Am watching
Prince Caspian. Have just reached the Pevensies' introduction to Trumpkin.
This movie is tripping my embarrassment squick SO HARD. *hides face and hits pause repeatedly to gather emotional strength*
Why are they doing this to me? The book wasn't like this!
(So far the rearrangement of plot elements makes perfect sense from a cinematic point of view, I really like what they did with the Telmarine council, and I love the sibling interaction, but oh my god, Peter,
stop being such an idiot.)
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( more thoughts, written as I watched and kept having to hit pause )---------------
Overall,
Prince Caspian was a good movie, aside from the tacked-on romance thing. It was unfaithful to the book in a number of ways, but then again, so was
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and I think a lot of the changes in
Prince Caspian were made with much better reasoning behind them -- the book is structurally all wrong for a film, so changes were inevitable. (Whereas a lot of the chase scenes and the bit on the melting river in
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe were blatantly unnecessary.)
Anyway, it's not my personal interpretation of Narnia, but it works well on its own terms, and (again, aside from the romance, and Peter's persistent
idiocy) doesn't jar too badly against the story in my head and heart. And as I said, I am willing to forgive an awful lot because of the political maneuvering and the battle scenes! *is not-so-secretly in love with realistic fantasy politics and wars*