film: Harry Potter 3 ... and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[physix]

Harry Potter 3 ... and the Perverts of Azkaban

(and i do mean PERVERTS!!!)

Well...

saw this on the midnight showing thursday/friday....


right now, i'm at a loss for words on this one.

the first one was nice b-c it introduced a whole new world to me
that i wasn't familiar with. the 2nd one made me smile and
happy (i've watched it almost every time it's come on HBO)...

this third one, aside from making me giggle with perverse
realizations of all the 13 yr old boy innuendos (after all, we all
know who directed this one), didn't leave me really happy or
sad... it just... left....

it was BEAUTIFULLY shot and directed... the pacing could have
used some work, the CGI was great, and the cinematography
was certainly dif't than the other two.

this world of Hogwarts's seemed like... a totally dif't place.

and for that, i was grateful.

I honestly don't know what to say about it....

i KNOW i liked it... but aside from what i already mentioned, i
don't know exactly WHAT i liked or why i liked it... I do know that
i'm already eagerly anticipating the 4th one (which they are
almost done with all the acting scenes apparently)


I do know their intent is to go the full monty by doing all 7
books... i just hope they retain the cast... ALL of them... even the
side characters and students.... why they didn't have the dude
that took pictures alot in the 2nd one, i don't know... he's in the
book, and the next one, and the next one....


-shrug-

Malfoy's character... I don't recall him being such a wimp in the
book... but this time .... he was...


i dunno.

go see it.

it's a departure for sure from the other 2.

 

[alasdairm]

your report doesn't really explain why you chose to use the word 'perverts' beyond a little teenage innuendo. care to expand?

i hope to see this over the next couple of days.

alasdair

 

[physix]

it's just... perverted...


not like "old man" pervert... but standard 13 yr old boy pervert.... lots of innuendos.

examples include Harry playing with his wand under the sheets on two occassions.

another example "gawd, you have to stroke it..."

"yeah, stroke it..."

there were others.

go see it

you'll understand.


note the change in costumes and hair styles.... even Weaslies twin brothers have "sexy floppy model" hair... it's all deliberate... and, again, considering the director, you KNOW it's deliberate.

 

[fairnymph]

Who is the director?

 

[alasdairm]

alfonso cuaron. he also directed the (excellent) 'y tu mama tambien'

alasdair

 

[onetwothreefour]

[edit: thanks alasdair :D]

...that'd be alfonso cuaron...

i think physix is referring to his previous film, y tu mama tambien ("and your mother, too"), which was not exactly a bastion of maturity. dick jokes were rampant in it, actually

 

[Daisybabe]

I saw this at a sneak preview two weeks ago, and something ha been irritating me ever since.

Draco's two goons, Crabb and Goyle. In the two previous movies, they were played by the same actors. In this movie, they started out at as the same actors. But at some point, the tall one (I don't know if that Crabb or Goyle) suddenly was played by some new guy, and remained the new guy through the rest of the film.

Why?

I though the film was great though, my favorite to date.

 

[Mysticalis]

maybe the original actor passed away during filming and they picked up another actor in close resemblance to pick up?

That's how Dumbledore got a new actor in this one, why there was a different actress for the Oracle in Matrix Revolutions, and how the Crow was finished after the death of Brandon Lee..

Speaking of Brandon Lee, I've always maintained that he would've been the perfect Neo for the Matrix, provided he was still alive, but that's another chestnut altogether...

R.I.P.

 

[Infernal]

Harry Potter and the _____ of _______

That's pretty much how I felt. They left out so much of the books in the making of this movie that it practically deems the fourth movie as disjointed. SO many of the relationships were left underdeveloped that will be integral in the fourth and fifth movie.

Example #1:

Why does Prof. Snape hate Prof. Lupin and Sirius Black?

The movie leads you to believe that Snape's hatred was only superficial. Not fostered from time spent with Potter's father and his (Potter's father) relationship with Black and Lupin.

Where in the hell did the map come from?

Readers of the books are familiar with the fact that Potter, Lupin, Black, and Pettigrem created the map. The powers of the map played an entirely more important role in the development of the story. In fact, it was the map that sparked Snape's suspisions that Black and Lupin were working together.

I could go on but I won't. There is far to much left out to make up for the next movie. What's next? Harry Potter and the Professor With The Mad Roving Eye? To be followed by Harry Potter and the Death of Sirius Black?

I understand artistic license but let us at least carry the story along.

 

[MOS]

Harry Potter and the _____ of _______

That's pretty much how I felt. They left out so much of the books in the making of this movie that it practically deems the fourth movie as disjointed. SO many of the relationships were left underdeveloped that will be integral in the fourth and fifth movie.

I agree. The personal relationships were way under-developed, there were key points from the book missing, and the Malfoys had almost NO part in this film.

It was brilliant to look at, despite the fact that Hogwart's really didn't look like Hogwart's anymore.....

Entertaining, and worth the price of my ticket, but not accurate.

 

[obsolete]

I saw the movie on friday and was pleasantly surprised. I thought some bits were a little cheesy. But it is quite hard to get around that these days with the extent of our cynicism.

Im not a massive fan; ive seen the first movie and read the first 2 books, and thoroughly enjoyed them - im just not a big book reader so havent read any more.

i thought almost everything about it was excellent. The set, the directing, the acting, the story - i really liked it, exceeded my expectations.

Apart from the fact that Emma Watson is very hot for a 14 yr old, and Harry playing with his wand under the sheets I didnt think there were really that many inuendoes. But its pretty hard to avoid with all our cynicism these days.

 

[wanderlust]

another vote for the pervert title from lucky thirteen at the nerve screening room

Thirteen's an awful, icky age — that is, unless you're a wizard, to whom even the worst omen that's ever beset a cup of tea leaves becomes just another sort of charm. J.K. Rowling's third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, took the story of Harry's painful thirteenth year and transmogrified it into the best book of the series, a tone-perfect evocation of a half-real age. And now director Alfonso Cuarón — the stylish, visceral director of promotion
Y Tu Mamá También — has taken that ugly year and conjured the franchise's best movie too: a darker, looser dreamscape that transpires more in shadows and dank forests than in the open air of the Quidditch pitch.
____The sly and hilarious opening scene will be parodied at the MTV Movie Awards: Under the sheets late at night, Harry plays furiously with his wand, breathing hard, flush-faced, until the wand flickers, and then pulses with light. By the time his Muggle caretaker bangs open the door, Harry, pretending to be sleep, has a wide smile on his face. (I imagine Jimmy Fallon hunched over on a kid's bed, fiddling between his legs, then pulling back the covers to reveal cartoonish tufts of hair magically sprouting from his palms.) By the next scene, Harry has exploded with Carrie-like anger, shattering a glass from across the room with nothing but his rage.
____Harry, angry and upset, runs away from home and finds his way to a very different Hogwarts. Chris Columbus, the director of Jumanji and the first two Potter films, was content to create Happy Meal landscapes fit for a theme park — a spic-and-span fantasyland, full of bright diversions. But Cuarón's Hogwarts looks weathered and dirty — more old Times Square than new — institutional, blocky and huge, and somehow less important than the woods around and the
tunnels below.
____Nothing ever quite happens when it should: terrifying wraiths called Dementors randomly attack Harry for no clear reason; he faints uncontrollably; his broom breaks. Harry can't control his fears, or his fate, or his magic.
____And true to the black magic of the thirteenth year, biology begins to make girls look like women and boys like chemistry experiments. Harry has lost all his baby fat. While Weasley has been banished to that dorky era between cute and teen — as a result, he's not given a single act of importance; he's a hanger-on. Whereas Hermione (played by Emma Watson, the best actress of the bunch) has blossomed into a brilliant young woman with a battery of secret talents and a self-confidence that impresses male teachers. (Is Dumbledore almost flirting with her?)
____I can't speak for women, but for boys, I remember thirteen being a horrible year. I turned thirteen a few days before the first day of eighth grade, when I showed up wearing bright pink Jams, bright red zits, and an Ocean Pacific T-shirt — somehow thinking that dressing like a surfer in my landlocked North Carolina hometown was a good idea. My former friend Suzy, who had grown breasts over the summer, mocked me before I made it into the classroom. It was also the year I had my first real fight and the first time I asked a girl to a school dance (that I didn't want to go to) and she said no (because she was waiting on a call from a kid who wore skateboard logos, not surfboard logos). A horrible year. But, come to think of it, not bad material.
____Thirteen has always been a lucky number in films. My favorite film about thirteen year olds, Something Wicked This Way Comes (perhaps referenced by Cuarón), follows two kids who fight evil, like Harry, to retrieve their father — and who win out in the end, like Harry, by facing down fear with a smile. 13 Going on 30 played the age for laughs; Thirteen rubbed our faces in so-called authenticity by displaying piercings and house parties. And somehow this odd tale of Hippogriffs and Dementors seems more real than them all.
____In Hollywood, thirteen is also the age at which Hollywood takes the training wheels off and real movie-going begins — with the PG-13 rating. And the miracle of Cuarón's film is that, through some strange magic, it converts a kiddie franchise into a great teen flick; a scary movie that you watch in the dark, maybe even while holding hands, a movie that may fall apart at the end but never panders. It's a transformational act more impressive than the film's writhing werewolf: The struggling Olsen twins should take note. _

 

[physix]

I saw this at a sneak preview two weeks ago, and something ha been irritating me ever since.

Draco's two goons, Crabb and Goyle. In the two previous movies, they were played by the same actors. In this movie, they started out at as the same actors. But at some point, the tall one (I don't know if that Crabb or Goyle) suddenly was played by some new guy, and remained the new guy through the rest of the film.

Why?

I though the film was great though, my favorite to date.

they were dif't characters.

Crab and Goyle aren't really integral characters (tho' they had major parts in the second movie) and they are written with much importance in the 3rd one, either.

 

[physix]

Whereas Hermione (played by Emma Watson, the best actress of the bunch)

hardly....

 

[physix]

Apart from the fact that Emma Watson is very hot for a 14 yr old, and Harry playing with his wand under the sheets I didnt think there were really that many inuendoes. But its pretty hard to avoid with all our cynicism these days.

Danny is gonna be hot, too.

Thanks Cauron for bringing out the perv in me..


but, when you set up the notion of harry "playing" with magic under the sheets as an innuendo... well, he does it twice.... and then there's a scene with a group of boys "playing" with magic (those magic animal beans) that concludes in a FUCKIN' PILLOW FIGHT / WRESTLING MATCH as the camera pans away from the window pane...

and then


HE PLAYS WITH HIS WAND AGAIN in his bedroom


and then


"you gotta stroke it"

"yeah, you gotta stroke it"


that's 4 right there.

i'll pay attention to the others more and report back in my 3rd viewing...

 

[StuffedTiger]

wouldn't it be great if harry potter 4 was a porno?

 

[physix]

isn't there already Harry Porkher
???

 

[obsolete]

^^^^ heehee - im sure somebody has done a porno spin-off

 

[quintessence]

good movie! yay! but then again, i'm not hard to please.. i just see movies for fun. this one's definitely a lot of fun and worth seeing once, or twice, or more!

the danger is comparing the movie to the book... bad idea! in my mind, there's no comparison. i like the movies and books for different reasons, but I love them all cuz.... wooo I'm harry potter obsesed! :D

 

[NecroTrance]

As long as Emma Watson stars in the Porno spin-off I will own it...How's that for perverted? Hell, she was hot in the first one and, yes, as sick as you may think I am, I am not ashamed to say would've bit and scratched and licked that little girl....Again, how's that for perverted? Lmao