[HPFGU-Movie] Re: One movie and new kids? RANT

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

First, I have to say I agree with your rant about the possible recasting of 
the leads, calling them "aging kids stars", the patheticness of their 
salaries and the general greed of the studios.  Couldn't have said all that 
better myself!

Steve recently mentioned:


>The two existing movies by any standard were gutted to the limit. The
>movies, but more so CoS, jump from scene to scene with no explaination
>as to why things are happening, no plot development, no underlying
>character motivation. I have trouble believing that anyone who had
>never read the book could even make a coherent story out of what they
>were shown in CoS.

I actually did quite well.  I'd heard from friends for years how good the 
Harry Potter books, and then how good the PS movie was, but I resisted 
because, well, I hate liking things that are highly popular.  I'm just kind 
of contrary like that sometimes. :)

One day, though, I was horribly bored and PS was one cable, so I figured 
what the hey, I'd give it a shot and maybe get a few laughs out of how 
stupid I just knew it was going to be. I watched it again 3 hours later on 
the "West" version of the channel (same shows, but shows them 3 hours later 
so people on the West coast can see stuff at a time that's decent for 
them).  I think I saw it 2 or 3 times after that in the next day or so.  I 
was absolutely enchanted.

Unfortuantely, I'm disabled and homebound so I can't go to out to the 
movies - I have to wait until they're released on DVD - but I was so eager 
to see COS that I had my husband go buy it for me the date the DVD was 
released and watched it for the first, second and third times that 
day.  There was a bit of plot-jumpiness to it, but I didn't have any 
problem following the story at all!

A few days after that, I ordered a set of the "Adult Version" books from 
Amazon UK (I absolutely loved the black covers and wanted to read them in 
the original British) and plowed through them.

So, it is possible for someone who's never read the book to follow the 
story in COS ok - the book itself was considerably better, no doubt, but 
the movie was pretty good in my opinion.




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