Whole Lot of Nothing
Jul. 11th, 2007 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

So... In short, it wasn't a bad film but it wasn't a good film. We had a particularly obnoxious audience of mostly teens who all felt they needed to outperform one another and the film by screaming, squealing, shouting, booing, etc the movie as much as possible. I wouldn't have minded if they had been enthused but the tone was more of one-upmanship than excitement.
The plot is the same as the other films in the series. Real world sucks. Harry almost doesn't get to go to school. Some big name 'rescues' him from mortal world. Rides some enchanted vehicle. First semester is reasonably light, getting more dark. Stuff that could get him kicked from school. Lonely sad unhappy christmas. Afterwards, things get darker. Climax. End.
This one wasn't nearly as well made as the earlier ones. The musical score and direction were markedly worse. Also, presumably since her target market is growing up, the story has more teen angst than the prior films.
Quite predictable and ordinary really. No magic at all.
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Date: 2007-07-12 05:32 am (UTC)I dunno, I've always been totally indifferent to HP, but I was surprised -- I rather liked the third one, maybe because I had no real expectations for it. I liked this guy's notion that the later books should've been handed off to someone like Cronenberg or Lynch, not that any such thing would've ever happened. But for fuck's sake, this is supposed to be magic, people. Souls. Awful things that live in shadows. And personally, I think scaring the fuck out of kids is, well, pretty psychosocially healthy...
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Date: 2007-07-12 04:51 pm (UTC)Though... Long long ago, before I could draw, I did do a monthly one-panel strip for a couple of LGBT papers. First T* regular comic, I suspect. A chunk of it still exists at http://squirrel.twu.net (with really horrible buttons and a random pastel generator to reflect the embarrassing creature I was back then) along with a slightly later and quickly abandoned dark angst t* thing.