Movie plot holes & why the cuts? Was: Gof: Good Movies, Time, and Coffee

[Diana]

Diana L. wrote:
   I agree with your opinion wholeheartedly. Several of the scenes
needed to be in the movie. The longer versions are always (there
may be exceptions out there, though) the better movies. The Lord of
the Rings movies are the most current examples I can think of at the
moment - and their additions are a whopping 30 to 45 minutes per
movie!
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Dean replied:
> > Lets face it everyone no matter how good any of the future harry 
> > potter books are we need to face up to the fact that they will 
not live up to the books and we will be disapointed. The one thing 
that im hopeing for in an extended relese dvd. I did not even bother 
to watch the first two harry potter at the cinema but ive seen them 
> both at least a dozen times each on dvd. No matter how bad harry 
potter films might be they are still harry potter films and i would 
watch <snipping a good post>


 
Time also replied:
 >I don't understand what everyone's (OK, most everyone's) complaint 
is that the films are not like the books.  Well, duh.  They're 
films, they're supposed to be different.  The books are filled with 
a lot of little nuaunces that let's the reader's imagination run 
wild... after all, when you read you are "seeing" the action played 
out in your 
> head.  Films are a visual medium, where you have to see 
everything.  <snipping a good post>

Diana L. again:
  The films we did get are definitely better than no films at all, 
and like both of you I have watched them dozens of times and enoyed 
them tremendously, as have both my children and my husband.  
However, the editor and the director of the film cut out scenes with 
information that needed to be in the movie for the movie to make 
sense by itself without any help from the books.  As a Harry Potter 
fan(atic} I could easily fill in the gaps, but take that info away 
and the plot holes were gaping.  Like many others, I enjoy the Harry 
Potter movies because they are *Harry Potter* movies, but I also 
like playing armchair quarterback, like others on HP4GU, and wonder 
at how a movie so dependent on the written source to make sense got 
made.  No matter how much I enjoy the movies, I know the books are 
better because they have all the time in the world to put in every 
little scene that JKR wants to (and that all of us would love to see 
acted out on screen.)  That was what my post was about.  Plus, it's 
kind of fun to gripe to a list full of people who 'feel my pain'.  
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Diana L.  (extremely spoiled by LOTR and now wants all movies with 
lush extra scenes put back in the DVD realease!)