Originally posted by: Mike O

Ooooh, I've always liked the animated one. Very hard to find. I've watched it maybe 4 times total my entire life. At this point I don't have or know exactly where to find a copy, but would be interested in finding one not too far down the road.

I came out on DVD recently to coincide with the Andrew Adamson/Mark Johnson picture.

I'll have to check out the BBC versions!! The movie was BRILLANT!!!! (for a movie that is)

Sure they do not tell the exact same story of the book; the director and the screenwriters filmed what was possible to flesh out (or animate) what they could but the honest truth is the books take place in our heads not on a tiny screen (a movie theater is still minuscule compared to our theater of the mind!), movies will NEVER replace books or their (the books) stories as we conceive them in our imaginations and I do not believe that any filmmaker can really create any film version of a book that will be exact but hey, I’d rather read the books then be criticizing the filmmakers interpretation of a very cerebral series of books.

(going to the library....)