The Chronicles of Narnia and X-men 3

I'm feeling rather exhausted these couple of days, hence the lack of blogging related activities. But last I checked, I got both Tomorrow-ed and Miyagi-ed, though the latter quoted me as The Rogue Slayer, when I was actually posting through Mr Moron, not that it actually matters. I think my whole Jekyll and Hyde thing isn't really working anymore, since I'm pretty much being myself when I'm blogging these days. And anyhow, this blog doesn't show the name of the person posting, so I guess it's hard to check the blogger putting up the post.

So thank you all readers for boosting up my rather pathetic readership to a slightly more decent but nonetheless still pathetic figure. Haha! Then again, I'm not complaning! Baby steps!

I'm going to post something about Lee Kuan Yew's interview with Time magazine sometime soon, but I'll leave you with the uber uber cool facts about The Chronicles of Narnia today:

1. The most important thing to know: author C.S. Lewis was a famous atheist-turned-Christian, and "The Chronicles of Narnia" - particularly the best-known "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" - are widely considered an allegory portraying themes of God, crucifixion and resurrection.

2. There's a reason you'd want to keep your "Narnia" books on the shelf next to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were pals and met regularly at a British pub as part of a writers group that spawned both classics.

3. The seven "Narnia" books were originally released in nonchronological order, with the book depicting the creation of Narnia, "The Magician's Nephew," coming in as Book 6. The series was later re-released in chronological order, but diehard fans say it's not the best way to read them.

4. If the movie is a hit, there likely will be a collective clambering to take the six other books onto the silver screen; still, there are some who believe that won't happen because of descriptions of a neighboring country to Narnia in the book, "The Horse and His Boy," that some consider to be anti-Arab.

5. Skandar Keynes, the boy who plays Edmund, auditioned for the possibly career-making role without his parents' permission. They'd left on a trip to Japan, leaving Keynes in the care of his grandfather and with explicit instructions for him not to audition for any roles while they were gone. However, the casting director conspired with Keynes and the head of Keynes' school to coax Grandpa into agreeing to the tryout. We'll assume the young actor wasn't grounded.

6. The film was shot chronologically for many reasons, not the least of which was that it starred four growing kids. During filming, William Moseley (Peter) grew about 3 inches, Anna Popplewell (Susan) grew half an inch, Keynes skyrocketed 5 1/ 2 inches (plus a voice change), and Georgie Henley (Lucy) grew four inches.

7. The wardrobe used in the movie was specially carved with elements of the Narnia mythology as played out in the book "The Magician's Nephew," including references to The Wood Between the Worlds, Fledge the winged horse and the first sunrise.

[via Narnia Fans]

And now, even more juicy than that, teasers for X men 3!!

Watch the trailer here.

It is so good, you're gonna faint from joy after watching it. And you're gonna pee in your pants while waiting for the trailer to load up in your browser.

Some fast facts:

1) Halle Berry's back as Storm! And with a new uber cool hairdo to boot.

2) New Mutant on the block -- The Beast. He's a friendly big burly blue mutant scientist. A good mutant.

3) Famke Jannsen. Her Royal Hotness is back!

4) besides the beast, there're a few other new mutants too. For example, Juggernaut, the evil mutant will be in the coming movie, although he looks nothing like the cartoon version.

I'm already salivating now in excitement!