I liked the movie too (reasons why)

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Dan Wrote:

>>By the way, I don't recall there being anything actually laugh
funny in the Columbus travesties.<<

Humor is subjective of course, but I thought PS/SS, had a few rather 
funny moments. Those being the "she needs to sort out her priorities" 
line (really obvious, I know, but Rupert Grint says it so perfectly). 
Then there's the look Hermione gives Ron after he says "This is 
light." I thought that was rather funny too. I can't really remember 
anything that good in CoS (although I might be the only one who liked 
the "follow the butterflies" line...I've heard others complain about 
it).

 >>Nor, in fact, do I recall there being anything creepy in his 
failed attempts. It was all just CG sugar. But Harry at the curb was 
as unsettling in the movie as in the book. What a memorable scene!<<

Nothing *creepy*, perhaps (although the books didn't really provide 
any opportunites like PoA did), but he did manage a few 
emotional/atmospheric scenes (the mirror of erised scene comes to 
mind, when I watched that scene for the first time after reading PoA, 
I got choked up, and I'm REALLY not the type that cries at movies). 

 
Dan (in response to Lupin et al not being revealed as the writers of 
the map):
>>what would be gained by this knowledge, thematically? Between 
the overheard conversation at the Three Broomsticks and the Shrieking 
Shack scene, and the conversation between Sirius and Harry just 
before the werewolf transformation, is there anything missing other 
than the connection to the map? Add Lupin's apparent knowledge about  
how the map works, and there's even less unspoken.<<

I agree completely. Although the four people in the audience 
unfamiliar with the books miss out on hearing that Harry's father and 
his friends wrote the map, that in it of itself does not drastically 
change the movie. Its hinted at, so its there, just very subtle (its 
not as though they made it out that Lupin and Sirius don't know 
anything about the map at all, the only thing that's changed the 
revelation of that, which we already know anyway, and those who don't 
can still follow the story with no problem).


-Rebecca (who also appreciated PoA as good cinema)