samedi, juin 19, 2004
watched Potter. i suppose it just confirms the thinness of the movie series. shall i blame the director or the author. the series, if they haven't realised, derived most of it's success on the Fun factor of magic and children. these initial launch factors seem to have been on the decline. the movie, feels like it has it's focus on something else. this particular episode seems to be a desperate attempt to convey as much of the plot as possible. perhaps the mystery needed too much time to unravel. the 'distractions' seem to be missing. or if they are there, they lack the effect.
there's just so much less Magic. and some weird undecipherable nonsensical portions. perhaps it's just me, but the going back in time device took up a rather lot of my brain computing time to decipher. then i decided it did not have to make sense. and the ending credits... i was not very happy with the music. it just appeared, had nothing to do with the movie, never appeared anywhere in the movie, was just a New thing, and was of the Wrong Mood and Style. what's john williams doing.
i suppose, the director and author just ain't good enough to do something so big. LOTR pulled it off. Star Wars pulled it off. this one just doesn't have enough substance. it is understandable that movies usually can't surpass the book they were based on. the first movie can provide some great imagery to the book. but once there, all readers will take that imagery and extrapolate it to the rest of the story, every small bit. and subsequent movies will definitely be unable to display every single detail and subplot, hence it would disappoint avid fans. it just can't be helped. Star Wars was never a book, the books were outside of the movie plots. LOTR was just one long story. Potter, was but small slightly related stories. i suppose it fails in the continuity cycle because each book was standalone even though the main characters stayed.
nvm. i'm not a Potter maniac.
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watched Potter. i suppose it just confirms the thinness of the movie series. shall i blame the director or the author. the series, if they haven't realised, derived most of it's success on the Fun factor of magic and children. these initial launch factors seem to have been on the decline. the movie, feels like it has it's focus on something else. this particular episode seems to be a desperate attempt to convey as much of the plot as possible. perhaps the mystery needed too much time to unravel. the 'distractions' seem to be missing. or if they are there, they lack the effect.
there's just so much less Magic. and some weird undecipherable nonsensical portions. perhaps it's just me, but the going back in time device took up a rather lot of my brain computing time to decipher. then i decided it did not have to make sense. and the ending credits... i was not very happy with the music. it just appeared, had nothing to do with the movie, never appeared anywhere in the movie, was just a New thing, and was of the Wrong Mood and Style. what's john williams doing.
i suppose, the director and author just ain't good enough to do something so big. LOTR pulled it off. Star Wars pulled it off. this one just doesn't have enough substance. it is understandable that movies usually can't surpass the book they were based on. the first movie can provide some great imagery to the book. but once there, all readers will take that imagery and extrapolate it to the rest of the story, every small bit. and subsequent movies will definitely be unable to display every single detail and subplot, hence it would disappoint avid fans. it just can't be helped. Star Wars was never a book, the books were outside of the movie plots. LOTR was just one long story. Potter, was but small slightly related stories. i suppose it fails in the continuity cycle because each book was standalone even though the main characters stayed.
nvm. i'm not a Potter maniac.
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