[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Important Negative Spoilers Request

[Amanda Levesque]

That b/c Mr Weasley doesn't take about plugs untill
the 4th book.
Amanda
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> Hi everyone
> 
> I'll start by saying that sadly I have to agree with
> all the comments 
> made so far.  My husband and I stayed up for an hour
> or so after the 
> film dissecting it and I think most of the things we
> came up with 
> have already been covered.  I'll just add a couple
> more that annoyed 
> us.  
> 
> When Ron, Fred and George turn up in the Flying Ford
> Anglia and Harry 
> asks why they've come, we would have preferred it if
> Ron had said 
> something along the lines of being worried as Harry
> hadn't replied to 
> any of his letters.  We just found the, "to rescue
> you" line a bit 
> surprising, as it didn't make any sense how they
> knew Harry needed 
> rescuing and to say a little bit more wouldn't have
> added greatly to 
> the running time (time that could have been regained
> elsewhere).  
> 
> Secondly, why did they have to mess around with
> Arthur Weasley's 
> lines?  I was looking forward to hearing about his
> collection of 
> plugs or asking Harry about electrickery, but
> instead he asked what 
> the purpose of a rubber duck was.  We just felt it
> didn't work as 
> well as JKR's original words and seemed a really
> pointless change. 
> 
> It's funny how film critics seem to prefer this film
> to PS/SS as 
> Chris Columbus has been brave enough to use his own
> imagination more 
> and not stick so rigidly to the book.  Although I
> enjoyed the film, I 
> came out feeling a little disappointed.  I found the
> changes in PS 
> easier to understand, but I think it's going to take
> several more 
> viewings of CoS to accept the changes that have been
> made this time 
> around.  I'll have to take my Mum to see it as she
> hasn't read any of 
> the books and it's sometimes refreshing to hear the
> views of someone 
> seeing it who doesn't know what every last word of
> dialogue should be.
> 
> Those things aside, generally I thought the casting
> of all the new 
> characters was excellent and the scenes that ran
> pretty much as 
> written in the books worked really well.  There were
> many things that 
> made me jump or scared me enough to make me sink
> lower into my seat 
> and many things that made me laugh out loud.  
> 
> We went with a couple of friends and I insisted we
> all sit through 
> the credits.  They were all glad I made them stay,
> although we were 
> the only people left in the theatre.
> 
> I've written more than I intended to!
> 
> Clare
> 
> 


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