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Lucy of Narnia
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So what did you think? I loved it and it was touching when Reepicheep said goodbye to Eustace, cute when he gave Lucy a hug. It was slightly short and a little different from the book but I loved it all the same.

How about you? :D

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Topic starter Posted : December 13, 2010 10:46 am
cuppycakesrach
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Oh my goodness .. i cried so hard!!!!!!!! it was so sad! I think i cried the most because of how much Narnia means to me. To me its way more than a story. Through Narnia i've come to know Christ better and grown into the person I am today .. so when Aslan said to Lucy how she had grown in Narnia it felt like he was talking to me and I just burst into tears.. definitely the most a movie has ever touched me. I was in the lobby of the theatre after it was over still crying lol


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Posted : December 13, 2010 10:54 am
Timo
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I didn't really cry.. But I had tears in my eyes when Reep said goodbye to Eustace :)

Posted : December 13, 2010 11:08 am
Tumnus the Faun
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Like I had predicted, I was crying like a baby thoughout the entire end. I really lost it when Lucy hugs Reepicheep. My brother went to the theater with me but saw Tangled instead. When he asked me how I liked Narnia, I told him, with tears in my eyes, how sad it was when Reepicheep sailed away to Aslan's Country. :((

Posted : December 13, 2010 12:01 pm
Liberty Hoffman
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It made me cry (in a good way)!
I bawled at that end bit! it was beautiful and sad all at once! :D


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Posted : December 15, 2010 5:10 am
equustel
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When I was little, reading about Reep sailing over the waves into Aslan's Country was the first time a book ever made me lose it – I put it down and cried.

So I knew going into this movie that my ultimate opinion of it would hinge on whether or not that scene affected me similarly... and it did.

Not only that, I kept crying, all the way through Lucy saying goodbye to Aslan, the waves crashing over their last glimpse of Aslan and Caspian, and the painting becoming the painting again. It was like I was never going back to Narnia again and what can I say – my twelve-year-old self came out.

My husband was quite shocked, haha.

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Posted : December 15, 2010 5:22 am
Josh
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I think the scene itself was good, but it would have been more emotional had the film developed the relationship between the kids and Aslan/Caspian/Reepicheep more. As it is it seems a bit akward with Caspian calling the Pevensies his family (when they just seem like regualr friends) and Aslan saying the whole reason they came to Narnia was so they could know him better (when aside from a dream and Eustace's 10 second transformation, the kids didnt see Aslan at all).

I also didnt like Caspian's line about Reepicheep "No one could be more deserving." Really not what Lewis was trying to get across about earning your way into heaven.

Overall, it was still a sad scene. But I think they should have developed the relationships prior to this scene a bit more.

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Posted : December 16, 2010 10:00 am
kamarkam
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I agree with cuppycakesrach. Narnia was a great story when I was little, but now it has so much more meaning to me as an almost-adult and Christian. I even wrote my senior paper in high school on Narnia (mostly LWW) . :)

I warned my friend even before the movie started that I would cry at the end. And I did. I'm even getting weepy just thinking about it now! It could have been maybe a bit longer and more developed throughout the movie, but I did love it.

Posted : December 16, 2010 10:18 am
aragorn2
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I loved the ending, I don't think they could have made it much better it was so good. I didn't cry but I came kind of close to it. :)

Posted : December 16, 2010 11:32 am
Clive Staples Sibelius
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I shed one or two tears, but after realizing they were ill-founded because the film had not even tried to build up to that scene, I immediately got hold of my emotions again.

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Posted : December 16, 2010 11:36 am
Warrior 4 Jesus
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As a seperate component, I found the ending (5-10mins) to be fantastic but as part of the movie, I found it strange and nothing really led up to the emotion of the scene. Easily one of the best parts of the movie though, if not the best.

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Posted : December 16, 2010 1:04 pm
Trufflehunter
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this was one of the four times in the movie when i had tears in my eyes! it was so great! this scene was just really, really, incredible!

"I'm a beast I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. I say great good will come of it... And we beasts remember, even if Dwarfs forget, that Narnia was never right except when a son of Adam was King." -Trufflehunter

Posted : December 16, 2010 1:27 pm
aslanscountry
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I didn't cry either but it definitely tugs on my heartstring, because I see the scene as not only the parting between the children and Narnia but also possibly the last time we see Narnia on the big screen. What with the box office disappointment and all, it's hard not to feel a bit pessimistic :( Plus, the fact that the characters must all give up their desire to stay in Narnia/Aslan's Country to return to their own world speak volumes about our own desire. Sometimes we feel we have enough of the real world and want to just escape to some place where we feel accepted and at peace with ourselves, but we cannot because we live in THIS world and have responsibilities in it, just like the kids and Caspian have their own responsibilities in their worlds.

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Posted : December 16, 2010 1:39 pm
GlimGlum
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I liked the ending in Narnia because overall because it was faithful to the book visually and dialogue wise. And I didn't mind the made-up bit with Caspian. :)

But what moved me the most was Eustace carefully hanging the painting on the wall after grabbing it off there to destroy it in the beginning. That is what got to me the most emotionally. :((

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Posted : December 16, 2010 1:49 pm
aslanscountry
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But what moved me the most was Eustace carefully hanging the painting on the wall after grabbing it off there to destroy it in the beginning. That is what got to me the most emotionally. :((

oh yeah that! And his diary entry saying how they often talked about Narnia in the next few weeks and how Eustace missed his cousins so much after they left. :((

Dingdangit, now you make me wanna see it again. Hope Easter comes fast! (it's when the DVD will be released)

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Posted : December 16, 2010 1:53 pm
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