Probably because nobody (except JK) had an idea of quite how pivotal Ginny was going to become, and I don't know how much of the early casting was left up to Chris Columbus (but I like to blame shit on him), but I think he went with a lot of bland choices that another ballsier director like Cuaron might not have made. Obviously, when you're picking kids who are gonna go through seven movies, it's a bit of a gamble, but Bonnie started out perfectly cute, which was fine, given how small her role was, and then just ended up about as charismatic as my a stump.
I LIKED Bill getting savaged by Greyback
I definitely, always prefer the canon of the books, but I can definitely appreciate the limits of having to condense the books into a two or three hour block. So, in the long run, would it have been more satisfying to me to have had all of the Weasley bros introduced so that there would have been an emotional payoff to seeing Bill at the mercy of Greyback? Oh, yeah. But, in the interest of time, I really think this movie was craftily adapted and convinced. I thought the plot was very deft, whereas for me, the fourth one for example was really shittily budgeted for time and information.
To me, HBP is now up there with the 3rd and 5th ones for a) not making it feel like you're moving directly from big event to big event to big event, but giving us some time to breathe within, and creating some of the behind-the-scenes stuff with the kids. Showing them sort of hanging around and being teens.
ANd I meant to say: Tom Felton? Awesome. He really brought it in this one. The scene in the bathroom utterly murdered me, and he really impressed me.
Also! Jim Broadbent! I love him so much. It's hard to choose a fave moment, but possibly when he said to Hermione, "All hands on deck, Granger!"
As much as I love the Trio, it's the adults who really really make Potter worth watching.
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Date: 2009-07-21 06:13 am (UTC)Probably because nobody (except JK) had an idea of quite how pivotal Ginny was going to become, and I don't know how much of the early casting was left up to Chris Columbus (but I like to blame shit on him), but I think he went with a lot of bland choices that another ballsier director like Cuaron might not have made. Obviously, when you're picking kids who are gonna go through seven movies, it's a bit of a gamble, but Bonnie started out perfectly cute, which was fine, given how small her role was, and then just ended up about as charismatic as my a stump.
I LIKED Bill getting savaged by Greyback
I definitely, always prefer the canon of the books, but I can definitely appreciate the limits of having to condense the books into a two or three hour block. So, in the long run, would it have been more satisfying to me to have had all of the Weasley bros introduced so that there would have been an emotional payoff to seeing Bill at the mercy of Greyback? Oh, yeah. But, in the interest of time, I really think this movie was craftily adapted and convinced. I thought the plot was very deft, whereas for me, the fourth one for example was really shittily budgeted for time and information.
To me, HBP is now up there with the 3rd and 5th ones for a) not making it feel like you're moving directly from big event to big event to big event, but giving us some time to breathe within, and creating some of the behind-the-scenes stuff with the kids. Showing them sort of hanging around and being teens.
ANd I meant to say: Tom Felton? Awesome. He really brought it in this one. The scene in the bathroom utterly murdered me, and he really impressed me.
Also! Jim Broadbent! I love him so much. It's hard to choose a fave moment, but possibly when he said to Hermione, "All hands on deck, Granger!"
As much as I love the Trio, it's the adults who really really make Potter worth watching.