Finally got around to seeing Harry Potter yesterday in glorious celebration of finishing my last essay. Obviously vast amounts of it was different to the book, some of it for the worse (Dumbledore being a fool, the Crouchs not being explained and the colour of Hermoine's dress at the ball, good grief what where they thinking?) and some of it for the best. By far and aware the best change was making the Yule Ball feel like a proper school disco not a ball. Balls have people making witty remarks and saying things like "pray tell, how keeps your mother?", school discos have people moping around, sitting in corners and making idiots of themselves. With all that in mind, I was slightly perplexed as to why they kept the Wyrd Sisters in. Okay, so having Johnny Greenwood on stage in Hogwarts was cool, but realistically the band made the school disco scene far more unbelievable. And if you are going to have them, why only show them for ten seconds? Really what they should have done is moved them to another scene and given them more time. Like put them celebrating the end of the tri-wizard tournament, or put them instead of that really embarrassing scene with Hagrid and Mademoiselle I'm A Giant Really, or put them instead of pretty much the entire opening twenty minutes which could then be summarised as "over the holidays, Lord Voldemort's followers got quite vocal about some things and some important plot details for later books were forgotten to be setup."
I've seen this film, and to fully go through the whole thing I'd have to use more BULLET POINTs than Mark's website can handle. I'll just select a few:
BULLET POINT Where was the quidditch in the quidditch world cup?
BULLET POINT Doctor Who!!! It's Doctor Who making the Dark Mark! Quick, Is Rose Tyler around too?
BULLET POINT Moody looked a lot like Moody should
BULLET POINT I'd have been happy if they just made it insanely long,and fitted in the whole of the book
BULLET POINT Not enough Blast Ended Skrewts
BULLET POINT The Maze was Rubbish. Where was the Sphinx?
There's so much more to say, and Mark's website only lets posts get to about this lengt
BULLET POINT: Where was the bit with Rita Skeeter being an insect?
As i said, so many more.
BULLET POINT Many.
Those birds in blue were quite foxy though!!
But that Hermoine girl only acts with her eyebrows!
I'm 197% with you Paul!
my biggest grievence.... Where was Ludo Bagman?!!?
If you put your hand down the side of the sofa, i'm sure you'll find him......
thats the way most things are found!
Mark - this is now the second time in a week where I have visited your blog only to find you have done the exact same thing as me the day before... First it was the footy, now it's harry potter!
I have no funy comment to end on, so i'll just finish now.
Of course, Emma Watson is far too young to be attractive. And the acting is bad, even for their age.
The Dragons weren't very Dragony.
And thanks for your support Hayley, though your maths is rubbersh.
I've not seen it yet (or read the book) but thanks for all the spoilers!
Even I wouldn't fancy Hermione - that tells you how ineligible she is!
:-)
I would have thought someone would have helped them act better... The hermione girl was awful, but everytime the ginger twins came on i felt embarrassed for them... That wink agghh!
Sorry for butting in, but it had to be said!
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you couldnt have had it at the end of tri wizard tornament because of cedric digory's death would be completely tasteless... and i feel that it made the scene more belieable actually!
they never explained that madam maxim was half giant either....