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| Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets - Mafu (27/11/2002 10:39:17 PM) |
Well, for the first time ever, I did the "see the movie when it first comes out" thing. I was dragged along by my better half to the 9:30am screening, which happened to be the first screening in the Indooropilly megaplex.
We arrived early, about 9:00 and the cinema wasn't even open. However, there was a huge crowd of people, and quite a few (the dedicated or crazy ones) were dressed up as characters from the movie. They were quite cool to see, but I could have done without the crowd or the wait.
Eventually, after arguing with the checkout girl about a one day out of date student card, and buying a hugely overpriced frozen coke ($3 or so in the refill cup - GEez!), we made it up the staircase to the theatre, got in, and found that MY seats were taken (third row up, center). We settled for third row up, slightly off center to the right, and settled down for the movie.
The crowd atmosphere was cool, and the gaggle of girls up the back cheering and "ooing" and "ahhing" at the male actors (and "eeking" at the spiders) while slightly destracting, actually were pretty cool (never thought that I'd say that!).
The movie is quite good. Heaps better than the first HP, and I really enjoyed it. Its very long, at 3 hours, and I was suprised that they killed him off at the end.
OK. I lie. He doesn't die.
They match the book very well, although some key bits still get missed, but that happens with any text to movie conversion - when was the last time you converted a .DOC file into a .MPG successfully?
There are a few special effects that could have been done better, and some that would have been better left in the films they were taken from. There is also a few problems with the teeth structure of the big snake (like its wrong!) and the flying car graphics are well... a bit chitty (pun intended, you work out the pun!).
But that all aside, it is good. Was good. I'd see it again. Its about an eight out of ten.
Make sure you stay till the end, there is a great clip after the credits about what happens to one of the characters (a bloody funny one at that - both the clip and the character!).
Oh, and watch TV tonight, channel 7, I may well be on the news. I'll be the one trying to fade into the background behind a group of girls in Hogworts uniform. They were cute but. |
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You big girls blouse you!
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Did you see the photos?
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What photos?
Oh... just came back from seeing Harry Potter.
Not bad at all.
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I went into the cinema with great anticipation, given Mafu's review, Penguin giving it the thumbs up when I spoke to him and a couple other people saying it was way better than the first one which I did not mind at all.
I have read all the Harry Potter books and think everyone else should do so as well. J. K. Rowling is a truly a great author and deserves your money.
Maybe I was expecting too much. Maybe I already knew the whole story so it spoiled the plot. Maybe it was because I went to the late session after a hard day at work. Likely a combination of these factors and some others, made me appreciate it less.
Rowling should spend less time making movies and write more books! Her books are uber, the movie was flat and too long.
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