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  • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday February 03 2021, @06:20PM (2 children)

    by DECbot (832) on Wednesday February 03 2021, @06:20PM (#1108574) Journal

    I wish I could comment your statement, but I haven't watched the other movies so I'm not sure if it is reasonable or not.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 03 2021, @07:40PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday February 03 2021, @07:40PM (#1108610) Journal

    The second and third movies were fairly well done. The biggest annoyance I had was how they portrayed Peter. He did not act like a bully in the story, but that's how they portrayed him in the 2nd film. The third film was very interesting, but I'm not so sure how good of a movie it made. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" reads like a series of short stories more than a single congruous story. I think it would have been better made, if they had created a series out of it, instead of feature films.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 04 2021, @09:21AM (#1108853)

      They should have gone straight to Magician's Nephew after Prince Caspian as was rumored and then done Horse and his Boy after that. Film adaptations always die at Dawn Treader, or if you're the Doctor then Silver Chair. Those two are not the strongest stories.

      Personally I'd straight up do it in chronological order:

      1.) Magician's Nephew
      2.) Lion, Witch, Wardrobe (ends with kids on thrones happily ever after)
      3.) Horse and his Boy
      3.5) Lion, Witch, Wardrobe reprise, maybe a mid-credits scene for Horse and Boy with the stag hunt and a post-credits scene where the grown-up Pevensies tumble out of the wardrobe as kids.
      4.) Prince Caspian
      5.) Last Battle

      I like the idea of working in Dawn Treader as a series. Silver Chair I'm just not sure about. It was my least favorite. I think Lewis was trying too hard to be Tolkien in that one.

      What I would really like to see is Malazan [wikipedia.org] get the same treatment as A Song of Fire and Ice. Erikson saw Tolkien's world-building and moved the bar higher.