Which to see this weekend?

Narnia for sure.
Much more of a "big screen" type movie with all those special effects and beasties and such.

are you kidding?

NARNIA!

Why tackle a contraversial film about homosexual cowboys when you can tackle the even MORE contraversial film that's Christianity disguised as a children's fanstasy epic.


Besides Ang Lee is boring most of the time.

Yeah, I gotta go with Narnia as well. I am curious to see how you critique talking animals, young ugly British kids, and all the Christian allegory.

You gotta be pretty thick to call Narnia's Christian messages "disguised."

At any rate, I'd go Narnia over Brokeback as well.

I don't intend to see or read Narnia but I'd like to know more about that disguised christian message thing I keep hearing about. Can somebody explain it to me please?

**** spoiler warning!! (if they make movies out of all the books)***





In the stories there was a lion named Aslan who was obviosly God and every part of the stories had something to do with the Bible, indirectly. In the last book of the series, you find out that Narnia is heaven and all the children in the story had died in a train accident.

you have just ruined my life.
i have been reading this series now for over a year.
thanks for ruining it
your spoiler wasn't down far enough

I'm sorry. I guess todd should edit my post or something. I did say there was a spoiler, but I guess I'll put it farther down next time.

Someone ruined the ending of harry potter for me the night that i got it. I still loved the book. This is not a reason to stop reading the series. Everything I just said happens in the last 3 sentences of the last book. Sorry again.

oh, i see there is a spoiler warning on the thread title now.

Its not the message thats disguised.
Its the Movie in so far as I can make of it from marketed ads and previews.
It's disguising itself through its marketing as another LOTR or HArry Potter.

Now, just how much of the Christian allegory that is so obvious of the books is presented in the movie, remains to be seen.

I mean the trailer was basically british kids + fantastic CGI creatures + Peter Jacksonish sweeping shots. No Christian motifs anywhere.

In fact there were more christian references in the Matrix movie trailers and especially in the recent Superman trailer/teaser.

Dude, you're killing me! I had to watch the Superduperman trailer again, and I am genuinely pissed at myself that I didn't pick up on an anything. F*@k!

But hasn't 'the chosen one' become a little too cliched as of late? I mean, off the top of my head:

'Superman'
'The Matrix'
'Kung Pow'
'The One'
'Fantastic Planet'
'Cool Hand Luke'
'Mad Max II/III'
'Equilibrium'
'Evil Dead II/III'
'Dune'; etc.

Yes, yes, I am reaching on a few, but aside from the hack biblical references, the 'stranger in a strange land' is a fun and effective plot device.