GOP Review

[verosomm]

> Newsflash: All movies based on books "short" the source material. 
> 
> They have to. 
> 
> All those things you mention, did not need to be in the film.
> 
> Now...
> 
> The film, I thought flowed well...and hit all the high and low 
points
> of emotion appropriately.
> 
> As for what I especially liked...
> 
> More Weasley Twins! And very true to the source material. :-)
> 
> Energetic Dumbledore....For someone so stuck on source, you would
> forget that Dumbledore is described as surprisingly strong
> (paraphrasing, of course) at the right moments. He has to be scary 
to
> Voldemort. A frail old man would not scare him.
> 
> Viktor Krum...looked and acted right out of my imagination. :-)
> 
> Brendan Glesson, ROCKED Mad Eye!! :-)
> 
> As did Miranda Richardson's Rita Skeeter...
> 
> Neville!! Was sooo cute, especially in relation to the ball. :-D
> 
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I completely agree with your comments on all of your likes, was 
going to put a post up to the same effect but you beat me to it; my 
opinion on the dislikes, however...


> Now, I didn't like...
> 
> Ralph Fiennes' Voldemort, I found him a bit too serpentine/femme.


Actually, I thought this was very true to the book (the serpentine 
part is obvious and I've always gotten the idea that his new body 
was thin, sort of feminine, but that his quiet voice commands more 
fear (or respect, depending what side you're on) than a loud, 
thunderous one would... and he totally creeped me out, so I thought 
that was believable 


> The Dragon sequence, once they left the stadium. I simply found it
> more intense, more believable, and frighteningly, claustophobic, in
> the stadium.


Completely agree here, although when Harry's falling, it reminds me 
very much of the end of Book 6 with DD, so foreshadowing, maybe?

 
> Emma Watson's acting...She was waaay too dramatic, throughout the 
film. 


I was an overly emotional 14-year-old girl once, and I can imagine 
that if a) my best friend was in mortal danger (scary) b) my other 
best friend (who I was secretly in love with) was acting like an 
idiot (infuriating) and c) an older, cute, famous guy was smitten 
with me (cool, but intimidating at the same time) I'd be an 
emotional wreck and acting super dramatic most of the time as well...


> Overall, I thought Mike directed with a sure hand, giving the world
> the same comfortable "this is what we are" feel that Cuaron gave.


yep


> I still think Kloves is the "tell-not-show" king and doesn't know 
how
> to develop a story to save his life, but...This one WAS well done.


I don't necessarily agree that he's a "tell-not-show" king per se, 
but I agree that this was definitely the tightest screenplay, and 
shown extremely well... the best written thus far


> One more little quibble...The flying horses pulling Beaubatons'
> carriage...Arrrgh!! Now, this of course, doesn't hurt the flow of 
the
> film, however, it wouldn't have been much trouble to keep the
> invisable creatures, either.


Actually, the Beaxbatons horses are NOT invisible, so this was true 
to the book.  You are thinking of the ones that pull the Hogwarts 
carriages when the kids get off the train at the start of the year.

Veronica