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Watched it this weekend, and really enjoyed it.
There's been alot of people who complained about Dan Radcliffe's portrayal of Harry in the first two movies, about the "Deer in the Headlights". Personally, I thought that worked well for the first two movies, that's where Harry was (regardless wether it was Dan Radcliffe's good acting, or his inability to act). I've found myself wondering if Dan is capable of potraying the Harry of Book 5, if/when that movie comes around. I no longer have to wonder, Dan did a really good job in this movie. The character of Harry was more angry, and take charge in this film than he is shown to be in the book (PoA), but the fifth book was a bit jarring, how quickly he all of a sudden became so angry, so, for me, this was a much more realistic progression, even though it doesn't happen this quickly in the books.
The cartoon/comic book technicolor imagery from the first two movies is gone, which also rang true for me. Harry was in awe, and a fish out of water in the first two, for this one to have toned that down, is very appropriate, because it showed Harry isn't noticing every little magical thing, he's accustomed to it, it's all still there, but it's in the background, not spotlighted.
The Dementors are chilling, and the Hippogriff is also great.
There were a couple of things missing that I would have liked to see them add another 15 minutes to the movie, in order to have gotten them in
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Not enough Marauders background for the Non readers of the series:
1. Animagus was only mentioned twice I think, and no real explanation was given of what it was, you just kinda had to figure it out.
2. They didn't really go into why the Shrieking Shack was shrieking.
3. No mention of Snape being sent by Sirius to the Shack, and James preventing Snape from being killed by the Werewolf. I thought this was important to the story, as it gives Snape yet another reason to hate James, and therefore Harry (Life debt to James from saving him, and then he goes and gets himself killed before Snape can pay it back)
Had they added this little bit in the course of 15 minutes, the movie would still have only been 2hrs, 36 minutes.
Some changes were made, none of them really bothered me, once such was:
Hogwarts was a bit more battered, to show the years of abuse by underage wizards wild magic (Chris Columbus had it all shiny and new looking). Once again, I see this as a change in Harry, no longer in awe, so he notices the detail.
Hagrid's hut was bigger, but it seemed like Chris Columbus made it too small to begin with.
OK to have street clothes outside of Academia
I am an avid reader of the series, and thought it was the best of the movies so far. My better half is not a reader of the series, but watches all the movies with me, and also thought it was the best so far.
Watched it this weekend, and really enjoyed it.
There's been alot of people who complained about Dan Radcliffe's portrayal of Harry in the first two movies, about the "Deer in the Headlights". Personally, I thought that worked well for the first two movies, that's where Harry was (regardless wether it was Dan Radcliffe's good acting, or his inability to act). I've found myself wondering if Dan is capable of potraying the Harry of Book 5, if/when that movie comes around. I no longer have to wonder, Dan did a really good job in this movie. The character of Harry was more angry, and take charge in this film than he is shown to be in the book (PoA), but the fifth book was a bit jarring, how quickly he all of a sudden became so angry, so, for me, this was a much more realistic progression, even though it doesn't happen this quickly in the books.
The cartoon/comic book technicolor imagery from the first two movies is gone, which also rang true for me. Harry was in awe, and a fish out of water in the first two, for this one to have toned that down, is very appropriate, because it showed Harry isn't noticing every little magical thing, he's accustomed to it, it's all still there, but it's in the background, not spotlighted.
The Dementors are chilling, and the Hippogriff is also great.
There were a couple of things missing that I would have liked to see them add another 15 minutes to the movie, in order to have gotten them in
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
.
.
.
.
.
Not enough Marauders background for the Non readers of the series:
1. Animagus was only mentioned twice I think, and no real explanation was given of what it was, you just kinda had to figure it out.
2. They didn't really go into why the Shrieking Shack was shrieking.
3. No mention of Snape being sent by Sirius to the Shack, and James preventing Snape from being killed by the Werewolf. I thought this was important to the story, as it gives Snape yet another reason to hate James, and therefore Harry (Life debt to James from saving him, and then he goes and gets himself killed before Snape can pay it back)
Had they added this little bit in the course of 15 minutes, the movie would still have only been 2hrs, 36 minutes.
Some changes were made, none of them really bothered me, once such was:
Hogwarts was a bit more battered, to show the years of abuse by underage wizards wild magic (Chris Columbus had it all shiny and new looking). Once again, I see this as a change in Harry, no longer in awe, so he notices the detail.
Hagrid's hut was bigger, but it seemed like Chris Columbus made it too small to begin with.
OK to have street clothes outside of Academia
I am an avid reader of the series, and thought it was the best of the movies so far. My better half is not a reader of the series, but watches all the movies with me, and also thought it was the best so far.
