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Footage from the new Prince Caspian movie! It looks pretty good -- and I really liked The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, too, so I've got my hopes up. The actor they've picked for Prince Caspian looks a little old, especially compared to the Pevensies, but I will reserve judgment, because he looks like he's feeling the Narnia thing. If that makes sense.

*digs around on Apple Trailers*

Oh, look! A new National Treasure movie! Awesome -- I loved the first one and this one looks like it's pretty good. Conspiracies, obviously, but that's the point.

The Dark is Rising makes me want to die a little bit, because I think they made Will American and also makes it look a little like a teen romance -- gag me with a spoon -- but that doesn't mean I won't watch it.

The Kingdom also looks pretty good, despite my reserves about any movies set in the Middle East because of Hollywood's leftist mania -- GUYS NO POLITICS.

On a second viewing, Gone Baby Gone looks better. I still think Angie should look more Italian, but from the trailer it looks like they might be hitting everything in the book, or near to. *crosses fingers*

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[limmenel.livejournal.com]

The Dark is Rising looks like they're doing a full series, though... well, not the full series, but a series of them. I mean, why else call it "The Dark is Rising: The Seeker" or whatever it is?


Caspian looks AWESOME. Omg, I can't wait for May!

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I think Dark is Rising makes bad movies just based on the books alone, because looking at how the books are written...wah, it makes me cry a little bit. I'll have to get me to the library and pick up the Dark is Rising books. (Yeah, if they're doing the full series, I don't even want to know what they're going to do with Bran. WAH.)

OH MY GOD SAME HERE. And not just because I'm graduating in June! Narnia, Narnia, Narnia! Although sadly the last Narnia movie that'll have Peter in it, unless they get around to doing The Last Battle, which...is cracked out on principle. But Caspian! Hurrah, hurrah! It looks like they're going into the Narnia movies with the same kind of love Peter Jackson had for Lord of the Rings, which is As It Should Be.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I'll re-read the books before the movie comes out, just so I'll be able to better compare what the movie used and didn't.

NARNIA NARNIA OMG HURRAH. Between TDiR (which will be awesome, even if it sucks compared to the books, I think), His Dark Materials, and Narnia, the next year is going to be an amazing year for movies. Also, Stardust, but that's out today YAY!

which is As It Should Be.

Totally.

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It will be even better if I have money to go see the movies. But nothing will keep me from Narnia. NOTHING. I will get a job at the movie theatre if I have to. I have friends that work there; I could totally do it. But I'd rather not.

AND National Treasure, AND Gone Baby Gone, AND whatever else sneaks up on us that I haven't heard about yet.

Totally.

Which is what pisses me off about HP and Dark is Rising, because those should BOTH be that powerful, and if they don't do it, well...ten years down the line, twenty, thirty, they'll do it again, and maybe they'll do it right. But Narnia and LotR are classics, so no one can fuck those up without paying dearly.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you now: do NOT work at the movie theatre. You think "Oh, hey, a steady paycheque AND free movies!", but there are all these limits: you can't see movies opening weekends or when it might sell out, and you're always working on the nights that you'd want to see a movie. It's a crappy job, too. I know from a LOT of experience.

But don't forget, they made the LotR animated movies a couple of decades ago, and they SUCKED, but they managed to remake them in live-action with stunning results... so you can always remake a movie and make it better.

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Heh, yeah, don't really want to. I'd rather write stories, sell them, and make money that way.

Oh, that was what I meant. If they don't do it right now, maybe they will a couple decades later, like the animated LotR movies and the BBC Narnia series (which wasn't actually that bad, on afterthought, but I haven't seen it in an age and a half).

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't we all?

Yeah, I'd forgotten about the Narnia ones. But I do think this next movie will be AMAZING, even if they're skipping a lot of the stories in the series for this one. Maybe they'll do Dawn Treader next :D

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Well, the writers of the world, anyway. *grin*

I bet they do Dawn Treader next. *dreamy-eyed* And then probably Silver Chair. I doubt they'll do Horse and His Boy, because that doesn't really do much for the main story arc of the children from our world, and whether or not they do Last Battle is really up in the air because Last Battle is SO RANDOM. Although I have massive love for the scene where all the Pevensies and the professor and...I don't remember all the characters' names, I have to reread the books -- are sitting around and Peter says, "I am the High King of Narnia!"

...Peter is my favorite character.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I doubt they'll do The Horse and His Boy, though I'd like to see elements from The Magician's Nephew brought in, especially the creation of Narnia and the backstory of Jadis, the White Witch (although that's probably not likely).

I'm a huge fan of Edmund. And Lucy. Not Susan or Peter so much, though... they struck me as too grown-up for Narnia, too mature and too set in their ways, which I remember not liking when I read the books as a kid.

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If they do The Last Battle, which I kind of doubt (but you never know), I could see them using bits from The Magician's Nephew (yeah, hi, couldn't remember the title) there. I liked The Horse and His Boy. I really have to reread these books.

I liked Lucy when I first read the books; now I like Peter and Susan more. Well, I actually always liked Peter. Poor Peter, always having to take care of the others. There's some great Peter/Susan fic out there, which I can't find anymore. *sad*

Oh, hey, did I ever tell you my original fic that takes the concept of Narnia and messes around with it a little bit?

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Peter/Susan never appealed to me for some reason. I'd love some Lucy/Edmund or Peter/Edmund, though :D

No, you never told me about this. Tell, tell!!

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For some reason Lucy/Edmund does nothing for me. Neither does Peter/Edmund, and I've never even seen any Susan/Lucy. Peter and Susan are like an old married couple in movie, though.

Okay, let me think a bit. I haven't done that much with the concept, but I will, someday. (Also, it hits the following: incest, underage sex, and twincest. Also, violence.)

Okay, so there are these twins, brother and sister, Dean and Paulie Prendergast, sixteen or so, high school students, etc. Somehow, they get sucked into a high fantasy universe, told they're the chosen ones and they have to rescue the kingdom from the big bad who's taken over, etc. Typical whatnot. They take over, but then they slowly realize that they were being manipulated by the high priest/chief advisor, who's conspiring to separate the two by marrying Paulie away to a neighboring royal and keep Dean as a trophy king, with himself as the power behind the throne. They get around this by marrying each other, which is a long-accepted custom in the kingdom, and eventually start sleeping together. The chief advisor (who put them on the throne in the first place, and was the one telling them they were the chosen ones) still wants to weaken them, and they figure it out, but not in time to stop him; instead they're both sent back to their homes in our Earth. Cue panicking parents -- I think the Narnia time dilation thing might have happened, although to a lesser degree; some time has passed, but not as much -- and a lot of cultural disconnect, because hi, Dean and Paulie just came down from being king and queen to being teenagers.

Also, Paulie is pregnant. The parents find out, freak, realize somehow that Dean is the father, and Paulie gets sent away to live with family in New York until she has the baby, which is immediately taken away from her. Meanwhile, Dean goes back to high school and has lots of mandatory therapy, which doesn't actually help all that much. They're both really screwed up by the whole experience, and it doesn't help that they're separated from each other. That's about all I got on this story. Again -- it's one of those "you can't go home again" stories, like Spaceforce.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

You always have the most fantastic ideas for stories, seriously!!! I'd want to read this one.

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Heh, thanks. I don't know if I'll ever write it, but I'd like to, sometime.