[HPFGU-Movie] PoA review

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/21/2004 6:27:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> As a fan of the books who hated the first two movies, for lack of
> the elements mentioned in the above quotes...

I'm interested in seeing them too.  However, I also think the changes are
*somewhat* problematic.

I've heard comments about very young kids being 'spooked' or 'upset' about
seeing the trailers during the previews for some lighter kid movies.  This
may be for the percentage of very young kids, who haven't read the books
and are only familiar with the movies.

Hm, can't make everybody happy.

Dina

I have been VERY frustrated to not have seen the trailer in the theater EVEN 
ONCE and we go to the movies a LOT!  I truly expected to see it before "Van 
Helsing" (I read somewhere it was being showing with that film -- btw, "Van 
Helsing" is a VERY silly movie, only worthwhile because Hugh Jackman is good in 
most anything he does).  It was not shown then, it has not been shown with any 
of the films we've seen, and we've seen "young audience" films like "13 going 
on 30" and that kind of thing.  I think WB needs to get over their "HP is young 
kids' territory" idea (which is obviously their thought, since they're just 
showing the trailer with things like Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo and "Home on the 
Range," none of which I could convince my hubby to see in a theater).  
Hopefully as the movies continue, they'll get over the requirement for PG rating and 
let the movie go where it needs to to tell the stories in the best possible 
fashion (I don't mean an R rating, necessarily, but I think they're being 
constrained by trying to appeal to little kids so much).  Then again, I don't have 
little kids -- but when my kids were little, I would've been hesitant to read 
them some of the later books -- I think the audience will grow up with the 
books, and that little kids won't be hearing OoP and books 6 and 7 until they're 
old enough to understand without getting too scared.  I don't see JKR keeping 
the next books on a "little kids' level" myself, and I hope WB understands that 
the movies need to "grow up" too.  What we've heard about PoA so far sounds 
like they MIGHT be getting it, but where they've shown the trailers so far 
makes  me wonder if they really do understand how wide the HP audience actually is.

I'll get off my soapbox now!  ;->


Lynda 
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". . .the cat's among the pixies now." Mrs. Figg, OoP


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