What Are You Watching Now

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Out of nowhere we decided to have a family movie night. Watching the first Harry Potter movie.

They are so young in that!

OMG I know. When you go back and watch them over again, they are tiny. It's so weird.

scottalanmiller

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

flaxking

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

scottalanmiller

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

flaxking

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.

You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.

If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.

scottalanmiller

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.

You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.

If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.

I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.

Kelly

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.

You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.

If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.

I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.

I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.

scottalanmiller

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.

You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.

If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.

I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.

I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.

You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.

Kelly

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@flaxking said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's time for Harry Potter 2 on HBO!!

ouch

Yeah, the first two are pretty bad. But getting ready for the good ones.

I actually prefer the first two to the rest of them. Some fantastic costumes and sets, and some great casting.

You just have to deal with child acting and a not smoothed out book to movie translation.

If we have kids they're going to be shocked the first time they find out HP movies exist.

I don't mind the kids in teh first ones, they had to be rough, they were so young. It's the insanely trimmed story lines and focus on super goofy effects instead of the story. They went for so much broom flying, computer characters flailing around, and running from event to event and not establishing a mood. They are so trimmed, that if you don't read the books, they don't even quite make sense. My six year old complains that they are so cut compared to the books.

I haven't seen any movies made after the Goblet of Fire because of how drastically they cut the story down.

You quit too soon. They get better and better and by book seven they are amazing.

I'm going to try them again at some point, but I'm a bit leery. That one was so bad.

Obsolesce

I've read the first four HP books, and seen the first 3 or 4... but was years ago.

dafyre

I've read the books and seen the movies. I think the books are significantly better, but I also don't think the movies were terrible as a whole.

Obsolesce

Books are always better with everything.

Books contain so many more details and a ton more "time". If you duplicated a book to a movie you'd have like a 12+ hour movie and spend a billion dollars. YOu just can't. So it's all pick and choose.