Potter movies in general - PoA

[Steve]

--- "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
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> 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. 
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>  Eggplant
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bboyminn:

In general, I liked Prisoner of Azkaban, but I think they made
some poor casting decisions. For example, the choice to turn Tom
the bartender into Quasimodo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame was
funny but made no sense in the context of the story.

I also didn't like MacNair, the executioner. Instead of big 
and muscled, he was skinny, scrawny, and greasy. Yuk!

I also didn't like the 'if you want to kill him, you'll have 
to kill me'  Shreiking Shack scene. Ron is turned into a
whimp, and Hermione takes all the good lines. 

As a side note, I think all the Directors have failed to
properly develop Ron's character properly. Part of what makes
the overall story so touching, is that Ron, despite being afraid,
still forces himself to do very brave things. Part of what
makes it a good story is that Harry's friends are faithful,
loyal, and brave. But the movie has made little distinction
between Ron ad Seamus. They are just two people hanging 
around in the background. Ron/Rupert just has a few more lines
than Seamus.

I feel the same about Neville, what Neville has to do in the
end, has very little meaning without the context set in the
previous stories. 

just a few thoughts.

steve/bluewizard