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

[Kaisenji]

Believe it or not I have a sympathetic ear, its just a bit red now
from all the same old same babblity-blah!  Believe me I had my gripes
in the beginning of the film! It took me nearly 45 mins to really get
into it. I'm going again tonight to "see" what others said they
didn't/did like as once isn't enough (when is it ever?)
I think, and maybe some will agree here for sure, that PoA will be
nothing else if hotly debated for the lack thereof specific parts and
brillance in other places.

Kai
*who is way calmer now*

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Melody" <Malady579 at h...> wrote:

> 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.


 
> 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.
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I was just being sarcastic; I'm an old net witch, taunting is left
only for monty python sites.

 
> > 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.  :)

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LOL! Someone at work asked me if JKR was god in our Potterverse. I
told them not to stomp on my religion.


Melody says:
> Would be interesting.  We have a whole FILK site dedicated to HP in
> song.  :)
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Oh my gods. Now I am scared >:)

Melody say:
> 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.
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Its my favorite film to when it comes to Ron's involvement (a horrid
sore spot) as a partner not a comic in the background.


> But why change them?  They already were so good.  That is why we mourn.
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I guess I'm not a super super fan since the chances don't bother me so
long as I get the jist of it. You said it yourself, Melody its an
adaptation-adapting to the mass (but darn them for not asking us
anyway, no?

 
> 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.
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Gotta love Capitalism! Blah, if only I were already doing anthro at
the University level-I'd have a field day with HP :)


> 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. 
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Oh I dunno. I'm always plesantly surprised when I pick up DVDs as I'm
a big time reader not movie watcher.  I'm ashamed to say I've not
picked through everything on the SS or CoS dvd so I'm enjoying the
treats :D when I re-watch them.

Believe it or not I have a sympathetic ear (this annoyance as only
been building since last night over several websites), its just a bit
red now from all the same old same babblity-blah!  Believe me I had my
gripes in the beginning of the film! It took me nearly 45 mins to
really get into it. I'm going again tonight to "see" what others said
they didn't/did like as once isn't enough (when is it ever?)
I think, and maybe some will agree here for sure, that PoA will be
nothing else if hotly debated for the lack thereof specific parts and
brillance in other places.

Kai
*who is way calmer now*