Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, * * * 1/2

[cleolinda]

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Tom Felton, Timothy Spall

Comments

[katmo]

What about the Dementors? I've been truly anticipating their impact... I mean, they scared me in the book, so I find it scary to think about what they;ll be like cinematically. Oldman is a crazy god, so I have never been in doubt that he's perfect for Sirius Black.

[cleolinda]

Oh! I forgot to mention those! They're frickin' scary, man. And they did a good job differentiating them from ringwraiths, no matter what "Harry Potter in Fifteen Minutes" says when I put it up later. :)

[katmo]

Sweet. I can't wait to go see it!

Yay!

[lindra]

To me, those Dementors and the way they did it reminds me of the underwater scene with the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean, and they're in the moonlight - there's that same floaty, ragged, CGI-type effect going on, the slow bouncing, the slow movement of it. It's really quite awesome, but I kept thinking about pirates. *amused*

[axedmoon]

I have to add (it's late and silly, but oh well) that Sirius reminded me of Jack Sparrow. I was just waiting for him to go to Harry, "How about you come live with me, savy?"

[elvensting21]

actually, you're not far off at all. The Dementors were filmed underwater to create that effect.

[silvermask]

I agree that they're about as different from Ringwraiths as you can get considering that they're essentially the same thing (scary things in cloaks and hoods :D)