Movie trailers

[apocalypsos]

Kingdom of Heaven -- Huh, I didn't know this trailer was out already. And it looks like they let Orlando have real facial hair (rather than the clean-shaven look or the wimpy facial hair I've seen him sport so far), which he should really keep because mmmmmmmmmmm.

Chronicles of Narnia -- Okay, it's not a trailer, it's a making-of featurette. But still, DUDE.

The Pink Panther -- *gawks* Uh, I think to offset the stupid, I'm going to have to post a link to the trailer for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Comments

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Considering the fact that religion is being stripped from His Dark Materials, what do you think are the odds that Narnia is going to make it unscathed? Frankly, I just go back to the animated version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and remember a time when hypersensitivity didn't rule all decisions.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Stripping the anti-religion from His Dark Materials (please don't get me started on that) is different from stripping the Big Huge Christian Paralells from the Narnia books. Why would they do that? A Christian movie isn't going to get you thousands of instant protesters (and the entire Fox News Channel) ready to kick your ass. Plus the Narnia books are older and better-established than His Dark Materials.

The only reason I can think of that they would get rid of Narnia's religious overtones is as part of a larger campaign to neutralize (more like neuter) it into a Generic Fantasy Story. Kind of like what they did to the poor Earthsea books, which really didn't do anything to deserve such treatment. But the Narnia books are much better-known than those, too, so I'm staying optimistic.

-blue