couple of narnia thoughts...

here are some things that made me chuckle to myself in the theater while watching "the lion, the witch, & the wardrobe"...

1. the actor who played the white witch's dwarf was also one of the hobbit scale doubles in the LOTR series. while i was watching the movie, i thought he was also that guy who played the oompa loompas (as in, all of them) in "charlie and the chocolate factory". just did an imdb.com search and i'm totally wrong about that one -- they're different actors. which makes me feel kinda like a horrible person who is incapable of distinguishing between little people... god! and i call myself a liberal!

2. tilda swinson, who plays the white witch? yeah. kinda hot. AND, she's been cast as nico in a film version of nico's life! (thank you again, imdb.com)

3. peter jackson has totally ruined fantasy war scenes for me. i seriously cannot imagine a movie doing better what "the two towers" or "return of the king" did for battles amongst strange creatures. unbelievable! i guess i wasn't blogging at the time that the LOTR movies came out, but for a while there i was seriously obsessed with that trilogy. not only are tolkien's books phenomenal (yes, i own _the silmarillion_, and nobody should find that surprising), but the adaptation of those movies just filled my soul with glee! and viggo mortensen makes me weak in the knees...

4. liam neeson is the voice of aslan. so, every time aslan spoke in TLTW&TW, all i could think
of was qui-gon jinn, oskar schindler, and alfred kinsey... i love liam neeson -- i think he's fantastic. but as aslan? nope. just didn't buy it.

5. that alanis morissette song that accompanies the rolling of the credits? lame. alanis morissette makes me feel icky. if you had lived in an all-girls college dorm in the mid-90s, when out of every room stereos blared either "jagged little pill" or some crappy dave matthews band song, you'd feel icky about it, too...

6. i haven't conducted any research on this matter, but common sense tells me that beavers -- even talking beavers -- cannot climb trees, even to escape a pack of crazy talking wolves.