Is the fact that the Christian Right is hyping Chron of Narnia:LW&W

Going to ruin the experience for you. These were among my favorite books when I was younger, and when I heard that a film version was being made I was very happy...but now I hear the same people hyping Passion of the Christ, Focus on the Family an other groups are actively hyping it...kind of takes a bit of the excitemnto out of it...what do you think?

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2005/12/07/narnia/

with my daughter, in preparation for the movie.

C.S. Lewis is acutally a fairly crappy writer, at least when it comes to fiction. He can mangle a sentence better than just about anybody I've ever read.

I still like the book. I just wish somebody else had written it.

The RW whackjobs do not own the Chronicles of Narnia...

I just wish they didn't have to try and coopt every thing that should be a shared cultural or political heritage for use in their own narrow intolerant agenda. Just like they try and do by coopting the founding fathers...

I tend to ignore the opinions of people I disagree with even when they're supposedly on the same page.

I am a bit worried about cgi use. I don't think the technology deals well with things like animals, and I want aslan to look majestic and non cartoony

I did hear that it looked pretty good...and it has gotten some good reviews (Siskel and Roeper gave it a Thumbs up).

...after all the fundies & kiddies have seen it.

Or I'll just wait for DVD

I let people have differences of opinions than me. IMO I think sometimes a book is just a book.

if the right says they like hamburgers, i won't stop eating hamburgers. the stories are fantastic, and the movies look like they stick to them.

so fuck 'em :shrug:

And it's the fundy shitknobs who are proclaiming this movie as the end-all-be-all of perfect Christianity.

Lewis was, though Orthodox, liberal - pro-peace, pro-compassion, pro-thinking.

He was really everything that the fundy fuck right is not.

But the fundy fuck right never understand anything, especially allegory. Hence their utter and ridiculous misinterpretation of the Book of Revelation. As well as The Constitution. And American history. And The Bible.

He wasn't a fundy by any sense of the word. Of course the world has changed so much since then it's kind of hard to see where the measuring bar for a fundie or progressive was.

He was adamantly anti-war -- he served in WWI -- Lord of the Rings does not AT ALL glorify war. It recognizes that sometimes it is necessary, but part of the reason that TOlkien wrote the story is because of the awful shit he saw in WWI and because of his anti-war stance, and anti-government propaganda about the glory of serving one's country in war.

It just kills me when fundies so utterly misread stuff that is, while maybe not modern day liberal, is clearly and totally classically liberal.

The fundy fucks see any story that is "good triumphs over evil" as inherently Christian, even when those stories are either not Chrsitian at all, or are clearly anathema to the idea of traditional dogma, doctrine, and other bullshit.

The fundy fucks look at LOTR and say "Good wins; ergo, Christianity is the only true religion", through a simple matrix equating Christianity with goodness.

Sensible people look at LOTR and say "Good wins; ergo, "being good" is the only realization of a faith that is worth beans", fully realizing that, while Christianity in its best form is "goood", it is neither ipso facto good, nor does it have a monopoly on good.

So many that I'm not even gonna bother editing the post.

Fuckin' embarrassing, that's for sure.

Some people write like a chicken I type like one.

I liked these books as a kid, but losing my religion ruined them for me. This may sound strange, but I was less afraid of god / jesus the way Lewis presented them, so in some of my last prayers I envisioned Aslan the Lion rather than "Jesus" or "God." So, the books are sort of tied in with my loss of faith, which was a necessary, but painful time in my life.

I might go to see these movies, but I hate the fact that fundy family members will "own" them. Also, I've grown much less fond of allegory. For this reason, Tolkien still appeals to me while Lewis does not.