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re: Any Harry Potter fans in here ?
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:15 pm to Pitch To Johnny
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:15 pm to Pitch To Johnny
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Still thoroughly enjoyed both. "Always." made late teen PTJ put the book down tearing up and contemplating life as a whole
One of 3 moments in that final book that made me tear up. Though it's hard for me to admit that.
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Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:25 pm to sportsaddit68
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My biggest complaint with the movie was the 3rd movie. All they needed was 3-5 minutes to explain the Maruaders Map and who Padfoot Prongs Wormtail and Moony were and about the map they created and would have bonded those characters together better and made a betrayal that much more significant.
While PoA is one of my favorite of the movies, I really could not believe that they didnt explain that in the movie. I remember sitting in the theater as the credits were rolling in disbelief that Lupin didnt explain it to him at the end.
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My other complaints with the later movies might have taken more than 5 minutes to fix so I will just leave it at that.
Go on...
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:29 pm to The Godfather
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While PoA is one of my favorite of the movies, I really could not believe that they didnt explain that in the movie. I remember sitting in the theater as the credits were rolling in disbelief that Lupin didnt explain it to him at the end.
PoA is easily one of my favorites books. The movie was good but I really didn't enjoy the huge set changes on the out side. It wasn't subtle. The whopping willow, Hagrid's house and the overall lighting was very different.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:29 pm to sportsaddit68
quote:Agreed. Assuming I had the same 2-3. Just sat through a movie rewatch with my girlfriend that had never seen or read the books/movies. Was fun answering questions and anticipating the waterworks.
One of 3 moments in that final book that made me tear up. Though it's hard for me to admit that.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:51 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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PoA is easily one of my favorites books. The movie was good but I really didn't enjoy the huge set changes on the out side. It wasn't subtle. The whopping willow, Hagrid's house and the overall lighting was very different.
IMO the POA movies main contribution to the series was changing the tone with the severity of the challenge for Harry and the rest of the wizarding world. Agree with you, it was harsh in POA, but the tone change was clearly kept and made OOTP, in particular, much better than if it still had a similar tone of the first two.
Edit: spelling because after almost 25 years of Harry Potter spellcheck doesn’t recognize “wizarding”
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 5/13/21 at 12:52 pm to AURaptor
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Even the parts where Rowling ripped off Tolkien.
Every piece of work now borrows from one piece of work or another. It doesn’t lessen the value of either. Thinking otherwise is just asinine.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 5:02 pm to boxcarbarney
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So the reason we got an action movie ending, instead of the slow burn confrontation in the books, is because of a producer?
Honestly a lot of idiocy in films is due to idiot producers interfering. I’d say they frick up the movie way more often than the director.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 5:02 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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With the technology to make movies today, if they chose to reshoot the entire Harry Potter series for something like Netflix or HBO Max and stayed faithful to the books which includes such things as Peeves, SPEW, Winky, Hermione's war with Rita Skeeter along with much more accurate and deep dives it would be a totally different story. That much was either changed or left out!
HBO is indeed doing this.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 5:18 pm to OMLandshark
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HBO is indeed doing this.
Link?
Posted on 5/13/21 at 6:32 pm to jkylejohnson
Call me a snob or something, but I find all the movies after POA to be unwatchable.
Really SS and POA are the only ones I'll stop and watch.
I thought OOTP was the best book but everything that made it good was basically unfilmmable. It's a book preoccupied with grief and an internal maturation process in fits and starts. Characters begin to act (more) like real people. Dumbledore begins to treat students like adults. The witching world begins to see real consequences for the actions of students and adults alike.
HBP was the second best book but they took the worst part (teen romance) and put it at the forefront. That movie should have been entirely focused on the history of Voledmort and the attack on Hogwarts.
I hated the Deathly Hallows book and both movies. Really thought it was complete shite all around.
Really SS and POA are the only ones I'll stop and watch.
I thought OOTP was the best book but everything that made it good was basically unfilmmable. It's a book preoccupied with grief and an internal maturation process in fits and starts. Characters begin to act (more) like real people. Dumbledore begins to treat students like adults. The witching world begins to see real consequences for the actions of students and adults alike.
HBP was the second best book but they took the worst part (teen romance) and put it at the forefront. That movie should have been entirely focused on the history of Voledmort and the attack on Hogwarts.
I hated the Deathly Hallows book and both movies. Really thought it was complete shite all around.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 6:57 pm to Muthsera
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That movie should have been entirely focused on the history of Voledmort and the attack on Hogwarts.
I can see why they abbreviated the attack due to it being repetitive with the final movie, but Snape and Harry’s showdown is such a letdown in the books. In the books Harry and Snape are just lighting into each other and it’s epic, probably my single favorite scene in all the books. But in the movie it’s as if Snape is just bored. Not Allen Rickman’s fault but the director’s. They really should have shot the final 3 movies simultaneously.
Posted on 5/13/21 at 7:46 pm to OMLandshark
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I can see why they abbreviated the attack due to it being repetitive with the final movie
This is the kind of stuff only Hollywood comes up with. I mean, they're two separate movies
The same basic event can't happen in 2 completely different contexts in 2 completely separate movies? If anything it would have been a great compare/contrast moment. The movies could never have too much Hogwarts IMO, should have had multiple iconic locations brought back up between the two battles and instead we get some random Bridge to Nowhere.
I will say I mostly blame Rowling for many of her decisions in Deathly Hallows. Having Voldemort conquer Hogwarts was retarded - no Wizard family would ever send their kids there to be tortured and/or brainwashed.
It was always my belief the series should have ended in the Department of Mysteries where Death itself existed - what better of a place for Voldemort to face his ultimate fear and for Harry to learn his ultimate strength? Send them in a battle behind the Veil where Harry meets the souls of everyone who gave their life for him.
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 5/13/21 at 7:54 pm to Muthsera
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I will say I mostly blame Rowling for many of her decisions in Deathly Hallows. Having Voldemort conquer Hogwarts was retarded - no Wizard family would ever send their kids there to be tortured and/or brainwashed.
It was always my belief the series should have ended in the Department of Mysteries where Death itself existed - what better of a place for Voldemort to face his ultimate fear and for Harry to learn his ultimate strength? Send them in a battle behind the Veil where Harry meets the souls of everyone who gave their life for him.
Mmmm, I like that they ended it in the Great Hall. But Voldemort hiding the Diadem with no protections in the Room of Requirement was retarded. In the very least hide it in the Chamber of Secrets for God’s sake.
This post was edited on 5/13/21 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:23 am to SLafourche07
yes,yes,yes...the biggest fan is here
Posted on 5/14/21 at 6:15 am to OMLandshark
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Mmmm, I like that they ended it in the Great Hall. But Voldemort hiding the Diadem with no protections in the Room of Requirement was retarded. In the very least hide it in the Chamber of Secrets for God’s sake.
Voldermort's Hubris was his downfall. This was shown better in the books. Hiding the Diadem in the room of requirement was a screw you to Dumbledore because there was a time when Dumbledore became head master and Tom Riddle came back to ask for a teaching jog at Hogwarts. He was already making Horcruxes at this point as his physical appearance as changing and Dumbledore told him no. Also, splitting your soul changes you and its safe to deduce the his judgment was affected.
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 6:16 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:03 pm to BallsEleven
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This thread makes me wonder if I need to go reread the books. I guess now every time I think of HP, I think of what happened in the movies. I've completely forgotten about some of the books stuff mentioned in this thread.
This. The books were much better than the movies but I have seen the movies enough now that it messes me up which was the book scenes and which were the movie scenes. The movie scenes being the ones I remember now.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:08 pm to jkylejohnson
Haven't watched them in a long time but I remember the third one is the fan favorite and the later ones are pretty good but certainly more "adult" as they kind of matured as the audience did as well. DH part 1 was pretty meh but part 2 made up for it.
Also Harry fricking having a chance with Emma Watson and the blonde girl but winds up with his best friend's sister
Also Harry fricking having a chance with Emma Watson and the blonde girl but winds up with his best friend's sister
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:34 pm to dawgfan24348
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Also Harry fricking having a chance with Emma Watson and the blonde girl but winds up with his best friend's sister
Maybe he got some action on the side
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:42 pm to dawgfan24348
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Also Harry fricking having a chance with Emma Watson and the blonde girl but winds up with his best friend's sister
The movies kinda had the kids they had from young, so they didn't get to pick how sexy someone was as they aged up. The books got to use imagination. Ginny was well thought of in books as far as the boys were concerned. Hermione had to use a shite load of hair gel and magical teeth reduction to get attractive. From the books description of Luna, she wasn't as remotely attractive as those two.
He had Cho Chang who got fricked up by Diggory dying and psycho Ramilda Vane trying to love potion him too.
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 3:46 pm
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