[HPFGU-Movie] Re: CoS

[JessaDrow at aol.com]

urbana at charter.net writes:

> 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.
> 

Yeah it was stupid, I thought if I ordered it early, I might get it early, or 
atleast on time. We don't drive so getting out to Target or the store is a 
bit of a trek.

urbana at charter.net writes:

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.

Looks like I'm going to have to adapt the same mentality to this movie that I 
did to SS. It's a nice movie in it's own right, but when I want to really 
enjoy Harry Potter, pick up the book.

~Faith~


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