Random ramblings on GoF

[laurenmcoakley]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:

Just wanted to add my 2 cents to this subject...


> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> > MISSED the actual "tasks within the task" of the maze.  I do 
> > understand why they eliminated them, and the way it was done was 
> > striking, visually, but I did so enjoy all of that in the book.
> 
> Eustace_Scrubb:
> The whole maze scene was one of my biggest peeves with the movie and
> those I attended with as well.  Was a CG sphinx and another giant
> spider just too boring for them?  The constantly changing pattern of
> vegetation made me feel that an Ent or maybe Old Man Willow should
> have been in the middle of the maze.  This was a change for which I
> could see no good reason.  (The over-the-top handling of Harry's 
duel
>with the Horntail didn't bother me nearly as much because that just
> seemed like the typical movie-version exaggeration of the actual
> scene--like Harry hanging out of the Anglia by one hand instead of
> just getting bored eating candy with nothing to drink.)
>  
>  
Lauren:
I have to say, though I DID enjoy reading the 3rd task in the book, I 
completely understand why they cut it out for the movie.  By the time 
the movie finally got 'round to the 3rd task, I had been sitting on 
my butt so long it was numb!  And they really couldn't have taken out 
very much before that (ok, maybe trimmed the 1st task down a bit, but 
then what? It still wouldn't have been enough time, IMHO, to do a 
good job of the 3rd task bit.)  And though, there are alot of 
faithful book readers and fans that watch these films, there are MANY 
people who are not so into the book, and I think this was something 
that they felt they could trim.  Which, again, IMHO, was not such a 
bad decision at that particular point in the movie.