[HPFGU-Movie] Re: visual depth

[Trevor]

The third movie had two popular full-length trailers (SS & CoS) and received
outstanding reviews for the most part but I felt that it failed as a movie.
I went looking for a forum and found this one to check my thinking.  I am
still worried but less so as other fans seemed to have liked it.  I think
that another massive change in style by another director will hurt the
franchise.  The movies need to compliment one another and present a full
story- this is the weakness of PoA.  I disliked PoA not because of the
detail cuts, but because I felt it was a bad movie- although visually
stunning at times.

 

Trevor 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: huntergreen_3 [mailto:patientx3 at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:59 AM
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: visual depth

 

Trevor wrote:
>>I searched for a forum to talk about this movie because I felt that 
it had changed the odds of all movies being made. After the 
commercial success of the first two movies I, and most others, took 
for granted that all seven movies will be made.<<

I am unsure why you think PoA changed the odds of all seven movies 
being made. As far as money goes (the main consideration for making 
all of the books into movies), PoA opened higher than the other two 
(US wise SS/PS was at $90mil, CoS was at $88mil) with $92million in 
its first weekend, and had a *record* first day in the UK. And, 
according to Box Office Mojo [ 
http://boxofficemojo.com/articles/news/?id=040606bo.htm ] PoA managed 
to get a slightly higher aged audience, which is very important to 
continuing the franchise (as each book gets darker and less 
appropriate for small children). Also, the reviews for the first two 
movies were rather good (as much as I recall at least), and PoA has 
been about the same. As far as critics go, its not quite Lord of the 
Rings, but its not Cat in the Hat either. (as book adaptations go)
Fanwise, for every person that I've heard say they liked the first 
two better, there's another one saying they liked this one better. Go 
figure, I guess. Either way, most people (that I've heard from, at 
least) did not dislike PoA enough to make them not want to see Goblet 
of Fire.

Anyway, if you didn't like it because of the cuts, then you shouldn't 
go see GoF, because I'm sure it'll be much worse (cuts-wise, quality 
is still an unknown at this point). (not saying that to be 
argumentative, just suggesting you should save yourself the grief). 

Time will tell on the DVD release of PoA, but personally I think 
it'll do just as well as the first two. People are often more willing 
to buy something for their kids then they will for themself and 
children are rather indiscriminate (e.g. they are up to Beethoven 
FIVE now, and Home Alone FOUR, and children still flock to them 
despite the low production values and the completely different cast), 
so they'll want it because its Harry Potter, no matter how good or 
bad it is. 


-Rebecca 



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