[HPFGU-Movie] Do you think HP will ever have a shot at anOscar?

[Shannon]

At 09:55 PM 3/26/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>River3_98 wrote:
>
>> Do you think HP will ever have a shot at an Oscar?
>
>Not at this rate. If Columbus gets his act together and makes the kids less
>wooden, the CGI halfway decent, someone else for Dumbledore, an adaptation
>which is true not only to the letter but to the *spirit* of the books, then
>it *might* be possible.

I think the kids are fine.  They need to work on the CGI, though.  And a
little creative tinkering couldn't hurt.  I think Prisoner of Azkaban
definitely has the potential for an Oscar, if it is done correctly.

>Of course, it could also run into the problem that the Academy are
>disparaging towards any film which is popular.

I don't think it's popular films that get disparaged so much as *fantasy*
films.  There's no other explanation for why Peter Jackson didn't clean up
Sunday night, IMO.

>--John, who wants Columbus sacked and replaced with Peter Jackson from LOTR.

Hey, leave him alone for at least two years...he's busy! ;)

Shannon
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