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[razorjak]

Review of HP&tPoA ...

Actually a lot better than I thought it would be. Although it was FAR shorter than I expected it to be at only 2hours and some change. I fully expected to be sitting for over 3 hours.

The new Dumbledore didn't have the same atmosphere about him that the "original" Headmaster had. That being the case, I think he'd have made a good choice in playing him from the start.

The kids spent far too much time out of uniform for it being a British boarding school but at least the director didn't completely do away with them as was feared by many, me included.

There were many things missing from the film. A few of them that didn't make it were important in my opinion. Hopefully, these items will make it into the extended edition DVD.

What really dissappointed me were the trailers ...

CATWOMAN - Okay, I'll likely have to turn in my hetero card right now; but DAMMIT! Halle Berry in next to nothing is not going to make me go see this piece of tripe. Especially when they even friggin use the line, "sometimes a cat can bring the soul back to one who is fallen" WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?

THUNDERBIRDS - a live action version of the Thunderbirds ... nuff said. LEAVE MY FUCKING CHILDHOOD ALONE!!!

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS - Will someone please kill Jim Carrey before he rapes yet another great story? Please?

THE NOTEBOOK - I've not read the book. Correct me if I'm wrong but the story seems to be about an old man reading a story from his journal to his senile wife to try to get her to remember how they met etc etc etc ... Was this placed in the HP rotation of trailers to give something to interest the blue-haired biddies who were shanghaid into taking their ungrateful brats of grandchildren to the movies?

Comments

[flameswithin.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine said HP was decent, but not great. i still plan to see it and hide my shame that i do actually enjoy the story, hehe.

CW - yeah, it looked like a piece of shit. the beginning looks like a rip off the crow, and..... i dunno, i just don't like halle berry.

TB - *eyes go wide and glassy* are you saying.... they're making.... from my favourite childhood cartoon show? *EEEEEEEEEEE* i missed that trailer. that's SO fucking cool.

SUE - which raped story are you talking about?

-P.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

It was good. Definately a darker film than the first two were. I think the only thing that I really hold against the whole Harry Potter storyline is how when The BOOKS of MAGIC (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411185/) film is finally released, it will be dogged as a Harry Potter rip-off. Even though the series predates HP by almost a decade and is largely aknowledged as the source material for the character of Harry Potter.

as to the THUNDERBIRDS trailer ... you should be happy you missed it. Basically it's "The next generation (who are all pre-teens) has to save the prior generation from Ben Kingsley."

Series of Unfortunate Events - What? You've not heard of Lemony Snicket? Next you'll be telling me you've never read any of the Redwall novels.

[flameswithin.livejournal.com]

um, nevermind.

-P.

[ain9el.livejournal.com]

what was weird is that i could tell what all of the previews were for within 10-15 seconds into them. the only reason i knew about the lemmony snicket was because i've heard of them and know the basic of basic storyline for it. yes, i remember thunderbirds, and i think i'll wait until video. i would rather it be with animatronic puppets intstead of actors. catwoman? GAH! the outfit pissed me off. the line about something about justice pissed me off in the commercials. as in, mister simon almost got thrown at the tv, pissed off. i saw harry potter on friday. wish i read the books, though. the one i'm looking forward to is the polar express.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

If I were still one step away from being a stepfather then I would be looking forward to "The Polar Express".

[prgrmr.livejournal.com]

THE NOTEBOOK - I've not read the book either. I saw the commercial on tv for it last night, and the first thing I noticed was the song: Tonight and for the Rest of My Life by Nina Gordon (formerly of Veruca Salt). So while the movie may or may not be all that, the sound track may well be worth looking into.

bleh

[serpent-sky.livejournal.com]

Michelle Pfeiffer did Catwoman the only way she should ever be done, live action. She did her right. Absolutely everything about the Halle Berry movie is wrong... I realise they were going for "next to nothing," but that's just not what Catwoman looks like. It would be a slightly inconvenient look for a jewel thief. [While I realise that Michelle Pfeiffer's costume was a bit shiny for thievery, it also seems vastly more practical and likely to conceal her in the dark.] Jim Carrey is in "Unfortunate Events"? Ugh. I really don't like him.

[nimrodiel.livejournal.com]

The way the notebook is written you are introduced to the elderly gentleman and then it switches over to the past where the two main charecters meet. You are not actually told that the woman he is reading to is his wife until the very end.

I have to admit, that seems like a strange addition to the previews for HP though.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

The fact that I got that from the trailer alone says something about how hamfisted the industry has gotten. "Let's just give away the entire plot twist WITHIN the preview. The cowlike masses won't pick up on it."

[lorithefreak.livejournal.com]

Aaaahhh! The Notebook! Every time I read that, I cry! EEEE!

Uh, yeah.

It's about a man and his wife who fell in love when they were barely out of high school and then didn't see each other for ten years. Then they found each other again and she left her fiance to be with him and they got married and had a bunch of daughters and they loved each other very very very very much and then she got Altzheimer's and they both had to live in a nursing home because they were old and had trouble taking care of themselves (which reminds me of my grandparents), and he reads that story to her every day, in hopes that she will come back to him as he remembers her, and then one day she did and that's basically the whole story and it makes me cry every time.

Sappy, eh? It's a chick flick. I wasn't even aware of it. I'll have to go see it with a bunch of girl friends or something.

[kest]

hrmph. I think the 'Series' movie looks like it might be quite good.

[masokisst.livejournal.com]

We saw it on friday, forgetting it was opening night... and had teenage girls sitting behind us shrieking with joy(?) every 15 minutes.... and griping the back of my chair.

I loved the excessive use of butchered latin though. ;)

[jruske.livejournal.com]

CATWOMAN - no chance in hell. Maybe get it on DVD which will probably come out two months after the cinema release. After seeing her in Monster's Ball all I can say when I see this woman is "Jesus! You did Billy Bob Thornton. And you still sucked!"

THUNDERBIRDS WTF? Are the airshows too hard for people to drag their kids to?

I want to see The Chronicles of Riddick though. I though Pitch Black was solid, and I hope they don't screw it up now.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

I want to see the Chronicles of Riddick as well. Though the fact that the video game seems to rock probably means that the movie will suck ass. I'm just drawing on the law that all movie based video games blow goats.