Part 11b: 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Film Commentary (Final Scene)

[BigTributes100]

To be honest my favorite part of the whole film was the ending credits. Not because the movie was over but because I liked the ending song, There's a Place for Us by Carrie Underwood, and I liked the Pauline Baynes artwork. I think her artwork and the song really went great together. Even though it's been over a year since this movie was released I still have an empty hole in my heart created by Fox and Walden's poor attempts to adapt the book into a movie.

[Animegrl421]

Is it just me, or is the third movie made of a series usually the worst of them all? Look at Harry Potter, for instance, they butchered The Prisoner of Azkaban, and took away what made the world different and enchanting. Even the costumes suffered!

I can only hope all of the people who had a say in the making of this movie are fired. Most importantly, the director who should have just stayed in documentaries, where everything should be told to the audience.

[BigTributes100]

@Animegrl421

I actually liked the the film adaptation of Prisoner of Azkaban and it remains to be my 4th favorite HP film. But hey that's just my opinion.

[MaxRideJ]

Aww further up and further in :')

[josegui]

you're a tool



[harrypotterinnarnia]

i thought fox would do good, because other films of theirs are good, but i was mad at vdt. good film...if it wasnt based on a book. when it came up with saying based on the book by cs lewis, i said "you can hardly say based"

[xCaveCanemx]

I was talking to my wife as we walked out of the theatre. I told her I was on the edge of my seat through the whole movie because I didn't know what was going to happen. That was the problem for me, it broke away from the book and the key themes, as you say, so much that it's really not "Voyage of the Dawn Treader." I thought it was a good movie, but NOT a good adaptation of the book.

[RavingNarniac]

I agree that VoDT could have been done much more better with more heart and depth, but I feel like it's the director's changing that caused it all to happen. We all know that Andrew Andamson really cared for these books and really worked with the story to be right. But since Adamson left, I feel like about 80% of the blame fall on him. Apted walked in two movies in and it seemed like when he did so, the news started to turn sour. It's almost like Peter Jackson leaving LoTR in the third movie.

[MrBagginsEsq]

The Begining was nice, and the ending was nice. Unfortunatly the middle was horrible.

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[MinotaurforAslan]

Quite a shame after all these years of anticipating the Dawn Treader (from even before PC's release) that the most enjoyment we can get out of the movie is to make fun of it. :/

[swordebrithil12]

The ending scene and the credits to me felt like "have hope". This movie was pretty messed up. But that doesn't mean they'll screw up The Magician's Nephew or the rest of the series.

[drfeezell]

@swordebrithil12 Upon what are you basing this hope? Are they completely changing screenwriters and getting a new director? Has anyone in the production said that they feel they should stay closer to the books in the future? I have heard nothing remotely close to contrition; hence, I expect no change of behavior. That said, Magician's Nephew is harder to mess up, since it is closer to their narrow interpretation of a "good" movie plot.

[swordebrithil12]

@drfeezell I really hate the change from Andrew to Michael and Disney to Fox. It would be amazing if they switched back because Andrew actually looked like he understood what he was doing which was why he cut out one of the stupid Suspian scenes from Prince Caspian. Michael just looks like Narnia isn't even worth his time. He acts like Susan did at the end of the series by not believing. But that's just what I think I don't want to blame him falsely.

[MazzaCxx]

the minuit i heard the jill pole reference the first thing i thought was ''but at the begining jill hates eustace!'' tbh thats not entirely true but she deffinatly isnt friends with him because, part of it is eustaces journey i mean he was horrible before but since his time in narnia he has changed. i also agree about the whole thing with trust. i was just kind of confused by the whole movie tbh :/ half of it was total nonsense and totally untrue to the books!!!!

[jedimasterkt29]

@MazzaCxx Now The Silver Chair isn't going to make sense! Eustace has to wait a whilee until they bonded to tell Jill about Narnia, but if they were friends already, he would randomly tell her about Narnia at a random time

[renegade4christ]

I really don't know what I think of the Jill reference. At first I liked it, but like you said, it sets Silver Chair up with a bad flavor, before it's even being worked on. I sincerely hope that IF they make another Narnia (which I'm 50/50 on right now, I really don't know if they should) they get it right!

[digifreak10101]

I think one of the biggest problems has to be the screenwriters. Whoever came up with all that cheesy dialogue should never be allowed to work on a Narnia movie.

[aniretak92]

Also: "This movie has nothing to do with C.S. Lewis's book. I wish it did not have his name on it, I wish...this movie is nowhere NEAR worthy of the title ' Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' "

My face when I heard you say that: O_O

That is exactly what I've been saying since I saw it. I finally posted the video of our reaction yesterday, and it includes the text "Notice how I refuse to give it the honor of being called ' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' ?"

I call it Dawn Treader. Or DT. That's all.

[aniretak92]

"I don't like the implication that C.S. Lewis or Narnia has anything to do with this movie."

Neither do I. I watched it with my sister, and we groaned and grumbled and flailed our way through it. The best part by FAR (for us at least) was the credits--not because they were the end of the movie, but because they were NARNIA.

[HyruleWeirdo]

Yeah, it annoyed me immensely when "Alberta" said that Jill had come to Eustace's...

[RTILAMYWT]

The end made me forget about the rest of the movie. Personally I blame it on fox. Walden and Disney made their movies good yea a few flaws but I mean its a movie that's okay. Walden and fox made a movie that was unnacceptable. I do think it's funny that it got better at the end of the move as if apted learned how to make a movie. Also why would they do magicians nephew if they have so far gone with publication order why would they mess it up now????

[GPuddle]

@RTILAMYWT: Money of course. A "LWW prequel" would be easier to market than a "VDT sequel."

[Elyk91388]

I know you are not the biggest HP fan, BUT the film series has a nice consistency of staying true to the books. It helps that it has one screenwriter for the whole series (minus OOTP). If they continue with this film series, the producers should see how Warner Bros. adapted the HP books because they got it right. The dialogue, the themes, and the characters are all consistent with the books.

[drfeezell]

@Elyk91388 J.K. Rowling is still alive. If some screenwriter dared to think they could write better than an author like her that has sold 100000000 books, they would be slapped with a lawsuit so fast they wouldn't know what hit them. Lewis is dead, and Gresham sold his rights to a final say-so away years ago. If it weren't so, he wouldn't have allowed the Suspian kiss, which he himself called, "Nonsense." So Dawn Treader gets trampled with lines like, "play second fiddle," and "PURE EEEEEVIL."

[Carnage6X]

I'm no special effect whiz but the water receding scene might not be all CGI. It could have been shot then played back in reverse

[GPuddle]

@Carnage6X: Hmmm, interesting theory.