[HPFGU-Movie] Where is the humor?

[S]

> >>Is anyone else disappointed about how Harry has been portrayed in
>the movies?  In the book he has this wonderful dry british sense of
>humor, but in the movies he seems much more stoic.  I realize they can
>not portray everything in the movies, but I think they have damaged
>his character development by removing those humor aspects that I
>personally came to love in the books.<<
>
>I agree. I think that what I like least about the movies is that they
>seem to have lost most all the humor from the books, not just with
>Harry. There are some wickedly funny moments in both SS/PS and COS
>that just got dropped from the films. I don't know if Columbus & Co
>were going for a grittier feel, but... why leave out the little
>touches that make the books so wonderful and engaging: Lockhart's
>pictures in curlers running out of the way, the way the Dursleys
>really are portrayed as so buffoonish, Lucius and Arthur fistfighting,

While I agree that a lot of the humour from the books was lost, I don't see 
how that fistfight could be considered humour . . . IIRC it was two men 
fighting over one of them making bigoted comments about a friend of the 
other's son - with Arthur knowing that Lucius almost certainly got a kick 
from killing, torturing, and otherwise harassing Mudbloods like Hermione. 
Rather than being amusing, that was one of the most tense moments of the 
book for me. Perhaps one of the reasons why it was removed was precisely 
because they thought it might come over humorously. Gollum/Smegle in TTT is 
a perfect example of how cinema audiences can laugh at very tense, 
psychologically gripping moments - thus severely damaging the atmosphere.

~Say