It is always difficult for Hollywood to adopt a book into a movie. If you make too many changes to the story line, then fans of the book will howl in protest. On the other hand, it is difficult to take 500 page novels and adapt them to run within a 2 hour, self imposed time limit. Fortunately, C. S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a short 215 pages. It shouldn’t be too hard to make into a movie without too many changes, right? Apparently not. James Sanford reviews the movie Dawn Treader and says that the movie is enjoyable. However, he also cautions that it is better to see the movie in 2-D as the 3-D effects are poorly done.
And now a quick word of warning: If you have an opportunity to see “Dawn Treader” in old-fashioned 2D, do so. The 3D effects are erratic at best, and the occasional impressive moments are far outweighed by shots that are disorienting (at one point, the crew is shown sleeping on a beach and their bodies seem to be hovering above the sand) or downright sloppy. While “Dawn Treader” looks somewhat better than “Clash of the Titans” and “The Last Airbender,” like those films it gets murky in its darker scenes and distracting double-imagery sometimes pops up to disrupt action sequences. Aslan would surely advise saving a couple of dollars and saving yourself a potential eye ache.
via Sailing seas of ‘Narnia’ is enjoyable enough, but watching ‘Dawn Treader’ in 3D is not @ MLive.com
For the past year my local movie theater has proclaimed that they show movies on in 2-D. It has been kind of a sad stunt on their part since they did not upgrade to 3-D for Avatar. They finally caved in with the release of Dawn Treader. If you leave out the “green mist” addition to the storyline (which made no sense whatsoever), then the movie was enjoyable. The 3-D effects were fine, unlike what James Sanford said in his piece, with the exception of mist. Whenever it was cold and someone breathed mist out of their mouth, the 3-D effect was bad. Which leads me to wonder, how do you do fog in a 3-D movie?