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Posts: 1048 · Posted: August 9, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

are you kidding me. curon was the best director in this series. he made that movie my favorite movie out of the whole series.
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Posts: 1048 · Posted: August 9, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject:

the dialogue was hilarious and the characters were in a rage of emotions.

as to harry's face- i'm just glad that he showed the firebolt.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 9, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject:

Posts: 1048 · Posted: August 9, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

yeah the robes bugged me.

i was just glad they showed the firebolt at all. i bet yates would have skipped it.

beside everything was close to the storyline of the books and thats more than i can say for the other movies.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 9, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject:

columbus would have shown it all, and possible made the movie 3.5 hours (he was able to put the vast majoity of book 1 and 2 into movies)

*I went back and watched #4 and I have to agree yates is horrible.

Are these people trying to destroy the series? or just horrible directors?
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Posts: 23 · Joined: Aug 7, 2007 Location: US Posts: 23

that is highly unlikely, since HP tends to target children, its very unlikely for a movie to be more than 2.5 hours long....and the reason why Columbus was very detailed was because the books were fairly short and it was easy to do, since there weren't that much plotlines going on...

But, I respect all the directors of HP, I just tend to like PoA more because it had "oomph" to it....and Cuaron did a GREAT job. Yates just needs to include more things from the books in his movies and not rush so much, which is what I didn't like about OoP...

Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 10, 2007 12:16 am Post subject:

People went to see the LOTR which were over 3 hours, People saw Titanic which was over 3 hours. People would see HP even if it was over 3 hours.

It just costs more and they would only make 110 million dollars vs. 140 million dollars on the opening weekend.
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Posts: 519 · Joined: Jul 25, 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 519

i agree, i think that aside from columbus, cuaron would be the best to direct the final hp movie. i had always thought the 3rd book was the most boring, it was definately one of my least favorite of the books, but i think cuaron made the movie way more enjoyable than i could have hoped it to be.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 14, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject:

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Posts: 2286 · Posted: August 14, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

I thought the third book was boring too, and that the movie was very entertaining. But I guess to each his own.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 14, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject:

I just thought the director messed up the way the movies were set up (the books never talk about them wearing muggle clothing around school) and he didn't end it right, and left chunks of it out (Like Harry winning the quidditch cup - it was kinda important)

And from him on the next two directors have been the same way - so I blame him.
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Posts: 519 · Joined: Jul 25, 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 519

as much as i wouldve like to hav those parts in the movies, it just wasnt possible to fit everything in, and cuaron had to decide what was cut from the movie. nobodys perfect. im sure even if u took the biggest hp fan ever and had them direct the movie, there would still be disappointed people. its impossible to make everyone happy because everyone has different opinions.

and u hav to remember, the screenwriter is the one that converts the book into the screenplay, so im sure some parts never even reached any of the directors because the screenwriters had never even written them in in the first place
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 14, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject:

^ very good points.

But the director had to have read the book - if not he has no buisness directing (even Peter Jackson read the LOTR books). And if the director sees a big chunk of the book is missing...then he should be like "Oy, this needs to go in there."

Or make a special extended eddition where you have a 4.5 hour movie with everything (that comes along with the normal movie!)
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Posts: 2286 · Posted: August 14, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject:

I understand where you're coming from, but writing the script based on a book is the screenwriter's job, not the director's. He can't just add stuff in wherever he wants. Or maybe he can. I have no idea.
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Posts: 24075 · Posted: August 15, 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

No, the director can't just add huge chunks into the script without giong through a bunch of people first. Theres the screen writer and producers to possibly block him. He can add things in, he added in the shrunken head, for instance, but to just add large stuff in... it can be tricky. He might have even tried and was denied, we don't know.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 15, 2007 7:39 am Post subject:

Then he should have refused to do it - I mean come on what's more importnat: the almighty dollar, or the fans hopes and dreams?

Hollywood says" $$$
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Posts: 24075 · Posted: August 15, 2007 10:21 am Post subject:

I don't know... Sad

Maybe it would have led to a contract dispute?
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and even if he refused to do it, they could probably get another director in a heartbeat.
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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 15, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject:

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Posts: 1409 · Posted: August 15, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

and so the fans suffer - wonderful system. Lets just hope Yates does better on this next film.
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Posts: 24075 · Posted: August 15, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

yup, the fans suffer. It's total bs, but there it is.
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