Seems my blog is turning into a movie review section.  Oh well.

As you can probably guess I just saw Narnia. Oh, don't worry, I'm not gonna give anything away. I am also NOT going to spend this review talking about how inferior it is to Lord of the Rings (although it actually wasn't much below LotR; the premise was the whole reason LotR was better). And I'm not going to bring up the obnoxious people who wouldn't shut up or turn their cell phones off. Except I guess I just did bring it up. Well, I won't again. You'll see. Or won't. I don't know. Anyway, I'm surprised how close they kept the movie to the book. The main difference seemed to be that everyone was wittier in the movie than they were in the book, which is not at all a bad thing, though it seemed out of character for the 4 children involved. But the story itself was told quite well, and the writers/directors/etc took advantage of every opportunity to make the movie great, not to mention the excellent acting.  There were some good moments score-wise, but Howard Shore's epic scores are quite a bit better (hey, I'm talking music not film-making). Still, it's a movie well worth seeing, whether you've read the book or not (and unlike LotR, you can thoroughly understand Narnia without having read any of the books). I suppose, because of the premise, that I would like this movie a little less had I not read the books, but either way I do recommend you go see it. RATING: 4/5

...I give it 3 out of 4 stars.  The rating would be higher, but there are a few problems.  Oh, I probably should mention, if you haven't seen it yet, and you plan to, you may want to look away because there are spoilers ahead!

You've been warned.

The first main problem is Lucas STILL can't write a good romantic scene.  The man needs to either take lessons or give it up altogether.

Aside from that, Lucas loves cliches far too much.  Vader yelling, "NOOOO!" to the sky killed a great scene.

And, of course, there are problems with the way scenes are arranged.  The ending of the movie was supposed to be very heartbreaking, and indeed it would have been, if things were done right.  However, he had it so that there would be a heartbreaking scene, then cut to something else, then back to heartbreak, and then to something else, and so on.  He kept killing the momentum over and over, and that was the main problem with the movie.

Aside from all that, it was a great movie, and very worth seeing.  I command you to go see it!!!