Finally!Review
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elucrehWARNING: SPOILERS
(1) Zemenar...the man is AMAZING. We love him. He did almost everything right. ALL BOW DOWN BEFORE CUARON. The scene changes, the balancing of humor, the symbolism, filming, the...EVERYTHING. My only minor complaint that I do not choose to put on Kloves is the prevalence of shrunken heads. Other than that, Cuaron is WOW.
(2) OHMYHOLYSOPERFECTSOSIRIUSILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOUYOUAREPERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gary Oldman is the only possible Sirius EVER. The one thing that I've never really been able to connect with in Sirius's story is the laughing when he was arrested, but Gary Oldman managed to make it all work--be an integral part of Sirius. The madcap, devilmaycare, amazingamazingamazing acting. The only flaw in the character was Kloves again, where he gets all philosophical in a totally ooc way, but Oldman worked so well with that part of the script, since he had to, and the rest of the script was GOOD, and he was FANTASTIC with it. He just IS Sirius. I love him devotedly.
(3) While I will say that I still don't think Lupin looks the part, and that Rox's prediction that Remus!smut will grow after the movie has been widely seen, I will say that totallyandamazinglyincharacter!Remus-centric fics are going to be on the rise. Apart from his looks, Thewlis is an amazing Remus. Fills the character, makes it work so well, so wonderfully well...*hugs Thewlis again*
(4) Dan is the hotness. I know that many people find the drooling over Dan silly, but I will not hang my head in shame--the boy is YUMMY. Also, his acting was SO GOOD. Well...he can't fake cry, and even if he could it so totally does not fit where he had to do it, but other than that he was amazing. He's really got a firm hold on the character, and is doing so much amazing work. His interaction with each and every one of the other characters is PRICELESS. Especially loved "My dad didn't strut, and I am not arrogant, now, Mr. Authority Figure, do what I tell you..." he managed to capture Harry's unconscious arrogance so well...ack!
(5) Gambon has saved Dumbledore. DUMBLEDORE IS DUMBLEDORE AND NOT A DODDERING OLD MAN AGAIN!!! YAY!!!!! *cheers, applause, mountain of virtual chocolate sent to Gambon* The mischief! The putting in his place of Snape! The DUMBLYNESS!!
(6)
*Rupert and Emma also much better. With what the script gave them to work with, they did amazingly. They did still have moments where they said/acted as though they were reciting instead of living their parts, but still pretty good.
*Neville was good,
*the portraits' reaction to the Fat Lady slashing was fantastic,
*Buckbeak was just so amazing,
*Hagrid was finally let to be book!Hagrid,
*Rosmerta was very well done,
*the talking crystal ball was bizarre but
*Trelawney--oh, Trelawney was SO GOOD. Not book!Trelawney, but very good. Like McGonagall--not cannon, but so wonderful you don't mind. And her prophecy,and then the hairball...eeee!
*The piano I loved.
*Wormtail was a pleasant surprise in that he was ratty only in a way that you would expect after twelve years as one, instead of nasty as I was expecting.
*The werewolf transformation was SOBAD.
*I love the bottle glasses on the characters.
*And STAN SHUNPIKE IS PERFECTION!!! *snuggles Stan*
*And the Fudge actor is very Fudgey.
*I think they effectively wiped out all of Draco's good qualities. Malfoy is taller than Harry now and I am amused. Draco's doodle is totally ooc but so cute.
*The Fat Lady is so amazing.
*Harry's scar keeps moving from the right side of his forehead to the left, and occasionally vanishing all together.
*Alan Rickman is the Snape I loved in PS and EVEN BETTER. ILOVEYOUALAN!!!!
*Ron is so abused. They give him a silly nightmare but not the line where it seems perfectly reasonable that he should blame Crookshanks. *bats Kloves over the head with PoA*
(7) Now I shall do my scenes-with-snarky-comment thing. If you want to see it truly well done, though, go here.
HARRY: *plays with his wand under the sheets, muttering maximus.*
AUDIENCE: *collective snigger*
FEMALE AUDIENCE: Ooooooh, look at the prettypretty Daniel! *drools*
HARRY: *runs away from home and sits down on the curb*
SR FANS: *Hope in vain for Caitlyn's appearance*
DUMBLEDORE: Look, I can be philosophical and light candles at the same time!
RON: *roars like a lion*
LU: *has first inkling of understanding the lust for Rupert thing she has never before understood*
TRELAWNEY: Oh, look, Ron looks like he is seeing the future!
FANDOM: WE KNEW IT!!!
FIRSTTWOMOVIES!GOYLEACTOR: I think I will show up in only one scene and otherwise be replaced by someone else.
LU: NO! You have become hot! *wonders if she is going mad, but is not prevented from lusting after him*
LUPIN: Say "Riddikulus!"
DRACO: *makes bad pun*
RON: *defeats boggart*
PARVATI: *turns snake into clown*
HARRY: *steps up* Oh, NO, it's my worst childhood fear, a huge clown looming over me! Oh...right...
BOGGART: *turns into Dementor*
LUPIN: *jumps in front of Harry*
HARRY: Why didn't you let me do it, Professor?
LUPIN: Well, I saw the Dementor form and assumed that you would be seeing Voldemort.
AUDIENCE: *rolls eyes* You just wanted to give Harry a chance to check out your butt, admit it.
LUPIN: Hey, Harry, want to take a long, pretty walk with me and talk about our intimate feelings?
HARRY: Sure, but you have to agree to give me private tutoring.
AUDIENCE: *suspiciously* Have you two been reading McKay?
DUMBLEDORE: *is metaphorical about dreams out of the blue*
AUDIENCE: *smacks Kloves*
HARRY: Oh, look, my greatest fear, which makes me pass out! I'd better keep going higher up and chasing the shiny ball!
AUDIENCE: *smacks self on forehead*
HARRY: *steals Neville's licked lollipop*
AUDIENCE: Harry! Reading the Woobies of Destiny too?
RON: *knows that if Harry is crying he doesn't want to be hovered over*
HERMIONE: *realises that nobody cries that fakely and that Harry wants someone to yell at*
HARRY: *loses his glasses again*
AUDIENCE: WILL YOU LEARN A STICKING CHARM ALREADY?
HERMIONE: *acquires superhuman strength*
HARRY: I have a hunch where we're goin.
FANDOM: First seeing something in a crystal ball and now wild hunches that turn out right? It's Ron that's the Seer, you ridiculous boy! RON, we say!
CUARON: Oooo, let's make Ron-Draco paralles
LU: Hmmmmmm...*begins drafting essay in her head*
HERMIONE: *points to moon*
ALL CHARACTERS: *turn to look at moon*
SIRIUS: I have been stalking my ex-lover, so I know all about his potion--Remus, did you take it? *tries to convince Remus that the wolf need not override his mind, despite the fact that he's known the contrary for years*
REMUS: *in disgust, easily disables Sirius despite the fact that Sirius has always been able to keep him in line before*
SIRIUS: *goes off to sulk*
HARRY: No, Sirius, wake up, don't let them take you!
FUTURE!HARRY: Expecto patronum!
SIRIUS: *chokes* Oh, sorry--Harry, put your wand away, I was only swallowing a firefly.
HARRY: *explains his Patronus in an unnatural manner*
HERMIONE: I hate flying, do you mind shutting up? Now, I really want to blow something up and make a lot of noise during this covert rescue, so...*blows up door*
SIRIUS AND HARRYL: Wheeeee! Flying!
HERMIONE: I think I'm gonna be sick.
Lines, con, and baptism later. Must go work.
(1) Zemenar...the man is AMAZING. We love him. He did almost everything right. ALL BOW DOWN BEFORE CUARON. The scene changes, the balancing of humor, the symbolism, filming, the...EVERYTHING. My only minor complaint that I do not choose to put on Kloves is the prevalence of shrunken heads. Other than that, Cuaron is WOW.
(2) OHMYHOLYSOPERFECTSOSIRIUSILOVEYOUILOVEYOUILOVEYOUYOUAREPERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gary Oldman is the only possible Sirius EVER. The one thing that I've never really been able to connect with in Sirius's story is the laughing when he was arrested, but Gary Oldman managed to make it all work--be an integral part of Sirius. The madcap, devilmaycare, amazingamazingamazing acting. The only flaw in the character was Kloves again, where he gets all philosophical in a totally ooc way, but Oldman worked so well with that part of the script, since he had to, and the rest of the script was GOOD, and he was FANTASTIC with it. He just IS Sirius. I love him devotedly.
(3) While I will say that I still don't think Lupin looks the part, and that Rox's prediction that Remus!smut will grow after the movie has been widely seen, I will say that totallyandamazinglyincharacter!Remus-centric fics are going to be on the rise. Apart from his looks, Thewlis is an amazing Remus. Fills the character, makes it work so well, so wonderfully well...*hugs Thewlis again*
(4) Dan is the hotness. I know that many people find the drooling over Dan silly, but I will not hang my head in shame--the boy is YUMMY. Also, his acting was SO GOOD. Well...he can't fake cry, and even if he could it so totally does not fit where he had to do it, but other than that he was amazing. He's really got a firm hold on the character, and is doing so much amazing work. His interaction with each and every one of the other characters is PRICELESS. Especially loved "My dad didn't strut, and I am not arrogant, now, Mr. Authority Figure, do what I tell you..." he managed to capture Harry's unconscious arrogance so well...ack!
(5) Gambon has saved Dumbledore. DUMBLEDORE IS DUMBLEDORE AND NOT A DODDERING OLD MAN AGAIN!!! YAY!!!!! *cheers, applause, mountain of virtual chocolate sent to Gambon* The mischief! The putting in his place of Snape! The DUMBLYNESS!!
(6)
*Rupert and Emma also much better. With what the script gave them to work with, they did amazingly. They did still have moments where they said/acted as though they were reciting instead of living their parts, but still pretty good.
*Neville was good,
*the portraits' reaction to the Fat Lady slashing was fantastic,
*Buckbeak was just so amazing,
*Hagrid was finally let to be book!Hagrid,
*Rosmerta was very well done,
*the talking crystal ball was bizarre but
*Trelawney--oh, Trelawney was SO GOOD. Not book!Trelawney, but very good. Like McGonagall--not cannon, but so wonderful you don't mind. And her prophecy,and then the hairball...eeee!
*The piano I loved.
*Wormtail was a pleasant surprise in that he was ratty only in a way that you would expect after twelve years as one, instead of nasty as I was expecting.
*The werewolf transformation was SOBAD.
*I love the bottle glasses on the characters.
*And STAN SHUNPIKE IS PERFECTION!!! *snuggles Stan*
*And the Fudge actor is very Fudgey.
*I think they effectively wiped out all of Draco's good qualities. Malfoy is taller than Harry now and I am amused. Draco's doodle is totally ooc but so cute.
*The Fat Lady is so amazing.
*Harry's scar keeps moving from the right side of his forehead to the left, and occasionally vanishing all together.
*Alan Rickman is the Snape I loved in PS and EVEN BETTER. ILOVEYOUALAN!!!!
*Ron is so abused. They give him a silly nightmare but not the line where it seems perfectly reasonable that he should blame Crookshanks. *bats Kloves over the head with PoA*
(7) Now I shall do my scenes-with-snarky-comment thing. If you want to see it truly well done, though, go here.
HARRY: *plays with his wand under the sheets, muttering maximus.*
AUDIENCE: *collective snigger*
FEMALE AUDIENCE: Ooooooh, look at the prettypretty Daniel! *drools*
HARRY: *runs away from home and sits down on the curb*
SR FANS: *Hope in vain for Caitlyn's appearance*
DUMBLEDORE: Look, I can be philosophical and light candles at the same time!
RON: *roars like a lion*
LU: *has first inkling of understanding the lust for Rupert thing she has never before understood*
TRELAWNEY: Oh, look, Ron looks like he is seeing the future!
FANDOM: WE KNEW IT!!!
FIRSTTWOMOVIES!GOYLEACTOR: I think I will show up in only one scene and otherwise be replaced by someone else.
LU: NO! You have become hot! *wonders if she is going mad, but is not prevented from lusting after him*
LUPIN: Say "Riddikulus!"
DRACO: *makes bad pun*
RON: *defeats boggart*
PARVATI: *turns snake into clown*
HARRY: *steps up* Oh, NO, it's my worst childhood fear, a huge clown looming over me! Oh...right...
BOGGART: *turns into Dementor*
LUPIN: *jumps in front of Harry*
HARRY: Why didn't you let me do it, Professor?
LUPIN: Well, I saw the Dementor form and assumed that you would be seeing Voldemort.
AUDIENCE: *rolls eyes* You just wanted to give Harry a chance to check out your butt, admit it.
LUPIN: Hey, Harry, want to take a long, pretty walk with me and talk about our intimate feelings?
HARRY: Sure, but you have to agree to give me private tutoring.
AUDIENCE: *suspiciously* Have you two been reading McKay?
DUMBLEDORE: *is metaphorical about dreams out of the blue*
AUDIENCE: *smacks Kloves*
HARRY: Oh, look, my greatest fear, which makes me pass out! I'd better keep going higher up and chasing the shiny ball!
AUDIENCE: *smacks self on forehead*
HARRY: *steals Neville's licked lollipop*
AUDIENCE: Harry! Reading the Woobies of Destiny too?
RON: *knows that if Harry is crying he doesn't want to be hovered over*
HERMIONE: *realises that nobody cries that fakely and that Harry wants someone to yell at*
HARRY: *loses his glasses again*
AUDIENCE: WILL YOU LEARN A STICKING CHARM ALREADY?
HERMIONE: *acquires superhuman strength*
HARRY: I have a hunch where we're goin.
FANDOM: First seeing something in a crystal ball and now wild hunches that turn out right? It's Ron that's the Seer, you ridiculous boy! RON, we say!
CUARON: Oooo, let's make Ron-Draco paralles
LU: Hmmmmmm...*begins drafting essay in her head*
HERMIONE: *points to moon*
ALL CHARACTERS: *turn to look at moon*
SIRIUS: I have been stalking my ex-lover, so I know all about his potion--Remus, did you take it? *tries to convince Remus that the wolf need not override his mind, despite the fact that he's known the contrary for years*
REMUS: *in disgust, easily disables Sirius despite the fact that Sirius has always been able to keep him in line before*
SIRIUS: *goes off to sulk*
HARRY: No, Sirius, wake up, don't let them take you!
FUTURE!HARRY: Expecto patronum!
SIRIUS: *chokes* Oh, sorry--Harry, put your wand away, I was only swallowing a firefly.
HARRY: *explains his Patronus in an unnatural manner*
HERMIONE: I hate flying, do you mind shutting up? Now, I really want to blow something up and make a lot of noise during this covert rescue, so...*blows up door*
SIRIUS AND HARRYL: Wheeeee! Flying!
HERMIONE: I think I'm gonna be sick.
Lines, con, and baptism later. Must go work.
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Date: 2004-08-19 04:04 pm (UTC)"WE KNEW IT!!!"
LOL!! :D