The Harry Potter movie

[CherryPop22]

I'm curious, have you read the books? Or are you basing this on the movies alone?

I have read all of the books so far so i am basing this opinion on both the books and the movies. I believe in the next book Harry gets a crush does he not?

 

[Krinaia]

I have read all of the books so far so i am basing this opinion on both the books and the movies. I believe in the next book Harry gets a crush does he not?

My prediction: Ginny WEasley and Harry HOOK IT UP!

 

[lorddragonwolf]

My prediction: Ginny WEasley and Harry HOOK IT UP!

ginny and neville is my guess. either harry and cho or the new character she added in book 5.

 

[Krinaia]

ginny and neville is my guess. either harry and cho or the new character she added in book 5.

where on earth do you get that guess?

 

[Etoile]

This is easy. Harry and Cho. I don't see Harry and Ginny hooking up at all. And I don't think poor Neville will ever have a sex life!

 

[Krinaia]

This is easy. Harry and Cho. I don't see Harry and Ginny hooking up at all. And I don't think poor Neville will ever have a sex life!

BUT WAIT!!! What about all the blushing - Ginny obviously has that infamous crush on older brother's friend thing going on if you ask me. It's obvious. And this brings about an interesting twist - because guy law usually dictates that you can't fuck the younger sister as many of you men may well atest to.

And I resent that remark about Neville. I'm just like him and I get laid. Not lately but it has happened before.

 

[lorddragonwolf]

where on earth do you get that guess?

just the way ginny acted towards neville in book 4. also the way neville stood up for himself and helped protect ginny in book 5.

 

[Krinaia]

just the way ginny acted towards neville in book 4. also the way neville stood up for himself and helped protect ginny in book 5.

hmmm... i totally missed that.

 

[lorddragonwolf]

hmmm... i totally missed that.

a great thing finally seeing neville truelly excelling in magic.

 

[serijules]

I'm a bit late, haven't been posting/reading lately, but ah well.

I'm a big potter fan, but I have to admit it annoys the fuck out of me when directors take something like this and try to make it "their own". This recent director completely changed the layout of the school, which I thought was ridiculous and interupts the connection and flow of the movies. Plot changes I can understand...you can't fit everything in, and some things just don't translate to screen as well as words and some things need to be added to give the effect desired, but changing something as drastic as the layout of the school really threw me off.

Some additions that I thought were great and really captured the reality of life at a boarding school and the forming of friendships and whatnot was the little scene in the beginning where the boys were fooling around with some sort of tricks in their room, hanging and laughing and having a good time. That just really captured something I think the book hasn't managed to capture yet...that outside of adventure, sometimes there is just plain life too, and having a good time without it somehow relating to some drama.

The kids are definately getting a lot better at acting, which is great.

Overall, I thought it was wonderful, can't wait to see it CAPTIONED so I can actually understand it, so right now my only judgement is purely visual. There is yet another director for the 4th one, which I think is unfortunate, I don't think all these different styles do much for the films, but I will love it no matter what just because its potter, LOL.

 

[Krinaia]

a great thing finally seeing neville truelly excelling in magic.

yah I liked that too.

 

[Etoile]

can't wait to see it CAPTIONED so I can actually understand it, so right now my only judgement is purely visual.

Have you checked Insight Cinema? It might still be playing with open captions near you:
http://www.insightcinema.org/films_harrypotter3.html

There is yet another director for the 4th one, which I think is unfortunate, I don't think all these different styles do much for the films, but I will love it no matter what just because its potter, LOL.

According to IMDb, the director for movie #4 is Mike Newell. He also directed Mona Lisa Smile, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and quite a lot of other stuff.

 

[serijules]

Have you checked Insight Cinema? It might still be playing with open captions near you:
http://www.insightcinema.org/films_harrypotter3.html

I live in Hell, as in Hell Freezes Over, also known as North Dakota. We don't have convienient things here, hmph....LOL.

I'm going to be in PA in a month, hoping to find a captioned theatre there thats still playing it, but I doubt it

 

[Etoile]

I live in Hell, as in Hell Freezes Over, also known as North Dakota. We don't have convienient things here, hmph....LOL.

I'm going to be in PA in a month, hoping to find a captioned theatre there thats still playing it, but I doubt it

Oh dear, I'm sorry about that! For some reason I thought you were in Seattle. Have you ever been in the pacific northwest?

 

[lorddragonwolf]

real question is ill the kids play in all of them.

 

[Etoile]

real question is ill the kids play in all of them.

I certainly don't see why they wouldn't. I've heard talk about different actors being used, but it doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't they keep the same kids? They're doing movies at the same rate as the books are being released, and even if they skip a year then the kid will still only be one year older. It would work.

 

[serijules]

I certainly don't see why they wouldn't. I've heard talk about different actors being used, but it doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't they keep the same kids? They're doing movies at the same rate as the books are being released, and even if they skip a year then the kid will still only be one year older. It would work.

Oh they won't PURPOSELY change the kids, but there is no guarentee the kids will remain through all 7 movies, for many reasons, including the fact that books 6 and 7 may not be released for many many years yet, and by that time the kids may be too old or completely uninterested in the parts. Not to mention that they tend to film these things back to back...at some point, some of the kids are going to simply want to live their lives, I've heard them all say that in various interviews, that they won't commit beyound the 4th movie because they don't yet know what they want to do with their lives. Attending college, etc, getting back to "normal" for awhile would be very appealing. Some have said they don't want to be known as their characters their entire careers, so many not committ to the whole series. I actually highly doubt that most of the kids will remain through all 7, if all 7 are indeed made into movies.

 

[Etoile]

Well, hopefully they'll pull off a switch as smoothly as they did with Dumbledore after Richard Harris died. Michael Gambon did very well, I thought it was a rather seamless transition. (Then again, I didn't rewatch the first two before going to see the third, so perhaps it was more jarring if you'd just seen Harris.) But if they manage to get good replacements for the kids, that would go well too.

I wonder if we can engage in any predicting...what red headed preteen actors are running around now that could play Ron in a couple of years?

 

[serijules]

I wonder about that too, I think they did the transfer of dumbledore very well too, of course you noticed the differences, but they were not jarring or "no that isn't RIGHT!". I did notice that the new Dumbledore talked much faster than the old, he seemed "younger", which I found a bit annoying, I kept wanting to tell him to stop talking so fast, even though he wasn't talking fast in general, just in comparison to the previous actor.

I think that in book 6-7, replacing the actors would not be as annoying and hard to get past as they would be now, since it's feasible that a person changes in looks rather drastically from age 12-13 to 17-18.

 

[Etoile]

It was definitely not a Darrin Stevens!

 

[FungiUg]

I'm a big potter fan, but I have to admit it annoys the fuck out of me when directors take something like this and try to make it "their own". This recent director completely changed the layout of the school, which I thought was ridiculous and interupts the connection and flow of the movies.

Actually, I didn't object to the changes in the school. Largely because I thought it was kinda cool to see a different interpretation of the books. But also because it made the changes in some of the characters easy to swallow. If there had been just the one change, it would have really stood out. But because there were a bunch of changes, it just helped make it all part of the new whole.

 

[ShyGuy68]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will be released on VHS and DVD in Denmark tomorrow, so I know what I'll be doing part of the day! I don't have time to watch the movie, but I'll definately be watching some of the extras on the DVD

 

[caela]

i loved all three movies just because they are potter ( has all five books in hardcover and ordered them early ) but i thought the third just wasn't as good as the first two...part of what makes the stories so rich is the supporting details that this producer cut out not just the main plot.

 

[AvaAdore]

I'm a big HP fan too. I can't wait for the 6th book, though I doubt that will happen any time soon.

 

[ShyGuy68]

I'm a big HP fan too. I can't wait for the 6th book, though I doubt that will happen any time soon.

While we wait, try to check out this link http://www.hpandthehalfbloodprince.org/