "a comment born out of ignorance" it was

The sun rises; the sun sets; and yet we still expect different outcomes.

[Elok]

Yeah, I'd say it's worth a rent for the special effects--but I'd use Netflix rather than pay a couple of bucks at a store.