Saturday, May 24, 2008

Emos rather than Spaniards

Andrew Adamson, please. You had to have known that "Prince Caspian" was the most boring book in the "Narnia" series, and it would be impossible to make an even remotely interesting movie based on it.
At least you tried.
See, Pastor Matt, I'm trying to be positive.
Okay, let the rant begin.
I know there's such a thing as "artistic license", but what is with Andrew Adamson and chase scenes?? He changed the whole beginning to include a chase scene. Kind of lame.
Ben Barnes is overrated. He's pretty good-looking, but honestly? Skandar Keynes is better, especially compared to the first movie. And then the Telmarines were apparently Spanish, so they all walked around with Spanish accents the entire movie. Nothing wrong with Spanish people, but Ben Barnes' sex appeal kind of dropped when I heard him speaking in that accent. What's wrong with British people??
OMG!!! Eddie Izzard played Reepicheep!! That's so hilarious!
Too bad Reepicheep was kind of annoying and not that funny.
Caspian was one of the weaker characters. That would've made more sense if Caspian had been 13 or so (like in the book, though that's not a change I have any problem with; 13 Caspian in the BBC version was annoying as anything), but this guy's almost grown, and it was pretty annoying. Man up.
What happened to Susan? She went from being an uber-snotty freak to a babe in eyeliner who spent most of her time blinking and casting baleful looks at things.
And then, in this particular book, she was at her worst, but in the movie, all of those behavioral problems were transferred to...Peter???
PETER WAS SO ANNOYING!!! Cocky, angsty, a huge jerk, etc.
He made EXTREMELY stupid decisions throughout the ENTIRE movie, then either justified them by claiming, "I'm the High King," or playing the victim and blaming everyone else.
As a perpetual victim/hypocrite, this got old for me pretty fast.
And then his character didn't grow at all, and it was like no one expected him, too. XO Hate.
Liam Neesen got robbed. Aslan shows up more than once in the book and has lots of running dialogue with Lucy, but in the movie he had like 5 lines.
And then Lucy is one of the most important characters, and she got the least screen time. It was like they forgot she was there.
I liked the dwarves and the centaurs of color the best. The new centaurs were a definite improvement on the loser centaurs from LWW. Trumpkin and Nikabrik were both really funny and superb actors, but Trumpkin was a little too melancholic.
Okay, I HAAAAATE movies that have to have one of the characters state the theme or moral explicitly or obviously. Every five seconds, one of the characters would tearfully spout some fact of life. So annoying.
Battle scenes are boring. Andrew Adamson loves battle scenes. Andrew Adamson and I do not get along.
And the final duel between Miraz and Peter was like 10 minutes long, and then, even after Miraz died, there was another 10 to 15 minutes of the final battle.
Then there was this whole random "Let's take over Miraz's castle" adventure that came out of nowhere.
The Narnians try to invade Miraz's castle, but Caspian sets off the alarm when he learns Miraz killed his father and goes to get revenge.
Then Peter doesn't retreat until it's too late, and half of their armies are killed.
Then Peter has the balls to blame it all on Caspian, even though the whole thing had been Peter's idea and Caspian, Lucy, and Susan had all advised against it.
Jerk.
Aaagh, there was this minotaur who was holding the gate open so all the other Narnians could escape, and Peter and all them got through, but then they shot the minotaur, so he died, and half the soldiers were stuck behind, and Peter's crying and the soldiers just nod and keep fighting, and you can see them dying and accepting fate and whatnot. It was so sad.
And a lot of those soldiers were centaurs, and apparently my favorite centaur's sons. *emo tear*
I like how all the bad guys from the first movie (wolves, minotaurs, etc.) are now good guys. The minotaurs and giants had quite an advantage.
Who saw the Susan/Caspian romance coming a mile away? That would be me, and I'm sure others saw it, too. But it seemed so random. I knew they were attracted to each other and stuff, but they spent like a day together, and at the end, Caspian is all, "I wish we could have more time together," and they act all weepy and in love.
And then she kisses him and it's supposed to be sweet, but also kind of confusing?
YOU'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER A DAY!!
Seriously, the director should do "The Magician's Nephew" or "The Horse and His Boy", because then he can do all the chase scenes and battle scenes he wants.
Ugh, I just wished he hadn't changed the story so much, although there wasn't much story to begin with. Artistic license be darned.
Like a sock.

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