HBP Sartoris22 comment - and my thoughts on what they did to it

[Primula Brandybuck]

Brian said,
  Having now seen HBP in IMAX, I agree. I really hoped, having seen it on
  my computer, that it would look better on the big screen.
  Well, it did look better, but I still found it disappointing.
  I had intended to boycott seeing it more than once, and really thought
  I'd have trouble doing that, but I have to say that I actually didn't
  feel any great desire to see it again. I still have it on computer and
  haven't bothered to watch it again.

Carol commented
What I didn't like and still find frustrating is the 
diminution of the Half-blood Prince himself. Snape in 
both his manifestations, teenage "friend" and helper 
and enigmatic adult, should have had much more screen 
time. (I actually read a review that said he was too 
transparently evil--obviously, that reviewer is in for 
a surprise in DH2.


Primula Brandybuck:
I've been lurking here trying to decide if I should invest the money to 
go see HBP at the IMAX or not at all. I figure that if a HP movie is 
worth seeing, I may as well go for the best viewing venue.

Though I have not seen the movie yet, I do wonder why they did to 
it.....  that is, choose Yates for the director again.

I thought Alfonso Cueron  and POA was very artistic and filled in 
blanks nicely enough for those who haven't read the books.  He is my 
favorite director and I'd like to know why they didn't keep him for the 
next movies.  I saw POA 3 times and happily paid for the expensive IMAX 
ticket after I had seen it twice in the regular theaters.

Compared to POA I felt GOF was annoying as hell. Newell just couldn't 
live up to the bar set by Cueron.  DD had not one endearing trait the 
GOF.  If I hadn't read the book and had only gone by the movies, DD's 
demise in HBP wouldn't be very tragic.  I had no sympathy for the 
character in the last 2 movies.  In GOF I also kept waiting for 
Hermione to finish her period and lose the whining behavior.  It 
distracted me from the parts I may have liked. I had no need to see 
that one at the IMAX.

Then they picked Yates to direct the next four movies. OOP was just 
simply boring and lackluster. I had no need to see it at the IMAX 
because it wasn't interesting enough to see again at all for me.  I do 
think  Cueron would have been able to make the ministry as creepy as it 
was in the book.

So why  Yates again?  His trailers are even boring.  How did Yates get 
picked to do the next four movies?  Seriously, why?  IMO he is the most 
uninteresting director out of all the four directors even though 
Newell's character development of the kids was annoying.

The music in OOP by Nicholas Hooper was also boring compared to the 
other movies.  Music is a very important part of an adventure movie and 
a series.  Maybe Yates wouldn't seem so boring if he had had better 
music, but Hooper does the music for HBP too.

Brian's comments and Carol's comments have been the tipping point for 
me, and I thank you both.  I've decided to skip the $20. IMAX ticket 
and wait for HBP to come out in video and maybe watch it then.  HBP was 
the book when I stopped enjoying the series anyway.  The story truly 
stopped being any fun at all.  I can only envision HBP as more of a 
horror movie if they have kept the movie close to the book.

Primula Brandybuck

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