Film thoughts/review

[jwh at comp.leeds.ac.uk]

Saw the film on Saturday night...

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Hope that's enough!

I really loved the film - thought that overall the acting and 
direction were both excellent.
I think it's a great help to have read the book before seeing the 
film, as I'm sure you'd be able to follow everything that was 
happening just from the film...

The casting was perfect - with the only exception of Richard Harris, 
who was fairly life-less and lacked many dumbledore-esque qualities. 
As someone said, plenty of gravtias, zero twinkle. :(

A couple of little bug-bears.. You get very little sense of the 
animosity Snape has for Harry, and the whole life-debt thing has been 
dropped altogether.
And I'm *sure* I got a glimpse of Dumbledore watching the Quidditch 
game (where Snape/Quirrel spell-cast on Harry)?!?!?!?!

That aside it's generally faithful to the book, and very enjoyable. 
The special effects are almost seemless (ie you don't notice them), 
with a couple of exceptions, but very well executed.

Good film! :)