tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post6888959447790190382..comments2014-09-16T18:23:59.867-04:00Comments on The Line by AlexanderKhan: Harry Potter and the Importance of PacingAlexanderKhanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230593415564193226noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post-81011614290454828412009-07-16T13:02:23.414-04:002009-07-16T13:02:23.414-04:00I started watching the movies before I read the bo...I started watching the movies before I read the books, so my philosophy about judging the movies is pretending the books don't exist. If it works as a movie they've done their job. It might upset some people with certain expectations, but they've proven to me that they know what they're doing and I feel as though I'm in good hands.AlexanderKhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13230593415564193226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post-2110508995612737962009-07-16T12:40:37.717-04:002009-07-16T12:40:37.717-04:00I would agree that the movie was well done in term...I would agree that the movie was well done in terms of including all of the important details, but while I've begrudgingly conceeded that previous movies were done well even though they weren't EXACTLY like the book, this movie included stuff that wasn't even in the book and changed drastically the stuff that was!<br /><br />I know you argued with Sam that the whole "Battle of Hogwarts" is going to happen in the 7th movie, but the anger and the hate between Snape and Harry was not captured AT ALL in the movie. They even had their own little scene together at the end and Snape was just like ... blah. The Death Eaters just killed Dumbledore and scampered off into the forest without much of a fight at all. I think Bellatrix blasted some poor shmuck out of the doorway, but that was it. The whole point of Hogwarts is that it's supposed to be a safe, impenetrable haven and 5 Death Eaters just mosey on through. That's what disappointed me the most. That was a pivotal moment in the story and the movie completely omitted it.<br /><br />Instead of Harry and Ginny wandering around in a damn corn field (what was even the POINT of that?), which didn't happen in the book, all of that time and energy should have been spent in a tussle between the Order and the Death Eaters. Otherwise, why did they even make the 5th movie?<br /><br />The other movies were close enough to perfect that I didn't care, but this one was just offensive.Alinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post-2161735055993476682009-07-16T12:20:19.414-04:002009-07-16T12:20:19.414-04:00I wish they would have cast Gambon from the start....I wish they would have cast Gambon from the start. Harris was too frail and soft spoken for the role. Dumbledore is a very mysterios charactor and he does have a bit of an edge to him, and Gambon embodies that much better than Harris did.AlexanderKhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13230593415564193226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post-44178824712720939102009-07-16T12:00:36.244-04:002009-07-16T12:00:36.244-04:00I haven't seen this movie, yet, but as a die-h...I haven't seen this movie, yet, but as a die-hard fan of the books, I agree that for the most part, the movies are very well done. My one complaint is that oftentimes, if you haven't read the book, you don't understand what is going on in the movie. This was evident when I had a post-Goblet of Fire conversation with some movie-goers who had not read the book. The assumptions they had made about why things were happening demonstrated that they completely missed why some scenes were so critical. Of course, I think that could've been solved by making two movies out of most of the books! <br /><br />I completely agree, though, that everything in the books does not need to be on the screen, but when you're dealing with books as well known as the HP series, I think you need to be very careful when adding scenes. There's so much material to start with, that create more seems silly.<br /><br />I can't wait to see the movie. Daniel Radcliffe is the perfect Harry Potter, but this would've been the perfect film for the "real" Dumbledore, Richard Harris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2244179965818646686.post-27973776719792672402009-07-16T11:25:56.943-04:002009-07-16T11:25:56.943-04:00Although I agree with you that it's an amaizin...Although I agree with you that it's an amaizing series, and you know how much I love HP. I was disappointed in the movie. I know that for time purposes there have to be edits but the scene I looked forward to the most didn't make it, and I really think it was pivotal. I did love the expansion of the characters as people but overall I just didn't have the same sense of enrapture that I did with the rest. Pls. understand I'm comparing to other HP movies! Compared to most movies based on books it was a home run.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03614183441955068147noreply@blogger.com