SS/PS MOVIE DISCUSSION

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I must say that "Stop him!" is an improvement over "Seize him!" but
> the omitted scenes and information, particularly Snape's clever
> Potions riddle with its curtains of fire (choose the wrong 
> potion and you're poisoned or trapped by fire), are disappointing


zanooda:

They found Snape's riddle not cinematographic enough, I guess :-).


> Carol wrote:

> I'm trying to think of CGI scenes in SS/PS specifically (other than
> McGonagall's transformation from cat to woman, which was just done
> with shadows)


zanooda:

But later she transformed again in class, this time without any shadows.


> Carol wrote:

> The troll was okay (didn't LOTR borrow bits of that scene a few 
> years later?)


zanooda:

Nah, LOTR troll was scarier and much less human-like :-). 


> Carol wrote:

> Firenze and Quirrell!mort, as I've already
> said, not so good.


zanooda:

Agreed, but I must say that I find non-CG LV in makeup not much better
than Quirrell!Mort :-).