CaptainM wrote:In a way I don't think of them being individual movies but more of the same one. But my favorite is a tie LWW and PC. I think that PC has a better story
and LWW has a better last battle.
That's because the last army battle in PC is in the way of the film's resolution.
AA Director way is really good at building up momentum & story, for PC's previous run time and through Lw&W, but here it suddenly gets uncharacteristicly lost. I think because PC was a bigger movie, AA just had to much on his plate at the time, as it just doesn't make sense to the rest of story flow.
We've had the army battle mid way through the film, we've had the solo combat, the character arcs have come full circle, now all the story momentum is poised for Lucy to meet Aslan, awaken the trees which is the symbolic moment that the film has been about establishing, & have the trees come into battle to save the Narnians who are overwhelmed, then the Narnian kingdom to be re-established.
If you skip to the next chapter on dvd just after Peter vs Miraz and catapults start slinging, you go directly to Lucy finding Aslan, and the film flow doesn't miss a beat and continues to peak, for an 'amazing' Narnia film
Otherwise you go through the jarring underground tunnel and fopllwing 'rarrgh' battle that dramatically drags in a way film up to that point never did.