I'm 35yo and I want to see Narnia. Am I a bad person?

Seriously, I want to see this movie but I feel like it’s a movie targeted for kids.

I feel weird man.

Someone please tell me I’m not alone. :smiley:

10 billion adults line up at midnight to buy the new Harry Potter and you’re worried? 35 is the new 10 :smiley: .

You can’t go by me 'cause I never grew up, but my SO, who’s a full fledged adult who wears ties to work and talks about speadsheets and mergers and things is looking forward to it. Thinks it might almost be as good as Wallace and Gromit.

Well, secretly I want to see it to. I am in my late 20s. I figure it can’t be any worse than many of my friends that went to see Harry Potter on the opening night and went to work late the next morning. I think that’s wierd.

I’m 25 and I felt a bit silly going the other night; it was a late show, though, and the theater was packed with people more or less my age – who knew. So go – enjoy it.

I wouldn’t feel silly for going to se Narnia. I think it’s pretty much expected to have some across-the-board appeal.

I, however, felt silly going to see Chicken Little. Alone. At the matinee. If I’d been male, I think the mothers would have called the cops on me, judging by the weird way in which they were looking at me.

Hey, I’ve seen Wallace and Gromit, all the Star Wars prequels, and most of the Harry Potter and Pixar animation movies in the theater. No interest in Narnia myself, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. One of my favorite movies in 2004 was Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, which looked like a kiddie movie on the surface, but was really dark, subversive, and fun.

I’m 35, and I saw it last night.

I thought it had its flaws, but when Lucy first passed through the wardrobe into Narnia, I wept. And then laughed, because I’d never before fully grasped the absurdity of a lamppost in a forest. I waited 28 years to see that play out on screen, having first read TLTWATW when I was seven. In light of that, I’d say this is a movie for adults.

I hope I’m not out of line, saying this in the Cafe, but I can’t believe you’re even asking this. :slight_smile:

If you think it’s weird to see a kids movie, you should wake up. Children’s movies, books, and even cartoon shows, are still huge with adults who grew up with similar kinds of things when they were that age, and I think this will always be so.

That’s why God invented kids. So adults could sneak in and do all the kids stuff and pretend they only do it because of the kids. If you don’t have any of your own, I’m sure you can rent some in the nearest rent-a-kid outlet.

Ya’ Know, I couldn’t have said it better myself. This is the EXACT same logic I use when I take my kids to go see any Pixar movie.

I’m 28 and you couldn’t keep me out with a big stick.

Lots of adults will go see this movie. It is a sign of maturity when you can read a book or watch a movie without worrying about what people will think of you for being interested.

My adult friend and I went on opening night. There were lots of kids there, but there were also lots of people without kids there. These books have been loved by generations of people, all of whom will want to see the movie.

I’m 53, and I go to every Disney, Pixar, Potter and Aardman that comes out - either with Mr. singular or alone, if we’re apart. I love comedies, I love great stories, and as an artist and illustrator, I love the gorgeous artwork and long to do it myself. I see more “childrens” movies in the theater than “adult” - and I’m never the only childless adult in the place.
Go, get popcorn, enjoy the big screen - and do midweek matinees, if you can - lots less children at the theater then! :cool:

The looks I got walking into The Powerpuff Girls Movie were just as entertaining as the movie. I should’ve given away candy for effect.

I’m 45 and the only reason I haven’t seen it yet is because I’m waiting for my son to come home on leave for Christmas so we can see it together.

Narnia is partly a kid’s movie, but mostly a movie for peole who loved the books (many of whom are no longer children).

I don’t need kids to do it! I’m 30, and I’m going to see it tomorrow night. I do kid things all the time.

A few years ago, our group at work was having a little Christmas party-type thing, where we went to lunch and a movie on the company’s dime (that was about all the budget alloted, but that was fine). The three women in the group (including me) voted for…Toy Story 2, which was out then.

The men groaned, because, you know, “it’s a kid’s movie.” (If you’ve seen the movie, you know how silly this idea was.) When we finished it, everyone loved it, and my boss was so surprised how good it was that he thought he might even watch the first one.

Go. Have fun. My husband and I watch a lot of “kids” movies in the theater.

C.S. Lewis himself said “Any children’s book not worth reading as an adult is not worth reading as a child either.” I think that would apply to movies just as well.

BTW I’m 36 and saw it on Dec. 8 in a theater packed with adults (and some kids), most of whom were older than me.

I’m 39 and saw in Sunday. I enjoyed it. Of course I had the wonderful excuse that I brought my 8 year old daughter to see it.

Pre-Kids and in fact as 25 year old newlywed my wife and I went to see Aladdin. We both really enjoyed it.
I wouldn’t worry about being to old to see it.
It is based on classic and I saw plenty of just adults at the movie. Go and Enjoy.

Jim

Trust you to get there first with the C.S. Lewis quote that the OP made me think of!

I (age 42) and my galpal (age 24) were surrounded by many adults & few kids when we saw it this past Sunday night.

And when I saw CHICKEN LITTLE with my 67 y/o Mom three weeks ago, we had the same audience mix. Heck, who expected essentially a War Of the Worlds parody?!?