visual depth

[alice_loves_cats]

> US and Canada :  $161,963,462    44.2% 
> + Overseas:  $204,800,000    55.8% 
> = Worldwide:  $366,763,462
> 
> Truthfully, the film isn't doing quite as well as expected, but is 
> still comfortably between the first two movies in terms of gross. I 
> suspect these figures aren't influenced as much as one might expect 
> by European Football.
> 
> Dan, in Vancouver BC, watching all the EURO 2004 he can.

Well I'm certainly doing all I can for the figures to rise, now 
having watched it 5 times within 8 days, all full price. I can't 
stop, and my money's running out. 

I think the movie-plot is fasinating because it WORKS without the 
book-titbits. Although it would have been interesting to see, for 
instance, Hermione and Ron falling out, it's just not necessary to 
make the story work. (Reminds me of the time when one notable 
character remarked that God wasn't included in the system, because He 
wasn't needed to make it work.)

Actually I think the small fun scenes of the book are just dead 
boring on film - they were in the previous films, for me anyway. It 
causes the story to lose its dinamics. Cuaron did an excellent job in 
not for a moment letting things get boring. It's exactly why I am 
able to watch it over and over and over and have yet to get bored in 
ANY place at all. 

But the landscape etc is breathtaking. I think I would go back and 
watch again simply to see that beauty again.

Alice