CoS - My Take

[Gail Bohacek]

Okay, I just literally came home from the theatre and turned my computer on. 
  I've read what's in my Inbox, whatever Movie Reviews were there, but I'm 
not really hip to go back and read them all.  But I did just want to give my 
thoughts:

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The thing that we all have to remember here, I think, is that this movie is 
primarily targeted for kiddies, not HP4G members who know these books 
backwards forwards inside and out.  The acting is for kiddies.  Ron's stupid 
facial expressions are for kiddies.  The long scene in the flying car is for 
kiddies...etc.

Now if one of us were going to do this film, it would be more subtle, more 
dramatic.

I was particularly disappointed with Snape in the movie.  I felt that 
Rickman was directed incorrectly for the character...in the film, Snape came 
across as somebody different as portrayed in the books.  Should have been a 
whole lot nastier.  But like I said, the movie's for kiddies...

I was also a bit disappointed that they'd cut out the Lockhart's Quiz scene, 
especially after we'd been "promised" that it would be in there since we'd 
seen pictures of it at the Leaky Cauldron and such.

Frankly, my imagination was much better...I'm sorry.  I wish it was 
otherwise.   It was nice eye candy, though.

-Gail B. who's going to read CoS tonight, envisioning the actors and scenery 
from the movie playing to the script of her imagination.

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