"Hello, we'd like to talk to you about Aslan"
Last night tottered allllll the way back up to Star city in Birmingham (the finest cinema in the UK thanks to gold class), to catch the opening of "The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
Firstly, why Gold class is good : Huge big black leather reclining seats, only a handful of people per screen, and so expensive the peasants cant get in. On and they serve alcohol at the bar. I say serve, it's more standing and hoping one of the immigrants looking confused at the bottles can at least make out the shape of the words "johnny walker" and doesnt try and give me cocaine with it rather than coke.
Other entertainment in the bar was provided by an absolutely stunning brunette spilling her popcorn everywhere, and looking terribly embarrased and laughing her head off. Turns out it was her first date with this particularly chiselled looking chap. With her looks I doubt he would have minded!
So anyway, the film... terribly religious. I know C. S. Lewis didnt mean it to be about christ but it bloody well is, and it's impossible to ignore. So.. I did sit through plenty of it going "oh no..." each time they did something a bit biblical. Didnt help that I couldnt remember the book that well - long time since I read it. Religious undertones aside (or overtones with how blindingly obvious they are... yayy look at me.. I'm Aslan.. I'm not Christ... honest guv!), it's actually a pretty good film. The story is good, children in it are good actors though Peter's terribly terribly soft posh English accent (Finchley my arse!) gets annoying after a while.
Creature effects and animation is fantastic.. and have to say.. White Witch.. phwwoaar! Well.. at times anyway.. big scary black eyes, real sense of style!
Anyway.. nice family film, bit religious but cant be much harm in that seeing as it's not necessarily a "go on worship me
aaaaaargggh.... a buzzard on my office window sill pecking at the window!!!!!!!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeek!!
right where was I? Ah yes.. it's not a "go on worship me" story more a case of "start being nice to each other you miserable peasants!". I'm sure family film wise more stuff like that cant be a bad thing. Still, plenty of disfunctional families across the world will park their kids in front of Terminator 3 or something equally explosion ridden and dreadful
over the christmas period.
Uncanny isnt it?
Firstly, why Gold class is good : Huge big black leather reclining seats, only a handful of people per screen, and so expensive the peasants cant get in. On and they serve alcohol at the bar. I say serve, it's more standing and hoping one of the immigrants looking confused at the bottles can at least make out the shape of the words "johnny walker" and doesnt try and give me cocaine with it rather than coke.
Other entertainment in the bar was provided by an absolutely stunning brunette spilling her popcorn everywhere, and looking terribly embarrased and laughing her head off. Turns out it was her first date with this particularly chiselled looking chap. With her looks I doubt he would have minded!
So anyway, the film... terribly religious. I know C. S. Lewis didnt mean it to be about christ but it bloody well is, and it's impossible to ignore. So.. I did sit through plenty of it going "oh no..." each time they did something a bit biblical. Didnt help that I couldnt remember the book that well - long time since I read it. Religious undertones aside (or overtones with how blindingly obvious they are... yayy look at me.. I'm Aslan.. I'm not Christ... honest guv!), it's actually a pretty good film. The story is good, children in it are good actors though Peter's terribly terribly soft posh English accent (Finchley my arse!) gets annoying after a while.
Creature effects and animation is fantastic.. and have to say.. White Witch.. phwwoaar! Well.. at times anyway.. big scary black eyes, real sense of style!
Anyway.. nice family film, bit religious but cant be much harm in that seeing as it's not necessarily a "go on worship me
aaaaaargggh.... a buzzard on my office window sill pecking at the window!!!!!!!!!!!! eeeeeeeeeeek!!
right where was I? Ah yes.. it's not a "go on worship me" story more a case of "start being nice to each other you miserable peasants!". I'm sure family film wise more stuff like that cant be a bad thing. Still, plenty of disfunctional families across the world will park their kids in front of Terminator 3 or something equally explosion ridden and dreadful
over the christmas period. 
Uncanny isnt it?
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