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

[geoff_bannister]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Primula Brandybuck <snape_still_lives at ...> wrote:

Primula Brandybuck:
> 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.

Geoff:
It's always very interesting to see how people's views differ so widely. Since 
GOF, I've made  point of seeing the films three times if I can manage to fit 
them in. I've certainly felt that OOP and HBP have been better as films 
although  I agree with many writers that there are things missing from the 
films which should have been there if only to make sense to a viewer who 
is not familiar with the books. And, of course, I and others have already 
referred to scenes which do not stem from the books and, to me, often 
merely waste valuable film time.

One thing I particularly noticed - and enjoyed - in HBP was the contrast 
between moments of extreme action and activity and balancing scenes 
where the scene was one of quiet and reflection . This was also true of 
the musical score where the same contrast appeared. Patrick Doyle and 
Nicholas Hooper have certainly steered the soundtrack away from the 
rather predictable furrow ploughed by John Williams.