[HPFGU-Movie] Fun at the Movies

[Valerie Flowe]

- I like Snape and Lucius better in the movies than in the books.
Also Luna. She's more spacy/adorable than batty.
- I really love the "You tell those spiders Ron!" when Ron is having a 
nightmare about spiders. Cute!
- And also the added scene of the boys clowning around in their dorms 
eating the candy. Nice touch.
- I thought the Ministry of Magic scene with the death-eaters in OotP 
was much more visually exciting in the movie than was described in the 
book. Much more dramatic and grandiose. And the effects of the DE's 
flying like black smoke and the Order flying like white smoke, was 
quite cool.
The Dumbledore/Voldemort scene was quite powerful with all the 
shattering glass, though I still hate that they left out the line in 
the book where Voldemort, speaking through Harry, tells Dumbledore to 
kill him. Much more poignant in the the book version, IMO.
Gosh, I could go on, but now I will have to go back and see all the 
movies again!
Today I came across OotP in Spanish on cable...I watched it for awhile 
(I don't speak Spanish, lol) but because I've seen the American version 
25x, I knew what they were saying. Hermione sounded just like herself. 
As did Luna! Very weird to hear Spanish coming out of Harry's mouth, 
though. And Umbridge was just as hideous and evil in Spanish as she was 
in English!

On Mar 1, 2009, at 10:45 PM, potioncat wrote:

> A few questions, just for fun.
>
>  Do you have any favorite scenes in any of the movies? Ones that you
>  just particularly like, and why?
>
>  Are there any scenes in the movies that you actually like better than
>  the books? Again, why. Or, did you like any characters better in the
>  movies than the books?
>
>  Do you have any funny stories about going to the HP movies?
>
>  Potioncat, weary from the family night of Lord of the Rings, but 
> really
>  liked the line, "Kill the troll!"
>
>