PoA DVD
patientx3 at aol.com
patientx3 at aol.com
Wed Nov 17 09:23:45 UTC 2004
I work at Blockbuster Video and we got our copies of Prisoner of Azkaban in
tonight (I was so happy, despite the fact that I had expected them *last*
week). Anyway, I went through all the special features already (except for the
kiddie ones). I'll describe them below, with a little spoiler space for those
of you who want to be surprised (with the deleted scenes at the end).
First the case is a normal plastic one, instead of the cardboard ones that
the first two had. It looks sort of strange in the three-pack. And the first
disc (with the movie) has trailers on it, which is odd, since the first two
didn't. Trailers feel sort of obtrusive on a fantasy movie.
Okay the rest is mild spoilers...
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
The special features disc is a little annoying to navigate. Its not as bad
as the first movie, but still I wish they'd just put "Deleted Scenes" on the
menu instead of hiding it under something else. The deleted scenes, cast
interviews, and JKR interview (in which she said she liked the shrunken heads
thing, go figure), are under the "Divination Class" option.
There are 7 separate interviews, all five or so minutes long. The first is
with Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe, the second is with the
people that play Seamus, Neville and Fred and George (sorry, I'm too lazy to
look up their real names), third is with Tom Felton and the kids who play
Crabbe and Goyle, fourth is with Gary Oldman and David Thewlis, fifth is with
Robbie Coltrane and Michael Gambon, sixth is the people who play the Dursleys
(including Marge), and the final one is with Cuaron and two of the production
designers. All the interviews involve the shrunken head from the Knight Bus as
one of the interviewers, and it is EXTERMELY annoying, they are going for
some sort of comedy, although I don't know why (the questions are already
rather simple, ex. "What would your boggart be?"). Fortunately, the shrunken head
is left out of pretty much all of the adult interviews (except for one
comment at the end of each one), but he's pretty involved in the kid ones.
In 'Hagrid's Hut' under the 'Grounds' menu option, there's a featurette on
the animals in the film, which was pretty interesting, and there's a making
of-ish featurette that talks about the makeup and CG and the dementors and all
that.
Then of course there's the deleted scenes.
*
*
*
Most of them are fluff, and I can see why they were cut from the film.
There's 5 in all. The first is just extra Knight Bus (which there was plenty of in
the movie), and there's a scene of that bird that got killed by the whomping
willow bothering Hagrid as it was flying around (which was sort of funny),
there was the Sneakascope scene, which is just Ron bringing Harry one from
Hogsmeade, rather pointless since they don't show it lighting up or anything. The
last two were the most interesting. One was about Sir Cadagen being
appointed as the new portrait guard and him changing the passwords all the time, and
the last scene was the Sirius break-in scene (I cannot figure out why they
cut it out). It starts with the aftermath (no Gary Oldman, sadly), and has
McGonagal finding out Neville lost the passwords, and then warning all the
children to be careful, since Sirius Black might break in again. There's a brief
moment of Ron/Hermione arguing (which felt sort of awkward, maybe there was
something else leading into it that was cut), and then it has the Harry moment
from the international trailer where he says "He was right there, he was close
enough to touch", referring to Sirius. I wish it was in, because its a nice
followup on the Harry wanting to kill Sirius thing.
The DVD will be out a week from now in the US and on Friday in the UK
(although I'd guess there's at least on other retail store employee on this list
who also has it early).
-Rebecca
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
More information about the HPFGU-Movie
archive