The Chronicles of Narnia?

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What do you all think of the movie “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?” I loved it and I admire C.S. Lewis. Even if he wasn’t a Catholic I believe (from reading his writtings) he had a very humble heart and love for God.
 
I thought it was good. I was a bit afraid because most movies with kids as the main characters tend (or at least I think) to not be as good. But this one was pretty good.

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I took my three youngest children to see it (I haven’t read the book, though, just excerpts from it). They all liked it, and my youngest (4 1/2) has been asking me lately to get it, so it must have made a good impression on her (I was concerned that some of the scenes might have been too scary for her, but I guess not).

I hope Hollywood will make more movies like this!
 
I liked both.the books,tv series and movies,alltogether he weaves an amazing tale. 😃
 
Strong first half, enjoyable after that, until the ending battle, which was dull.
 
I thought some parts were dull, but overall…a GREAT message, and wonderful story. I LOVE CS Lewis…He’s a fabulous writer! 🙂
 
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What do you all think of the movie “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?” I loved it and I admire C.S. Lewis. Even if he wasn’t a Catholic I believe (from reading his writtings) he had a very humble heart and love for God.
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the books were good and if they are planning to make films of the entire set it has the potential of becoming one of the classics.
 
I’ve only seen the movie and intend to read the books to my children, so I like them and C.S. Lewis in general. I do have minor quibbles with it. The allegory is a little over the top which tends to make the adult non-Christian balk, so in a sense it is preaching to the choir (which is acceptable, but an adult would probably prefer something more subtle), but it was clearly designed for kids so that is not much of a quibble. Also, everyone loves that speech Aslam gives when he resurrects about what the white queen neglected to take into account about secret prophecy (or however it was worded). For me that was too didactic.

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I’ve only seen the movie and intend to read the books to my children, so I like them and C.S. Lewis in general. I do have minor quibbles with it. The allegory is a little over the top which tends to make the adult non-Christian balk, so in a sense it is preaching to the choir (which is acceptable, but an adult would probably prefer something more subtle), but it was clearly designed for kids so that is not much of a quibble. Also, everyone loves that speech Aslam gives when he resurrects about what the white queen neglected to take into account about secret prophecy (or however it was worded). For me that was too didactic.

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Your points are valid, and you hit it on the nose that he wrote the series for children. As he put it, he wanted to get theology into modern children’s lives without stained glass windows and pews, and so on, to demonstrate the adventure of living the virtues. He called his books attempts to get “past watchful dragons” of ordinariness so that children could see their Christian faith with fresh eyes.

Sometimes he went over the top, which does annoy non-Christian adults, but he never expected his stories would have such a wide reading nor did he expect non-Christian adults would be targeted as his audience. The very idea that his stories be made into films was abhorrent to him. So much for the desires of authors, eh?
 
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