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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:07 am 
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They show the shit out of this on HBO. I think I've watched it like five or six times since December. It's the only of the Harry Potter films that I've seen and I've never touched the books. I don't know what it is about this movie that makes it so strangely compelling. The fact that it's mad long doesn't hurt either...I love long movies.

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I need to order HBO before Sopranos starts


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I need to order HBO before Sopranos starts


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:10 am 
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You should check out the third movie, gauche. IMO, it's easily the best.


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Check out the books. They destroy the movies-- although the movies definitely aren't bad either.

(Not a big fan of the 3rd movie. But just like the books, everyone has their own opinions there)


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(Not a big fan of the 3rd movie. But just like the books, everyone has their own opinions there)


I can understand this, but if you say you like the 1st or 2nd better, I will ban you from this board.


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Goblet of Fire was the best book. The movie was a nice adaption, although it now takes me two sittings to watch it.

With the movies it's harder to compare. I thought the first one was great. It may have been due to high anticipation/expectation of what the magical world would be like, and then having those images in my head confirmed by the big screen.

I'm sure I can find easily some kind of movie/book comparison info but it seems like the movies are fairly direct copies from the books (i.e. not adding anything significantly new or different). Not that's there is anything wrong with that, but it certainly makes the plot less intense. #3 was cool, but you already knew all the characters' secrets and goals, so that element of the story is taken out of the viewing-pleasure equation (if your're one of those people who like to be surprised by twists and turns in a movie).

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The 3rd is my least favorite with the exception of the introduction to Sirius Black (I love that character)

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TheTheory Wrote:
(Not a big fan of the 3rd movie. But just like the books, everyone has their own opinions there)


I can understand this, but if you say you like the 1st or 2nd better, I will ban you from this board.


Nerd alert!

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I agree with bort that GOF was the best book. Easily. Though the last one nips on its heels. And the movie was great too but I felt there was much they could have put in but didn't, especially parts from the beginning of the book.

I can't wait for OOTP to come out in the theatres for one main reason: Sirius Black. Absolutely LOVE Gary Oldman in this role and it thrills me to no end to see him back on the screen.

I did hear they clipped a lot of the book to fit this onscreen, the director claimed if he hadn't the film would have ended up about 5 hours long.

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You can say that about ANY of the movies, though.

Which is why the books are a much richer experience.

I usually say my favorite book is whichever I am currently reading.

Movie wise I do tend to lean toward the first two, simply because of the reason Bort outlined: the director did an amazing job of taking what we saw in our heads while reading the book and putting it on the screen.

I became very offended with the third movie for totally changing the layout of Hogwarts.... especially Hagrid's cabin. The first two had it right... it's just right by the school next to the woods... in the third movie it's over the rivier and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. I was like, WTF?


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