[HPFGU-Movie] PoA DVD

[Valerie Flowe]

[from Valerie, in reference to patientx3's comments on the new DVD, posted
below]

So has everyone gotten their DVD yet?!!! I was excited to get the $12.99
CompUSA deal, as I saw it elsewhere for $24.99!

I, too, was annoyed by the shrunken head. But then again, it bugged me in
the movie too. Some comedy is just unnecessary, IMO.

Loved the interviews! I can't believe Tom said he has not gotten one date as
a result of being in the HP movies. Maybe he's not date-worthy in real
life?!! Looks like a cutie to me! Did you see those awesome shots of him
fishing (can't remember what site it was on; I navigate through so many of
them. Hot, hot, hot, though! I love the blond Draco hair on him).

I liked the deleted McGonagal scene. Neat to see her with her hair down for
a change, and I liked Hermione's braids! I wish they had filmed the Sirius
attacking Ron/Scabbers scene. That would've been cool.

What I liked about the great hall scene about Honeydukes was all the kids
playing with their Hogsmead toys and treats. Seemed very "real". Though I
thought Dan's last scene eating the candy was a tad weak. Maybe that's why
they decided to  turn it into the dorm scene?? That's a nice "slice-o-life"
view of Hogwarts, too.

Today, I'll watch the movie, though I know it by heart already from many
theatre viewings. I will still enjoy it immensely.

Happy Thanksgiving, American HP Fans!

Valerie



patientx3 at aol.com

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).

Okay the rest is mild spoilers...

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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.

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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.

-Rebecca



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