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Phydeaux, get out of my head. 

I just saw Kong, BTW.  I spent most of the movie wishing that he'd eat the noisy cum-guzzling harpy gutter smurf who gabbed and spewed smurf out ouf their mouths for the entire movie.  It's seldom that I truly wish people dead, but today has been one giant smurf-burger and going to the movies was supposed to take my mind off of it.

Fat smurfing lot of good that did.

Marc wrote:

go ahead oats, tell us how you really feel

I didn't like those people.

I just saw Kong.  Ok I guess.  He really could have gone in 2 directions.  I would have taken the other.

oatmeal wrote:

the noisy cum-guzzling harpy gutter smurf… …today has been one giant smurf-burger and going to the movies was supposed to take my mind off of it.

You could have gotten a number at least, maybe it would have helped.

oatmeal wrote:

Moses wrote:

I just saw Kong.  Ok I guess.  He really could have gone in 2 directions.  I would have taken the other.

The "Suck" vs "Not Suck" directions?  Me, I'm glad he took the "Not Suck" direction. Granted, the "Suck" version would have been easier to make...

Or maybe you mean the "Kong eats a hot dog stand on 49th St. and gets the smurfs REAL BAD" direction?

What on Earth are you talking about?

There is the love path and there is also the path of the bitch as a possession.  The latter makes more sense to me.  The only parts I didn't enjoy were the parts when the lady was in love with our monster.

Moses wrote:

There is the love path and there is also the path of the bitch as a possession.  The latter makes more sense to me.  The only parts I didn't enjoy were the parts when the lady was in love with our monster.

There is an utterly wrong "lost" scene from the original film where Kong holds Fay Wray like a Barbie doll and with a perverted grin on his face, peels off layers of her clothing one by one as she screams.  That is why she ends up only wearing a slip towards the end of the skull island scenes.

Haven't been in this thread since I saw it (shortly before Christmas)

I liked the movie, but I wish they hadn't glossed over Edmunds trek to see the queen so much.
I understand though that targeting a yound audience, some cuts from the story have to be made - I just think another 10 to 15 minutes would have made it better. They also were a little quick on their following the bird to the beavers.

They left the story a little bit - I don't recall Edmund meeting Tumnus before Tumnus is turned to stone, though adding that may have been necessary to help young kids understand the circumstances of Edmunds betrayal.

They cut the part where Edmund runs into the other lion, and draws on it - and they cut the part where Aslan breathes on the stone lion, and the other lion keeps making the big deal about how Aslan kept saying "Did you hear that? He said us lions. Us lions" etc.

But I guess that's what the book is for - to read the parts of the story they can't fit into a movie that kids with small bladders are going to go see. Still, though - I would have preferred a longer movie with an intermission for potty break - some of the stuff they cut were very impactful parts of the book.

Adding the WW2 stuff at the beginning was a nice touch - it's been long enough that many American kids need that to understand the circumstances of why the kids went to stay with the proffesor.

macforme wrote:

Res, the part where Edmund draws on the other lion was in the movie. He draws on it with a stick he picked up from a small fire pit. Close to the end, when the kids are being crowned, you see the other lion with drawn-on glasses - and I thought I saw another animal with drawing on it too.

Damn - that must have during the 3 minutes that one of my little brothers had to go potty and I had to take him. But all the lines about "us lions" were certainly taken out - and it was a part of the book I enjoyed, it showed the humility of Aslan and how his humility had a positive affect on others.

oatmeal wrote:

Metacell wrote:

Moses wrote:

There is the love path and there is also the path of the bitch as a possession.  The latter makes more sense to me.  The only parts I didn't enjoy were the parts when the lady was in love with our monster.

There is an utterly wrong "lost" scene from the original film where Kong holds Fay Wray like a Barbie doll and with a perverted grin on his face, peels off layers of her clothing one by one as she screams.  That is why she ends up only wearing a slip towards the end of the skull island scenes.

That scene was "lost?"  I thought it was still in there... though I admit it's been more than a few years since I've seen the older.

It is in the restored version, whch is the version thats been shown on turner classics and such, along with the scenes of Kong stepping on villagers, and the giant spider sequences.

Edit: Why did the Narnia and Kong threads get so mixed up?

Last edited by Metacell (2005-12-30 2:19 pm)

Dude, when Liv Tyler speaks the rest of the movie quivers with phear.

resedit wrote:

They cut the part where Edmund runs into the other lion, and draws on it - and they cut the part where Aslan breathes on the stone lion, and the other lion keeps making the big deal about how Aslan kept saying "Did you hear that? He said us lions. Us lions" etc.

umm both those parts were in the movie i saw.
perhaps you should go back and watch it again.

Now that it's out on dvd, what does everyone that hadn't seen it think?

I didn't realize i'd completely forgotten everything about the books, and am considering rereading The Chronicles Of Narnia. I still have my original set, as well as my daughters set.

I think i was expecting far too much out of it, because i was a little disappointed. I remember back when this thread came out, there was a debate about which film was better. This, or King Kong. I'll have to go with KK. That isn't to say it's a better movie, but it better kept me entertained.