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| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
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| How excited (or not) I am to see this movie... |
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1. The movie isn't out until 2004, why do we have to wait so long?
2. The movie is the shortest of the 3 movies so far.
3. None of the pictures are in the Harry Potter books.
4. The movie is not literal or accurate.
5. I hope the future movies make me more anticipated like the 1st 2 films. |
| Movie Review: |
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| My thoughts on this movie... |
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1. Harry used a lumos spell in his bedroom at the Dursleys house in Privet Drive, you are not supposed to use magic unless it was an emergency in front of muggles (it was not even in the book).
2. Aunt Marge floated out the door, when in the books, Aunt Marge was supposed to float towards the ceiling (talk about over acting).
3. The Knight Bus contained a shrunken head which was quite annoying, even in the DVD. Dobby was annoying too, but it was needed for the story to continue. Ernie Prang looks like someone's blind grandfatther and Stan Shunpike looked like a hobo or a bum living on the streets, the new hunchback Tom, the innkeeper looks like someone from the Addams' family.
4. Harry was supposed to receive The Monsters Book of Monsters from Hagrid at the Dursleys, but instead he got it in The Leaky Cauldron.
5. Lupin looks like an old man from the 1940's with a very aggrivating mustache.
6. The Sneakeoscope was not even shown in the movie, not even Pigwidgeon, or the owls that came to the Dursleys.
7. Dementors are not supposed to fly, they are suppossed to glide and water is not supposed to freeze when they come near. They are not supposed to chase Harry in the air during the Quidditch game.
8. The new Dumbledore and Trelawney looks like drugged-up hippies from the 1960's and Flitwick looks like a monk from the Dark Ages, what happened to our dear old Flitwick. Cornelius Fudge's new look reminds me of a character from the Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits.
9. New characters that do not even appear in the book suddenly appear in the movie with a much bigger role.
10. Buckbeak looks like a fake chicken and too much time was spent on Buckbeak's Flight, when Harry screamed out with his hands out, it reminded me of Titanic, "I'm King of the World.".
11. Things are pronounced incorrectly, like Expecto Patronum! and Boggart and Sir Cadogan.
12. The new Fat Lady was more obnoxious and so out of character, she was not supposed to sing. I miss the old Fat Lady from the 1st film, Sir Cadogan barely even had a role in this movie.
13. Students barely wore their robes, the robes made it feel more magical. Instead they wear crappy clothes, this is not a Gap commercial.
14. Draco was not supposed to give Harry an origami bird and neither should there be anyone struck by lightning. Students do not paint there face for a Quidditch game.
15. In the Marauder's showed rooms that did not even exist in the books and it was not supposed to show footsteps, it was only supposed to reveal a dot, and Peter Pettigrew was not supposed to show up on the map when Harry saw it.
16. The Firebolt scene was jumbled-up, looked even more beaten-up than the Nimbus 2000, and did not even show up until the final scene which made me want to vomit.
17. Trelawney's prediction was all wrong and looked fake as if she were going through a seizure.
18. Many parts of the story did not show up in the movie at all, like the argument about Crookshanks and Scabbers, Scabber's true identity, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, Hermione purchasing Crookshanks and the books for the courses she was taking through her birthday money that her parents gave her, Sirius Black giving up his position as secret-keeper to Peter Pettigrew, Hermione leaving Muggle Studies class, Lavender Brown losing her baby bunny, Binky to a fox, Hermione's turn with a boggart, Lupin drinking the wolfsbane potion, Sirius Black breaking into the dormitory, Snape's version of Sirius, Lupin, James, and Peter and how he was almost killed by the whomping willow when it was set by sirius during the transformation, but James saved him, the marauders were unregistered animagus, and othere parts of the book that did not make it into the movie.
19. Honeydukes looks like a place where people smoke, sell, and buy drugs. Harry was not supposed to take the blood-flavored lollipop from Neville. The Shrieking Shack and other scenes were too rushed in this film. Harry's crying made me want to throw up. Harry was supposed to throw mud at Draco and his gang, but instead he threw snowballs at them.
20. Lupin looked like a hairless mexican dog when he transformed into a werewolf.
21. The sets (the whomping willow, too much time was spent when the birds kept hitting into the tree), scenery (Hagrid's hut was moved into a steep hill instead of the by the castle like it was supposed to.), locations, actors, and camera techniques changed.
22. The acting went from bad to worse, The dialogue went from terrible to horrible. There were too many instances with shrunken heads, mirror (reflections), time (growing up), giant pumpkins (Pumpkins cannot grow in Hagrid's Hut in June, it would have rotted there), and hideous dark crows. This movie tried to be funny, dark, creative, and different from the other Harry Potter films which ended up to be the worst Harry Potter film so far. This movie was too short, not literal, not accurate, and the director did not even read the Harry Potter books.
23. Hermione was not supposed to grab Ron's wrists, it is so wrong. There was not supposed to be anything between the 2. I felt as the director had decided to add fanfiction ideas and string up rumors that are not true. There are only 5 deleted scenes. Everything in the 1st 2 films were much longer.
24. Characters were reduced, Neville was even more pathetic, Malfoy became a whiney little wimp, Hermione became a helpless wench, Harry was a little too moody for this moody, Ron became a jerk, Dumbledore was too out of character (He was no longer wise), and other characters were reduced(their acting sucked).
25. Alfonso Cuaron should not be able to the direct any more Harry Potter films, Mike Newell is already wrecking Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire from what I have seen and heard of so far. I am hoping the director for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will do much better because so far, Harry Potter has been inking lower with each movie, I am afraid that the next Harry Potter film might bomb. My hope is quickly fading as I hear more about the next Harry Potter movie.I heard that this Harry Potter movie foreshadows events in the last 2 Harry Potter books, if that is true, then the 6th and 7th Harry Potter books will be ruined, Only time can only tell when I know what happens.
[SPOILER] HP 3 [/SPOILER] |
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| Thoughts on the DVD release of this movie... |
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The DVD features were even worse.
1. The interviews, behind-the-scenes, featurettes, etc. were annoying because of Alfonso's accent and the shrunken head.
2. The games were more childish than the 1st 2 movies and somewhat confusing.
3. The tours were terrible; Honeyduke's shop was so fairy-like, it was lighter than the 1st 2 films, the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom looks like a 1940's horror film. The movie itself was a horror.
4. The Choir Sing-Along made me want to throw up, it was so gay. PoA was supposed to be darker, not fairy-like.
5. The Portrait Gallery was terrible; it was like seeing the HP books being torn to shreds, it was a waste of time.
6. The DVD Rom features (Hogwarts Timeline, Wizard Cards, etc.) were rip-offs from the 1st 2 DVD features.
7. The Cast and Crew was also a rip-off of the 2 previous films, the 1st 2 films' trailers made me cry (I missed the 1st 2 movies).
8. The Electronics Arts game preview was the only decent thing of the DVD.
9. There were only 5 deleted scenes. Those scenes were unfinished and were unimportant to the story.
I thought that I would be less dissapointed because I already knew what to expect, but I was wrong. |
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