Kala Bon
07-15-2007, 05:10 PM
I can honestly say that I never walked out of a movie thinking so badly of the director/direction and the final product until today.
I actually had to tell the wife that were I younger I would attempt to get into directing just to re-make this movie !
It is by far the worst of all the movies so far.
I feel it had NO character development at all, you just do not get any feel of any of the characters in the movie and what they might be feeling ( even Harry ) nor you do you feel much like/dislike for any of the characters, the ones on the side of good or evil. The characters were a non-event for me.
What few times the director tried to show us what a char was thinking/feeling it felt too much like an episode of Eastenders or some other British soap opera, in other words, trite and contrived.
If you read the book, you wil know that this was a break-out book for many side characters in the general story line, none of which was covered at all in any significant way. Not Snipe, not Hagrid, not any of the chars in the Order, not Nevill, not Luna, not Cho, nothing, no way no how.
Also, none of the plot-lines was covered ( discovered, let develop ) in any significant way at all, excepting Delores Umbridge character line, and even this was dumbed down, she was played out as sorta dumb, loyalty to The Ministry being her only fault, when she should have been played and let known to be more evil and dark-hearted than the movie did it.
I realize they had to make "sacrifices" to make the movie in the allotted time, but it should never have been made as a "stand-alone" movie. The producers should have just made the decision that the people attending HAVE seen the other ones.
I predict this movie will make the least money of all the Potter movies to date, and it has damaged the franchise.
This movie should be re-made with different director and different length decisions made, maybe even an intermission. This movie COULD have been EPIC and awesome, but the way it is now, it is just blech.
It rates a C- at best.
*rant off*
kala bon
I actually had to tell the wife that were I younger I would attempt to get into directing just to re-make this movie !
It is by far the worst of all the movies so far.
I feel it had NO character development at all, you just do not get any feel of any of the characters in the movie and what they might be feeling ( even Harry ) nor you do you feel much like/dislike for any of the characters, the ones on the side of good or evil. The characters were a non-event for me.
What few times the director tried to show us what a char was thinking/feeling it felt too much like an episode of Eastenders or some other British soap opera, in other words, trite and contrived.
If you read the book, you wil know that this was a break-out book for many side characters in the general story line, none of which was covered at all in any significant way. Not Snipe, not Hagrid, not any of the chars in the Order, not Nevill, not Luna, not Cho, nothing, no way no how.
Also, none of the plot-lines was covered ( discovered, let develop ) in any significant way at all, excepting Delores Umbridge character line, and even this was dumbed down, she was played out as sorta dumb, loyalty to The Ministry being her only fault, when she should have been played and let known to be more evil and dark-hearted than the movie did it.
I realize they had to make "sacrifices" to make the movie in the allotted time, but it should never have been made as a "stand-alone" movie. The producers should have just made the decision that the people attending HAVE seen the other ones.
I predict this movie will make the least money of all the Potter movies to date, and it has damaged the franchise.
This movie should be re-made with different director and different length decisions made, maybe even an intermission. This movie COULD have been EPIC and awesome, but the way it is now, it is just blech.
It rates a C- at best.
*rant off*
kala bon