I've been looking forward to seeing the latest Disney offering, "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" for quite awhile now.

I was expecting it to have a definite emotional impact upon me ever since the first moment that I saw the trailer in the theatre for the first time that didn't even show us any scenes... more of a teaser really over a year and a half ago. I vividly remember closing my eyes and saying to myself as a well of emotion moved within me, "Please Lord, don't let it suck."

I had faith that it could be done well since Mister Peter Jackson had proved you can present Fantasy Epics with reverence and quality, but we haven't always seen such handling from the Disney company.

Time moved along and we got our first trailer that truly had scenes from the film and of course my first thought, "Oh pretty". But I've been burned by trailers before. Hollywood has people talented in created movie trailers from truly awful trash in order to convince the army of geeks out there to see some truly hideous tripe. Does anyone else remember "Reign of Fire"... Back in the days when all we had was a movie trailer I remember thinking, "There's no way they can screw this up, cool concept and nice graphics and imagery, gotta see it."

And there is no real way to get that hour and a half of my life back.

So I was very guarded when I saw that first Narnia trailer despite the desire to hope almost being overwhelming.

Time moved along again and we were treated with a new trailer made from different scenes. My heart wanted to swell in an almost Seussian manner. Surely alternate trailers mean that they didn't have to let the hollywood prestidigitators have their way with it in order to justify their time and effort to make the movie.

So I was at a suprise party on tuesday night for one of my gaming friends... Her boyfriend had gotten everyone to show up at her parents and to lie in wait. All of us, including her boyfriend didn't expect the suprise to be very successful... But we were very wrong, *grin* she managed to be very suprised by the sudden appearance of a burning cake and a gaggle of geeks trying to sing birthday greetings. As it would happen when you have that many geeks together we would definitely end up talking about looking forward to seeing the Narnia movie.

To make a long story short I purchased tickets online for the entire group who wanted to go while we were sitting there (after begging permission from the Father to borrow his computer briefly).

Fast Forward to last night... Occasionally sitting on the edge of my seat as if I could absorb the experience more by being eighteen inches closer to the screen. I was "getting misty" within the first ten minutes.

It was a movie that I knew going into it that the experience was going to play upon my emotional strings as if I was a harpsichord. I was going to have a strong reaction of some type even if it had of been (and thankfully wasn't) overwhelming anger at how the material had been treated.


Let me come to a summation rather then to spin into tangents that are better saved for another time:

There is no valid reason not to see this movie in the theatre.

Go!

Go now!

Any excuses can be overturned easily.

Why are you still here?