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My Uncle was at the London Premier! Me so jealous... 
-Rob
For the record it's fine if two or more people have the same character, just make sure they are different pictures of the character. 
Gabatay. 
I was trying to edit a lightning mark onto Mr. Munchy (the squid in my profile picture), it didn't turn out too well. xD
Oh well...
Mr. Munchy... eat him.
Anyway, on topic. I dunno if I'll join the HArry Potter Avatar Trend because of my new awesome neon profile picture (if you hadn't noticed)
While we wait till the finale, let's discuss a thought provoking question. Which was your favorite director in the series and why?
Mine would be Chris Columbus and David Yates, they definatly made the best ones. Columbus really brought a nice magic feeling to life in the first two films. After him the series kinda got weak until the fifth year when David Yates came along and gave it a mature but still great magical feeling, I didn't hate the 3rd or anything, it's just was kinda let down that that great magical feeling was gone, still a great film in the series though. But the 4th year was a real piece of s**t movie. the fifth movie prooved that these movies still can be good, the 6th one was kinda ok and now 7.1 was good so far, but I can't have a full opinion on it until I've seen part 2 wich I really can't wait to see. These Harry Potter movies started with my youth and now it feels like it's ending, but it looks like a worthy ending.
My favourite HP movies so far in order:
1. Chamber of Secrets
2. Deathly Hallows part 1
3. Philosopher's Stone
4. Order of the Phenix
6. Halfblood prince
7. Goblet of fire
8. Prisoners of Azkaban
I haven't seen a lot of them in more then a year, though, so I should probably watch them again to have a correct list.
I'd Probably say Yates or Columbus. I sort of wish they just had the same director all the way through. Something that sort of annoys me about Harry Potter (though I still love the series) is there's a bit of a continuity fail. As they switch Directors the styles change a bit and it gets rather odd. But, it could have been a lot worse. It's still done a pretty good job of evolving to its creepy end like with the books.
What? I loved Alfonso Cuaron. He gave the series a much darker feel.
MYYY Harry Potter ranking
1. Deathly Hallows - (I just put in both part 1 and 2 because I do think Part 2 will live up to Part 1 which was great)
2. The Half Blood Prince
3. The Goblet of Fire
4. The Sorcerors Stone
5. Chamber of Secrets
6. The Order of the Phoenix
7. The Prisoner of Azkaban
My favorite HP director is David Yates. He really understands how a Potter movie should be and made the last 4 dark and epic, (I judge the last one by the trailers and clips).
Last edited by Lucas (July 9, 2011 (01:23pm))
I don't believe I can list my favorites.
I'll list mine. 
1 &2: The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Chamber of Secrets. I can't decide. xD I love them both so much.
3: The Deathly Hallows
4: The philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone
5: The Order of the Phoenix
6: The Half-Blood Prince
7: The Goblet of Fire
I still love them all though.
Only one that I didn't like too much was 4, it just seemed a bit messed up and rushed. AND THEY LEFT OUT DOBBY!!! D:<
But I still like it for some things.
Have any of you watched Prisoner of Azkaban recently? That movie seriously owns. It's at least loads better than #2, for reasons including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:
1) The camera-work is more inventive than either Columbus movie
2) It's the first movie in which the kid actors started improving (side-note: Ron's voice-breaking in #2 grated badly) ... plus, Alfonso Cuarón really knows how to work with less and sell little moments, like the part in which Harry
tells Hermione what Sirius Black is telling him on the hill ... you really get a great sense of Harry's longing
3) It had a better arc and ending. #2 had one of the single worst climaxes of the series. Tom Riddle practically vomited his little expository speech at Harry (accompanied by a bad-looking montage of Ginny under a spell), culminating with that tragically lame line, 'Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter!' What a 'movie' thing to say. If Potter had turned around and started hissing like a moron, the snake would've snapped his head off, Ginny would've died, and Voldemort could've hit up the Death Eaters for a major partay that very evening. #1 had a similarly gabby climax, really.
True, there was also some expository business to get through in #3, when
Peter Pettigrew was outed,
but the actors delivered their lines with such verve, and the scene was got off with enough skill all round, that it managed to keep a good pace and sense of tension going.
4) It broke the Voldemort streak. You may cry fowl, and insist that as Voldemort is the primary antagonist of the series, he ought to feature prominently. Well, bollocks, I say. It was nice to get a break. Honestly, this film creates such a great atmosphere not only through general technique, but the dementors as well, that it doesn't need a fish-faced man endlessly repeating Potter's name to entertain.
5)
The time-travel stuff was fun, and executed nice and simply. People who can't handle time-travelling wizards can go boil their head.
6) It ended with a rad-ass freeze-frame (and what's more, earned it)
I've seen people complain about stuff like the shrunken heads or whatever but honestly, that was a very small part of the movie and quite frankly, I didn't mind the director lending his own quirkiness to the series. I think he could've done great things if he'd gone on to do subsequent films in the series.
Here's my ranking of the films:
1) Prisoner of Azkaban
2) The Deathly Hallows, Part 1
3) The Halfblood Prince
4) Philosopher's Stone
((Really, it was the score and the veteran actors that sold this movie - Robbie Coltrane and Alan Rickman knocked it out of the park in particular))
5) Goblet of Fire - TIED with Order of the Phoenix
((GoF had some seriously stupid haircuts, but OotP was always my least-liked book, and it felt rushed and not too compelling as a movie))
6) Chamber of Secrets
Director ranking:
1) Alfonso Cuarón
2) David Yates
3) Christopher Columbus
4) Mike Newell
EDIT: Here is a decent post on the awesomeness of Prisoner of Azkaban:
http://thelastmuggle.com/2010/07/26/pri … tter-film/
Last edited by Shale (July 10, 2011 (03:59am))
I may as well list mine. I dont think any of the films are masterpieces, but I enjoy them:
1. The Chamber of Secrets (I like that its similar to the first one. Its called 'consistency'. Plus, its from my childhood, so I cant possibly find fault with it. I get why some people hate it - but I liked it)
2. The Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Excellently paced, visually stunning. The only problem is that its weaker predecessors miss out some vital plot-points, so this movie has to write its way around it)
3. The Philosopher's Stone (Best family movie ever IMO)
4. The Half Blood Prince (aside from the rushed exposition, it had some excellent humour/character development)
5. The Order of the Phoenix (too short, and mis-represented the book)
6. The Goblet of Fire (rushed plot to make way for terrible set-pieces. The Maze Challenge was terrible, and the Yule Ball just made the entire film grind to a sudden halt. The graveyard scene at the end was awesome though)
7. The Prisoner of Azkaban (barely follows the book, completely changes the whole look when it was not needed until later, terrible acting from Harry, awful screenplay, and hardly anything is explained because so much has been cut)
I'm still annoyed that Terry Gilliam wasn't allowed to direct any of the movies. Whilst I actually really like the first two - as both of them were exactly how I imagined it to look like, I'm really interested to see how Gilliam would have adapted it.
Heck, I'll list my favourite books too:
1. The Order of the Phoenix (one of the only cases of 'More is More')
2. The Deathly Hallows (am I the only one who thought the camping section was supposed to drag on to show why Ron got fed up?)
3. The Goblet of Fire
4. The Half Blood Prince
5. The Chamber of Secrets
6. The Prisoner of Azkaban (perhaps this is why I hated the movie so much....)
7. The Philosophers Stone (JK hadn't nailed her style yet)
I liked the HP5 movie, but I thought it was hugely mis-interpreted. The book is about Harry's psychology - which I why its not just my favourite Harry Potter book, but one of my favourite books of all time. I love how Harry is having to go through such an internal battle, and we see every single step of it. At the end of the book, you really feel like you've spent a year at Hogwarts - and have seen how Harry has gradually changed from being traumatised by the events of HP4 to blunt acceptance. I never thought reading a person suffering so much would be so good!
In the movie - its all about revolution against Umbridge. One thing I really liked about the movie was that Umbridge was awesome. (But not as awesome a Kenneth Branagh's Gilderoy Lockhart. He never fails to make me collapse into laughter...) But, its not about the 'revolution'. Harry isn't even trying to do a revolution, he's just preparing everyone for the real world. In the book, the Ministry becoming corrupt was a sub-plot. In the movie, its the main plot. The connection between Harry and Voldemort (I'm brave enough to use his real name) is mostly forgotten, whilst its at the very forefront of the book. In the film, we are not sure how Voldemort is able to trick Harry because
Oh and longest book, but shortest movie? Thats in-excusable. I get that a load of stuff has to be cut because of the run-time, but when your movie is that short - you are not excused.
Last edited by Max Butcher (July 10, 2011 (07:39am))
I would like to see how Peter Jackson would have done the whole Harry Potter series.
That could have been pretty cool.
Haha, it might have been more "serious" all the time though.
Totally dressing up like Seamus Finnigan Thursday night. 
Hey guys, look this Harry Potter remixed song: http://youtu.be/_EpkK8B08o4
IT'S AWESOME!!
Hey guys, look this Harry Potter remixed song: http://youtu.be/_EpkK8B08o4
IT'S AWESOME!!
Meh.
Haha, it might have been more "serious" all the time though.
Well, Lord of the Rings had a lot of not so "serious" (xD) times. Especially with the Shire. It's so nice and happy when it's there.
But mainly it would be cool to see the series be more consistent.
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