More Movie Madness

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HA!

You watched it, didn't you?

Sucks, doesn't it?

Feels like someone just tore open your skull and ripped out the part of your brain that registers happiness so that you'll never, ever, ever feel anything but a deep sense of self-loathing for actually having seen it, doesn't it?

And just think... you had the ability to hit the "back" button to escape the horror. I actually had to sit through the entirety of the horrific abomination when it came on before Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian this past Friday evening. Such things have driven lesser men to leave theaters screaming and tearing at their hair. But not I. No, for I am an overlord, and there is not a torture yet invented that can stop me from seeing a movie I've paid a good $5 to see.

So I persevered.

And I must say, it was worth it.

Prince Caspian had a lot to live up to. The first Narnia movie was a grand tale with fun characters, good battle scenes, and an epic storyline that was both exhilarating and sad at the same time. Plus, you know, it had Tilda Swinton. I mean, really, do you need another reason to like it?

And despite what some people are saying, I think the second movie was basically just as good as the first one. Many of the same characters appear, often just a tiny bit older and wiser, plus there are several new characters, like the eponymous Prince Caspian, and the incredibly amusing swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep, who is voiced by Eddie Izzard, one of the funniest stand-up comedians alive today. And it had Tilda Swinton again. Grrrrrrrrow.

And although I don't want to say anything that will ruin it for those of you who haven't seen it, I will say that the ending of the movie is by far the best part. Having never read the books, I wasn't at all expecting it to go the way it did at the end.

Spoilers in black below for those who have already seen it:

I totally was not expecting Susan to leave. I thought she would stay in Narnia and marry Caspian and blah, blah, blah, yackity-shmackity. Like I said, I never read the books. So when she not only leaves, but is told that she can never even come back, it just made the ending more powerful, and actually very sad.

In fact, when you think about it, Narnia is a very tragic and depressing place in general. The tragedy lies in the fact that it's this grand world of adventure and fantasy that you can never stay in for long. At the end you always have to go back to the mundane world, which I imagine always seems all the more bleak and depressing for having caught that brief glimpse of fantasy and adventure.

The question that really struck me after watching the second movie was: How could you stand it? How could you possibly go on living your life after something like that, knowing that you'd had this brief taste of something more? I don't know if I could have.

Anyways, just something I was thinking about. These are the kind of thoughts that kept me out of the popular parties when I was young.