Comments on: Potter Movies 8 Years Old!!

By: Joivre

Joivre — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:30:30 +0000

SeaJay – you are brave, my dear friend. It’s us against the world!

By: SeaJay

SeaJay — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:54:22 +0000

Joivre: Do not despair, you are not alone, I think Sir Michael is terrific!

By: Fricka

Fricka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:59 +0000

Bah, humbug, Korg!
I thought there was plenty of menace, particularly in COS. Maybe it wasn’t coming so much from an outside source, but the concern that Harry felt after learning he spoke parseltongue, the strange petrifications of various figures, the writing on the wall, were all sufficiently ominous to me. The scene in the forest with Aragog and his children was really frightening(at least the first time!) I won’t say that I have arachnophobia, exactly, but I’ve had nightmares about spiders coming down the ceiling toward me, and the giant spiders coming down en masse in that scene was reeely spooky to me. Where’s the giant spray can of raid when you need it???

By: korg20000bc

korg20000bc — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:35 +0000

Red Rocker,
You mentioned earlier that you feel the sense of menace was right in Columbus’ movies.

I disagree. I found there to be a particular lack of menace in them. They shouldn’t be horror movies but I was completely underwhelmed but the peril-factor. Voldemort is wheezy and makes silly faces. Then it went downhill. The movies seemed too self-concious to me. Like there was a wink at the audience in every scene. The sooner they’re remade the happier I’ll be.

By: Joivre

Joivre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:48:19 +0000

Oh whoops – I just got home from a GREAT CONCERT and I looked here and realized I didn’t finish copying my whole post with that last one.

As I was saying….

You Gambon-haters you! *vainly shaking my fist in the air* I’m starting to feel like Elmer Fudd. It’s getting harder and harder to defend Sir Michael when you guys are all ganged up. You’re going to have to start a little club with matching jackets that says Gambon sucks! on the back. And now you’re enlisting Mr. Pond? No!!!! I won’t allow it. I like Mr. Pond. He’s mine. Although he is showing sway towards you – I must convince him not to be sucked into the vortex.

By: Joivre

Joivre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:18:52 +0000

How about this – as I sit here and type this, I am listening to the Borromeo String Quartet rehearsing Beethoven’s Rasumovsky Opus 59, no.1 – in person. Ah – the pleasures of being a Music Director.

You Gambon-haters you!

By: Red Rocker

Red Rocker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:56:06 +0000

Analyze this:

One minute of screen time holds an infinity of meanings yet doesn’t seem nearly long enough when Harris is acting. One second of screen time shows the actor’s barren, brittle soul and seems to take for ever when Gambon is acting.

I want my Dumbledore back.

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:38:31 +0000

I actually am working on Ch. 14 even as I speak! It should be up later tonight. It won’t be as good as Lily Luna’s but I count on the smarts of the posters here to make up for my deficiencies.

By: Arabella Figg

Arabella Figg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:29:12 +0000

Back to Chapter 14, revgeorge!

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:15 +0000

Please note that it was Mr. Pond and not Red Rocker or myself who first brought up Harris’ Dumbledore!