[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Handwringing about Radcliffe

[Schlobin1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/6/2001 4:22:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
aiz24 at hotmail.com writes:

<< I've been staying away from this list 'til the movie comes out, but I 
 ran out of ways to procrastinate so I had to drop by.  Uh, I do need 
 spoiler space before the 16th, right?
 
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 Cindy quoted the Washington Post:
  
 > "The adult actors perform admirably -- particularly the oversized 
 > Robbie Coltrane as the giant Hogwarts groundskeeper, Hagrid. But 
 the 
 > 12-year-old actor Daniel Radcliffe -- who looks almost exactly 
 > like "The Weakest Link" hostess Anne Robinson -- brings a 
 > disappointing minimalism to the plum role of Harry. Faced with 
 stuff 
 > that would thoroughly gross out most kids -- from vomit-flavored 
 > candy to a splat of dragon saliva in his eye -- Radcliffe routinely 
 > responds with the mildest of shrugs."
 
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.  The American standard for child actors is 
 Shameless Mugging.  I bet the Post thought Macaulay Culkin's 
 screaming thing was really cute.  The two little bits I've seen (the 
 letters scene and the Getting onto Platform 9 3/4) were really well 
 acted (love the twinge when the first letter hits Vernon).  Subtle, I 
 calls it.  Movie reviews, good or bad, are a load of crapola in my 
 ONAAHO (obviously not at all humble opinion).
 
 Amy
 who wants to know what's all this about dragon saliva?
 
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In fact, Christopher Potter in the Ann Arbor News is SO bad that if he 
doesn't like a movie, I immediately go see it.

Susan