Half-Blood Prince

[sistermagpie]

> Geoff:
> I have seen most of his output. I saw "My Boy Jack" last year but 
> haven't been able to watch the DVD. This is not his fault but the 
> fact that the story, a true one, was so gut-wrenching that I felt 
> moved to tears and the "men don't cry" syndrome led me to put 
> it back on the shelf each time I pick it up. But he did a good job.
> 
> I saw him in the London production of "Equus" and was greatly 
> enthused by the whole production - more than the film version 
> which I had previously watched.

Magpie:
I admit there's pretty much nobody I liked from the HP films, but I 
only saw the first two. Watching clips of OotP I thought scenes with 
the adult actors seemed like a totally different film and the kids 
were mostly still making me cringe. I still don't much like DR in 
other things I've seen, including My Boy Jack (I found both the story 
and his performance pretty uninspiring). For those reasons I was glad 
I liked him in Equus more than I thought I was going to, but he 
didn't wow me. 

Still, when it comes to kids acting that really is up to the director 
so even though I don't like the kids in the early movies especially I 
put that more on the director than the kids. And that actually holds 
true as they become teenagers too. There are child actors who are 
very good but acting as a child is very different than acting like an 
adult--the latter is harder imo. DR seems to be really putting an 
effort to learn the craft so I admire him for that. I remember 
watching one scene for OotP where I thought it was painful just 
watching some of those kids try to work with their wands. They didn't 
sell it at all.

-m