PRINCE CASPIAN flops because of poor release date?

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the makers of Prince Caspian kept to the original story surprisingly well… i heard they were going to make it into a silly pure-action flick, but thankfully this was not the case

Comment by patrick | May 30, 2008

Prince Caspian flopped because it’s a horrible movie.

It’s seriously one of the worst movies I’ve seen. Laughable at every turn, especially when it tried to be serious. Couple that with the bizarre pedophilia angles that the little girl keeps forcing and the release date and you’ve got yourself a stinker.

Comment by Phil | May 30, 2008

Its very simple, really, why PC did poorly at the box office compared to the first Narnia movie Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

It killed every well-developed theme in the book, replacing it with cliche movie trash.

All of the loyal narnia fans, called by Andrew “fanatics” were extremely disappointed with the film. We “fanatics” either watched it only once (got very upset, and did NOT spend hundreds of dollars to take all our friends&family to see it as we did for LWW.) or we boycotted it entirely after seeing some clips and hearing the plot from our friends.

They mangled Peter. They mangled Susan. They mangled Caspian. They mangled the Telmarines. And they mangled Aslan. For starters…if they wanted action…there was the whole Miraz-usurping-the-throne deal when Caspian was a small child. There was also the mysterious reason for why Susan is losing her faith throughout the book. There is Peter’s character, which exemplifies sanctification and faith, especially when he fights the duel. It would NOT have made a poor movie. There was ALOT there.

But Adamson scrapped all those themes for a teeny-bopper action flick. Whoever wrote the script had no idea what true faith was. Romance was portrayed as a temporary/irresponsible/hormonal thing (no sense of restraint, self-control, or faithfulness). And of course, Hollywood can’t stand a real male hero leader, so Peter had to be mangled into “just one of us”. Well, it didn’t do as well as LWW, which actually stayed true to the themes of the book.

Because there really was so much depth/meaning/symbolism/inner struggle going on in the book. But the scriptwriters were blockheads.

Comment by "fanatic" | June 23, 2008

I really liked the movie, but it was way different from the book. There were parts in the book that I didn’t completly understand and after seeing the movie I understood them, and that’s great. But I do think the whole romance thing they added between Caspian and Susan wasn’t needed. Ben did a great job acting for this movie but Prince Caspian is supossed to be like 13 and blonde. I think Ben is like 26 or something. He’s not blonde either. But it was a very good movie and I’m buying it when it comes out on dvd. LWW was a great movie too and I think that one kept to the theme better, but they were both fantastic and I can’t wait for VTD to come out in 2010!

Comment by Katie | July 26, 2008

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