Seeing what others think of the 3rd movie. My humble opinion follows =)

I've seen it a two times.. and IMHO i think it was nowhere near as good as the first 2 =(

The acting seemed jerky at times, like the actors were merely repeating verbatim what the director told them, not inflecting their own vision of the characters. I'd imagine as they got older, the acting would get better.. here it seems like it got worse =( The director... thank god he's being replaced.

Hogwarts itself seemed... just different, can't place my finger on it. The Willow being in a different spot wasn't a huge thing for me, but the castle itself just "felt" wrong

The map... can't say i could of done better... but they really undersold it.

The dementors were excellently done, nice touch of doing with them.

The actors:

Dumbledore... =( I think after the incredible performance of Richard Harris... noone they get is going to come close.. but the guy they got (can't recall name off top of head atm) seems like he could care less about the role.

Lupin: I don't think they could of picked a worse actor for Lupin. Everytime he was on screen I was so annoyed i fast forwarded =(

Harry: This is the turning point in the books were they get darker, and more interesting... I really don't think Dan has it in him to take Harry were he has to go. Maybe if they just bought Dan acting lessons?

Sirius/Hagrid/Snape/etc: Perfect. Oldman as Black is just perfect.

The animagus forms, were the most laughable. Sirius is supposed to be a huge bear like dog, Lupin's werewolf you'd think would look better then a starving doberman, and Pettigrew's rat was... ug. Looked like a stuffed animal =( Peter's human form was by far the worst=(

Buckbeak however.. totally impressive.


Overall: I think the Director and casting director went out of their way to make things seems so different from the first 2 films.... neglecting the fact that this is a school that has been pretty much the same for 1000 years, and the familiarity of Hogwarts we all feel reading the books makes the castle, in effect, a character of its own.

 

I personally hated the thired movie... I think it was, personally, a was of good film. After it, Im wary of seeing the fourth. I dun know how good itll be..

 

I dont like anyone of the three movies. the first two you could watch but the third really xxxxxxx.

hope the fourth will be better.

 

Meh! Watching the movies after reading the books is a total waste of time, IMHO. The first two were loads better than the third one and though I will agree that some aspects of the movie were fantabulous, overall the movie sucked. We actually get disappointed and think that out imagination is loads better than their computer generated graphics.

Dementors and Buckbeak were great as many have said already and will say again. Snape [Alan Rickman i think] has the character down to perfection and Sirius [Gary Oldman] played the role, albeit a short one, very well. Dumbledore [Michael Gambon] is actually a nice actor but he couldn't provide the same charisma to DD's role that Richard Harris provided. Too bad the poor guy had to meet his Maker.

As for our dear Trio, I'll have to say they are still young and there is much chance of improving the acting skills. We should sincerely hope that they do better for the Fourth movie or I'll have to vow never to see another HP movie again. GoF is so far the best of the series and if they don't do justice to their roles, then everything will go down the drain.

And whats this news about the Muniz guy. Frankly I think this is all a big joke. No offense to that person but after seeing Dan in Harry's role for 4 movies, no ones gonna be pleased if he gets replaced. Even if his acting is not like we expect, his face carries a value that cannot be replaced. So, a big NO to that guy. Also consider the fact that the news came out on April 1st and that the guy is already 20 years old and by the time OotP comes out he'll be like, what, 23, and thats too old for a 15 year kid.

 

I was on a Meeting with ForumUsers from a Harry Potter Fanclub in Germany and we talked about this movie. Everbody has the same "best scene" and "worst scene"

The best scene were the credits with the marauders map (I've stayed till the end!!!)

And the worst thing in the movie was Remus werewolf shape. Hello? JKR talled us that is was difficult to differ normal wolves from werewolves. So why did they show this THING? I've seen it just once and I still suffer from this scene *shudders*

 

i hated it cant stant. I can whatch the first ther OKAY, but the third one horrible. the werewolf was totally off, the [atronous totally they made ita shield not a stadning walking thing. Dumbledore could have been better. The acting for this one wasn't the best. I mean the whole sneaking aroun hagird cabin and slaping malfoy err not too good. TGhe dementors were right on. I didn't Know that remus had a mustache.

BIGGIE: HAS ANYONE NOTICED DUDLEY HAS BLACK HAIR INSTEAD OF BLONDE. HELLO READ THE STORY PEOPLE DUDLEY HAS BLONED HAIR, AND IS A LOT FATTER.

I think sirius was cool, pettigrew kinda freaked me out out kooked way to rat like then a human, i mean he has been a rat for 12 years ut there is a line on how rat like a person can look.

Dont watch the movies if you've read the books.

FRANKIE MUNIZ: seen his acting he is a pretty good actor but i dont see him being able to pull off Harry Potter it doesn't seem him, Hopefully though he reads the books so we have an actor who has an idea of what the story is about. Doesn't look like harry potter would look like either.

bye

 

About Dudley, yes many people have noticed that but they have done it since the first movie. So nothing big about it.

Remus the werewolf was horrible, more like a stuffed monkey or whatever, but definitely not a werewolf.

The patronus was blah, can't say much, everyone knows whats wrong about it. Never thought dementors could fly. But, hey, it looked good in the movies.

And what about Harry doing magic in the beginning of the movie? Don't remember exactly but wasn't it 'Lumos Maxima' or something similar? Now that was ridiculous IMO. Imagine doing magic on Privet Drive in his third year.

Frankie Muniz as Harry Potter royally SUCKS!

 

Yea they royally fucked up the movie, i thought that the hp moveis woukld be kick ass an awsomeand stay ture to everything lie th LOTR but no they changed all the shit maybe the director should read the fucing story befor he produces it that way he will have a clue about whats it is about. God so pissed off right now. We need a new direcetor and some new actors.

 

Not sure about the actors but a change of direction seems essential.

And God, plz let them care about canon stuff. Can't stand movies showing stuff just for effects that ain't in the books.

 

BAH as for the Frankie Muniz... god ignore meh =( I'd been awake over 30 hours when I read that, I didn't see the date, it prolly is just a April fool's day prank *embarrassed"

I swear to you that when the opening scene started and we saw he was doing magic, I about tossed the DVD out the window... I'm waiting to see how they play off the courtroom scene now in OOTP since obviously it's no big deal he does magic at home, since he won't be punished...

Which reminds me, WHAT THE BLOODY :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: !! happened to Tom? (Barkeep) He went from a nice older guy to this quasimodo thing.. ug. The bit with Tom arming the security alarm on the car was just weird.

Dudley being slightly less portly then described I can take, his hair color being off I can ignore, but it is a glaring wierdness that JKR hasn't fixed it.

I'm not even going to get started on the Knight bus. 3 things i have to say about it though: jamaican, head, WTF

I'm likewise not gonna get started on the firebolt's inclusion/near exclusion.

Ya know reading the replies... it makes me remember more of the movie.. god I must've blacked some of it out due to trama of it being so horrible in spots, lol.

I can understand they need to stretch certain things to captivate the audience better.... but really, that was just too much. I think the first 2 movies followed too close to the books, but hey, everything in them was great almost.

I could take the Dementors flying, b/c personally I liked the effect and flying scene. I took the Sirius scene as the orb being his happy emotions they were sucking out of him to feed, and not his soul.

I liked the effects they did for the patronus to an extent, it could of been done alot better for the movie they were spending on the movie as a whole.

THANK YOU! I KNEW there was a reason I couldn't stand him! His whole mannerisms and acting style... the way he inflects his speech drove me insane.

What I'm trying to understand here is... PoA is the turning point where (to me) the story gets good. It gets a darker tint to it, and stops being so "ohh ahhhh ... fairy tale land". If the studio couldn't handle making Scabbers look like a normal rat, or even do a halfway decent werewold (rip off the Lycans from Underwold, THOSE kicked butt, or the wolf from Van Helsing), how is it going to handle Voldemort? Or Moody?

How are they going to handle Peter lopping off his own hand? Or cutting Harry?

Bah I'm off to read some Azkaban stories to calm down =(

 

hated it
abostly utter hated it
i just sat in the cinema saying thts not how its supposed to be
the dementors, patronus and stuff could almost be ignore but the scene in the willow though..they missed out crictal information
in tht scene everything was supposed to be explained
peter's betrayel, sirius innocence the sercet keeper
everything..but they just rushed through it
anyone who hsn't read the book must have been really confused at the end
remus got me the maddest
JK specfically says tht hes thin and with kinda grey hair and old robes
not fat
not all gringer hair
they could have done it so much better...
and i really miss peeves was really looking forward to seeing me but they never cast him

 

yeah peeves would of been cool =)

Another thing i couldn't stand was the change in portraits from Movie 1 to the annoying one it wound up being in PoA.

 

I must have missed that thing. What exactly are you talking about?

 

Watch the portrait of the fat lady in movie 1. She looks like a painting, and is very respectful. Watch the fat chick in movie 3. She looks like a real person, just standing inside a frame being annoying

 

Hmm... you are right, of course. Seeing the other bigger mistakes in the movie, I really missed the Fat Lady's behavior.

Another thing she's not a big/major character to keep in mind.

 

Aye she's nothing major at all, but it was just another of those glaring efforts the director made to make the movie "his" (or in our terms the worst one of the trio so far, lol)

Not to mention the ghostly version of Sir Cadogan, who is supposed to be a portrait =)

/sarcasm Hmm.. something just occured to me. You know how some major game companies and very few movies studios place "easter eggs" or "bloobers" that were done on purpose into their products?

I'm wondering if the whole movie wasnt just one big easter egg, heh.