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Harry Potter 4
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Posted by: uh...ok
Did anyone else see it yet? I went to watch it yesterday, and wow... it was pretty damn awesome. I feel like they picked up all the essential parts of the fourth book and chose to drop the parts that really didn't matter. Throughout the movie, I couldn't come up with a part that they really missed.
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Though that first challenge scene was kind of annoying because they totally overdid the dragon flying thing. Yeah sure it's cool to see a dragon flying around and spitting fire and stuff, but it felt like a waste of time since it never happened in the book.
I had totally lost faith in the Harry Potter movies after the third one totally butchered the storyline, but this movie has made me a believer again. It's too bad they're not keeping the same director and screenplay writer for the fifth one. (Does anyone know why they haven't kept the same people since the third movie?)
Posted by: N.W.A_Kid
a buddy of mine from work went to see the sneak preview. he said it was alright. dunno why he didn't care for it all that much. i've never seen a movie or read a book. harry potter just doesn't seem to interest me. LOTR catches my fancy more, and I don't even follow that all that much.
Posted by: uh...ok
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Originally Posted by N.W.A_Kid
a buddy of mine from work went to see the sneak preview. he said it was alright. dunno why he didn't care for it all that much. i've never seen a movie or read a book. harry potter just doesn't seem to interest me. LOTR catches my fancy more, and I don't even follow that all that much.
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So I actually stayed away from Harry Potter for the longest time - mostly because I've always considered myself a somewhat hardcore fantasy (or rather, more specifically, DragonLance) fan. For some reason, I was repelled by the idea of reading a series that was so popularized that even my baby cousins read them... There was no way that I, a 21 year-old college student, would be caught reading the same stuff that my 8 to 13 year-old cousins were reading!
Someone (who obviously had great influence over me ;P ) finally convinced me this summer to read the books (or rather, she just said, "You should read Harry Potter." and it was so, lol), so I finally threw away my unreasonable prejudices about the series and finished the first six books in about a month (it took that long mostly because I was working more-than-fulltime this summer and usually did a bunch of stuff with people after work / on weekends - and also took a sidetrack in between by reading Freakonomics). I think the series is good, but not spectacular. I don't see how people think it's the best thing since sliced bread - but then again, I can understand that just like LotR, this is the first exposure to the fantasy genre for most people. And, from that perspective, it's encouraging to see a lot more people being drawn into fantasy overall.
Yeah, for some reason, the friends I watched it with didn't see it as anything special either... and I can't understand why. Maybe it's because the terrible-ness of the third movie isn't as fresh in their minds as it was in mine.
Posted by: Kittie_Killer
Springy and I went to see the 4th HP movie Friday. We both were amazed that they were able to "shorten" the book into a movie yet not do a complete butcher job on it.
Apparently when it was time for them to start filming the 3rd movie soon after the 2nd (due in part to the rapid growth of the main characters) the director was still in the cutting room so they got another director for the 3rd movie. Glad to see he was back for the 4th tho. :}
Posted by: AxDrake23
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Originally Posted by Kittie_Killer
Apparently when it was time for them to start filming the 3rd movie soon after the 2nd (due in part to the rapid growth of the main characters) the director was still in the cutting room so they got another director for the 3rd movie. Glad to see he was back for the 4th tho. :}
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What the hell are you talking about. The first two, directed by Christopher Columbus, were horrible. The third, by Alfonso Cauron (sp), took it further and truly defined the Harry Potter movie scene. Mike Newell, who directed the 4th, took it to a new level. Nobodies going to be able to fit a 750 pg book into a 2 hr movie. Thats one of the reasons that Alfonso didn't stay onfor the fourth. He wanted to do it in 2 movies, but WB said 1 movie.
I saw it and enjoyed it. I new that it wasn't going to be EXACTLY like the book, but what movie is?
I've read all the books multiplt times and love them. But another trilogy that I have really gotten into is the Inheritance trilogy by Christopher Paolini. THESE BOOKS ROCK!!!!! If you like dragons and warriors and big battle scenes, you'll love these books. Its amazing that he wrote the first book when he was only 16.
Anyone else read them?
Posted by: uh...ok
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Originally Posted by AxDrake23
What the hell are you talking about. The first two, directed by Christopher Columbus, were horrible. The third, by Alfonso Cauron (sp), took it further and truly defined the Harry Potter movie scene. Mike Newell, who directed the 4th, took it to a new level. Nobodies going to be able to fit a 750 pg book into a 2 hr movie. Thats one of the reasons that Alfonso didn't stay onfor the fourth. He wanted to do it in 2 movies, but WB said 1 movie.
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Hmm, I think I liked the first two more than the third... maybe because I was watching more for content than for style. Or maybe because I was so fixated at the gaping plot holes Cuaron left throughout the third movie. As someone put it, "When a director choose style over substance, you know it's going to be bad." To this day it still puzzles me why the third movie gets so much praise that it does.
I think Mike Newell did an awesome job with compressing the largest book in the series into a small-ish movie. I don't know what the actual run-time was, but it's still pretty damn impressive. As someone on the IMDB reviews put it, some things are left out, but you can hardly notice it throughout the movie because the flow of the movie keeps you on your toes the whole time. Except for the scene I mentioned above, not a single second was wasted in that movie. (Unlike the third movie, where I can name so many scenes that were a waste of time that could have been used to develop the plot and the characters more.)
On a more random note, does anyone else think that Dumbledore's office looks quite different from what they imagined? I always imagined it as more "homey" - like brightly lit, with a fireplace maybe, rather than being so dark and dim.
Posted by: Muggle_Man
to be honest, I watched this movie in the hopes that they wouldn't completely destroy it..for the 4th time...and I almost puked...several times... while watching it, I was disgusted, you can't even call it "shortening" the book, they cut entire parts out, which did matter to the plot, and added the most random things that never happened, I've kind of had it with these guys, the new director tried a little more, but it just didn't work, for me at least. I highly doubt I will go see the next ones, but I am glad that some ppl enjoyed it -_-.
Posted by: uh...ok
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Originally Posted by Muggle_Man
to be honest, I watched this movie in the hopes that they wouldn't completely destroy it..for the 4th time...and I almost puked...several times... while watching it, I was disgusted, you can't even call it "shortening" the book, they cut entire parts out, which did matter to the plot, and added the most random things that never happened, I've kind of had it with these guys, the new director tried a little more, but it just didn't work, for me at least. I highly doubt I will go see the next ones, but I am glad that some ppl enjoyed it -_-.
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Man you must have hated the LotR movies. 
Posted by: N.W.A_Kid
I dunno. With me it has nothing to do with age groups. I like to wake up and watch Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, and Kim Possible faithfully. I love kiddie shows, but Harry Potter is really for all ages. I dunno...something about it just never interested me. I'd rather watch Willow. 
Posted by: gam3r
I liked the books better than the movies. After the first 2 the movies really started to get gay.
Posted by: Grantyt3
I just saw it last night and the book was way better than the movie. They left out soooo much! I think the books are just getting to be too long to make into movies.
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