HPIII: The Prisoner of Azkaban
Jun. 3rd, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidLast night I got to go to a free screening of the new Harry Potter movie, courtesy of Queue. As he noted, it was a surprisingly not-packed theater, though it was a large one. It was great to run into Volta and MissDimple as well :-).
I hadn't reread the third book in a while, but that didn't matter. I very much enjoyed the movie anyway. Of course, lots of stuff had to be condensed or elided to make a movie out of that long a book, and some of the choices didn't work unless someone had read the book. And it seemed that some things were put in merely for entertainment value, when more plot-driven scenes could've been put in their place.
The new Dumbledore worked reasonably well, if a little more stern than the previous one. Minister Fudge kept on being rather Sigfried Farnon-ish (All Creatures Great and Small) in my head, but that was a small distraction. Overall, a visually stunning movie, yet again, and the plot was reasonably well done, too. Some of the other new characters didn't fit my mental image of them, but that's to be expected, I suppose.
Oh, and the credits were very nicely done, well worth staying for in and of themselves, not just to let the crush of people go out.
I just remembered: my first post was about the first Harry Potter movie. Heh.
I hadn't reread the third book in a while, but that didn't matter. I very much enjoyed the movie anyway. Of course, lots of stuff had to be condensed or elided to make a movie out of that long a book, and some of the choices didn't work unless someone had read the book. And it seemed that some things were put in merely for entertainment value, when more plot-driven scenes could've been put in their place.
The new Dumbledore worked reasonably well, if a little more stern than the previous one. Minister Fudge kept on being rather Sigfried Farnon-ish (All Creatures Great and Small) in my head, but that was a small distraction. Overall, a visually stunning movie, yet again, and the plot was reasonably well done, too. Some of the other new characters didn't fit my mental image of them, but that's to be expected, I suppose.
Oh, and the credits were very nicely done, well worth staying for in and of themselves, not just to let the crush of people go out.
I just remembered: my first post was about the first Harry Potter movie. Heh.