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re: 'Narnia: The Magicians Nephew' Official Trailer #1 | Netflix
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:49 am to imjustafatkid
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:49 am to imjustafatkid
I mean its a pretty famous scene
He/she is the one that gets put in the boo box with the scorpions
He/she is the one that gets put in the boo box with the scorpions
Posted on 10/15/26 at 8:50 am to Fun Bunch
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I mean its a pretty famous scene
He/she is the one that gets put in the boo box with the scorpions
And yet, my point is true. A true comparison would have been casting Glenn Close as Hook, not as some random pirate punished by Hook. That pirate could have been a woman and have changed nothing about that scene.
This post was edited on 10/15/26 at 8:51 am
Posted on 10/15/26 at 12:05 pm to Sus-Scrofa
quote:Really? All those gymnastics just to 'create buzz' or virtue signal while trying to minimize the insult? That just sounds like she's trying to be cute or something.
I bet at some point in the movie, Aslan is speaking through someone or something, and that’s where this shows up. A “she’s talking, but it’s really Aslan” situation. No real problem with that.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 12:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:I sincerely hope the 'melts' one day begin to include people getting their brains blown out. It seems to be the only thing that keeps these people from constantly shitting on you.
Correct, which makes the melts even funnier
Posted on 10/15/26 at 12:22 pm to Fun Bunch
That trailer was terrible, and does not feel like the book.
Subverting your expectations is what they call it. Yuck.
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Jadis using magic in the real world to destroy the literal pub where CS Lewis and Tolkein and the all male writing club hung out gives me extreme trepidation
Subverting your expectations is what they call it. Yuck.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 1:01 pm to Freauxzen
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That trailer was terrible, and does not feel like the book.
I don't think it's meant to, they're just borrowing the IP. It'll probably be about as faithful to the book as Without Remorse.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 2:38 pm to imjustafatkid
quote:Nodding by blowing it up? No, it seems like typical tedious histrionic feminism.
And the pub she destroys in the trailer is the same name as the real world one where Lewis and Tolkein and their all male club met up
Could just be a callback and nod to them. Let's hope that's it.
Barbie was not a good movie. It did well because it's Barbie. It was never not going to do well, but it's not a positive indicator of this movie's quality.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 4:46 pm to rebelrouser
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Robert Plant hated that song to the point he paid radio stations not to play it at one time.
I always love these stories but that's a half truth
He paid a radio station to never play it again because it was a fundraiser in Portland. The station asked people to donate for the fundraiser and if it hit a certain number they would never play it again. He thought that was pretty funny.
The rumor was he paid $10k but he said he paid $10.
Posted on 10/15/26 at 5:25 pm to blueboy
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Nodding by blowing it up? No, it seems like typical tedious histrionic feminism.
Barbie was not a good movie. It did well because it's Barbie. It was never not going to do well, but it's not a positive indicator of this movie's quality.
Could be, but it's not uncommon to see things like this in films. There are a lot of issues with the news coming out about this film. This is minor in comparison.
This post was edited on 10/15/26 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 10/16/26 at 8:30 am to imjustafatkid
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Yep. This is where I stand on it. 100%.
It’s just seems weird not to use Liam Neeson. He seemed like the perfect fit and theoretically available unless he turned it down for some reason.
Posted on 10/16/26 at 9:11 am to STEVED00
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It’s just seems weird not to use Liam Neeson. He seemed like the perfect fit and theoretically available unless he turned it down for some reason.
There is no chance anyone not female was contacted for the role of Aslan.
This post was edited on 10/16/26 at 9:12 am
Posted on 10/16/26 at 12:51 pm to Fun Bunch
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But I don't think that character can use magic in the real world and that is an essential plot point
And the pub she destroys in the trailer is the same name as the real world one where Lewis and Tolkein and their all male club met up
Wtf. Yea I figured I was out after the Streep (most over rated actress in history btw) casting, but this one really puts me out.
That kind of important part of the story. Her inability to use dark magic in the real world. It's not until she gets to Narnia that she is able to develop her wand.
Blowing up Lewis and Tolkien's spot seems like a purposeful slap in the face.
Posted on 10/16/26 at 12:59 pm to blueboy
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Barbie was not a good movie. It did well because it's Barbie
I couldn't even finish it. It was awful. But I'm well aware I wasn't the target audience
Posted on 10/17/26 at 1:03 pm to imjustafatkid
I’m now hearing they will layer Meryl Streep’s voice with Ciaran Hinds’ voice for Aslan. God has no gender is what they’re going with even though Aslan actually represents Jesus in the story.
This post was edited on 10/17/26 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 10/19/26 at 10:28 am to Madking
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I’m now hearing they will layer Meryl Streep’s voice with Ciaran Hinds’ voice for Aslan. God has no gender is what they’re going with even though Aslan actually represents Jesus in the story.
I am not as familiar with these books as I am LOTR, but apparently there is a line in Magician's Nephew where the Earth is referred to as a woman, and so for the creation plotline Aslan is also the Earth at one point or something in the Gerwig movie.
I just listened to an interview where she was being interviewed by Stephen Colbert about the movie and she referred to Aslan as "he" multiple times.
I am fine giving things like this a chance, even if I am personally skeptical and prefer things to stick as closely to the source material as possible generally. If you make enough changes to something eventually its only related to the source material in name. You have to acknowledge that if you make changes like this and don't nail it then you're going to get slammed for it.
She certainly sounds like she respects the source material a great deal, or is at least playing it up like she does. She said that she read everything CS Lewis ever wrote, read a lot of the things he read that he found important to him, and tried to go places he went like Oxford to really get in his head. I just can't shake the feeling that if this IP were important to any group other than Christians it would have been made more faithfully than it looks like it has been.
Posted on 10/19/26 at 12:55 pm to ShrimperDan
Lewis said “Aslan is Jesus” literally in Narnia. Gerwig has made alarming comments about Christian religions so we’ll see but I doubt it’s depicted correctly. Too bad because it looks incredible visually.
Posted on 10/19/26 at 1:34 pm to ShrimperDan
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I am not as familiar with these books as I am LOTR
The Magician’s Nephew is allegory, which of course Tolkien was not a fan off.
Posted on 10/23/26 at 7:08 am to Fun Bunch
Director of Barbie, Little Women, Lady Bird…
She’s celebrated as a feminist director. What’s up with questioning this point?
She’s celebrated as a feminist director.
What’s up with questioning this point? 
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