Y Wednesday, June 11, 2008
1:12 am
Right. Suddenly didn't feel like writing much, so I guess I'll skimp on some of the details.Didn't do justice to 4th of June post. Okay we had lots of fun. Really. Drinking games, bla bla. Had some fun with the Wii and stuff like that. Cycled out at night to grab more drinks. Was kinda fun actually. Didn't know there were so many eateries and a 7-11 outside my place. But FFS, no orange soda. WTF.
Mmm what was next. Ah yes.
Watched a terribad movie last Sunday. Chronicles of Narnia II: Prince Caspian. Yep. I don't like the damn flick.
On it's own it's fine I guess. Average. Passable. Tries to take too many leaves out of LotR, but falls flat. Really bad. Thing is it pulled a perfect leaf, but replaced it with a withered one.
Horse chase at the start. Okay. Fellowship of the Ring, when Arwen gets pursued by the Nazgul. Except we get to see a Brunette(Caspian) who speaks with a Hispanic acceent, and has an annoying character, instead of our very beautiful elven maiden. One moment he's all chivalrous, then he's a spoilt prince and the next he's a raving mad man. Emotional prolly. Annoying nevertheless.
Anyway. A scene where the big Poseidon-esque face smashes on the baddies. Only in LotR it was a group(?) of rampaging horses. Which one's more aesthetically pleasing? Right. The horses. And LotR was made when? Technological difference?
Oh and Susan(Which IMO looks terribad. God those lips and freckles. NFI how she got on screen, ever.) using arrows to jab onto oncoming enemies was so Legolas. Don't get me wrong, I hate the dude, Orlando, but the whole Narnia II kept smelling of LotR-wannabe crap. That I can't really tolerate.
Now for the REAL reason why I didn't enjoy the film at all. I toe the line of starting a flame war, or inciting religious conflict, but I'll try my best to avoid that.
Granted, I watched the film knowing full well CS Lewis was a very devout Christian, and wrote the series in a very pro-Christian light. (And The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman was written in the opposite fashion, leading it to become banned in a few countries.) In fact, you don't have to read his books to realize this. I asked MC, Darren, Blim and even Bob.
What'd I ask? Simple. Draw parallels between Aslan and God. Using his name in vain, I know, but just bear with me.
1) Why could only Lucy see Aslan? Simple. She still had faith in him, unlike the rest. (Eg. Peter was going on about "Where's Aslan if he really wanted to help? We're on our own now.") She kept swearing she saw Aslan. In true religious fashion, Aslan visited Lucy in her dream. Sound familiar? Yep.
In fact, the dancing trees showing her the path could be likened to angels, much like the one that told Mary of her incoming child of God. That's a bit far fetched, but I'm just saying.
2) Ask and ye shall receive. See mouse knight. Tail gone. Ask. Poof. New tail.
3) This one I'm not so clear of the reference, but I"m pretty sure there's something like it. At the end, Aslan granted those who "were the first to volunteer" a "good" future in the new world. Very, very God-esque somehow. Kinda like, believe be and be the first to volunteer, and you'll have good things. Much like Jesus's followers right till the end.
That's all I can remember off hand. But yeah, that's enough to sour the whole experience for me.
Ooh. One very important event. We celebrated Chin Boon's birthday in true 4F fashion. Hit the LAN, play at it for a few hours then sit down for a meal. Very common way to do it, but I suppose it's who you do it with.
Here's the fucked up part.
We bought a cake for him and sang the song, cut the cake, at the benches outside of PP.
Then there's really crazy, cranky guy (Henceforth known as crankdat) came over, started making weird gestures like touching his forehead, chest (kind of like how Catholics do it) before making a praying gesture. Ookay. He didn't say anything. Just came over and did that.
Then he covered his face and repeated the strange actions again. In a different context, it might have been funny and idiotic. But that was plain freaky. He wanted to take a picture with Chin Boon, and even did some ultraman pose. Fuck. Freaky as hell.
Alright so we smushed cake onto his face (Chin Boon that is.) and crankdat took a picture with him.
Crankdat and Chin Boon, smushed with cake. (I don't upload pictures or videos often. When I do, it's good stuff. Clicky. Srsly.)
Then I brought Chin Boon to the toilet. Silly blighter didn't bring his specs, and everyone assumed he would. So no one took it. And Crankdat did. Rofl. Good fucking game.
We went around looking for the theif, but really, we realized too late and he was gone.
Again, in another context it'd have been funny. But this was freaky and funny, but mostly freaky. Crankdat FTW.
One more bit left to talk about, buuuut tomorrow will do. I'm too sleepy to recall or write. Oh and I haven't started studying. WTF.
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