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...first of his seven hallowed Narnia novels to the big screen.The live-action adaptation of “Wardrobe” hits theaters today. The filmmakers are hoping it can tap into the lucrative market for big-budget make-believe exposed by the “Lord of the Rings?? and “Harry Potter” franchises. But in raising the stakes, those films also raised the bar. In a box-office landscape where audiences demand epic grandeur, adolescent drama, and, above all, realism from their fantasies, how is Lewis’ simple bedtime myth...
...Topic.Unfortunately, all of this posturing hasn’t improved her music. She’s still peddling the same coma-inducing New Age white noise your mom and Peter Jackson seem to love. Why, oh why, was this woman allowed on the “Lord of the Rings?? soundtrack? The video is an apt visual complement to the song; it too is insufferably boring. As far as I can tell, the director’s premise for the shoot was “Enya putzing around in Middle Earth.”In the video...
Coming off of “Lord of the Rings?? and “Hildago,” Mortensen was not the obvious choice for such a role, but Cronenberg realized, “This movie, in a weird way, is much more like the films he normally does, which is character acting...
...setting too much store by the prophecy!” (emphasis not added). Its main characters include a wise old wizard who enjoys alliterative aphorisms, pensive beard strokes, and—hold on to your copy of “Lord of the Rings??—sometimes carries a cane. The stories’ emotional climaxes tend to be accompanied by the sound of mermaids singing. And this is all deadly serious...
Since we current post-adolescents were actual adolescents, beginning to think about leaving the nest, we’ve experienced a barrage of epic sagas; first the new “Star Wars” trilogy, then “Lord of the Rings?? (LOTR) and “Harry Potter.” We’ve flocked in droves to “Spider-Man” and “X-men.” We live from season to season, from installment to installment, waiting for good to triumph at last...