[HPFGU-Movie] Important Negative Spoilers Request

[Richard Thorp]

Saturday, November 9, 2002, 7:12:18 PM, Tina wrote:

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Mostly agree with the other peeps, so will keep this short :)

The fang bit is cool, it does go thru his arm, and it does look like
hes dying, to me..

I don't like the way the Slytherins are portrayed.. They're bigger
antagonists than Snape and Voldemort combined and doubled.. As much as
I don't like Malfoy jnr, I'd like to think he's savable (not Malfoy
snr, hes evil to the core, but snivelling evil, not Voldemort evil :))
he is shown as completely devoid of nice human emotions.. But feh.

Also the fact that there ARE only two houses, almost.. Gryffindor and
Slytherin.. Potions, Transfiguration, everything is with the
Slytherins.. Can they get the trio much closer to hell? I think not!
Obviously an attempt to cut prices/time on the extras, but a bit
grating.. Also the not knowing what Harry says when he speaks
parseltongue isnt so nice..

And I **really** hate the way they handled the mudblood scene.. It was
*awful*. It should have been akin to standing up in the middle of a
room and calling someone a b**tard or something similar, complete and
utter shock that someone would be uncultured enough to use such a
dirty phrase in such company... Not a mild 'hrm' and some crying
later.. Hermione crying later on completely outweighed the reaction to
the actual word...

Wow this is turning into a longer mail than I meant :) Also, the
Hagrid-returns-from-Azkaban scene? Awful with a capital A. It was
Awful, because there was UTTERLY NO DIFFERENCE between normal!Hagrid
and post-Azkaban!Hagrid. And the cheese was amazing, the whole school
giving such respect to the Gamekeeper.. Including the Slytherins
(though not Malfoy, he has to stop Crabbe/Goyle too).. Really out of
character in the extreme. But it was obviously put in there for the
kids, to soften the film as a whole...

And the quidditch did drag somewhat.. Really really hoping that they
will sort out how to film Quidditch properly by the time GoF comes
around.. If they mess up the Quidditch world cup scene I will hunt
down EVERYONE that was involved in making that scene happen :)

Oh! Before I forget... Lucius starting Avada Kedavra.. _SO_ out of
character its untrue, he is the snivelling bully, not the powerful
sorceror. He wouldn't risk so much (Harry would recognise the start of
AK, definitely) by doing that, no way in hell. Though his wand casing
is relatively cool.

Argh! I keep thinking of more to say :) Where was the Weaselly-Malfoy
Seniors Grudge Match!!! I was really devastated they took that out,
would have loved to see Mark Williams and Jason Issacs duke it out..
But evidently they decided it was too violent! BAH!

All in all it wasn't a bad film, despite all I've said, lol :) Not as
if I'm going to put people off seeing it.. Not on this list anyway!

Roll on PoA I say!

-Rich
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