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'Sup Muppet Central. I was just wondering if anyone has gone to see the newest installment of the Harry Potter movies. I saw it on Sunday and I have to say that I was most impressed.
Now I'm an avid Pot-head (har har XP) and I've read and re-read all of the books, but I always try to look at the movies as their own work, otherwise I doubt that I'd be satisfied. A lot of stuff was cut out of this movie (like S.P.E.W and about four chapters) but I still think that the new director, Mike Newell, did a fantastic job! I mean this book was over 600 pages long and crammed into 2 and a half hours and I think he did a really wonderful job of keeping what was most important to the plot in the movie while cutting the rest out.
Though, there were a few things I was a little dissappointed with. There were some changes in the movie that I thought were unnecessary. For one, the scene where Barty Crouch Jnr. is being accused of using the Crucio curse on the Longbottoms... that shouldn't have been Karakoff in the cage. It should've been Bellatrix LeStrange. I understand why they used Karakoff, since Bella wasn't really in the fourth book except for that part, but I still think she should've been put in the scene since she is a fairly major player in the fifth book. It would've been a good segue for the next movie.
I would've liked to have seen more of Viktor Krum and Fleur Delacour. Each of them were given like 2 lines each. Though I wasn't impressed with Fleur, really. I mean, the girl's supposed to be part Veela. I was kinda expecting a Helen of Troy and instead I got a Plain Jane. Ah well.
There wasn't enough of the Quidditch world cup and the dragon scene was far too long. Also, in the book the dragon never actually left the stadium, so I didn't really see the point in that. I understand that people crave action, and this part was pretty action intense and well done, but if they had a cut a little bit of this scene out there could've been more room for the Quidditch world cup. Ah, but you can't win them all, I suppose.
Dumbledore... oh God, don't even get me started on that. (HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE VIOLENT! GAH! >_<)
Other than those few little quibbles I felt the movie was very well done. Some of the scenes and settings were just breathtaking (like the Yule Ball) and I really liked the overall feel of it. And Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson's (Harry, Ron and Hermione) acting has improved dramatically. Especially Daniel's, who displayed the emotional range of a rock in Prisoner of Azkaban (which was a GHASTLY movie, but I think I've ranted enough for one day). I have to say that so far this has been my favourite movie of the four. All in all I give it two toes way up!
Now I'm an avid Pot-head (har har XP) and I've read and re-read all of the books, but I always try to look at the movies as their own work, otherwise I doubt that I'd be satisfied. A lot of stuff was cut out of this movie (like S.P.E.W and about four chapters) but I still think that the new director, Mike Newell, did a fantastic job! I mean this book was over 600 pages long and crammed into 2 and a half hours and I think he did a really wonderful job of keeping what was most important to the plot in the movie while cutting the rest out.
Though, there were a few things I was a little dissappointed with. There were some changes in the movie that I thought were unnecessary. For one, the scene where Barty Crouch Jnr. is being accused of using the Crucio curse on the Longbottoms... that shouldn't have been Karakoff in the cage. It should've been Bellatrix LeStrange. I understand why they used Karakoff, since Bella wasn't really in the fourth book except for that part, but I still think she should've been put in the scene since she is a fairly major player in the fifth book. It would've been a good segue for the next movie.
I would've liked to have seen more of Viktor Krum and Fleur Delacour. Each of them were given like 2 lines each. Though I wasn't impressed with Fleur, really. I mean, the girl's supposed to be part Veela. I was kinda expecting a Helen of Troy and instead I got a Plain Jane. Ah well.
There wasn't enough of the Quidditch world cup and the dragon scene was far too long. Also, in the book the dragon never actually left the stadium, so I didn't really see the point in that. I understand that people crave action, and this part was pretty action intense and well done, but if they had a cut a little bit of this scene out there could've been more room for the Quidditch world cup. Ah, but you can't win them all, I suppose.
Dumbledore... oh God, don't even get me started on that. (HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE VIOLENT! GAH! >_<)
Other than those few little quibbles I felt the movie was very well done. Some of the scenes and settings were just breathtaking (like the Yule Ball) and I really liked the overall feel of it. And Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson's (Harry, Ron and Hermione) acting has improved dramatically. Especially Daniel's, who displayed the emotional range of a rock in Prisoner of Azkaban (which was a GHASTLY movie, but I think I've ranted enough for one day). I have to say that so far this has been my favourite movie of the four. All in all I give it two toes way up!
