Saw Narnia and Kong in a single 6 hr stretch; Narnia to see how it compares with Rings (and Lewis with Tolkien), and Kong because it's by thesame guy who did Rings.
Verdict: As for Narnia, give me Rings anytime, and as for Kong, P.J. couldsurely do better with The Hobbit.
Narnia was a bit flat; elements of thefantasy fail to cohere, so you're not drawn in, or maybe I'm too grown up.The Never-ending Story part I was far more interesting and has a far moresuspenseful, emotionally captivating openning: The boy reads an ancient book, gets really engrossed, reaches a pivotal twist in the plot, a flash of lightning through the attic window, thunderstorm with lashing rains, he gives a start, he has to embody the child-hero prophesized in the book, he has to be part of the story, literally, he has to imagine, he must savethis world from the gathering darkness, there's not a moment to lose, the decision is now, thunder, lightning, and lo he is IN "the never-endingstory".....Another thing, the evil in Narnia was too frozen, too localized in the person of the witch-queen, thus without a sense of pervasive foreboding,where as the evil in Never-ending Story was a like a gathering of storm-clouds from a distance, dark, foreboding, threatening, growing, nearing, spreading, engulfing, ever-ready to burst forth in an unstoppable, torrential downpour of life-poisoning/snuffing flooding downpour of the vilest venom, an evil of over-powering drowning despair.....and all hope lies in the pure pristine imagination of a little boy, and it must be a HUMAN boy, and he must get INTO the story....
Verdict: As for Narnia, give me Rings anytime, and as for Kong, P.J. couldsurely do better with The Hobbit.
Narnia was a bit flat; elements of thefantasy fail to cohere, so you're not drawn in, or maybe I'm too grown up.The Never-ending Story part I was far more interesting and has a far moresuspenseful, emotionally captivating openning: The boy reads an ancient book, gets really engrossed, reaches a pivotal twist in the plot, a flash of lightning through the attic window, thunderstorm with lashing rains, he gives a start, he has to embody the child-hero prophesized in the book, he has to be part of the story, literally, he has to imagine, he must savethis world from the gathering darkness, there's not a moment to lose, the decision is now, thunder, lightning, and lo he is IN "the never-endingstory".....Another thing, the evil in Narnia was too frozen, too localized in the person of the witch-queen, thus without a sense of pervasive foreboding,where as the evil in Never-ending Story was a like a gathering of storm-clouds from a distance, dark, foreboding, threatening, growing, nearing, spreading, engulfing, ever-ready to burst forth in an unstoppable, torrential downpour of life-poisoning/snuffing flooding downpour of the vilest venom, an evil of over-powering drowning despair.....and all hope lies in the pure pristine imagination of a little boy, and it must be a HUMAN boy, and he must get INTO the story....
