Alrighty, my order from favorite to least favorite goes something like....

BBC The Silver Chair. I suppose I'm biased because it's my favorite book, my favorite story, the effects were less distracting in this movie and Tom Baker as Puddleglum ROCKS!!!

Walden Prince Caspian. My favorite of the Walden movies. It may not have been the best adaptation, but I felt that this movie is the closest the production as a whole has come to truly understanding Aslan.

Walden LWW/BBC LWW. A tie. I love Walden's LWW for the actors and the CG and the BBC LWW for the story and passion.

BBC PC/VDT. My least favorite of the BBC films for sure. It's not bad, but I just didn't care for it as much as LWW and SC.

Walden VDT. Yeah.... yeah....

Animated LWW. I haven't seen this one for years but I distinctly remember not liking it very much. I probably ought to give it another chance.

So on a side note that's sort of on topic, my husband was chatting with a co-worker about the VDT movie that just came out, and this co-worker remembered watching the 1967 version of LWW on TV!! :O What I wouldn't give to get ahold of that version! I'd love to see it sometime.

Seems like Walden's LWW is winning for now. That's what I voted for. To me, even though it's not necessarily the most faithful (though it is pretty good), when I watch LWW I feel the spirit of Narnia the most. Though I will say, I grew up with the BBC versions and they hold a special place in my heart too. But LWW wins for me.

Oh, and VDT is probably a close second. In many ways I was disappointed with it, but overall, I enjoyed it very much.

If I had to rank all the narnia movie's after made my list wold be
1 The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe (2005)
2 The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (2010)
3 Prince Caspian (2008)
4 The Sliver Chair (BBC)
5 Prince Caspian & The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (BBC)
6 The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (BBC)
And I have Not see the animated LWW so I did not list it.

Not sure I can vote yet; I'll have to mull over the choice a bit. LWW is the only Walden film that has a chance for winning, as far as I'm concerned (their PC and VDT do nothing for me). I like all the BBC films with the exception of PC, which is drastically abridged. Can't remember the animated film very well.

Continuing some discussion from the closed BBC vs. Walden thread....

When it comes to BBC acting, only one character actually truly pulls off a worthy role: Tom Baker as Puddleglum.

Baker's is the best performance of the lot, no question about it, but I don't think you can discount some of the other actors, standouts being Michael Aldridge (the Professor), Jeffrey S. Perry (Tumnus), Samuel West (Caspian), Camilla Power (Jill), and Warwick Davis (especially as Glimfeather).

... but the Walden version is faithful also. Maybe it doesn't follow the book word by word, but it captures the true meaning behind the book and even amplifies it.

I'm not looking for it to follow the book word for word. I knew it wasn't going to do that. But what do you find to be the "true meaning" behind the book? They didn't get the longing for Aslan's country right at all. And if by amplifying meaning, you mean adding the preachy bits about believing in one's self, well....

The added plot just made it all flow together better. The BBC version was dull and boring because of its episodic and plotless storyline

Oh, so you find Lewis' storyline dull, boring, and pointless, eh?

But the budget was too small for them to make it look real and it's a distraction.

I think this, and much of the contemporary attitude towards the BBC series, could qualify as chronological snobbery. This is, quite simply, what TV films of the time were like. We should not judge them by what they could afford, but what they did with what they could afford. For the most part, the BBC series did a good job despite poor resources, while the Walden films worked poorly with great resources. If nothing else, the BBC series should earn your respect.

I agree that BBC Silver Chair rocks. I thought Tom Baker was the definitive Puddleglum, and as far as I'm concerned that version will remain the definitive version of Silver Chair until someone else comes up with something better.

I liked Camilla Power, the girl who plays Jill, and Barbara Kellerman as the Lady of the Green Kirtle puts in a better performance than than her performance as the White Witch. The only thing I really disliked about BBC Silver Chair was Jean Marc Perret who played King Caspian in BBC PC in the last scene of Silver Chair. I think that Samuel West from VDT would have been a better choice.

As I had voted already before the inclusion of the Silver Chair, my favourite film as of now is Walden VDT. The boat and the scenery are just so Narnian, even if others have not liked the movie. I thought that Will Poulter did a fantastic job, and I preferred Walden's King Caspian to Samuel West's true to the book but somewhat grumpy Caspian.

This is also one of the strengths of Walden PC which is the best version ever produced of Prince Caspian, the book. When BBC's version of PC is barely two episodes, with much of the book missing, and when it can't really be shown separate from BBC VDT, you could say it was the only real version of PC around.

I know the BBC VDT movie is quite good, since its status as a televison production really suits the style of the book, but I don't like the way it is jammed at the back of BBC PC.

There are now three film versions of LWW to compare against each other, of which I think the Walden one is probably the best and most imaginative one. It certainly had access to the best special effects. And I liked the idea of it starting with an air raid. Of the several other performances of LWW we now know about, only the live performance (with puppets) I saw in Sydney managed to portray the Blitz, using beams of light directed like searchlights, glowing behind a screen.

It was interesting to find out today there was also Trevor Preston's fourth film production in 1967, with a man dressed up as Aslan, and with a smoking Professor doing the commentating. I wonder why only BBC and Walden have ever attempted the other books in the series. Though I dislike the BBC PC, and would put it last, at least I give BBC full marks for trying something else besides LWW, which has been performed so often it is beginning to look like the Narnian equivalent of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella or Peter Pan.

LWW Walden, hands-down. It was the best movie and the best adaptation. Even after seeing VDT, I still think it's the best.

VDT 2010.

Simply because it felt the most Narnian and had the most impact on me emotionally. They got characters like Reep and Eustace so right.

LWW 2005 is my favourite to date.

PC 2008 is next (except I didn't care for the changes to Caspian and Susan) and their putting in a battle that really wasn't supposed to be in there...

VDT 2010 would have been my favourite to date over LWW if they had scripted and paced it better (it could have been a contender!).

Each production of VDT has it plusses and minuses. I appreciate the BBC VDT version for leaving a lot more of Lewis' text in but on the other hand I actually prefer the Fox movie of VDT because of the casting and the beautiful cinematography/visual effects (sea of lilies and the large wave of water in the beach scene). And the new cute more realistic-looking movie Reepicheep wasn't Warwick Davis in a fuzzy mouse suit, a huge improvement.

The Beeb VDT version also had more of the feel of what a sea voyage was like whereas the Fox movie didn't have enough of the details of a hard life at sea like in the book.

I do like BBC Silver Chair because of the faithfulness to the story and the casting of Jill was great in that production though I really didn't understand the casting choices for Lucy and Eustace in the BBC TV versions, they just didn't fit my mind's eye opinion from the books of what Lucy and Eustace should have looked like, so it was a bit distracting.

Haven't seen the animated LWW in a long long time, but remembered being fascinated then as a kid by it. Later when I watched it again as an adult, it didn't really have the same effect on me.

If a movie isn't faithful to the book, chances are I won't like it. Prince Caspian was ridiculously different, as was The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I feel like I didn't like The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as a movie itself, which I did for Prince Caspian despite the differences.

When the TLWW came out, I sat down with my family and actually tried to watch the BBC version. It was horrible. Lately I went back and forced myself to sit through the rest. Honestly, I can't see how they could be considered even close to the Walden versions. The special effects are so bad, that they distract from the original story. Even though it is accurate, I can't take seriously people dressed in animal suits. This is one reason C.S. Lewis apposed an adaption of this series into movies. The special effects, until recently, have not been able to keep up with the visuals he portrays in his books. VDT for me was amazing visually. Also all the parts that they took out of the book, or were close were amazing. To me the script and dialogue only floundered when they started talking about the green mist. That's why I don't think it is better then TLWW, though I place it slightly ahead of PC due to the changes from the book.