Somethings going to be cut from PoA

[poohnpotterfan]

I think kids can sit through them. My five year old nephew, who has a 
hard time sitting through a Disney movie, sat through both movies 
without wanting to leave once!! So I think that as long as they're as 
entertaining, kids will sit through it no matter how long!! 
--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tracie" <tracie622 at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <deemarie1a at y...> 
> wrote:
> > > --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Beth in Sacramento" 
> > > <Tasukibeth1 at c...> wrote:
> > 
> 
> > > I wish that they would make movies like they did in the old 
> days, 
> > you 
> > > know, like Ben Hur and My Fair Lady.  Those films were long and 
> > had 
> > > an intermission.  If they did the same for Harry Potter, think 
> of 
> > all 
> > > the things they could put in.
> > > 
> > > Donna
> > 
> > 
> > The Potter movies are a major money maker.  They can make them as 
> > long as they want.  The studio and the theater owners know that 
no 
> > matter how long the Potter movies are, people will flock to see 
> > them, and more then once.  It's the same with LOTR, those movies 
> are 
> > 3 hours long.  POA could very well be that long, altho more 
> children 
> > will be going to that then LOTR, so that is a consideration I 
> > suppose.  
> > 
> > This brings up the length of GOF and OotP.  Both books were twice 
> as 
> > long as their three predesessors.  So, I am assuming those movies 
> > will have to be at least 3 hours long, or suffer severly under 
the 
> > hatchet.  Which I would hate to see.
> > 
> > Tracie
> 
> It is to be hoped that the studios will learn from the production 
of 
> LOTR which has to some extent re-wrote the rule books.  As a huge 
> fan of the book and movies so far of LOTR, I never felt that the 
> book could be filmed as one film.  What I would also like to see 
> with future Harry Potter films is the same kind of unifying vision 
> that Jackson has brought to the retelling of the LOTR trilogy.  He 
> has earned the odium of some die-hard fans for making slight 
changes 
> to the books, but IMHO has understood well that film and literature 
> are different media and what works well on the page and in the 
> reader's imagination does not always work so well visually.  I hate 
> to upset any of the Harry Potter film fans but the reason that the 
> last two films have been so disappointing is a slavish and 
> unimaginative re-telling.  The books are largely episodic with a 
> central plot, but usually also an "chapter issue" which is resolved 
> in that same chapter.  This is perfect for reading aloud to a child 
> for instance because there is a clear end point.  In the films I 
> found that this episodic fell came over lumbering and dull - and 
yet 
> the books are not lumbering and dull - I read OoP in 24 hours and 
> was largely incommunicado throughout.  We need a director who loves 
> the books but who is primarily an artist in the art of fantasy film 
> making.  
> 
> I would happily sit through a two parter of GoF or OoP because 
> everytime I have seen the films I have bitterly resented some of 
the 
> bits that were missed out.  Kids are sticklers for accuracy and 
> would probably cope too.
> 
> June