Addressing Frequently Read and Heard Movie Criticisms....

[daughterofthedust]

Okay.

So, here are the criticisms I've heard and/or read most frequently 
and my answers to them:

- "[who/whatever] from the book was not in the movie

Get over it. It's a movie not a book.

- it moved too fast

You're too slow...

No, seriously it's made for multiple viewings. What you missed this 
time, you'll pick up on in the future. I, for one, like movies where 
I see new things upon each viewing.

- the werewolf looked terrible

I agree. The werewolf was crappy.

- Columbus was better

I disagree. His overbright, "Let me point out everything because my 
audience it too stupid to get it on its' own" style wawas awful. I 
really despise being spoken down to.

- it was too dark

I've always seen Harry Potter books as being very gothic. With it's 
humor derived from the dangerous mishaps of other students, and 
broad, dry, British humor...This is the first film to capture that, 
instead of turning it into the Scooby-Doo Mysteries.

- Harry's crying scene was silly

I agree. He looked very silly here.

- "Why did Cuaron add [who/whatever], it wasn't in the book."

It's called imagination people, of which Columbus had none. Again, a 
book is not a film, a film is not a book.

- people who haven't read the book won't understand the significance 
of The Marauder's, etc...

That will be in The Goblet of Fire...Too much exposition equals = 
craptactular Scooby-Doo ending.  Inferring all this with Lupin's 
lines, and the nicknames being on the map, etc...Just leaves more 
(hints) to discover on future viewings of the film.


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daughter