Feels Like the First Time

I went to see Narnia again this afternoon with my friend Nicole. It was SO much better on the second go-round. Amanda and I went to see it on Sunday and I haven't had a worse movie experience since the man sitting behind me in Murder By Numbers pleasured himself through the majority of the film. Seriously? That movie was terrible! Anyways, on Sunday the couple beside me (who were not, in fact, children--them I expect to talk in a movie...I don't enjoy it, but I expect it) decided it was their job to vocalize everything that was happening on screen. Beaver enters the movie--"A beaver!" A rhino? "Rhino!" During the battle scene Captain Loudmouth exclaimed "A gryffin!" He then has to go on to tell his girlfriend, Dimwit, what a gryffin is. Really? Can't you just look at the screen? Does he really need to tell you what one looks like when there are 5 flying around in front of you? My favorite part was when they tried to identify the Biblical characters that paralleled Lewis' characters. "Oh, she's Mary Magdalene!" "Moses..." Moses? Yes, Moses. Then they played the game of guessing what Aslan says next. I think my armrest was just about shredded. After the movie, I wanted to turn to the parents of the 7 and 9 year olds behind us and thank them for their exemplary parenting skills.
So the movie was so much more enjoyable today. I actually caught some things that I had missed the first time due to either not being able to hear (because did I mention Loudmouth and Dimwit didn't even bother whispering?) or at that moment I had tried the polite quit-talking-before-I-hit-you-in-the-face glare. Nicole laughingly leaned over and pointed out a couple of animals, but my knuckle cracking quickly put all joking aside. It is a wonderful movie. Beautifully done. I stand in awe of the special effects. I'm hoping that this one will do well and they'll make the other books into movies, too. I'd love to see The Last Battle...but so help me if anybody talks!!