myOtaku.com: John

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Birthday
• 1990-03-29
Gender
• Male
Location
• Kansas
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student
Real Name
• John Cook

Personal

Anime Fan Since
• Oh, I don't know. DBZ, sixth grade?
Favorite Anime
• Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, World Record (Animatrix)
Goals
• Finish an Illustrator project of mine, learn guitar
Hobbies
• Illustratoring, browsing the internet, listening to music, being generic.

myOtaku.com: John

Saturday, December 10, 2005

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (oh my!)
Just saw it, and it wasn't what I had hoped it would be. Not awful, but it really wasn't much more than some actors playing out scenes from a book in the style of all the other contemporary Hollywood sword-and-shield movies. It was dutifully true to the book, though, and that kept me liking it through most of it.

The battle scene was definitely the low point of the movie for me. It was a mirror image of every other one produced in the last five years. Erratic camera shots, a super-strong bad guy general who gets killed by one of the more important good guys, said good guy carries two swords, an even stronger Main Bad Guy (Girl) who just kinda swings his (her) way through the battle, and sends people (talking critters) flying through the air, the Main Good Guy's best friend (brother) getting stabbed and falling down with a ":O" expression on his face, which devastates the Main Good Guy for a few seconds until he realizes that agonizing over the death of his companion won't advance the scene, and he goes at the Main Bad Guy (Girl) in a fit of rage, slicing through all the other, less plot-centric enemies with conspicuously less effort than before, as he and the Main Bad Guy (Girl) make their way towards each other. And then, of course, there's the Bad Guy Infantry, which consists of little goblin-creatures that were--this, above anything else I'll say, is way beyond argument--exactly like the orcs from LotR in every single way. Hell, they were the LotR orcs, lol.

Despite this, the movie as a whole wasn't terrible. But it was pretty mediocre, in my opinion. See it anyway, because centaurs are the coolest creatures in any fiction, and they're in abundant suppy here. Fawns are pretty sweet too, in their own party-down, fawn-isn't-as-cool-a-name-as-satyr-ish way.
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