POA Spoilers (Long & might tick a few ppl off but that's life!)

[Melody]

Kai wrote:
> While there were gaps missing in the film some of which even annoyed
> me, when thought about, did I really need to see two Quidditch
> matches?  How relevant IS an explanation of the stag?  Does it 
> lessen the feel of watching Dementors scatter like rats? No I don't
> think so.  And who gives a flying fignut if it didn't follow parts 
> of the book but took liberties. Independent directors are just that;
> independent.

There is always a desire for honest opinions on our site.  Even those
that disagree with the ones we have.  It is fine with me if you
don't...how did you say it..."give a flying fignut" if not all of the
book is in the film.  It is fine with me that you loved it.  I hope
people do.  It gets them to read the books.  I guess the problem I
have with what you just posted is that you don't give me the liberty
to not like it.  

See.  I adore Prisoner of Azkaban.  With beyond a passion.  It is my
favorite book, because of the twists and deepness of emotion and
history within it.  All those twist that I love, all that insight to
the series, all the build up, makes this movie the hardest for Warner
Bros to sell to me.  I almost can't take a movie that does not have
the intricacies of the book.  I will of course watch it, but I know,
already I will be disappointed.

Disappointed, because I know they let me down. Mainly because no sane
person, and by that I assume myself as insane about all things HP,
would sit through a six hour movie.  Which is what it will take to
produce a play by play movie of PoA.

In my mind, they *can't* improve PoA by cutting things.  It is
brilliant as it is.  Maybe, Warner Bros should have done Harry Potter
the television series, not the movie.  It is the only semi-purest way
of doing it.

But having babbled a bit I do agree with you.  Our expectations might
be high.  And we are doomed to be hurt.  But please allow us to mourn
a bit of the loss.  We post here for a sympathetic ear.  Kind of like
what Star Wars fans have to do when they see their new movie.  After
the 200th view they start to like it.  But until then, they bitch with
the rest of them about them.  I think because superfans really have
built their expectations so high, that you can never match them.  But
that is a bit psychology 101 not a professional opinion.


Kai wrote also:
> And ah..lets not forget ppl (I am so TIRED of hearing this that from
> now on, I'm just going to ignore whiners or taunt them which ever
> works) 

Please do not do that.  I am a mod on this site, and taunting people
for their opinions, no matter what they chose to think, is rude and
not accepted on this site.  We prefer ignoring them.  Also please
spell out people instead of ppl.  Netspeak is hard for some of our
international, English as a second language, listees to read.


> it's not suppose to follow the WHOLE book. 

No, but it should.  You are on a super fan crazed Harry Potter site. 
JKR is a god here.  You do not edit god's work.  :)


> Do we need to make this into a song?

Would be interesting.  We have a whole FILK site dedicated to HP in
song.  :)


> Did SS follow the whole book? 

No.  It butchered it.  And that was the shortest one. It was good for
imagery though.  And a sense of wonder.  I still miss the Christmas
scene.  It adds such warmth.  Also Hermione's challenge with the
potions.  It establishes a pattern we find very important to the
books, but since the movie left it out, we are left to wonder what is
important and what isn't.


> We KNOW CoS didn't follow the whole book and in fact like PoA 
> changed some scenes or deleted them all together.  

But why change them?  They already were so good.  That is why we mourn. 


> And frankly, no offense to those who haven't read Book 3, I don't 
> need a running commentary of Book 3-I've read it several times 
> already. What I was hoping to get from PoA is a visual story to the 
> one already in my head.  

And you are precisely right there.  That is what the movies offer.  It
is not a faithful rendering of the books.  It is an adaptation.  It is
something we as fans must accept, but we still mourn the loss.  We
adore HP so much.  It is like going to school only learning how to add
and subtract not multiply and divide.  You can get by with just adding
and subtracting, but it cheapens math.  Hmm, that was an odd
comparison.  :)  


> If that's all you did, you wasted your money.

I am not sure why we subject ourselves to the let down knowing going
in that it will probably disappoint.  We just have to see it.  See how
someone else interprets it.  It is what we do on this site.  Not
everyone here agrees with my view of HP
(::cough::MagicDishwasher::cough::), but we all read others theories
to see if they see something we didn't.  I think that is why we go to
the movie.  We have to see how it is presented to us.  And besides,
spending money to keep the HP juggernaut fed is not money wasted.  We
prefer to live in that world.

 
> Ok, I'm done ranting...for now I hope not to repeat it.

You can always rant on our site, but please allow others to hold their
own opinions and post them.  We discuss things, not declare things.


> I too, can not WAIT for the DVD because I know Alfonso has left some
> real treats for us (and who ever bids highest to play the whole 
> movie (cut scenes and all). How delicious THAT would be! I only wish 
> he could do OotP because its going to need a director to really work
> the character's emotions.  

I do not see how he can do that in 2 and half hours.  It cannot be
done with any grace or retain anything similar to the book.  

 
> Kai
> *Who is quite immune to flames due working with inmates*

We are not flaming inmates that have gone through the system.  We are
just passionate HP fans that only need space to recover when things
don't go the way we dream and space to lobby for a sympathetic ear.


Melody