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Originally posted by Greg B
This movie is the SHHHHIZNITSKY!!!
I ain't seen a movie this well made in a long freakin' time.
Do NOT, I repeat Do NOT see this movie if you're on drugs. It will fuck you up.
Definitely the best of the Harry Potter movies. Freakin' awesome. Just awesome!
Everybody in the U.K. should take a day off and just sit back and say they know how to do a great job. Just fuckitall and take a damned day off knowing you guys know your crafts.
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I was seriously going to start this thread this morning. Since you did, I'll hijack ;)
DO NOT GO SEE THE HARRY POTTER MOVIE!!!
Not to come off as one of the bookish geeks, this 3rd installment was the FURTHEST from the JK Rawlings books yet. The director of the first two movies stepped down - He was a STORYTELLER. This new director is AN ARTIST.
*TEASER WARNING*
They nearly Completely cut out the Marauder's Map. The backstory to it is completely missing! They don't even explain who those four characters (Moony, Padfoot, Wormtail and Prongs) even are!!! The beginning of "Goblet" almost REQUIRES this knowledge. Overall, the first two were the most true-to-book so far. This one veers way off track.
According to Entertainment Weekly the new director went to Rawlings for approval on a BUNCH of new things - things that weren't in the book. He added a clock tower to the campus (to tie in with the time travel at the end of the film) but she nixed his idea to put a graveyard on-campus. 142 minutes long (almost 2 1/2 hours), by far the shortest Potter movie yet. Fans will be sadly disappointed. We were. Lucky us, we get the next movie dumped on us at Christmas (november) just in time for major marketing efforts. In the next film, they originally wanted to make TWO movies from "... The Goblet of Fire" but that got shot down too. I suppose that means they'll just chopped out a bunch of interesting backstory instead.
You'll really have to twist my arm to go see the next one.
For those of you "WOW THOSE SPECIAL FX KIKZ AZZ" well... You just don't get it. The allure of the Potter series (both book AND movie) for the majority of people is the STORYTELLING, not the fx. Sure they were neat. But I felt I missed out on so much story for a 5 minute montage of shit freezing when the dementors appeared. Come on!
Go if you want to, but i wish i hadn't wasted my $$ on it.