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Saw Harry Potter 2.
Actually, I preferred the first one. This is probably entirely due to the relative cuteness of the Cool CGI Critters featured; Norbert was just *so* much better than the evil basilisk thing. (Repeat after me - the last thing Moaning Myrtle saw when alive was a pair of *big yellow eyes*. *Big* yellow eyes. So how come the evil CGI basilisk has *pathetic little beady yellow eyes* that are hardly worth Fawlkes' time pecking out?)
Plus, they really don't like cat-people. Or they spent all their budget on the spiders and the basilisk and had to steal a third-hand cat mask from a charity shop for poor Hermione. I did like the person they chose for Moaning Myrtle, though. The lack of Potter Stinks badges was annoying, but I guess you can't have everything. I also can see where all you slash-fan-girls got your screencap icons from now :-). Quiddich with added zoomy noises was scary. The spiders weren't, but my mother would have been very scared of them, had she come along.
Lucius Malfoy reminds me of Legolas, and that is just Wrong.
The Floo powder scene was very scary indeed, big green flames and all. And I jumped when the hand in the shop got Harry, even though I *knew* it was going to happen, and it was obvious what was going to happen even if you hadn't read the book. In fact, I jumped a lot more than most of the littlekids. (and the place was *crawling* with littlekids. like, three year olds and stuff. and there were quite a lot of weird scary bits and nasty gory bits. I'm not generally a fan of censoring what kids watch, although I do agree it has to depend on the child (some kids will have lots of nightmares and be a pain to handle after watching such things, I've heard), but I'm sure lots of people would have a problem with littlekids watching that kind of stuff.)
The film could really have done with not including the last five minutes, which consisted of large quantities of congratulatory clapping of all and sundry, and the mobbing of Hagrid by thousands of happy small children. Cutting those last five minutes would have slashed the spew-factor of the movie by a factor of at least eight. It was truly gross. 'Hogwarts wouldn't be Hogwarts without you, Hagrid'. Gaaack.
Oh, and *why do Harry and Ron always leave the Invisibility Cloak lying around places*? I mean, they get away with leaving it at Hagrid's in this one, but why don't they just go into the forest with it on? At least it might have confused the spiders - y'know, when you're wandering around in the Forbidden Forest, surely you want all the advantages you can get?
Actually, I preferred the first one. This is probably entirely due to the relative cuteness of the Cool CGI Critters featured; Norbert was just *so* much better than the evil basilisk thing. (Repeat after me - the last thing Moaning Myrtle saw when alive was a pair of *big yellow eyes*. *Big* yellow eyes. So how come the evil CGI basilisk has *pathetic little beady yellow eyes* that are hardly worth Fawlkes' time pecking out?)
Plus, they really don't like cat-people. Or they spent all their budget on the spiders and the basilisk and had to steal a third-hand cat mask from a charity shop for poor Hermione. I did like the person they chose for Moaning Myrtle, though. The lack of Potter Stinks badges was annoying, but I guess you can't have everything. I also can see where all you slash-fan-girls got your screencap icons from now :-). Quiddich with added zoomy noises was scary. The spiders weren't, but my mother would have been very scared of them, had she come along.
Lucius Malfoy reminds me of Legolas, and that is just Wrong.
The Floo powder scene was very scary indeed, big green flames and all. And I jumped when the hand in the shop got Harry, even though I *knew* it was going to happen, and it was obvious what was going to happen even if you hadn't read the book. In fact, I jumped a lot more than most of the littlekids. (and the place was *crawling* with littlekids. like, three year olds and stuff. and there were quite a lot of weird scary bits and nasty gory bits. I'm not generally a fan of censoring what kids watch, although I do agree it has to depend on the child (some kids will have lots of nightmares and be a pain to handle after watching such things, I've heard), but I'm sure lots of people would have a problem with littlekids watching that kind of stuff.)
The film could really have done with not including the last five minutes, which consisted of large quantities of congratulatory clapping of all and sundry, and the mobbing of Hagrid by thousands of happy small children. Cutting those last five minutes would have slashed the spew-factor of the movie by a factor of at least eight. It was truly gross. 'Hogwarts wouldn't be Hogwarts without you, Hagrid'. Gaaack.
Oh, and *why do Harry and Ron always leave the Invisibility Cloak lying around places*? I mean, they get away with leaving it at Hagrid's in this one, but why don't they just go into the forest with it on? At least it might have confused the spiders - y'know, when you're wandering around in the Forbidden Forest, surely you want all the advantages you can get?
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Date: 2002-11-19 05:18 am (UTC)From:Neil
P.S.: Total agreement about the invisibility cloak btw.