MOVIE: Re: [HPforGrownups] Horribly dissapointed

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 21722

Crys, sounds like you're going into this ready to be disappointed. I bet
you succeed in your quest. Me, I'm approaching this as an evening out
with a friend, who's going to tell me their version of a story I already
know by heart. I expect some stuff'll be different, and they won't say
some things that I love just the way my other friend always does, but
they may have new turns of phrase or ways of seeing things that I love
just as well. I already know that these two friends know each other,
that the person I'm going to see has heard this story from my older
friend, and so I'm not expecting any major things to be *wrong,* just
different. The story will be the same, in the main.

My main worry was always that the special effects would drown anything
else, story included. No more; the cast is more than able to carry the
movie, relegating the effects back to where they belong, in a
"supporting" role. I never thought they'd be able to make a movie with
this much "magic," where it was nonetheless almost not noticed (i.e., in
that it is simply appropriate and fits, the way a superb soundtrack is
"not heard"). So I, myself, fully expect changes, but I also expect to
have more positives than negatives about the movie version.

--Amanda, philosophical this morning, oh, my

Meaker Domus Ludus wrote:

> The Color Purple was an American Movie, made for americans by
> americans.
> Harry Potter is Britisha nd should be treated as such.
>
> And for every Color Purple there is a Lord of the rings.  Maybe two
> <G>.
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> Also I am not going to base a feature length movie on the
> > 8 minutes of previews that I have seen so far.
> > Heidi. H.
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> The thing with trailers is they show you the best of the movie
> ......... and
> sometimes you see the best of the movie in 8 minutes <G>.
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> Pax,
> Crys


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