i've never asked for your opinion, i just got it and i get it
I found a reason to crawl from under my rock and come here write something. What is it, you ask? I've watched Twilight and Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.
No, I've not made a mistake. It was Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix that I watched, only now. I'm yet to watch Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, and who knows when that'll be.
So, what if I watched those movies, right? But I must talk about them and how utterly infuriating they are! Harry Potter even more.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix is not a movie. It's a collage of scenes. Of bad scenes, to top it. There is very, very little that can be saved in this movie. The scene with Fred and George leaving, for example, and Umbridge's characterization, which was good. Other than that... goodness, I could go on and on about how nothing seemed to fit, how forced some of the acting was, how stupid some scenes were... really.
I realize a novel as long as Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix might be extremely difficult to turn into a movie, but I bet there were more successful ways of doing it.
Making it longer seems the clearer one. I fail to see why it couldn't be longer to accomodate more details. Other idea was not adding stupid little things that weren't in the book! That should've helped!
It was, by far, the worst Harry Potter that I've watched. I bet someone who hasn't read the book hasn't understood much of why the things that were going on were actually happening.
Seriously, it blows.
Now for Twilight.
I'll start with this: I admit I might be a bit biased. I had something against it from the start because of the casting. I know it isn't meant for me to think Edward perfect, but for the younger girls who are the same age he's supposed to be, but still... I've read it, I was in my right to picture him one way and not other way.
Let's go on by saying that Robert Pattinson isn't gorgeous. He's good-looking, alright. His best feature is his profile, which is quite beautiful, I admit. However... I don't know, he's missing some quality that would make him even a passable Edward. I can't point my finger at it, but it's there. Or better, it isn't as he's missing it.
Then there's his acting. Not very good. He seemed to be in pain - all the time. And as far as I remember from my reading, Edward was not. And there's more: when he spoke, he seemed that he was talking not in an old-fashioned way but to a mentally retarded person. I won't even mention his hair and his make-up 'cause I'm sure at least that wasn't his fault. It got better by the middle of the movie, but that scene when he first speaks to Bella... gosh, horrible!
Kristen Stewart as Bella was a nice surprise. She actually made me like Bella more than I did when I read the book. But she wasn't flawless, though. Her facial expressions were excessive, to say the least. The way she bathed her eye-lashes, rolled her eyes... it got annoying pretty fast. But all in all, she was a fairly good Bella.
From the vampires, the only one who was really the way I pictured was Alice. Which is good 'cause I like Alice. Emmett and Esme were okay, I guess. Jasper seemed to be constantly under the influence of something that smelled really, really bad. Which sort of makes sense, but not really. He should look hungry or scared, not disgusted. Rosalie... is sort of annoying in the books and she's annoying in the movie and that girl is not half as beautiful as Rosalie is described to be.
Now, Carlisle. He's so different from what I pictured... But different does not necessarily equals bad in this case. Peter Facinelli is really good-looking but he surely wouldn't be my first (neither the second nor third!) pick for Carlisle. He did a more or less good job, though.
I must mention that movie Jacob isn't a tenth as annoying as book Jacob. At least in the first book. I do think he only gets annoying by the second book, though.
Leaving the casting alone, let's go for the movie itself. It was... awkward. I don't really know what it is. I don't think that much of what is missing from the novel is actually what makes it not so good. I think it's the way it was constructed, with this weird pauses and silent moments. That scene when Bella meets Mike and Jessica is the height of that. Or that scene from the beginning, when Bella is getting a cactus to take with her. It seemed forced to me.
But there are nice things, too, like the baseball game scene, which was quite cool. Good effects, nice music...
Anyway, I know that, from these two, the only one which can grow on me is Twilight. I may have been too hard on it and maybe I should give it a second chance. Let my fangirlism for Edward aside and try to watch it from a different point-of-view.
But I think Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix has no redeeming potential for me, sadly. I fear I'll never come to like it.
No, I've not made a mistake. It was Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix that I watched, only now. I'm yet to watch Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, and who knows when that'll be.
So, what if I watched those movies, right? But I must talk about them and how utterly infuriating they are! Harry Potter even more.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix is not a movie. It's a collage of scenes. Of bad scenes, to top it. There is very, very little that can be saved in this movie. The scene with Fred and George leaving, for example, and Umbridge's characterization, which was good. Other than that... goodness, I could go on and on about how nothing seemed to fit, how forced some of the acting was, how stupid some scenes were... really.
I realize a novel as long as Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix might be extremely difficult to turn into a movie, but I bet there were more successful ways of doing it.
Making it longer seems the clearer one. I fail to see why it couldn't be longer to accomodate more details. Other idea was not adding stupid little things that weren't in the book! That should've helped!
It was, by far, the worst Harry Potter that I've watched. I bet someone who hasn't read the book hasn't understood much of why the things that were going on were actually happening.
Seriously, it blows.
Now for Twilight.
I'll start with this: I admit I might be a bit biased. I had something against it from the start because of the casting. I know it isn't meant for me to think Edward perfect, but for the younger girls who are the same age he's supposed to be, but still... I've read it, I was in my right to picture him one way and not other way.
Let's go on by saying that Robert Pattinson isn't gorgeous. He's good-looking, alright. His best feature is his profile, which is quite beautiful, I admit. However... I don't know, he's missing some quality that would make him even a passable Edward. I can't point my finger at it, but it's there. Or better, it isn't as he's missing it.
Then there's his acting. Not very good. He seemed to be in pain - all the time. And as far as I remember from my reading, Edward was not. And there's more: when he spoke, he seemed that he was talking not in an old-fashioned way but to a mentally retarded person. I won't even mention his hair and his make-up 'cause I'm sure at least that wasn't his fault. It got better by the middle of the movie, but that scene when he first speaks to Bella... gosh, horrible!
Kristen Stewart as Bella was a nice surprise. She actually made me like Bella more than I did when I read the book. But she wasn't flawless, though. Her facial expressions were excessive, to say the least. The way she bathed her eye-lashes, rolled her eyes... it got annoying pretty fast. But all in all, she was a fairly good Bella.
From the vampires, the only one who was really the way I pictured was Alice. Which is good 'cause I like Alice. Emmett and Esme were okay, I guess. Jasper seemed to be constantly under the influence of something that smelled really, really bad. Which sort of makes sense, but not really. He should look hungry or scared, not disgusted. Rosalie... is sort of annoying in the books and she's annoying in the movie and that girl is not half as beautiful as Rosalie is described to be.
Now, Carlisle. He's so different from what I pictured... But different does not necessarily equals bad in this case. Peter Facinelli is really good-looking but he surely wouldn't be my first (neither the second nor third!) pick for Carlisle. He did a more or less good job, though.
I must mention that movie Jacob isn't a tenth as annoying as book Jacob. At least in the first book. I do think he only gets annoying by the second book, though.
Leaving the casting alone, let's go for the movie itself. It was... awkward. I don't really know what it is. I don't think that much of what is missing from the novel is actually what makes it not so good. I think it's the way it was constructed, with this weird pauses and silent moments. That scene when Bella meets Mike and Jessica is the height of that. Or that scene from the beginning, when Bella is getting a cactus to take with her. It seemed forced to me.
But there are nice things, too, like the baseball game scene, which was quite cool. Good effects, nice music...
Anyway, I know that, from these two, the only one which can grow on me is Twilight. I may have been too hard on it and maybe I should give it a second chance. Let my fangirlism for Edward aside and try to watch it from a different point-of-view.
But I think Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix has no redeeming potential for me, sadly. I fear I'll never come to like it.