Where was the spitting??

[snaples]

So, we bought Harry Potter 3, and I re-watched it, and I went through another bout of disapointment. It's a shame, really, because it had the potential to become something awesome. Mind you, I'm not 100% disapointed; some scenes are drool-worthy (my my, I do get a kick out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts scene with Snape, as well as the corridor one), but Snape was WAY too soft. I mean, please. Where was the anger? The spitting? And where the hell was he after he got smashed into the wall?

But Sirius was cool. Which makes it harder to watch, knowing what the future lies.

I am still holding up hope for the fourth one.

On another note, this one more encouraging, Cybele is in the same time zone as I am. YAYYAY!

Comments

[mirandamidnight.livejournal.com]

I personally missed the freak out after Sirius got freed the most.

And I'm on the same wavelength as well - didn't hate it as much as I thought I would... but I still didn't walk away from it happy. I haven't bought it yet and I really don't know if I'm going to.

Are the special features good?

[cybele-san.livejournal.com]

YAY! so... how far is philadelphia from you, then?

[ebilsoki.livejournal.com]

About an hour and a half by plane, eight hours by car I imagine.

:D

[pervert-bitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, Severus getting all bitchy and spitting was missing... we was way to nice with the Potter boy, when he should have smacked him then push him against a wall and... err... nevermind.
Anyway... they say there is not going to be much Severus on the fourth movies, so I must kick the director's and the screenwriter's arses...

[dragong.livejournal.com]

Among other things that bothered me (half of them about Snape) was the horrible ending. I mean, they use this way for all those stupid movies staring kids. Ending up with a kids face stuck on the screen. Gee... *rolls eyes* I hope they change the director next time. The second movie is still my fav.

[blackkitty13.livejournal.com]

I mean, they use this way for all those stupid movies staring kids. Ending up with a kids face stuck on the screen.

I do SO agree. The ending was bothering me like hell. >.<

For Snape... I sometimes had the feeling that they reduced him to a laughing stock. You know... that scene in the corridor IS funny, but... Snape would never obey to a mocking portrait. And run after Harry like a clucking hen. He just acted QUITE weird in this movie.

[dragong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, man. I just stared the screen in the end not sure if the movie was over! O.o

I think Snape's portrayal in this movie was as bad as it could possibly be. No justice for dear Potions Master there... *sob*

[tsu-chan55.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I miss the entire background on the marauders that got conveniently cut out... O.o;

BUT! fourth movie looks like it could be fun. I mean, it has VOLDEMORT! >.>

XP

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

re-watched it, and I went through another bout of disapointment.

*loves you just for that* It's hard to feel like the entire fandom is in love with a movie that left me goggling at its atrocities.

had the potential to become something awesome.

Exactly! Actually, I thought so during CoS, when cat!Hermione was so badly done--the exact thought, I believe, was: They knew this movie would make so much money, yet they're using shabby cheap effects like this? This looks like they're putting a bare minimum of effort into it, when it could have been so much better.

Nice to know I'm not alone.

[the-loupe.livejournal.com]

I too just recently bought the DVD, and I was watching the interviews, and I was rather struck by Gary Oldman's effeminate voice. I was not expecting that. He doesn't really sound effeminate when he acts. But when he talks? Wow, that was a surprise.

I still don't know why I bought the stupid thing. Perhaps I'm experiencing an unscheduled bout of masochism. It still makes me twitch when I hear people sing the movie's (and the director's) praises. That man should be beaten to death with copies of his own awful movie that have rusty nails embedded in the case. Yes, that would be a suitable way to go. Or perhaps afterwards, we could take one horrid, blurry picture, and put it up at the end of the funeral, so that whatever small amount of joy people may have gotten from his life was ruined by that miserable last image. That would be poetic justice.

[raendrop.livejournal.com]

I noticed in the Shrieking Shack, some of the things Sirius said momentarily affected Snape. Like for half a second, they were back to their old school roles of bully and ... kid being bullied. Nice little touch, knowing about that Pensieve scene in book five. I often wonder how much the actors know.

[ceajay.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing really, but did you notice the scene where Harry's scar was on the wrong side of his forehead? Cracked me up.

[subliculous.livejournal.com]

And where the hell was he after he got smashed into the wall?

Exactly what I was thinking.