What worked in POA

[huntergreen_3]

>> I have a bigger question, what did you think worked, if you care 
to discuss that. I want to, need to concentrate on the good about 
this movie. << 

-The Dursley scene was done very well at the beginning. They 
shortened it (of course), but all the best parts were left in (I was 
very worried that the breaking glass was going to be removed and we'd 
be left with ONLY the inflating part). 
-The music through the whole movie was very good. It was about time 
they changed the score around a bit (we certainly can't have the same 
music throughout the whole series)
-As others have said, the Lupin/Harry scenes were very good, as were 
the "little touches" (like the whomping willow killing birds)
-The time-turner scene was about ten times better than I thought'd 
be. With everything else that happens at the end of PoA, that bit 
sort of slips my mind when I think about the story, I didn't think 
it'd be so interesting on film (giving time-turned Harry/Hermione 
more to do was a fanatastic idea, it certainly made the time-turning 
thing more interesting).
-Having Harry get the firebolt at the end of the film worked very 
well, it was a nice ending (hopefully, though, the beginning of GoF 
features a letter from Sirius).
-Even though the prank was left out, I loved the Sirius/Snape/Lupin 
scene, the dialogue was very well done (particularily "once again 
you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual 
come up with the wrong conclusion.").
-The humor was downplayed more, for the most part. I liked 
the "spiders want me to tapdance" joke of course, but Hermione's "Is 
that really what my hair looks like from the back?" comment was great 
as well.


-Rebecca