Saturday, December 10, 2005
From Two Days' Winter to a Hundred Years'
Snow day again yesterday, which made it very convenient for us to catch mid-afternoon tickets to Narnia.
Some months ago we watched the BBC version, which boils four of the seven books into three dvd's. Brittany loved those, and was fairly enthusiastic about seeing the new film. As entertainment, I liked the film immensely. That's not to say I didn't feel a bit disappointed with the way a few aspects were treated. But it was only a movie, after all.
This morning I read several reviews, many of which fretted over going to see the movie with books read or unread--did it make sense; was it connected, yada yada yada. I find the marketing to Christians angle amusing. Sometimes modern marketing seems to me to be an exercise in the least amount of work (or art) which can be put into an effort and still get people to help us make money on it.
Read the books, for heaven's sake. That's where you should be.
