well... for starters....
Emma Watson cannot -- CANNOT -- act
Daniel Radcliffe can BARELY act
Rupert Grint actually is really good,
as are the twins, Tom Felton (tho' he's
not given enough), and Matthew Lewis
(Neville Longbottom)
of course, all the adults are great... altho'
at times, Fiennes' Voldamort performance
was ..... alittle too comical...
since Rowling simply cannot narrate action
sequences well (her OoP sequences were
a joke), the movie's action sequences are
WAY better.
But the pace of the movie is so weird. It's like
they wanted to use the excuse "well, it's different
from the book... it is it's own work" and yet,
they relied on us to KNOW the book...
they start off at the Quidditch Cup... WHICH THEY
DO NOT EVEN SHOW mind you!!!
Viktor Krum was actually kinda what I expected...
he was described as graceful in the air, but clumsy
on the ground... he walk up to Dumbledore in the
beginning kinda illustrated some clumsiness: like his
feet was moving faster than he. Plus he was absolutely
****ing hot.
now, i've rea the books... GoF was my fave...
hands down.... but i really tried to look at this
rhetorically, as if i hadn't seen it....
Some bad parts:
1) not enough Malfoy
2) bad pacing (OoP will be wretched!)
3) stiff acting (i don't think they are really working with
those kids... after 5 or 6 years, they should be better
actors than they are)
4) Oldham's voice only
5) no quittich cup
6) the whole point of the Death Eaters in the beginning
was that they were doing simply "childish" things and
when the dark mark was seen, they broke camp ....
instead... well.... you'll see.... i just don't think it fit.
7) no elves
8) no SPEW
9) the worst editing i've ever seen in my life... you can
see it with clothes and you can especially see it with
Harry and Ron's hair, which cannot stay the same
length scene to scene.
alot of things they are leaving out they will regret
IF they make it to book 6.... and that's a big if.
now, don't get me wrong, you WILL laugh and smile
especially if you've read the books... you'll simply
appreciate seeing it on the big screen... but...
alas, let me get to some of the good parts:
1)WAY MORE TWINS than ever! (I think the screen
writer has realized that they are favourites)
2)excellent Alan Rickman (some FUNNY **** from him)
3)all of the original nationalities were kept (hollywood
tends to "whitenize" things sometimes)...
4)action was better than expected
5)they used Neville alot more
i 'm not even gonna talk about the eye candy b-c
we all know there is plenty of pretty people there
... however, some people stand out
Neville....? he has fake teeth to give him bucktooth
mousiness (that Hermoine was supposed to have)
but you can TELL he is just cute as a button...
Emma Watson is as stunning as she is a bad actress
and the dude that plays Crabbe.... in the Prizoner
of Azkaban DVD, his interview, i noticed he was
WAY skinnier than before... it's completely obvious
now...at one point, the bottom part of his face looked
scarily anorexic...
I seriously doubt that they will make it past Book 5.
at this midnight showing, no one clapped.
I mean NO BODY.
no hooting or hollering.
nothing.
all i heard was
"did you like it??"
followed by a contemplative
"uhmmmm......."
and that spilled into the theatre as well
WHICH WAS AN IMAX!!!
for PRIZONER, the excitement level was
way higher at the end.
i've a feeling the first 2 weeks will do better
than the last one... based SOLELY on the
general consensus that GoF is the best of the
books, thus far...but then word of mouth
will all but kill it, especially with NARNIA,
AEON FLUX, and KONG to take away from
the people who are so-so about going.
My formal bet is that book 6 and 7 will NOT
be made to movie.
but i could be wrong.
and i totally understand the book is way long.... and that
scares me.... imagine the realization of OoP (filming in Feb,
maybe)...! that book is HUGE!
