Coolest Narnia (the movie) moment?

[John Q. Mayhem]

But I also really enjoyed when the White Witch arrived for the battle in her chariot drawn by polar bears, and her dual sword technique - I'm going to have to remember that scissor-like move she kept making.

If you're talking about when she blocks Peter's sword with her swords crossed above her head...please don't It really, really doesn't work. Might've worked for her because she's mucho strong and Peter was a kid, but for normal people...the leverage is wrong, it's almost impossible to block like that. I've got the lumps to prove it.

I must be the only one that thought the witch with two swords looked...well, like an actress who had only one fight scene and not enough training. It didn't convince me. Her with the wand and sword was great, though! And the movie in general was really cool.

I think my "Wow, that's cool!" moment was when the armies were charging together and it gets all quiet...and then the cats charge ahead and the sound comes back as one slams into one of the witch's tigers and they hit the ground fighting.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Yup...Cheetahs. I digs me some cheetahs.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Ambrus
From their slim frames and facial stripes I believe they were cheetahs actually. I took their racing ahead of the main force as a nod to the fact that cheetahs were simply the fastest land animals on the field. When I saw that scene I just nodded happily at the realism of it.

I just said leopards cause that was the quote from the previous person. Honestly, all I can remember is that they're big cats and cool looking.

 

[Storm Raven]

I just said leopards cause that was the quote from the previous person. Honestly, all I can remember is that they're big cats and cool looking.

If they were cheetahs, there wouldn't have been much of a slam when they hit the tigers - cheetahs are very small compared to the truly big cats.

 

[The Serge]

There were two sets of big cats on the side of the lion during the charge if one can distinguish between them.

There were cheetahs (which pulled out ahead during the charge. You can tell they're cheetahs because of the way their spines bend as they sprint out). I think there were at least two. Furthermore, when the White Witch meets with Aslan regarding Edmund's fate, a cheetah stands pretty close to the children.

There were leopards too (I don't think they were jaguars, which are stockier, have proportionately large heads, and I think have filled rosettes... i.e., spots in in the center of their spot clusters). Leopards are hardier than cheetahs and, although a tiger would rip a leopard to shreds unless the leopard run off and took to a tree, it would last longer against a tiger than a cheetah.

I honestly don't recall if it was a leopard that plowed into the tiger or a cheetah. If it was the first cat to contact with an enemy, it was a cheetah. If not, it was the leopard.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Leopards, cheetahs, whatever. They're still talking animals so the real zoology tends to matter a bit less. Actually, I was originally even going to state "leopard/cheetah" in my post to cover all the bases, but I kinda thought that if they WERE cheetahs, then as noted they'd be poor candidates to take the lead in a charge to anywhere but to the nearest group of inattentive herbivores like gazelles - or maybe a zebra if they ate their Wheaties for breakfast.

 

[Krafus]

The White Witch in battle for me also. Her fight choreography looked very convincing to me - I found myself thinking "Okay, she's a tyrannical bitch, but she can fight!" Pity she seemed to lose her skill when Aslan showed up.

 

[John Crichton]

The White Witch in battle for me also. Her fight choreography looked very convincing to me - I found myself thinking "Okay, she's a tyrannical bitch, but she can fight!" Pity she seemed to lose her skill when Aslan showed up.

I think it was less of losing skill and more along the lines of "Holy crap, a huge talking lion that I thought I just sacrificed just jumped on me and mauled my upper half!"

 

[Digital M@]

I also loved the witch battle scenes. I was a bit disappointed in her character before the battle scenes, but once she was angered she became the fury of hard edged evil I envisioned. Every thing about her was as hard and sharp as steel during the fighting scenes. IMO, it was breath taking.


Worst scene. The breaking of the waterfall and riding the ice chunk down the river. It is not that the scene was horrible, but it is more fit for a movie like the Goonies than for Narnia. The mate I saw it with loved the scene, but he obviously has bad taste.

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by John Crichton
I think it was less of losing skill and more along the lines of "Holy crap, a huge talking lion that I thought I just sacrificed just jumped on me and mauled my upper half!"

I'd love to hear someone exclaim that WHILE they're actually being mauled by a lion.