“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” opens tomorrow. I first read the whole series in my early teen years … I think I was 13 in actuality, my first read-through, my Aunt & Uncle bought a boxed paperback set for me as a gift. I don’t know how many times I’ve read the series, but more than thrice I do suppose, but not recently.<\/p>\n
I read the first chapter of what I still consider the first book, how my set is numbered is the real numbering, how they were written, and how they were considered for so many years before being re-ordered :rolleyes:, I read that first chapter aloud to the family last week sometime, and realized that I’d not be able to get through it with them very easily before the movie was out. At that time we weren’t sure how the movie was going to be and weren’t sure that we’d go to see it right away, after release, the first few days.<\/p>\n
I have an Audible Listener account, so I had already downloaded the Audiobook of The L, the W, & the W … and the other day we went to pick up milk, as we do by driving to a farm for it, about a three-hour round trip … and I brought my PalmOne Zire 31 with the audiobook loaded on the SD card, and my old Sony Portable CD-Player cassette adapter, and the charging cord for my Zire … we have a power converter box in the van to plug regular things in all the time.<\/p>\n
So I got it all set up and started playing the audiobook and the children and hubby and I sat as we drove along, listening intently the whole way there, and the whole way back. We didn’t quite finish the book, and so yesterday, DH out of town missed it, we had a nice corned beef early-dinner and finished listening to the book during that time.<\/p>\n
Since before the milk trip DH and I had pretty much decided we would like to see the movie sooner than later. I was just now looking up Theatre times, and don’t know when we can go, DH is at the airport on the way home right now, so I can’t talk to him about it currently. At any rate, there are several theatres around us, all several time over miles away, in the normal shopping places we have to go to, to get the bigger stores, malls, and stuff that is only around a larger area. Anyhow, that’s great for us, though, since they are all about the same distance, give or take, and many are that one directional way spread out just a tad. We have many theatre choices for times and locations.<\/p>\n
If I had my druthers we’d see it at midnight, when it is running at several theatres, but that DH won’t go for once he gets home, I know for sure. There are shows at two theatres before 10am, and others after 10am for first shows of the actual DAYTIME times. I’m hoping we can do the 9:50am. He’s been out-of-town for a couple of days, and may be able to do that on a Friday, or not. Don’t know. In any case he’ll want to see it before nightfall, I’m sure, so he will have to cut out early, so maybe can be convinced to do it first thing, and have the afternoon to work. I mean, after 1pm or between then and 2pm is when we’d get home, based on the longer run of the movie and giving time for travel in these beastly holiday traffic moronish times.<\/p>\n
I’m anxious to see this movie. I love seeing fantasies brought to life, and have read enough about it the last few days to know that much is faithful and much can be invented since there isn’t complete description of EVERYTHING in the books, much is left to the imagination and I won’t fault them for having a different view of something than me, and that some things might be disliked in how they are handled, but I did have those thoughts when viewing LoTR, and overall love those movie adaptions (but would have done many things different if it was ME directing it:wink: )<\/p>\n
I’ll write up something after I see it. Typically I don’t “review” movies as others do, just write some opinionated thoughts on the movie seen, if I write anything. Most of the time I don’t even write about movies I’ve seen, but seem to for epic-ish ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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