Why books should not be movies

[huntergreen_3]

Barbara D. Poland-Waters <bd-bear at v...> wrote:

>>You're absolutely right about many things being different in the 
first two movies. I guess it comes down to personal preference and 
personal vision. I felt the first two movies fit my vision of 
Hogwarts and the WW much better than POA. And yes, I don't think they 
added things that were irrelevant or completely out of place in JKR's 
world, like the shrunken heads.<<

It is just preference then. I prefered the tone of PoA because it 
felt realer to me, the first two seemed too much like movies, like 
Hogwarts existed only in the movie universe. However, though, I can 
see your point, especially since the first two movies established the 
world, and the third varied from it in many ways. 

>> I do know that I read POA over and over again before seeing the 
movie, and I really had favorite scenes and things that I read 
thinking, "I can't wait to see how they show that on a movie," and 
then was disappointed when the changed the scene or didn't show
it at all. Again, personal preference.<<

Did you read spoilers at all? I've read PoA several times as well, so 
I noticed things that were changed, but reading spoilers ahead of 
time helped quite a bit. At least I didn't have to find out in the 
theater that certain things were left out.


-Rebecca