PoA-What do you think about the film??

[choki]

Awwww the chicken priestess missed the chicken part?
Draco refers Buckbeak as a chicken after it slashed him...
"You will pay for that...you and your chicken..." said Draco to Hagrid.
(If my memory didn't fail me everyone in the theatre laughed!)

[harrylover]

that chicken thing is so crazy choki...

[Mint]

(Draco must be really brave to give Buckbeak such a complement after he almost killed him Then again, considering how strong Buckbeak is - he probably is a chicken )

erm....and the movie was very good o_o (trying to stay on topic)

[Female_alien]

lol, Mint, that was funny



yeah, the movie really was good

[harrylover]

by and large i liked the film

[ganymede]

in very short:

i loved the special effects, emma's acting, the funny scenes the hermione-time-thing

i hate daniel's acting the fact that the book had been chopped mercilessly, and that half the sets were wrong.

[Eol]

I didn't like the film at all. It was highly disappointing.

First of all I think they cast the wrong guy for Lupin. He wasn't as kind as portrayed in the books. Then I thought they had Dumbledore as too bumbly although Gambon does well in the part.

What was with the titanic rip-off when Harry was riding Buckbeak? I burst out laughing when that bit came up.

The thing that really annoyed me was that there was no explanation at all of Padfoot, Moony, Wormtail and Prongs. Why would he leave that out? That's integral to the story.

Overall I got the feeling that the whole film was rushed and much of the story depth was sacrificed for fancy special effects and arty camera pans.

I sincerely hope that GoF isn't handled in the same way.

[Eol]

Apologies for the double post but I just wanted to say a big "good on you" to the actor playing Neville for losing quite a bit of weight . Its just now he's just not quite Neville anymore is he?

[paintballdecoy]

Well, considering the second was shot like two years ago I would amagine people would change. Aren't horomones great? To bad Radcliffes acting skills hadn't matured...i guess he is an ugly duckling. Horrible in the first six, but brilliant in the seventh. The thing he learns is, when crying, turn away from the camera, not sneak a peak to see if its there!!!

[choki]

What was with the titanic rip-off when Harry was riding Buckbeak? I burst out laughing when that bit came up.

I was wondering the same thing too...just waiting for Harry to yell a "Wooohooo, I'm the king of the world" phrase.

There's a merit in this movie of course, the music!

[Fool on the hill]

Finally I saw the movie last Saturday and... I don't know. I have to say that I laughed so hard I couldn't breath anymore on my way home (bad idea to watch the film when you've got a cold), but mostly not because of the good jokes... I know the story by heart, I reckon, so I could pay attention to the details. It bothered me that they left out so many important parts (who are Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs? - Lupin's potion - non-existant explanation in the Shrieking Shack scene - etc.), otherwise I would have loved the movie.

It struck me very odd that Harry's boggart had the time to turn itself into a Dementor, because you saw it in that form for some bloody seconds and still Lupin jumped in front of Harry thinking it would turn into Voldemort. Oh, and the gramophone music was weird.
And - I almost fainted when I say the werewolf! Oh my goodness! It looked like a naked monkey!
The scene with Harry and Hermione and the Whomping Willow was ridiculous in my opinion. It seemed so silly and bad to me that I stopped laughing after a few seconds. There was another thing I really didn't like, but I can't remember now.

For the actors, I think Gary Oldman did a great job. Rupert Grint was very good this time (I didn't like his grimaces in the first two films) and Daniel Radcliffe was okay, probably because I saw a synchronised version Emma Watson - for me, she's unsympathetic and simply not Hermione. I was surprised how handsome the Weasley twins were.

Besides, I disliked the Dementors because I imagined them to wear proper robes with hoods and float, not fly. And have slimy hands, not skeletal. I think they had to change their appearance because some nincompoops would've thought they're Nazgûls. BUT I liked Buckbeak - very well done - and the Monster book of Monsters, although I imagine it green and just like an ordinary book.

I have to mention that stone; I don't know whether you noticed it, but I loved it. In the scene when Lupin and Harry are walking through the wood (lots of fern in the background) and talking, you can see a rock in the background with a triangular stone on it. It looks somewhat odd and doesn't really fit into the scenery. And when Harry, Hermione and Ron are going downhill to Hagrid's house, you see another rock on the left side - and on it there's The Stone or at least its twin. Ahaha, awesome. Okay, okay, but I was delighted.

[pallas artemis]

I was prepared for a lot of cutting but the thing that still baffles me is the things that took up sooo much time that weren't necesary(sp)!!
The Knight Bus was really well done but could have been half as long and you still would've gotten the idea.
The numorous times the kids walk down to Hagrids? After the first time when their talking on their way to class you don't have to show the kids walking/running down the hill. They show up at Hagrid's and we now they came down the hill, why waste time!
The boys eating the candy in their dormitory was funny but time consuming and had nothing to do with the story!
The Whomping Willow, Harry and Hermione? Funny, but very time consuming and unnecesary(sp). If they'd have left it the way the book had it it could have been much quicker.

All and all I think these things wasted somewhere around fifteen minutes (just a guess) and had they been left out Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs could've been explained along with other things. Something else that could've been added and would've taken like five seconds is Lupin telling Harry he needs to talk to him about his Vampire essay ( something straight out of the books that was cut for no apparent reason)!

Now that I have vented all of that I would like to restate that overall I liked the film itself and have now seen it three time but it did leave much to be desired

[pinky p]

i saw the film and was a bit dissapointed... after all, i was only expecting magic

the dementors flying around like that, and chasing after everyone they saw??? i though that was a bit... weird, or something, i don't know. and the kiss? i thought they were supposed to have them under control, but the dementor was performing the kiss on anyone whenever they had the chance!

the patronus was... not as good as i'd have wanted. when harry sees it at the end the first time, the stag is there, but then when they go back in time and he does it again, the stag isn't there...?

the werewolf i didn't like... it wasn't anything like i thought, and it certainly didn't look like a wolf! i thought it was supposed to be hard to distinguish between the two?????

and there's loads more.... the harry on the hippogriff was definately weird... i was expected him to shout "i'm the king of the world!!"

i saw the movie with my friend, and she's like "neville changed a lot!" and i didn't even recognize him, just thought he was some random ravenclaw!

the filming was a bit home video-ish, if you ask me, at least in some parts. it seems like the camera was very wobbly.

the ending... it was weird, i didn't like it.

all in all, i'd give it 6/10, because it was still a good movie, even if i didn't like the changes from the book.

[ADreamAbove]

If the movie would be longer then what it was - not many people, other than true fans, would go see it. U gotta understand that! I mean, I know a LOT of people who didnt go see LOR movie because it was 3 hours long.

I disagree - LOTR ROTK is currently the #7 top-grossing movie of all time in the US, #8 worldwide. Clearly not that many people were put off.

What irritated me most about #3 is that all the intelligence seems to constellate in Hermione - Harry doesn't figure out about Buckbeak, for instance, and then she says, in that maddeningly superior way, "Clearly something happened he wants us to change..." it makes Harry look like a birdbrain for not openly deducing this on his own. It's like they're trying to build her up (and it's obviously working for the masses, because all of a sudden Emma Watson is the star) but I thought the book Hermione was strong enough on her own. [/i]

[Reverie Revenge]

Well, in many cases I agree with Eichhoernchenkatapult (what a nick, thx Satan for the copy/paste function;).

I liked the movie despite loads of holes in the plot of the screenplay. I kinda expected it because movie was so short - I liked it short, it's human for human bladder Really!!!

Gary Oldman as Sirius (+ his tatoos *sigh*) rules And the dog is also nice! Devinci, you're too cruel - his height doesn't matter at all
I mean, hello, they were just thronging all the time, I hardly saw who's who

The werewolf sucks - it looks like a mutated reptile
I didn't like Lupin in his normal shape neither - no torn clothes! He didn't act like a cool professor but like a know-it-all snob Not to mention the scene where he talks about Lily - was he having a silent crush on her Hello?!

Wormtail sucks from head to foot

Emma & Rupert were cool, I liked the little chemistry between them - it was funny Actually it's the 1st movie where I like Hermione Her ''hair'' comment was so funny

Daniel is much better, he's got a more rebellious pose and this makes his poor acting more authentic. I liked the flight on Buckbeak apart from Titanic scene - in the book Harry was afraid of flying on Hippogrif

Congrats for Neville's actor - much better figure but much less Neville. He's a gifted actor anyway and also good at speaking (interview on CoS DVD).

Dementors looked like weird squids for me, Female_alien's right, they flew like F16 They should have more slimy hands, theese were really too attractive But Dementor's mouth were brilliant!!! I mean, brilliantly made, but very graphically disgusting of course! I loved also the frozen effect

The Buckbeak and monster book really improved my imagination!

Much more humor - I loved that. In CoS I really missed it - thx for Jason Isaacs and his Dark humor Pity he doesn't show up in 3rd movie

Snape - Rickman made even better job than usually I loved the page 394 - how Ron's book opens

It's cool how the ending is shown from 2 perspectives. Timeturner was really cool!

Also the end is good - the end of CoS was really pathetic, such a cliche

I liked new scenery - I've always imagined the Hogwart's surroundings wild!

Draco - his hair suck, so does everything else Only the chicken joke is good . Before some of you murder me: I really liked Tom Felton's acting in previous 2 movies. Don't understand what's wrong with him.

It's good most of movie took place outside the castle - some freshness, I liked the trip to Hogsmeade - it's very close to my imagination 8)

WEASLEY TWINS ROCK AND I WANNA MORE OF THEM IN ALL THE NEXT MOVIES!!!!!! ANYONE ELSE?!?!?! (((In CoS they weren't good at all - no expresion while acting and bad looks but this time - WOW!!! Are they the same actors at all??? )))
So sad they've left the school already in OotP Twins were the true highlight of the movie!!! I want the next book to be called ''Harry Potter and the coolest Weasley Twins'', not the ''HP and the Green Flame Torch''

This has to be enough ... Bye, be critical!