[HPFGU-Movie]Shredding the movie (WAS: Seventeen points ......)

[Susanne Schmid]

 I think it's still very arguable whether this is a *really* good film- I'm not so convinced. Of course, you can't film every scene- I absolutely agree with you-, but the cuts have to be sensible and justified. IMO, they stuck to the book even if unnecesary (why f.ex. didn't Hagrid come directly yo the Dursleys' house? That would have saved precious minutes) and left out details that will prove vital to the plot. You know what my suspicion is? That columbus only read the first book. If you limit yourself to PS/SS, the film might seem reasonable (no need to know about Heads of Houses, no need to know more about Slytherin, however biased that might be etc.etc.), but in view of more coming along in the future, especially as the books are growing thicker and thicker, it woulodn't have been bad to set up certain things within the first movie. And, frankly, the 31 July/ 31 August error is unforgivable, at least IMO.
Susanna/pigwidgeon37
  John Hancock <seeker at hogwarts-alumni.co.uk> wrote: My main concern is the fact (I've just done it myself and now I'm 
realy miffed) that people are picking holes in a perfectly good film 
when everyone knows its practically impossible to film every scene, 
and because cuts had to be made changes were also needed!

John


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