CoS

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, JessaDrow at a... wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm Faith and I'm new to this mailing list. I do hope 
I'm not 
> about to get into something that that already has been discussed 
but I found 
> out today that I more than likely won't be getting CoS till Monday, 
I was 
> stupid enough to mail order it, rather than go out to the store and 
buy it. 

That's too bad. I walked into the Target discount store about 3 miles 
from my house around 5:15 p.m. Friday and there were multiple copies 
of both the COS DVD and the video up near the check-out lines and no 
line a all of anyone waiting to pick up a copy. Maybe Target 
customers are less manic about HP than folks who pre-order through 
B&N, Borders etc?? At any rate we bought our copy of  COS at Target 
last Friday, on sale for either $13 or $15 American, and we've 
watched it twice since then.

> So I decided that before I start reading the books *again* I'd 
watch the 
> movie. ...I'm really hoping CoS is  
> more accurate, I never did see it in the theater.

No, unfortunately it's not. In fact if you go back in this group to 
mid to late November 2002 you will find tons of reviews, criticisms 
etc. about COS that are very specific about the inaccuracies 
(including various characters' lines being said by other characters 
for no discernable reason). I only saw COS once in the theater but 
when we watched the video this weekend, many of those criticisms came 
back to me. COS was directed by Chris Columbus, as was SS/PS, so it's 
got a fairly typical Columbus feel to it, though fortunately it's not 
slapstick like some of his earlier movies (Home Alone etc.) I mean 
it's not idiotic like those movies, but of course the source material 
is 3,000 times better. Too bad he didn't capture the spirit of the 
book better, but then we can also fault screenwriter Steve Kloves for 
that too.

Anne U
(who MUST get a DVD player this year.... I'm skipping all the DVD 
messages as I'm sure they're spoilers...)