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In Reply to: Just saw harry Potter posted by Analog Scott on June 6, 2004 at 08:27:11:
and let me preface my comments by stating that I've never read the books.I saw it Friday and didn't read anything about it until I got home with Friday's W/E section and the review by Miami's film critic Rene Rodriguez.
First off, when compared to the first two, it's a shorter movie. Secondly, it's filmed during the cold winter months and hence it is a darker, less cheery movie from a visual POV. Finally, some of the plot twists were a bit confusing for me, just keeping track of who was who. I did notice, that the second quarter seemed to drag a bit too, but then it sped up.
All in all, I thought on the way home, 3 out of 4.
When I did get home, I read the review that explained the new director, the book and the fact that this wasn't visually/energetically as entertaining as the first two. RR went on to imply that the HP book series is short on plot twists, but deep on characterizations, much like Anne Rice's IWAV...that is to say one gets five pages describing the dress of a particular character at a particular moment in the story. So...even dispensing with some of the major set pieces of the first two films, this guy just couldn't cram all of the stuff that you seem to miss, into this film. He had carte blanche to get to the meat and bones.
RR mentioned that this new director didn't have to go and replay the cribbich matches in their entirety because we've already seen them in toto once before. This left room to address other things and to even shorten the movie somewhat, but at the sake of familiarity.
Anyhow, I take it for what it is and it was different from the first two. If people have seen the first two then they'll obviously have to see this one, making up their own minds.
The one thing that I thought strange, was seeing how the three main characters have physically matured as they have gotten older over the past three or four years. I also thought that I saw the lightning bolt on Harry's forehead switch locations from one scene to the next. I could have sworn that it was on the left side in the train car, but for the rest of the movie it's on his right. I guess that I'll just have to wait for the DVD to hit the stores?
Chris
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- I disagree... - Chris Garrett 08:37:57 06/07/04 (1)
- Re: I disagree... - Analog Scott 12:36:49 06/07/04 (0)
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