CoS: things that make me cringe (Part 1)

[irene_mikhlin]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
> 
> The arrival of the car and the "hellos".

To be completely fair, in the books JKR does some cringeworthy short 
retelling of Harry's story too.
But yes, the "hellos" were dreadful, both here and in the Diagonal 
Alley.

> "There's one place we're goint to get all of this: Diagon Alley!" - 
> quite possibly, the worst line in the movie, and the worst 
delivered.

Nope, the "Of course! Phoenix tears have healing powers" wins hands 
down. God, that one was embarassing.

> 
> Tom Felton. Two things: firstly, his role consists mainly of 
> sneering. Which in itself is fine, except for the fact that 
Felton's 
> sneer isn't really effective. He either looks hurst or embarassed, 
> not supercilious. Second, his up-and-down accent. He's meant to be 
> ultra-upper class but most of the time, he sounds like he's just 
> escaped from a production of Oliver Twist as one of Fagin's 
urchins. 

"accent from the bottom of Thames", as someone elegantly put it. :-)

> (The one positive thing I'll include in this post: by comparison, 
> Isaacs' piss-take of Prince Philip's speech patterns is 
> extrordinary!).

I wanted to hear him mocking Hagrid's "killin's".

> 
> Mandrake scene. *AWFUL* acting from absolutely everyone concerned, 
> although the Mandrakes themselves were rather cute. ;-)

It was probably one of the best Draco moments, though.

The petrified Mrs. Norris scene has one of the stupidest dialog 
changes ever. Kloves seems constanly to repeat the same mistake - he 
changes something from the book and then forgets to update other bits 
for them to make sense.
In the book Snape interrogates the kids rather cruelly, and suggests 
to stop Harry from playing quidditch. In the movie he appears to be 
on their side (and the looks the three of them gave were priceless, 
BTW), and has a downright civil dialog with Hermione and Harry. And 
it still ends with "Innocent until proven guilty, Severus"! How thick 
can you get?

Irene