[HPFGU-Movie] My CoS review
Chocobo
boredchocobo at attbi.com
Tue Nov 19 01:04:23 UTC 2002
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From: pippin_999
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Is there anyone who *doesn't* think Lucius is capable of murder?
While it wasn't a good thing to have him attack Harry, it wasn't awful either. They didn't have as much time as in the book to establish him as someone you don't want to mess around with, so attacking (or maybe he was just going to scare Harry and not really do anything?) wasn't a bad thing. Besides, I consider myself a pretty big fan and I didn't notice the "Avada..." if he really did say that... so I'd say the majority of people didn't notice that happening.
I agree with Gail--as soon as I heard that "There's no Hogwarts
without you, Hagrid," line, I turned to my seatmate and said,
"He's toast." Those cheering scenes are just made to be
revisited in flashback with a dewy coating of vaseline (or
computer-generated blurring, these days).
I don't understand this. It's not like the moviemakers have access to storylines in books that haven't been published yet, do they?
I like the way Rupert Grint does Ron. Overplayed Ron is a
necessary contrast to underplayed Harry--and Harry *has* to be
underplayed. He's an enigma to those around him in the books.
That's not going to be credible if the audience can read
everything he's thinking on his face.
I also think that the movie Ron's portrayal wasn't so bad. Maybe it went a tiny bit overboard but it wasn't bad. In a movie, exaggerating his character a little bit isn't a bad thing.
The effects were much more consistent than the first movie. Only
Fawkes was unconvincing at times...I think I wanted him to look
*less* like a real bird. The spider sequence went on too long, but
the basilisk battle was just right.
I think Fawkes was one of the best done effects. I liked how he looked like a very real creature, seemed believable. I thought the extended spider scene was good, it took a somewhat lame part of the book and packed it full of action. You can't tell me you didn't like the spider grabbing Ron out of nowhere... though I did wonder why they stopped so soon.
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