Choppy - Spolier

[pitaprh]

> 
> Hm. While I dislike the removal of key scenes such as the 
background 
> of the Shrieking Shack sequence, I think you're looking for 
> something to complain about here. There is no need to show that 
sort 
> of stuff, and few books or movies do. It's up to the viewer or the 
> reader to use his or her imagination to fill in the blanks. 
> 
> For example, in PoA, the book, Chapter 9, Grim Defeat, ends with 
> Harry being shown his the shards of his Nimbus 2000. The next 
> chapter begins with us being informed Harry is going to stay in the 
> hospital wing for the rest of the weekend. We don't see Harry's 
> immediate reaction to the destruction of his broom; instead we see 
> his feelings a little later. I'm sure if you look through any of 
the 
> HP books, and any book or any movie at all, you'll find plenty of 
> example such as that. The mere fact that you were easily capable of 
> coming up with something to fill in the missing scene shows how 
> completely unnecessary it was to show that scene. It doesn't mean 
> it's choppy.
> 
> Now the Shrieking Shack? Yeah, that was quite choppy.
> 
> -- Annalisa

I think you misunderstood my point.   What I am refering to is more 
of an editing issue.  I found that the choppy-ness took away from the 
story.  Many people have commented how fast the movie went - I 
believe that is because it ran from scene to scene.  There was no 
flow what-so-ever.  The only time the movie flowed was at the end, 
starting at the point where buckbeak was going to meet his end.  That 
is when the movie really got good.  I didn't think the shreiking 
shack was choppy at all.  It may have been missing key information 
you wanted to hear, about how they were all friends in school, why 
snape was so angry etc - I agree that info should have been in there 
too,  but the scene itself flowed.  JK does an amazing job of tying 
everything together in her books.  She leaves no stone unturned.  A 
perfect example is the scene you mention above - he is shown his 
broken broom and then the next chapter starts with him being in the 
hospital a week.   If the next chapter started with it being 
Christmas and him getting his firebolt, you would be left wondering 
how we got from him in the hospital to it being Christmas.  That is 
how this movie made me feel.  How did we get from scene A to scene B?