Post by Luigi on Jun 5, 2004 23:00:22 GMT -5
This was an e-mail to my friend...Several e-mails, actually. I'm not reformatting it for you.
Just try to make sense out of it.
THEY DON'T EVEN TOUCH UPON THE MARAUDERS, THEM BEING MOONY, WORMTAIL, ETC
Hermione says "I think the [the biting books are] funny". That was OOC, even if it was to defend Hagrid, and besides, Hagrid says it in the book.
What the zark was with the music in the boggart scene? I was actually liking it and Thewlis until he puts on the bloody music. It ruined the scene! But the fact that Harry does the dementor and it shows his fear ruined it as well....
There's somethig about Dumbledore that I can't read. Dumbledoraefasseurbe. Or something. [note: these are all notes I took during the movie, so....yeah)
They also mangled the Snape teaching DADA scene. Everyone was supposed to fight back and stuff. Instead, they added all those scenes where the whomping willow, which is far too small, kills birds and stuff. How many of those scenes where there, 20? What was the point? To get Daniel and people like him to laugh? We already got the point that the whomping willow was mean and vicious in CoS, the Quidditch scene, and maybe one bird scene would have been enough.
And Harry's cloak doesn't fall off when he's attacking Draco and his cronies. That leads to then telling Snape, Snape asking him to turn out his pockets, he finds the Map, they insult him, etc, etc, etc, then Moony finds the map. Not Harry wanders around looking for Pettigrew at night. That would have made sense later when Harry bloody says "Pettigrew isn't alive!" And what was Snape doing walking around late at night? He always has a reason.
They butchered and mangled the beggining, the boggart scene, HERMIONE LEAVING DIVINATION--and Trewlawney was supposed to PREDICT IT. They left in the prediction of Neville's grandmum, do you think that means something? They leave in the stuff that's important for later movies--and the Marauder's Map scene. And, worst of all, THE SHRIEKING SHACK SCENE. They were in it for all of what, 20 seconds?
Snape didn't say "you don't think he got [the map] straight from the makers?" They didn't talk about MWPP at all! I thought the review I read meant Remus didn't talk about his transformations, but he didn't talk about ANYTHING--not how he used the shrieking shack to transform in, not how they became Animagi, nothing...
Hermione can't throw a punch and she can't fall. When she falls into the shack, she just stands at the entrance, then lies on top of Radcliffe which I'm sure made the H/Hr shippers squeal with delight.
Also, Peter drops his clothes when he becomes Scabbers. How could he have kept them on in the first place, then? Common sense says that from human--->animal the clothes fall off, then from animal---->human you're naked. So McGonagall would have to be naked, and Peter couldn've had his clothes on when he turned back in to a mouse, anyway.
AND WHY CAN'T DANIEL RADCLIFFE GET GREEN CONTACT LENSES? HIS EYES ARE BLUE.
And the whole ending scene on the firebolt was horrible. No Pig, no Hogsmeade permission slip either, unless I missed something. There was a Pig on Hagrid's table--it looked like the one in the pic I found.
I have to go reread the book. And see the movie again. For all its differences, it wasn't bad as a movie...I mean, movies can't be exactly the same. But I don't think a single scene followed the book more than 12%.But in some ways, it was better than the book...In very, very few ways.
Also, THAT WAS JAMES? THAT'S NOT JAMES! UGH!
And the Knight Bus was shown swerving, running over cars but not doing damage, and it can't be seen by Muggle. So why not run over the old lady? For some reason, the Knight Bus can go through objects. Same thing when they had to squeeze between the other buses.
AND LUPIN DOESN'T HAVE GREY HAIR!
Just try to make sense out of it.
THEY DON'T EVEN TOUCH UPON THE MARAUDERS, THEM BEING MOONY, WORMTAIL, ETC
Hermione says "I think the [the biting books are] funny". That was OOC, even if it was to defend Hagrid, and besides, Hagrid says it in the book.
What the zark was with the music in the boggart scene? I was actually liking it and Thewlis until he puts on the bloody music. It ruined the scene! But the fact that Harry does the dementor and it shows his fear ruined it as well....
There's somethig about Dumbledore that I can't read. Dumbledoraefasseurbe. Or something. [note: these are all notes I took during the movie, so....yeah)
They also mangled the Snape teaching DADA scene. Everyone was supposed to fight back and stuff. Instead, they added all those scenes where the whomping willow, which is far too small, kills birds and stuff. How many of those scenes where there, 20? What was the point? To get Daniel and people like him to laugh? We already got the point that the whomping willow was mean and vicious in CoS, the Quidditch scene, and maybe one bird scene would have been enough.
And Harry's cloak doesn't fall off when he's attacking Draco and his cronies. That leads to then telling Snape, Snape asking him to turn out his pockets, he finds the Map, they insult him, etc, etc, etc, then Moony finds the map. Not Harry wanders around looking for Pettigrew at night. That would have made sense later when Harry bloody says "Pettigrew isn't alive!" And what was Snape doing walking around late at night? He always has a reason.
They butchered and mangled the beggining, the boggart scene, HERMIONE LEAVING DIVINATION--and Trewlawney was supposed to PREDICT IT. They left in the prediction of Neville's grandmum, do you think that means something? They leave in the stuff that's important for later movies--and the Marauder's Map scene. And, worst of all, THE SHRIEKING SHACK SCENE. They were in it for all of what, 20 seconds?
Snape didn't say "you don't think he got [the map] straight from the makers?" They didn't talk about MWPP at all! I thought the review I read meant Remus didn't talk about his transformations, but he didn't talk about ANYTHING--not how he used the shrieking shack to transform in, not how they became Animagi, nothing...
Hermione can't throw a punch and she can't fall. When she falls into the shack, she just stands at the entrance, then lies on top of Radcliffe which I'm sure made the H/Hr shippers squeal with delight.
Also, Peter drops his clothes when he becomes Scabbers. How could he have kept them on in the first place, then? Common sense says that from human--->animal the clothes fall off, then from animal---->human you're naked. So McGonagall would have to be naked, and Peter couldn've had his clothes on when he turned back in to a mouse, anyway.
AND WHY CAN'T DANIEL RADCLIFFE GET GREEN CONTACT LENSES? HIS EYES ARE BLUE.
And the whole ending scene on the firebolt was horrible. No Pig, no Hogsmeade permission slip either, unless I missed something. There was a Pig on Hagrid's table--it looked like the one in the pic I found.
I have to go reread the book. And see the movie again. For all its differences, it wasn't bad as a movie...I mean, movies can't be exactly the same. But I don't think a single scene followed the book more than 12%.But in some ways, it was better than the book...In very, very few ways.
Also, THAT WAS JAMES? THAT'S NOT JAMES! UGH!
And the Knight Bus was shown swerving, running over cars but not doing damage, and it can't be seen by Muggle. So why not run over the old lady? For some reason, the Knight Bus can go through objects. Same thing when they had to squeeze between the other buses.
AND LUPIN DOESN'T HAVE GREY HAIR!
and I forgot everything about the movie 
. But some of the few things I can remember are that the movie went way too fast, and almost didn't explain anything. I agree with most of you, even when some scenes were cool they just wasted time. They could have explained more about the map and James, Remus, Lupin, Peter, and Snape. Besides that I really liked the effects, the dementors were really great, and the boggart scene, and all the little details like in the Leaky Cauldron, and the portrait gallery.
Which is why I think it is forshadowing the whole Remus = James thing.
