[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Random Movie Observations after viewing num ber two

[Tandy, Heidi]

First I want to apologize to Amber, who was subjected to many arm grabs, and
to the people of Orlando, Florida, who were discombobulated by my post-film
chair-kicking and foot-stomping frenzy at friday's showing. 
I like it much better after viewing #2. I have read a few random posts here
but not all, so foregive repetition. And ask Amber to post her notes from
tonight's showing, from which the only 2 numbers I recall were 15 and 30. 15
is the number of students following Percy on the stairs and 30 is the number
of annoying seconds of blue-gloved harry walking with hedwig in the snow and
her subsequent flight. It's a bloody boarding school film. Show the passage
of time with a 75 second classroom montage, not with a pointless and
noncanonical snow scene. 
Overall, I was less discomforted by the things that were cut {quidditch
practice, the meeting with Draco on the train} than I was by things that
were flat out Bad, like Dean knowing what a rememberall was {and not having
the sign at the quidditch match} and Ron's sandwich on the train mimicking
Laura Palmer and being wrapped in plastic. No. Just, no. 
I loved Dan, I thought Tom was wonderful and I think Emma suffered from
being directed by a director who is just not good at working with girls-
mara wilson in mrs doubtfire and hallie eisenberg are just not good training
for someone to Understand Hermione. But the h/h moments were lovely although
I noted one bit for the r/h shippers- her hair gets in his face at one point
and he does not react badly. Weird things that surprised me: the size of the
cauldrons {when harry was described as dumpong his books into Ginny's I
presumed they were a mite larger} and sean biggerstaff's utter
wonderfulness. Can Oliver be the dada teacher in Book 5?
A special note of dislike for the casting of James, and a further note that
it was my impression that the "flashback, if written in netspeak, would be
the equivilent of IHHO-in Hagrid's humble opinion. But then again, I do a
bit f an overfocus on her use of perspective in canon.-tbc