Bittersweet

[Steve]

---  "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
>  "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
> 
> > I think Yates showed great potential,
> > but didn't live up to that potential. 

> Eggplant:
> 
> Perhaps what you didn't like about the movie wasn't the 
> direction but the writing. ...
> 

> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > I don't understand what the Producers,
> > Directors, and studios obsession is with time.

> Eggplant"
> 
> Potter movies cost about a million dollars a minute to make, 
> and the shorter a movie is the more often it can play each 
> day. ...
> 
>   Eggplant
>

bboymin:

Yes, I wondered about the writing too. I actually though
OotP was a well constructed movie and I thought it played 
out smoothly. As I said, I see great potential in Yates
as a director. The problem occurred in the editing.

You claim the movies cost $1 million a minute to make but
keep in mind they filmed 4 times more movie than ever makes
it into the final film. In most of the movies, if they had
simply left in the deleted scenes (on the DVD) in, the movies
would have made more sense, and would have only been 10 to
15 minutes longer. I will gladly sit for 10 minutes more if
it makes a better movie.

Roger Ebert (the film reviewer) said, no GOOD movie is ever
too long, and no bad movie is ever short enough; or something
close to that. I agree.

So, I'm sure the filmed scenes I am craving have already been
filmed, but left out of the movie. 

What worries me, is the now we are getting down to the final 
stretch. We have two (or three depending on how you look at 
it) movies left for them to pull it all together. If the final
final movie is going to make any sense in the context of the
actual story, there is a lot of missing ground that needs to
be filled in. They simply can't look at these as stand-alone
independent films any more. They know where the story is 
going, and they have to do what it takes to get there. 

At least, I hope they do what it takes for the story and the
characters to be established when they get to the end. 

Steve/bluewizard