Film, recipe and whatever...

[fools_trifle]

Monday my husband called me after work and asked if I wanted to go see the movie, so we went alone - without the kids. We got to sit beside another couple who were there on their own - the woman had a potted flower (it's called a "Christmas Star" in Danish) sitting on the floor in front of the seat that was mine. So we had an utterly weird, very

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[skylardarke]

I saw the film too, and I share some of your opinions. I wrote a little rant about it in my LJ...

I was really dissapointed about all the details from the book that were left out, but apparently, everyone in the audience who hasn't read the book thought the movie was 'frickin' sweet'. Sometimes I wish I didn't read the book first, then the movie would have been better... Oh well, books rule!!!

The only movie that I've ever seen that was EXACTLY like the book was The Great Gatsby... and I mean EXACTLY

[skylardarke]

I forgot to mention that having conversations about plants is so awesome! hehe, don't scare the plant, its obviously not mature enough to see GoF... hehehe

Neville would have fancied the plant, I dare say!!

*pimps flower icon*

[fools_trifle]

Of course! *facepalms* She took the plant to see Neville - I bet she snuck it up on the seat when he appeared *lol*

♥

[fools_trifle]

I know they have to cut out massive parts of the action from the books, or else it would be impossible to turn them into films, so I'm prepared for that. I just don't think they did a very good job of exchanging the book's story with a film ditto - I actually think they should have tried less to fit in book scenes and a lot more to make an actual film out of it. IMO that's the only way you can ever really do a book justice - rather than trying to do a filmed version of the book (which is almost always impossible, unless you have a very "filmic" writer like Phillipe Djian or something) you should make an actual film, just using the characters and overall plotline of the book - a film of a book is really a kind of fanart that way...

It would have been AWESOME to see the Quidditch World Cup!!! - and I'd much rather have seen that than the extended first task scene with the compulsory flight around Hogwarts *yawn*

:)

[fools_trifle]

Her portrayal just seemed even more over the top than before.Word

[gnatkip]

Hehe, what a funny little encounter with the plantpeople at the movies.

It's only been within the last year or so that I've fallen hopelessly in love with cardamom. And I have heard of Pepper Nuts, although I haven't tried them. Yum!

[fools_trifle]

You heard of Pepper Nuts? :D I didn't even know whether I should call them that - it's just a direct translation from the Danish. Do you have Scandinavian ancestors?

Cardamom is a must in winter cakes and cookies ;)

[gnatkip]

Pfeffernuesse, yeah? It's quite possible that I have Scandinavian ancestors, but not to the degree that I'd have inherited any food traditions; my family has lived in this country for many generations.

I just seem to spend a lot of time reading about food. ;)

[fools_trifle]

Ah, that sounds German - I didn't know they had that same type of cookies down South :D

Yeah, me too ^_^

[orange_bastard]

g-damn LJ ate my comment.

I loved Moody soooo much! But it was good to here a point of view from someone who hadn't read the books!

[fools_trifle]

*kills LJ*

I love book Moody - he's a perfect cult figure and it's so easy to understand why the students all think he's endlessly cool. Never mind it actually being Barty Crouch Jr. - if he hadn't been a pretty precise replica of the real Moody the order members would have spotted it right away.

Film Moody was okay, but why did they change somthing like his foot? Why couldn't the bouncing ferret be allowed to actually bounce?! I also found him too young somehow - in my mind he's supposed to be one of the really old lions - not scarred enough by half, and his eye looked so stuck on and nowhere near mad enough... it was supposed to be electric blue and whizz around completely independently of the other eye *wails*

Heee - isn't it fun to have your favourite characters mauled by a director? *lol*

[mieronna]

I thought the film was really more a series of scenes than an actual story

Word! to many bad cuts.

I didn't like the film either. It had its moments, but they didn't work as a whole. And a fact I cannot stop stressing - half of it must have been weird or incomprehensible to someone who hasn't read the book. And something i haven't mentioned in my own post about it - I feel like many characters are in the movie just because the director wanted to say "see, they are here, now be happy and fuck of". I noticed it in the previous films (not as much in PoA, but PoA is my precious baby ^_^) And it was extreme in this one - like you said: The other Champions should have gotten more screen time and their screen time should have been used better. The same with Maxime, or Karkaroff or Crouch or even Snape. They were just shown so that wee see they exist and were not forgotten and the only who had real impact on big parts of the film were Harry, Ron and Hermione.

[fools_trifle]

Yup - everything except the last task bit was like a long parade of scenes and characters, rather than an actual story. Like I said, I went with my husband and he found several scenes completely random and incomprehensible - why did those guys destroy the camp at the quidditch world cup again? what was up with Harry's best friend getting all mad at him? what was the point of that pensieve scene there? etc. etc