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The Eighth Harry Potter Movie
Surgoshan:
That her plots are compelling, but lack cohesion and occasionally have holes in them? Her characters are easy to connect to, but lack any real depth or strong motivations? That her setting is ill-defined and basically a thin mat veneer for her characters to stand in front of?
Yeah. But I still enjoy the books. Not so much the movies.
minorbird:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 06 May 2008, 21:30 ---Actually JK Rowling ISN'T getting kids to read. A study was done somewhere in BC that showed that after Harry Potter kid's aren't reading anything else. While I applaud her for getting some kids reading if they put down reading after Harry Potter nothing has changed.
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Whilst I did read a lot before HP, I found it incredibly hard to move past those books as I had become so completely involved with the characters and the story. Then I discovered Tolkien and everything was good again.
The dilemma is that if you really enjoyed the books, you're not going to enjoy the movies because of your expectations. Whenver there is an adaptation of a book I've read to a movie I constantly find myself, despite my best efforts not to, nitpicking where they have missed something, or changed the chronological order of things, or just generally fucked everything up.
As such, I almost died when I saw the Golden Compass. Completely butchered it.
Jimmy the Squid:
For some reason I am able to separate the two mediums from each other so that they both remain entertaining. As a result I love terrible films even though they butcher the source material. On the upside, I am much happier this way.
minorbird:
Whatever keeps you sane. I'm one of those assholes who sits in the cinema furiously muttering things like "where the fuck did the Quidditch go?" or "what spell was that?". Inconsistencies drive me bonkers.
smellslikemagic:
I think they should cut out any mention of the (absolutely unnecessary) Deathly Hallows, but keep the title. Mwa ha ha.
I got quite annoyed with her introducing the bit about deathly hallows halfway into the book, because adding too many plot elements into a story is weak. I mean, even the greatest minds have done it (Hitchcock for one) but it really disengages my interest.
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