Minor characters rock and rule

[frantyck]

Hi all. Watched the movie, died of boredom and disappointment. There 
are so many plot holes and non-sequiturs that very soon I was just 
gesturing feebly in protest.

But -- did anyone care for the actors who handled the lesser 
characters? I thought David Bradley (Filch) was marvellous; Jimmy 
Waylett (Crabbe) and Joshua Herdman (Goyle) as Ron-Crabbe and Goyle-
Harry were really quite good; I could have hugged Miriam Margolyes 
(Professor Sprout); Robert Hardy (Cornelius Fudge) was sufficiently 
helpless in the face of duty; Hugh Mitchell (Creevey) looked just 
right, even though he was a tad too confident. Shirley Henderson 
(Moaning Myrtle) was not bad. Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) was not 
quite angry enough nor quite motherly enough, although I was hoping 
for a lot from her.

The thing is, most of the actors *look* just right, regardless of 
how they are used in the film. This leads me to think that they were 
chosen solely on the basis of their physical approximation to the 
characters in the books. Which is okay -- just not good enough. For 
almost all of the younger actors then, rather than acting their 
characters, they are merely acting that scene. The older actors, on 
the other hand, have enough experience to make the most of their 
abbreviated appearances.

Rrishi