Potter movies in general (was: Introduction)

[eggplant107]

 "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

> I can handle CoS right up until the end. 
> Then the Hagrid Hug-fest at the end drives
> me nuts, so I always stop then video just
> before the point.

It's really weird, I've been doing EXACTLY the same thing for years,
that part is so bad it's embarrassing. It's even more infuriating when
you look at the deleted scenes, some of them were quite good, but they
were cut out to make room for that sappy saccharine sweet stuff at the
end. And of course we had to have 10 minutes of closing credits that
nobody watches.

As for the other movies, I think if you just talk about the stuff that
actually ended up on the screen Prisoner of Azkaban may have been the
most skillful, it really had style; but in its judgment of what it
could safely ignore from the books it proved to be the most ham
fisted. The problem wasn't what they did but what they didn't do. 

And In Phoenix I was disappointed we didn't get to see an enraged
Harry trash Dumbledore's office.

 Eggplant