Wow...

[NotATameLion]

I was looking through an old file cabinet in my room the other day, and I found an old "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" VHS tape. I had forgotten about this tape that I had bought a long time ago at a yard sale. I watched it through today, then got on here to find out more about. It turns out that it was this BBC version that I've read about on here! I was so surprised. =)

I wasn't too impressed with the video, compared with the new version. But I guess it was okay for..when was it made? 1988? Anyway...my dad thought the beavers looked hilarious. I thought that the kids' ages were terrible! They all looked the same age. Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that I found this tape that I forgot I even had.

[♣Teh Deviant♣]

That's lucky! I wish I could somehow find that movie.......without having to do much effort except reach into a cabinet. :D
What was wrong with the Beavers?? Were...they *gasps*STUFFIES!?!?? :eek:

Sofia

[~Grateful * Surrender~]

The BBC casting did dort of suck but Ed and Peter were ok. the beavers were great! I have a soft spot for the BBC production becouse in the LWW play that my church did my mom was Mr. Beaver and I was(of all people) Lucy. I was 17 at the time.

[rosymole]

Yay, another convert to the Beebs valiant attempt at recreating the LWW. I still love it, beavers like giant bowling pins and cartoon animals dragged across the screen on bits of string..oh the joys of mid-1980's technology!

[NotATameLion]

I also thought the mythical creatures were hilarious. I was wondering how they would show them, but I wasn't imagined them as drawings!

And the battle was tiny, compared with the one in the new movie.

[lions mane]

yah it's not that great.
sorry to all the bbc fans, but if u look i have a thread on this and some people got a little mad, but i just said what i beleived and stil beleive.

and the beavers were probably the worst part of the movie, oh i cant froget the great (sarcasim) scene where jadis hits ed.! wow!

[rosymole]

But then Lions Mane you might be viewing the story from a modern day view.
In the mid 1980's when some of us first saw this it was the bee's knees. Seriously the best thing you had ever seen in your life!
Technology was pretty bad at that time (Star Wars may have been done but that had a budget bigger than was imagineable!). and so we wathed the BBC CoN in wonder and loved every flippin minute!

[sfreak]

the movie was so cheesy. my moms ancient friend thot it was good.lol(shes 50

[lions mane]

the movie was so cheesy. my moms ancient friend thot it was good.lol(shes 50
taht's kinda mean, cause my mum is almost there. :o

[sarahnarnia1983]

But then Lions Mane you might be viewing the story from a modern day view.
In the mid 1980's when some of us first saw this it was the bee's knees. Seriously the best thing you had ever seen in your life!
Technology was pretty bad at that time (Star Wars may have been done but that had a budget bigger than was imagineable!). and so we wathed the BBC CoN in wonder and loved every flippin minute!

i agree with you. i was 5 when i 1st saw in the 1980s and i think it was great.

[LadyEm]

It really is a lovely movie - for the eighties of course. Everyone who laughs at it has to remember that in those days, when some of us were children of the 80's, it WAS the best thing available. It was the closest thing that could be done technology wise - and despite the puppets, it captured the SPIRIT of Narnia.

I loved it then, I love it now. The music makes me cry. But with today's technology, especially after seeing the new movie, you have to look further than these props that make you cringe. Watch it again and take in the spirit of the movie, Narnia and Aslan.

It is a tribute to an era of Narnia lovers who had not yet seen Narnia in such a way on screen! When I was about 11-12 we rented them on video from the library. They had been out for a couple of years, but we were living in this small northern town in B.C., Canada.

In the winter, it was a true Narnian winter - so white and snowy - and it felt like "Always winter and Never Christmas." We'd rent them over and over and be wild with delight over them, because they captured our hearts, minds and imagination.

[sarahnarnia1983]

It really is a lovely movie - for the eighties of course. Everyone who laughs at it has to remember that in those days, when some of us were children of the 80's, it WAS the best thing available. It was the closest thing that could be done technology wise - and despite the puppets, it captured the SPIRIT of Narnia.

I loved it then, I love it now. The music makes me cry. But with today's technology, especially after seeing the new movie, you have to look further than these props that make you cringe. Watch it again and take in the spirit of the movie, Narnia and Aslan.

It is a tribute to an era of Narnia lovers who had not yet seen Narnia in such a way on screen! When I was about 11-12 we rented them on video from the library. They had been out for a couple of years, but we were living in this small northern town in B.C., Canada.

In the winter, it was a true Narnian winter - so white and snowy - and it felt like "Always winter and Never Christmas." We'd rent them over and over and be wild with delight over them, because they captured our hearts, minds and imagination.

i agree with you i love them then and i love them now.

[the Large Voice]

I have the BBC LWW, PC, VOtDT and SC that my Mom taped off the tv when it was aired on PBS years ago. I used to watch them every year.:) The thing I loved most about the BBC version was the theme song...I would always get it stuck in my head for days! haha:D Even though Aslan was a puppet in those movies, I loved his voice. The one thing about the BBC version that I liked better than the Walden was that the BBC had line-by-line dialogue from the books...that's the one thing I kind of missed in the new movie. :rolleyes: :o

-Julianna