tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post7796654306863181145..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: This Week in Geek (20-26/07/15)Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-26267719521977486722015-08-01T07:31:20.143-03:002015-08-01T07:31:20.143-03:00Right. Which means they ought to be their own thin...Right. Which means they ought to be their own things. I personally don't need an adaptation to be faithful to the book, except in spirit. I'd much rather have a good film than a faithful one.<br /><br />And that's something I'm going to revisit in the next batch of reviews.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-19622634192353243552015-08-01T04:45:03.879-03:002015-08-01T04:45:03.879-03:00Yeah, Prisoner of Azkaban is generally considered ...Yeah, Prisoner of Azkaban is generally considered the best book too, mainly because it introduces Remus and Sirius, both of whom are fan favorites. Unfortunately, Prisoner of Azkaban is also the point they started cutting lots of vital plot points from the books. They couldn't really help it as Prisoner of Azkaban was also when the books started getting too long to fit into two hours. That's one problem with book-to-movie adaptations: A book can take days to read while a movie only has 1 or 2 hours, tops.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968499181179583354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-33481140493881795892015-07-26T15:20:36.364-03:002015-07-26T15:20:36.364-03:00Sorry to hear about your friend. That's terrib...Sorry to hear about your friend. That's terrible.<br /><br />But good on you for tying it into a positive memory.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-79458571003519548202015-07-26T14:58:55.097-03:002015-07-26T14:58:55.097-03:00The last thing I got to do with my best friend bef...The last thing I got to do with my best friend before he suddenly and shockingly died from a sinus infection that went insanely rogue was go to Weird Al's tour through our area. Wonderful experience, made bittersweet by it being the last time I saw my best friend of thirty years. Sounds like your visit had a lot of the same touches, despite being an album later, but it's definitely a great experience.American Hawkmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-58417776238154835632015-07-26T10:50:57.306-03:002015-07-26T10:50:57.306-03:00My roommate is a big Potter fan and expressed simi...My roommate is a big Potter fan and expressed similar frustrations. She HATES this movie. Which makes me want to like it even more, because I can be gleefully obnoxious like that.<br /><br />I can understand where you and she are coming from, but when you explain it, it just sounds like gobbledegook pulled from books I haven't read and don't care to.<br /><br />The Potter films are ALL too long, and if there's something unexplained or an inconsistency, it would probably take me a couple of viewings to spot them - the ending is just too far away from the beginning. And multiple viewings, that's something else that won't happen.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-51328641943488574122015-07-26T10:41:27.497-03:002015-07-26T10:41:27.497-03:00For me, Prisoner of Azkaban was where I started lo...For me, Prisoner of Azkaban was where I started losing confidence in the movies (at age 14), and it's mainly due to a frustrating lack of exposition in a couple of key scenes. For starters, notice that it's never made explicit who the Marauders responsible for the Map were. (Moony=Remus Lupin the werewolf, Wormtail=Peter the rat, Padfoot=Sirius the dog and Prongs=James Potter whose Animagus form was revealed at the end to be a stag, which is why Harry's Patronus took the form it did.) <br /><br />The other point of frustration for me is the scene at The Three Broomsticks, which doesn't explain why everyone was so certain that Sirius was the traitor. (The Potters used the Fidelius Charm on him to keep their hiding place a secret - no one would have been able to find them unless he told them personally, and no one he told would be able to tell anyone else. However, Sirius persuaded them to switch to Peter later, figuring he (Sirius) would be the more obvious target, as a much closer friend to James.) Admittedly it's a pretty wordy chapter from an adaptation standpoint, but it's a spell that comes into play in later movies with no context.<br /><br />Credit where it's due though - the time travel stuff is better executed than in the book, foreshadowing the Stable Time Loop a couple of times before Harry figures it out. And I agree with you that the acting and direction are generally improved.Toby'chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01298458468488781568noreply@blogger.com