On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:15:59 -0700, La Binsk <la_binsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Todd wrote:
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>>
>> All in all, I think he did a fine job on OOTP. The book
>> is ridiculously long and there's just no way to satisfy
>> everyone's wants in a two-hour-plus film. My own
>> preference would have been to see St. Mungo's
>> Hospital but that too was left on the cutting room
>> floor.
>>
>
>Yaknow, moments like these remind me why I miss the old days of Deja -
>I liked that it would put the topics that had had the most recent
>activity up ahead of other topics. That way, it was a lot easier to
>keep up with the conversation and to keep it going more smoothly.
>
>Anyway, moving back to the topic at hand - yes, the book is
>extraordinarily long but that makes it all the stranger to think that
>Movie 5 is the shortest of the Harry Potter movies to date. They lost
>a lot of material in the process which helps to add context to the
>relation****ps and situations at hand.
>
>For instance, I, too would've loved a scene at St. Mungo's. That
>would've brought up an excellent op****tunity for explaining why
>Neville would want to seek revenge upon Bellatrix Lestrange. I'm not
>sure that it's clear to folks who haven't been reading the books, in
>addition to the movies, otherwise.
>
>Plus, I don't think that the movies have done that great a job of
>explaining why there is such enmity between the Marauders and Snape.
>They've touched on it somewhat - but only very briefly. They need to
>go into fuller detail on this.
>
>One critic suggested that the movie could've done without the whole
>trial thing at the beginning of the movie. He pointed out that after
>20 minutes, Harry ended up being in exactly the same position as
>before the trial. That being the case, the filmmakers could've easily
>cut this part out and concentrated on other areas from the book
>instead. The critic does have a point, methinks.
>
>One thing, though, in which the movies continue to do well is the
>casting of parts. Imelda Staunton was terrific! She made a rather
>terrifying figure in pink!
>
>La Binsk
She's one terrific actress, smiling all the time while she's pure evil
on the inside. And as far as I know, she wasn't even a Death Eater,
was she?
Todd
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