the greatest difference

[snosageau]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:
> I agree that POA is cinematically superior to the first 2 films. I 
don't
> really think that SS and COS were necessarily "bubblegum-Disney" 
though.


 It doesn't bother me that we didn't see the cool sagging
> bridge in the other films. Maybe it was a different part of the 
castle? 

 The clock tower bugged some folks 'cause it was so
> obviously not there in the first 2 installments. I just thought it 
was such
> a gorgeous and powerful image, tying into the time-turner theme. 

> 
> My only complaint is (yeah, yeah, yeah) the lack of explanation of 
who the
> Marauders were, and why Snape hated them so much. So many 
opportunities to
> slip that crucial info in! 


I have to agree. I felt that the writers missed something crucial in 
leaving out the background of the maurauders - i saw the movie with 
friends who haven't read the book and they didn't really get the 
stuff with Lupin and the map / Prongs at the lake / animagi stuff. I 
know that the book has to be trimmed to make a movie that doesn't go 
on for forever, but surely in the Shrieking Shack scene they 
(lupin/sirius) could have explained all the stuff to Harry? I felt 
that that scene was just too rushed. Why did Harry believe so 
suddenly that they should trust L&S about Scabbers?

My other critism is the lack of attention paid to the Scabbers story 
line (Crookshanks reactions, the reaction of the gadget [sorry been a 
while since I read the book!] that Ron bought back from Eygpt etc. 
Didn't really have any clue leading up to the finale other than Ron 
being gripey at Hermione about Crookshanks eating Scabbers.

As for the changes in the castle / the clock tower /grounds... I just 
kept telling myself the place is enchanted. The stairs move, so why 
can't the landscape? Especially all of the hills that haven't been 
there before! Can't recall HRH having to walk up hill and down dale 
to get to Hagrid's hut before!

Bec