[Bond]

Well, HBP really helped tie it to the rest of the series. But why do you hate it so much?

This post has been edited by Bond: 23 July 2007 - 05:19 PM

[TheOrator]

Well, Lord Aquaman...

COS was a crappy book, easily the worst of the series, and by extension a crappy film, not helped by the fact that Chris Columbus can't direct fantasy to save his life, nor can Steve Kloves write a half-way screenplay.

Shows what I know about Harry Potter, COS was my favorite. However, I don't doubt your judgment, as I'm not a fan of Harry Potter.

EDIT: Fail. Added content.

This post has been edited by TheOrator: 23 July 2007 - 05:23 PM

[Bond]

Well, what?

[Chefelf]

I agree with civ2 on this one (what else is new?).

OotP has to be the hardest book to convert to film. If memory serves it's the longest book and even though it's not technically in the middle it's the most middle-like of the books At least HBP begins the climax whereas OotP just kinda introduces the idea of a climax.

I think as with GoF they have had to be very selective about what they pick and choose to be in the movies and so far they've done a really good job.

The first hour of OotP made me remember how depressing the beginning of that book really was. Sadly it was more uplifting at the end when people started dying.

As for the battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort, I was considering writing an article about it but that's what I imagined a battle between Yoda and Palpatine should have been. It was great to see these great wizards fighting in a somewhat slow and deliberate way, more like a wizard wrestling match than a Jedi acrobatics show off.

[Bond]

As for the battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort, I was considering writing an article about it but that's what I imagined a battle between Yoda and Palpatine should have been. It was great to see these great wizards fighting in a somewhat slow and deliberate way, more like a wizard wrestling match than a Jedi acrobatics show off.

You know what's funny about that? They had a dance instructor come in and teach them different moves to go with each spell and hex. So, in a way, it was sort of an acrobatics-off.

[civilian_number_two]

There's a scene in BRAZIL where a bunch of guys walk down the hall of an office together taking orders from their boss as he moves from one place to another. In order that their movements would be smooth and therefore more comical in effect, director Terry Gilliam hired a dance choreographer to help block the scene. If you watch it, you'd never call it a dance number. In like fashion, I would NOT call the final duel in OotP a dance-off. It's just well-choreographed. You might as well call Aragorn's fighting at the end of FotR a dance sequence (I don't). So while I figure you're just being facetious, Bond, I thought I should say nay nay.

I agree with everything Chef says about agreeing with me, and also about how the fight scenes in the STAR WARS prequels sucked. I only saw TPM, and that much-lauded fight sucked; I assume the others sucked as well, although by all reports they sucked a lot more.

[Bond]

I agree with everything Chef says about agreeing with me, and also about how the fight scenes in the STAR WARS prequels sucked. I only saw TPM, and that much-lauded fight sucked; I assume the others sucked as well, although by all reports they sucked a lot more.

Actually, they had a choreographer for every one.

[Sailor Abbey]

Did you like the other four films?

I recently watched them again, and have this to say.

Meh, they were alright.

I guess the thrill is gone.

This post has been edited by Sailor Abbey: 25 November 2007 - 08:08 AM

[civilian_number_two]

I think Ginny Weasely is cute. I wish she were my step-daughter, you know what I'm saying?

[J m HofMarN]

I enjoyed Order of the Pheonix if for no other reason than that it was fun to have a villain independent of Voldemort. The ending was pretty impressive as was the entire Ministry of Magic sequence.

You HAVE to choreograph all of these things so that one guy knows to block when the other guy swings, or else your set will be littered with dead guys. The point is what happened in the prequels looked more like dancing, needlessly fast show offy dancing. The dueling in OTP, and in much of the HP series, seems to be more slow paced and more about actually fighting than just looking cool.

[J m HofMarN]

Just watched it again recently. Is anyone going to debate that the best scene was the ten or twenty second exchange between Snape and Umbridge?

"Obviously..."