Supermallet

Why would that world be better than the one in which Harry Potter is more popular?

Fagcludedly

It would be better for people who have taste.

RichC2

Not really, the Narnia movies haven't been particularly good and both the books and movies are pretty heavy handed. The first was passable but dull, the second and third were snooze enducing.

The Potter movies were at least really well made and had interesting aspects to them.

this thread needs more late 90s mediocre Australian rock in it.

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Why So Blu?

Shit, in a better world His Dark Materials' series would have been better than Chronicles and Harry Potter.

hanshotfirst1138

Apparently Northern Lights/The Golden Compass did pretty well in Europe where the books are more well known, but New Line sold the rights to the overseas distribution to another company for some weird-ass reason, and since it bombed in the US, they didn't make much off of it.

Supermallet

In the best of all possible worlds, all the things I like would be the most popular things, and all the things I don't like would be hated by everyone.

hanshotfirst1138

Since I like some things you dislike, I kind of think that might be kind of unfair to everyone else .

Michael Corvin

First 3 Potter films bored me to tears. Gave up on the series. Never got past the first book either.

I'm always down for Narnia though.

Why So Blu?

Yeah, but New Line fucked it all up. We talked about it in another thread were due to the failure of the film in the U.S. New Line ended up merging with WB amongst other things. It was a fiasco.

Giles

we're (I'm) digressing, but the finger is directly pointed at New Line for taking the film and doing it's own editing of 'The Golden Compass' from the director and editor - it was their fault all on their own.

RocShemp

The only Potter film I genuinely loved was the third one and that happens to be the most hated by fans of the books. You didn't miss much as none were ever as good as the third and the last two were downright awful.

Nick Danger

Then in the best of all possible worlds, you would be a huge fan of Justin Timberlake and The Hunger Games, and you wouldn't like the weird obscure stuff. Conservation of energy, you know.

Supermallet

Noooooooo

RichC2

This really is the darkest timeline

Oh wait, neither Timberlake nor The Hunger Games are actually bad. One Direction and Twilight though...

RocShemp

I know The Hunger Games has Jennifer Lawrence but I don't think that's enough to elevate it from the level of bad.

hanshotfirst1138

I've seen things way worse than The Hinger Games. It might not be a masterpiece for the ages or anything, but as far as big pop culture phenomenons go, I think it's pretty good, IMO.

Supermallet

I do like The Hunger Games...books. The first movie wasn't bad, it just felt generic. I haven't seen the second yet.

RichC2

Eh, they're better than the Narnia movies so far, even if they are just toned down Battle Royale with an emphasis on pop culture and commercialism instead of political and socialistic criticism. They may not be great movies, but they're certainly better than most movies that target the same audience.

hanshotfirst1138

The Hunger Games movies are reasonably fun and well-designed, as far as movies based on teen pop culture phenomenons go, they at least have some intelligence behind them. I quite enjoyed the first Narnia movie. It was basically LOTR light, but I thought it did what it did well and was a lot of fun and a good adaptation of a much beloved book. There's an obvious strain of social commentary in The Hunger Games, evidently enough to get some commentators unnecessarily riled up. My dad leans way to the right, and I remember him saying some radio host was blasting Elysium as "socialist propaganda" or something, I think THG has gotten some similar buzz. Never seen any of the Twilight stuff. My younger brother was actually going with friends to see Quantum of Solace, and a buddy of his decided to buy tickets to the first Twilight solely to be an asshole. My brother was forced to sit through it, and he wouldn't let them leave until all of the credits had rolled. He said that afterwards, there was guy sitting in the front row by himself crying. My brother said he had no idea why, but it made him feel a lot better about his own life .

fumanstan

http://collider.com/chronicles-of-na...collidersocial

Some more in the link above.

hanshotfirst1138

Well, it's been too long, so sadly it's a pipe dream to have the same cast run through all seven films.

JeremyM

The Narnia books, despite some heavy handed allegory, are a lot of fun and hold lots of charm, which never really made it on to the big screen. The Silver Chair is probably my favorite book in the series, which is a minority viewpoint. But Puddleglum was a great character and Tom Baker was fantastic in the role on the old BBC version. I enjoyed the Eustace and Jill characters over the other kids as well. They were less goody-goody.

All that said, I don't see how this reboot can work. I get that the other kids are too old now, but still, this is not a good starting place.

mdc3000

I hated the cast from the previous films, so this is great news. Love the books but didn't like any of the films.

Michael Corvin

Thought for sure this series was dead. I enjoy them quite a bit. Bummer about the cast. Since this one takes place in the future they could have used the same actors.

joe_b

^ It takes place in the future of Narnia, so Caspian is now an old man -- but Eustace Scrubb is still a schoolboy since time moves slower on Earth.

Will Poulter looks younger than his age and could still reprise Eustace if they wanted to keep things consistent. The producers just want a fresh start for some reason.