Harry Potter Movie

Abaddon

I saw this on Saturday and...

NOW I AM A SERVANT OF THE DARK LORD BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

... it was very cool.

Visually very faithful to the books; eerything looks as it 'should', which is really hard. The screenplay was an acceptable compromise between the brevity neccesary in converting a book to a film, although one part (the Dursley's leaving Privett Drive to escape the letters and being hunted down by Hagrid) was done very badly.

The actors were excellent, and (thank god, nothing against American's, but I object to English stories being Americanised for no reason other than American cultural Imperialism) an excellent cast of top-quality 'supporting' English, or I should say British (as Robbie Coltraine is great as Hagrid (and BIG!)) actors backing up excellent performances from the new talents of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Draco. Harry is spot on perfect, Ron needs to be more scruffy, and Hermione is wonderfully superior at times.

A new 'children's classic' movie, with six more to come apparently (there's going to be seven books in all).

AND I saw the trailer for 'Attack of the Clones' AND 'Fellowship of the Ring' is out in December!! Has anyone seen the trailer for the LOTR film? I downloaded it; the hobbits are little (even though they're normal sized actors)! Ah! The wonders of CGI (I assume).

One thing I find really funny... in the US the film is called 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone', as was the book, instead of 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone', as apparently the publishers were afraid many American's wouldn't know what a Philosopher was!!! I love it! The best American jokes are the ones you guys make without realising it!!

People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...

wonderwoman77

I saw the movie saturday. It was excellent. very good, and a great representation of the book. I loved it. :)

ashitaka

Harry Potter is leaven!!! Beware!!!lOLOLOLOLOL

I hope it's good, I'm going this weekend.

thanks for the review.

ashi

jelly

I saw Harry Potter sunday and thought it was very good. I never read the book so I did not have any preconcieved ideas about how the plot line should develop.

LOTR looks like its going to be a great movie.

the new Star Wars flick looks like it is going to suck.

Jelly

Tina

Hi Ab,
I'm hoping to see it very soon!
I have to agree about the English cast. That was one fear I had when I first heard they were going to make the film. I didn't want the flavour and ambience ruined by Americanizing it. So glad that didn't happen. Thanks for sharing.hugs,Tina

Vive Bene
Spesso L'amore
Di Risata Molto!!!

Eyebrow

It was the best movie adaptation of a book I have ever seen!

gambler

I hope the next star wars movie dosent suck as bad as phantom menace did. As a big fan of the first trilagy I was sorly dissapointed.What was lucas thinking, he made that movie for five year olds,way too kiddish.He needed to ad alot more drama and suspence and some figgin diolog.Mabey he is simply overrated and he got lucy with the first three..

jelly

I agree Gambler,

The first star wars was great, blood, action, drama. almost perfect. The Phantom Menace was just a kids movie pure and simple and the next one looks like it was written for 13 year old girls.

I want to see someones arm get hacked off by a light saber!!!!

Jelly

Kaethra

Funny...I didn't notice the different titles. It's called the Philosopher's Stone here in Canada....guess they trust our intelligence. lol!

I wonder why they changed the title of the book at all...

Abaddon

I really must have seen a different version of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi!

There was I thinking they were ALL kids movies.

Are you seriously telling me that Episodes IV, V and VI have brilliant plots, rivetting dialogue and adult themes?

IV is very simplistic, but has a nice climax. V is probably the best, and has suspense and drama, even a plot, and has a cliff hanger ending. Forget not the awfulness that was VI's original ending. How on EARTH can anyone say that VI wasn't a Care-Bear Movie with blasters and space-ships, or is it just me who thinks Ewoks are vile? And it's not a kids movie LOL? The re-make improved the ending to 'OK', and again, the film built to a good climax, even if it still had Ewoks.

Star Wars has always been for the young and young at heart. The Phantom Menace was no different.

Remember, IV, V and VI are a trilogic sub-unit of a larger story sequence, and No.1 of a trilogic sequence is set-up, No.2 is suspense, No.3 is resolution, a sequence that almost always hold true.

Of course, IV, V and VI were about a young man (Skywalker) and his close group of friends. Episode I was about a young boy being found; maybe that's why some people think it's a 'kids movie', as opposed to IV, V and VI, which had no kids in them.

But I can't see a way of making a film about the young Anakin Skywalker without being open to those criticisms! Also, as was IV, Episode I is the first of a trilogic sequence, and is setting up the story for II and III.

As a series of prequels, they are stymied by us knowing, however good the plot is in II and III, that Anakin will fall, but again, there is no way of avoiding this.

I think many people dislike Episode I (and are preparing to dislike II based on a trailer) as IV, V and VI are viewed through the warm lens of nostalga, rather than as films in their own right, and obviously look better. Epsiode I was not better than V, but then, IV and VI were not better than V.

Personally, even with Ja-Ja Binks (yes, a kiddie character, and no way as cool as Chewie, but essentailly performing the same function in the story), I is about as good as IV and VI, possibly slightly better, and superior visually to all the rest (although the re-made original trilogy are pretty awesome).

Oh, and Darth Maul was bifircated; far cooler than sissy hand-chopping off...

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