{"id":9822,"date":"2006-01-10T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/10\/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T23:00:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T20:00:59","slug":"the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/10\/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0363771 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0363771.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)\" \/>I was thinking if I should or shouldn&#8217;t spend the rare chance of going to the cinema by watching &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0363771\">The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/a>&#8220;.  I haven&#8217;t heard anything about this film before, except for a trailer that I saw once and didn&#8217;t particularly make anything of it.  The rating on IMDB seemed high.  So I decided to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Andrew Adamson<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Kiran Shah, James Cosmo, Judy McIntosh, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Patrick Kake, Shane Rangi, Brandon Cook, Cassie Cook<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 7.3<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 7.0 [rate 7.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t disappointed.  It wasn&#8217;t breathtaking or anything, but it was a nice movie.  It is a fairy tale with somewhat classical British favor &#8211; from castles, knights, and a magic world outside of the real one (connected via a well hidden gate) to character accents and tea traditions.<\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of special effects.  Some were very good, others needed extra work.  There was a nice story behind the film.  There was somewhat good casting.<\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate a faster pace and\/or more action.   As it is, the film was a little boring and dry.  There was a feeling that something great is going to happen, but it didn&#8217;t.  There was only one battle at the end and it wasn&#8217;t all I hoped it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I enjoyed the film more than I expected I would.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I was thinking if I should or shouldn&#8217;t spend the rare chance of going to the cinema by watching &#8220;The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe&#8220;. I haven&#8217;t heard anything about this film before, except for a trailer that I saw once and didn&#8217;t particularly make anything of it. The rating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/10\/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[1944,144],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-andrew-adamson","tag-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8954,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/09\/gremlins\/","url_meta":{"origin":9822,"position":0},"title":"Gremlins","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 9, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This old classic called \"Gremlins\" was on TV, Maxim was sleeping, I had nothing better to do, so I watched it. 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