[HPFGU-Movie] PoA, have to get this of my chest.

[patientx3 at aol.com]

Pernille wrote:

>>#1. I liked it. I mean, filmaticly it's a good movie. If it's stands 
alone anyway.<<

Its a good thing you got *that* off your chest (o;

>>#2. I was really disappointed and annoyed about the scenery changes. 
Because of this I don't feel like the three movies sticks together 
anymore and they are supposed to. Maybe there is some reason that I 
don't know about, but how hard is it to try and make it look at least 
similar to the last two. I mean there must be design drawing lying 
around at Warner Brothers somewhere. I would have loved this movie if 
it weren't for that.<<

I think the design changes were deliberate (due to the directer changeover). 
Personally, they didn't bother me because they fit better than the previous 
scenery (and honestly, I hardly paid attention to the scenery before, the only 
thing I really noticed was the addition of the bridge).

>>#3. Sirius as a dog. I know this is very personal, but I didn't 
imagine Sirius as a dog like that at all. I saw him like a big black 
St.Bernard type of dog. <<
Eh, so did I. And its not really personal, its how he's described in the 
book. I just don't see how that size of a dog could reasonably fight a werewolf 
(or keep it in check).

>>#4. I liked the new casting. I did not imagine Lupin or Sirius like 
that, but the casting was good anyway. I only have a problem with the 
casting of Peter Pettigrew. I imagined him like a small and thin man. 
So Timothy Spall was all wrong for me. <<

He's supposed to have an appearence of someone who's recently lost  weight, 
but personally, I never thought that to necessarily mean "thin". I thought 
Timothy Spall's acting was so spot-on that it didn't really matter if he quite 
looked the part or not (sort of like Kenneth Braughn in CoS).

>>#5. I loved the animation of Buckbeak. That has really neat. :)<<

I was really pleased that they used half-animatronic and half-CGI for him, it 
really made a difference, he looked so real. 

>>#6. Malfoy. What happened to him? Why is he so wimpy all of a sudden?
That isn't like Malfoy at all. He should remain proud to the bitter 
end. Like he was in the previous movies.<<

I've always thought of Malfoy as the typical bully: proud and arrogant, but 
when it comes down to it, a complete wimp. As for the previous movies, he was 
rather wimpish in PS/SS when him and Harry are in the forest (running away 
screaming comes to mind), and my memory is less clear on CoS, but he didn't quite 
have a proud reaction after he's knocked over during the dueling club scene. 
I'll give you that they went a little too far in making Malfoy wimpy in PoA, 
but it (IMO) is in his nature...


-Rebecca

I think that's it for now. Sorry for bothering you with my babbling, 
but as I have said two times now, I had to get this of my chest. If 
only one person reads this and agree or disagree and answers my post 
that's enough.




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