Whats your opinion on the movies?? - Page 4

GrayMouser · 11-28-2010, 08:17 PM

A full week after the release of the latest movie and not one comment in the Harry Potter forum?

***Rían*** · 11-29-2010, 11:12 AM

I'm too lazy to start a thread

We saw it - general feeling was that it was pretty slow. Some gorgeous scenery, though. And for me, Voldy just isn't as scary as before - seeing him chair a meeting made him just lose something - wait, did they have doughnuts on the table? Did he show some viewgraphs? Also reminded me of the Evil Overlord thing - that was hilarious - wonder if that list is still floating around the net ...

Pitchike12 · 12-06-2010, 06:37 PM

I like the new movie, but the new movie is OK too.

inked · 01-02-2011, 11:27 PM

Abysmal. You really have to read this for yourself. But in all the Potter boards I've been involved with over the years, and all the discussions I have had with folks pro/con Harry, nothing ...NOTHING... quite rushes in like this.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141433

Then, again, consider the source, I suppose, for the remarks (not the reporting).

EllethValatari · 01-03-2011, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inked

Abysmal. You really have to read this for yourself. But in all the Potter boards I've been involved with over the years, and all the discussions I have had with folks pro/con Harry, nothing ...NOTHING... quite rushes in like this.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141433

Then, again, consider the source, I suppose, for the remarks (not the reporting).

"It's a plot! A plot to make us all Zionists!"

Very amused by the amount of work that went into this video-any. They can find as many horrible themes in it as they want; it won't change what the book actually centers around. Nothing! It's a kids book! They might as well be saying that my favorite children's book, Goodnight Moon incorporates the Greek paganistic views of praying to the moon.

Sorry for my rant. That was a ridiculous video.

In response to the first post, I like all the movies. They are very entertaining and I've watched them each many times. I don't really see a difference from the different directors, but then again I haven't read the books. Too much very light pleasure reading for my schedule. Too busy reading Tolkien and studying! But the movies are very fun to watch.

inked · 07-16-2011, 06:48 PM

Part two of the Hollywood version of the end of Harry Potter, uselessly prolonged, apparently.

Having divided it into two parts, they could have done Nagini’s death properly after having done Neville’s speech and torture properly. They went all Hollywood at that point and rendered a most powerful scene virtually pointless – unless you just “luv” Hollywood chase scenes as a crude attempt to build tension. The whole bit with Snape’s death by Nagini striking 3 times after the useless sectum sepra spell by Voldemort was overdone. Frankly, I’m really shocked that JKR allowed those crucial changes. They could have presented them as written without difficulty. I also found the whole tenor of the story hollywoodized (in the sense of bowdlerized) by the interactions of Lord Voldemort with the death of the horcruxes and their secondary impact on Harry. I thought it crucial in the books that Voldemort had passed beyond the capability of knowing such because of the mutilation of his own soul, in fact, I seem to recall Dumbledore telling Harry that.

On the other hand, it followed the conventions of the Hollywood action-adventure movie and one can see how the limitations of the medium limited the story. No surprise, really. And it could have been worse, I suppose. I shan’t be making a second trip to the theatre to see it. I’ll wait till I get the movie as a DVD as a gift to see it again. It unimpressed me that much.

11-28-2010, 08:17 PM	#1
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	A full week after the release of the latest movie and not one comment in the Harry Potter forum? __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

11-29-2010, 11:12 AM	#2
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I'm too lazy to start a thread We saw it - general feeling was that it was pretty slow. Some gorgeous scenery, though. And for me, Voldy just isn't as scary as before - seeing him chair a meeting made him just lose something - wait, did they have doughnuts on the table? Did he show some viewgraphs? Also reminded me of the Evil Overlord thing - that was hilarious - wonder if that list is still floating around the net ... __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-06-2010, 06:37 PM	#3
Pitchike12 Enting Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: In the land of Mordor Posts: 56	I like the new movie, but the new movie is OK too. __________________ Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -Gandalf

01-02-2011, 11:27 PM	#4
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Harry and Zionism? The Dark Lord rising .......... Abysmal. You really have to read this for yourself. But in all the Potter boards I've been involved with over the years, and all the discussions I have had with folks pro/con Harry, nothing ...NOTHING... quite rushes in like this. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141433 Then, again, consider the source, I suppose, for the remarks (not the reporting). __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

07-16-2011, 06:48 PM	#6
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Unhallowed, unhonoured, and unsung............ Part two of the Hollywood version of the end of Harry Potter, uselessly prolonged, apparently. Having divided it into two parts, they could have done Nagini’s death properly after having done Neville’s speech and torture properly. They went all Hollywood at that point and rendered a most powerful scene virtually pointless – unless you just “luv” Hollywood chase scenes as a crude attempt to build tension. The whole bit with Snape’s death by Nagini striking 3 times after the useless sectum sepra spell by Voldemort was overdone. Frankly, I’m really shocked that JKR allowed those crucial changes. They could have presented them as written without difficulty. I also found the whole tenor of the story hollywoodized (in the sense of bowdlerized) by the interactions of Lord Voldemort with the death of the horcruxes and their secondary impact on Harry. I thought it crucial in the books that Voldemort had passed beyond the capability of knowing such because of the mutilation of his own soul, in fact, I seem to recall Dumbledore telling Harry that. On the other hand, it followed the conventions of the Hollywood action-adventure movie and one can see how the limitations of the medium limited the story. No surprise, really. And it could have been worse, I suppose. I shan’t be making a second trip to the theatre to see it. I’ll wait till I get the movie as a DVD as a gift to see it again. It unimpressed me that much. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941 Last edited by inked : 07-16-2011 at 06:50 PM. Reason: addenda et corriegenda

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