LanternJack - are you saying that you think movies are better than books? That's blasphemy on this board! We need to hang you out by your toenails for that!
As ya'll can see, I edited my previous post. Sorry for the confusion.
PeeDee said:
I don't know if I would like Ian McKellen as Dumbledore (in theory, had he been dumbledore). Honestly, that would've been odd. Like trying to have Elijah Wood as Harry himself.
I agree. I don't think it's good for an actor to play the exact same type of character in more than one film role.
Hmmm...
Ian McKellan as Dumbledore
Elijah Wood as Harry Potter
Billy Boyd as Ronald Weasley
David Wenham as Remus Lupin
Viggo Mortensen as Sirius Black
Whoever played Wormtongue as Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew)
Miranda Otto as Lily Potter
Hugo Weaving as Severus Snape
John Rhys Davies as Hagrid
John Noble as Mad-Eye Moody
Ian Holm as Flitwick
Orlando Bloom as Draco Malfoy
Sean Bean as James Potter
Seriously though, I could see the guy who played King Theoden playing Dumbledore.
Honey Nut Loop said:
But as in all the movies there are errors, which i will not mention here. And they made the Moody-Crouch thing a little too obvious(oops i wasn't supposed to say anything.)
You can share them here, that's what this thread is for, to talk about the movie after you've watched it. Anyone opening this thread should assume details will be shared about this movie since the movie is released and anyone can now go and see it.
I don't think they made the Moody-Crouch thing obvious until later when his lip slipped when talking to his dad. I thought that was a bad idea.
What bothered me was them showing Karkaroff near the beginning going into the empty Great Hall where the goblet of fire was and closed the door behind him as he looked cautiously out. Why? What was the purpose? To try and throw us off the trail of Moody? They didn't need to do that. They pointed enough fingers and Karkaroff with what Sirius said in the fire and with the penseive. I saw no reason why they had that scene in there.
Honey Nut Loop said:
Edited to say: And i agree about the Dumbledore thing. Especially when Harry goes to the room with the other champions and then Dumbledore turns up and grabs him. No teacher would do that.
Is that true for boarding schools in Great Britain? I honestly don't know how professors and headmasters are over there. Maybe they are allowed to get more physical with a student.
But then again, what would anyone do about it? First of all, Dumbledore didn't hurt Harry, second, Harry suffered worse abuse from his uncle and aunt and cousin growing up, third, Harry's not going to complain that Dumbledore shoved him like that, fourth no one else in that room seemed to think anything of it.
It did seem very out of character for Dumbledore though and considering the life Harry's had with his uncle and aunt, you would think that Dumbledore would be a little more kind. Snape was just as bad when he kept hitting Ron and Harry's heads.
However, it's a British director this time and I've read that he brings with him his own personal knowledge of what British boarding schools are like and that this movie most closely resembled one out of all the movies so far. So these physical altercations between professors and students may be normal.
I thought the personalities of the key characters was the best so far. Harry's performance outshined everyone else for the first time. In the past I always felt that Ron outshined him but I think Daniel Radcliffe has improved 100% since the last movie. It was good to see Ron's darker side finally show itself. And Hermione felt every bit a 14 year old girl with complex emotions - I totally found myself identifying with her because of it. Dumbledore was more true to his character in the books. Moody was just awesome. Snape's physical humor was a bit unexpected but still funny, though I'm not sure it's that true to his book character. I loved that we saw McGonagall a lot more, Maggie Smith is a wonderful actress. Fred and George are really starting to feel like their book chararacters. Love their humor.