Harry Potter Movies In Trouble In the Long Run

[kiricat2001]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "luminary_extraordinaire" <ktchong73 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> Imagine this: by the time the forth movie comes out, it will be the 
> FORTH DAMNED TIME movie goers see the same "STUPID" Hogwarts and 
> Quidditch match AGAIN on the big screen. Harry Potter fans will 
> probably tolerate it, but the general movie goers (who are not fans 
> of the books) will be so bored by the same thing over and over 
again 
> that they will skip the movie. So, less and less people will go see 
> each new Harry Potter movie. It will be a disaster for the Harry 
> Potter movie franchise.


I'm sure there will be a segment of the population for which the 
above will be true.  I, for one, have seen several James Bond movies 
and hope never to have to see another.  Why?  Because the story is 
essentially the same in each movie, just with different scenery and 
different gadgets that fly or explode or take someone's head off. 
But, that's my opinion.  Obviously there are tons of people who are 
thrilled by this stuff and will faithfully go to each Bond movie.

The Potter books use a lot of the same scenery from book to book, so 
I'm sure that some people will find that tedious.  I recall reading 
in a book review at the time that GoF came out that the reviewer was 
finding the structure of the books too similar, since they are all 
formed around Harry's school year. That doesn't seem to have affected 
the sales of the books at all.

I would hope that the filmmakers will think of a way to make the 
Quidditch matches fresh in the upcoming films.  There are important 
events that happen within the games - Harry breaking his arm and 
being at the tender mercy of Lockheart's medical idiocy, Harry seeing 
Dementors, the Dementor prank pulled by Malfoy and Co,. and the World 
Cup event.  I suppose that C. Columbus could resort not showing the 
actual game(s) and instead create dialog among the characters to let 
us know what happened.  But, I don't think I'll have a problem with 
seeing Quidditch several more times, at least.

Marianne