even dvr'd and being able to fastworward through commercials, i am not making it all the way through prince caspian. granted, it's been years since i read the chronicles of narnia, but i still think between this and disney's version of the wardrobe, this is the worst film version of the series to date. it sucks i was wrong when i said that it would be over quick, and that even if they did do caspian, there's no way they'd ever do the dawn treader or anything else because the general public that's familiar with wardrobe never read past that book/or saw anything other than the cartoon.
it's got all the makings of a bad adventure/fantasy movie from a book where too much time is spent on generic action sequences and during the dialogue parts characters come to these life-changing realizations in 1 or 2 sentences, completely glossing over pages of thought/characterization. in place of said characterization, there's some ridiculous amount of bickering between the kids that i also swear didn't exist in the book.
anyway, i'm rambling, this movie is bugging the hell out of me but burn notice was the only other thing i'd recorded and none of my housemates ever record anything worth watching, so i guess i'll leave it on a bit longer.
i still will be surprised if they do, or already have and i just don't know it, go into/gone into production on the silver chair...
I was surprisingly impressed by Prince Caspian. I'm a huge C.S. Lewis fan and after a serviceable if shallow adaptation of Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe I wasn't expecting much, particularly because Prince Caspian is the weakest book in the series. That said I actually thought they improved on the story. It's unfortunate that they seem to have royally screwed up Dawn Treader (which could have easily made for the most exciting installment), because I'd really like to see them be able to adapt The Magician's Nephew and especially The Last Battle for once. Oh well, maybe in a few decades someone else will try their hand at the series.
yeah, we're probably not going to agree on this at any point. 
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