Please, No....

[Susan Atherton]

Kyle Longbottom said:
But at least with Colubus you had the same cast!!  Now all of a sudden you 
dont have half the cast!!!  I mean the train operator wasnt that necessary 
but it was nice to see somethings that had not changed and everything is 
changing!!

And I stick my oar in with:
Kyle, come on. Columbus, god love him, isn't an AWFUL director; I'm sure many people loved Bicentennial Man. Well, some people. But he is an amateurish director when it comes to a plot of such delicacy. Kloves' screenplay is pretty shoddy too, but since writers are one step above the floor-cleaner on a film set, I guess we can't completely blame him. But Chris Columbus' direction was poor. Not unwatchable, but poor. 

But his directing talents are not what's under debate here. It's the casting. Obviously I can't know for sure, but I'd put a fair bit of money on Chris Columbus having little to no power in the casting arena. He's just there to milk his postition for his daughter ;) and tell Ron "Scared! More scared! Even scareder!".

Alfonso Cuaron, on the other hand, is a talented, Oscar-nominated director. He has done kid films (A Little Princess). He has done drama, plot twists, character development, all kinds of things which to me are integral to PoA. And I'm sorry to keep saying this, but I really couldn't give a rat's ass as to whether or not a few people disappear from the cast (and we're not talking half the cast - we have two cuts and one recast so far, all of whom are either unimportant or even unnoticeable) as long as he handles the important stuff okay. I'm sad we're either Quidditch-free or Quidditch-lite, but the Sirius Black storyline, the MWPP-Snape storyline, the Crookshanks v Scabbers/Hermione v Ron storyline - all of these are far more important to me than Quidditch - and most people here know I've made long and passionate arguments for keeping Quidditch in PoA.

Susan
hoping desperately her faith in Cuaron will be repaid, but not holding her breath...
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