Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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My major problem with that movie! I took my mom, who had not read the books, and kinda lost patience when I tried to explain, so she just didn't understand a lot of that movie.
Not as egregious as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy neglecting to explain towels, but still.
Right?? I'm baffled as to why that was left out. I remembered that being my favorite of the HP movies (though I think I've only seen up through the fourth) but somehow had forgotten that major omission, and it really irked me this time around.
I'm rewatching the entire Potter series and I just saw the film yesterday and thought the same thing!
Yeah. The lack of explanation of the Marauders makes for quite a few confusing bits, like Lupin's familiarity with the map and why it insults Snape when he tries to look at it.
The third movie is the best movie basically because they started being willing to cut things for the sake of the movie actually being good, but that is of course a double edged sword. They could get away with it because by the time that movie came out the books were pretty universal.
As someone who only read the books after I had seen the films (and stopped at, I think, the fourth; the books just got so darn long), I can confirm that not knowing who the Marauders were makes absolutely no difference to one's understanding of the film. I think of it more as an Easter Egg for readers than anything essential. B. told me about it afterwards (he too was horrified that it had been left out) and it amused me greatly, but yeah, from then on they needed to edit the books down pretty radically for the movies and a lot of details had to be omitted.
Azkaban is generally considered to be the best of the Potter films, I think. It's not a controversial opinion at any rate.
Azkaban has the virtue of the best director of the entire series.
All the kid actors also noted that he was the one began to teach them how to act. Chris Columbus would literally say, "Do the line exactly like this" and give them the line reading he wanted.
Cuarón also changed the production design considerably, making Hogwarts look much more worn and aged.
Azkaban has the virtue of the best director of the entire series.
Cuarón also changed the production design considerably, making Hogwarts look much more worn and aged.
All the kid actors also noted that he was the one began to teach them how to act.
ALL. OF. THIS.
Two new anime films came out Tuesday: Weathering with You and Ride Your Wave. I can't wait!!!
Azcaban is one of my favorite books and movies in the series. I especially loved the production design in the movie.
I quite like Chamber of Secrets these days, but Sorcerer's Stone is rough. And after Azkaban so much is missing, until book 7 when not enough is.
Still, I think the HP movie series is my favorite Big Book Series adaptation when taken as a whole, at least so far. LotR is probably better but the movies are just so damn long and The Two Towers just doesn't gel for me at all.
And let us not speak of GoT.
The Big Book Adaptation that most hugely improves on the book is Twilight. Works MUCH better on screen despite still being really meh. Jurassic Park is close.