tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134036704363948649.post7704582741465418644..comments2023-04-14T15:37:29.559+01:00Comments on The Dryad's Bubble: Harry Potter and the Shit Hitting the FanCordeliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16152528487037926939noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134036704363948649.post-26952455430412248362009-08-14T18:11:59.046+01:002009-08-14T18:11:59.046+01:00Hmm. Well, firstly, I do very much feel your pain...Hmm. Well, firstly, I do very much feel your pain. Although I have never read Harry Potter, I've LOVED Lord of the Rings since I was a child and those films make me spew bile. I've only ever seen them all once, but even as I type this the red mists descend. Awful, travesty, etc. (I also feel thusly about the Narnia films, btu I think this is prevailing opinion on them anyway). Oddly - from a non-reader perspective - I feel very strongly the films are getting better (although this last one deviates from that trend...it was very much a place-holder, I felt, not really advancing the plot at all. I agree it was disjointed, but thought it added to the atmosphere of dread - it was just a shame there was no real pay-off). The fourth and fifth I would say are my favourites - darker, bigger themes, etc. But that just shows the skewered perspective you can get when you don't know what's been left out or added in. My friend left the cinema this time in a similar state of anguish to you as to the end. I hope one day I will get aroudn to reading the books to see the differences, but as a totally independent sequence of films go, I quite rate them (albeit not so much the last one).<br /><br />However, from your comment, I have to ask: <br /><br />1. "Who can't act". You mean the kids, right? Because yes, I take your point on that, although in fairness I think Draco and Ron are improving, Hermione though is getting worse, and Harry peaked about three years ago. But Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh - these are some of the best actors of our time.<br /><br />2. "Poms" - I don't quite understand the relevance of bringing nationality into it. JK Rowling was British and it's set in Britian, so isn't it accurate to the story that the actors are? Or maybe I'm oversensitive - I take Pom as a pejorative as I associate it with my boyfriend being kicked unconscious in Australia while that term was being yelled at us. But you may not mean it as a pejorative.<br /><br />And I'm pretty sure JK Rowling was thinking about the money...if I had as much as she does, that's all I'd be thinking about too. Thanks for your comment!Cordeliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152528487037926939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134036704363948649.post-75002623263010545262009-08-13T16:39:33.182+01:002009-08-13T16:39:33.182+01:00Ok, let me start off this comment by saying I have...Ok, let me start off this comment by saying I have read all the books and have enjoyed them immensely. The movies do not do them justice at all. In fact, I found the only two that were quite good were movies one and two and I attribute this to Christopher Columbus' fantastic directing skills. Because let's face it, as we have seen throughout the rest of the films (which have somehow endured being handed down a line of directors like an unwanted football, recurrent change of settings and actors) the movies are pretty much TRYING to be 'Hollywood' with a bunch of Poms who can't act and clearly can't pick out the most vital parts of the books that MAKE the story as fabulous as it is. Harry Potter 6 was CRAP. The whole time I was watching it, I felt like I was having disjointed hallucinations because the film itself lacks any sense of flow whatsoever.<br /><br />I don't know what J.K Rowling is thinking letting her books be shamed by such bad acting and directing but I think someone should do something about it before the seventh film is released. I believe that books 4 and 7 are the best Rowling wrote in the series and I almost wanted to cry at how poorly the fourth film was done. Are the producers of Harry Potter running on tight budgets? They couldn't even put in the final battle scene that is the climax of the concluding sequence of the book with all the members of the order of the Phoenix getting involved and some of the DA as well with the Death Eaters. HOW CAN YOU LEAVE OUT THE HIGHLIGHT OF WHAT COULD HAVE MADE THE WORST MOVIE MADE THIS YEAR AT LEAST TOLERABLE??!!<br /><br />If I was one of the child actors in this series I wouldn't even want to feature in the seventh film. I think so far the films have all been far too much an embarassment to the English film industry. WHAT ARE THOSE DIRECTORS THINKING? THESE ARE THE MOST FAMED NOVELS OF THE CENTURY (of course leaving out the classics) AND THEY ARE COMPLETELY RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com