"Prince Caspian" and "Iron Man"
May. 23rd, 2008 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loony_moonySo today, in effort to compensate for how work was trying to brain-kill me, I went and over-saturated it instead by seeing two huge action movies one after the other.
First, I went to see "Prince Caspian".
Have to say, not a bad job done. I'd imagine C.S. Lewis would be about as tricky to adapt to the big screen as Tolkien would, if not harder because of the hardcore religion going on. "Prince Caspian" as a book is quite cinematic in its editing, but very unevenly done, and a bit confusing at times. Whoever wrote the screen adaptation really knew what they were doing, in a way. As it was, though, a lot of the finer points of the book were lost in the cutting room floor, and some were added that were pretty perplexing. No, not the UST between Susan and Caspian. I thought that was actually a really neat touch, because the book seriously lacks any of it. However, I might be a little rusty on my Narnia Chronicles, but I don't remember even remotely a nighttime invasion on Miraz's castle. I do remember some very beautiful scenes in which Susan and Lucy help nature wake up and help, as well as some very nice background for Caspian's training when he joins the Narnians. I felt like that aspect of the book was mostly lost, which is a shame, because those are some of the book's more memorable passages for me at least. I also didn't care for the huge amount of rip-off Caspian's flee scene had from Arwen and Frodo escaping the Nazgul in FotR. Some shots were precisely taken. Bad form, Narnia. Bad form.
I did like the kids, though. I liked Caspian too, even though he had his wooden moments. But that's okay. We survived Orlando Bloom. ;) He was very mythic-Latino hot, which helped. Hee. :D
Then, HOLY CRAP, I went to see "Iron Man".
HOLY CRAP, THAT WAS AWESOME. HOLY CRAP. Probably the best action movie since "Die Hard". No, you know what, EVEN BETTER. HOLY CRAP. My one and only point of concern with it was the whole Middle Eastern thing with the semi-Al Quaeda terrorist group. I thought that was a little meh and expected. HOWEVER. Robert Downey Jr. is AMAZING. He is AMAZING, PEOPLE. Shit, I'd say that was Oscar worthy for comedic performance alone. It didn't really hurt that the script itself was the fastest, wittiest and funniest dialogue I've heard since The West Wing's first couple of seasons. Seriously, it was part deeply thought, part head-on collision in the best sense, and the viewer is just showered with a bazillion tiny gags, and the audience just either absorves it and LOLs all the time (me), or misses a whole lot of it because it's SO. FAST. (most of the audience) It also didn't really hurt that all the computer voices were done by PAUL FUCKING BETTANY. YES. Even Teh Paltrow wasn't half bad, and her role was so well written, it basically covered the fact she has about half the acting skills as RDJ has. And the scene after the credits! YES! OMG A BILLIONTHY TIMES YES! A sequel teaser IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. Marvelous, marvelous movie. YUM. (also tiny little end note: did or did not the first scene of the movie REALLY REALLY KIND OF ripped "Supernatural" off, or is it just me? :D)
On two last notes about the trailers before the movies:
1. The trailer for "Chihuahua" makes me want to SHOOT THE SCREEN. THEN SHOOT DISNEY.
2. I'm kind of really in love with Verizon's Michael Bay commercial. AWESOME. xD
First, I went to see "Prince Caspian".
Have to say, not a bad job done. I'd imagine C.S. Lewis would be about as tricky to adapt to the big screen as Tolkien would, if not harder because of the hardcore religion going on. "Prince Caspian" as a book is quite cinematic in its editing, but very unevenly done, and a bit confusing at times. Whoever wrote the screen adaptation really knew what they were doing, in a way. As it was, though, a lot of the finer points of the book were lost in the cutting room floor, and some were added that were pretty perplexing. No, not the UST between Susan and Caspian. I thought that was actually a really neat touch, because the book seriously lacks any of it. However, I might be a little rusty on my Narnia Chronicles, but I don't remember even remotely a nighttime invasion on Miraz's castle. I do remember some very beautiful scenes in which Susan and Lucy help nature wake up and help, as well as some very nice background for Caspian's training when he joins the Narnians. I felt like that aspect of the book was mostly lost, which is a shame, because those are some of the book's more memorable passages for me at least. I also didn't care for the huge amount of rip-off Caspian's flee scene had from Arwen and Frodo escaping the Nazgul in FotR. Some shots were precisely taken. Bad form, Narnia. Bad form.
I did like the kids, though. I liked Caspian too, even though he had his wooden moments. But that's okay. We survived Orlando Bloom. ;) He was very mythic-Latino hot, which helped. Hee. :D
Then, HOLY CRAP, I went to see "Iron Man".
HOLY CRAP, THAT WAS AWESOME. HOLY CRAP. Probably the best action movie since "Die Hard". No, you know what, EVEN BETTER. HOLY CRAP. My one and only point of concern with it was the whole Middle Eastern thing with the semi-Al Quaeda terrorist group. I thought that was a little meh and expected. HOWEVER. Robert Downey Jr. is AMAZING. He is AMAZING, PEOPLE. Shit, I'd say that was Oscar worthy for comedic performance alone. It didn't really hurt that the script itself was the fastest, wittiest and funniest dialogue I've heard since The West Wing's first couple of seasons. Seriously, it was part deeply thought, part head-on collision in the best sense, and the viewer is just showered with a bazillion tiny gags, and the audience just either absorves it and LOLs all the time (me), or misses a whole lot of it because it's SO. FAST. (most of the audience) It also didn't really hurt that all the computer voices were done by PAUL FUCKING BETTANY. YES. Even Teh Paltrow wasn't half bad, and her role was so well written, it basically covered the fact she has about half the acting skills as RDJ has. And the scene after the credits! YES! OMG A BILLIONTHY TIMES YES! A sequel teaser IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. Marvelous, marvelous movie. YUM. (also tiny little end note: did or did not the first scene of the movie REALLY REALLY KIND OF ripped "Supernatural" off, or is it just me? :D)
On two last notes about the trailers before the movies:
1. The trailer for "Chihuahua" makes me want to SHOOT THE SCREEN. THEN SHOOT DISNEY.
2. I'm kind of really in love with Verizon's Michael Bay commercial. AWESOME. xD
