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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nimpim: [QB] Right, then. Back on track. I just saw "Chamber of secrets" with my girlfriend, on the day of the premiere. Snay, how did you get to watch it so early, three days before the world premiere? I realize the difference between book and movie can be astoundingly different, so therefore my points will be directed at the movie alone. That is, my views, nothing else. My first point is Dobby. Never mind his pathetic selfpunishments and antics, how can a race that obviously has incredible magical powers inherent in their species be slaves under humans (telekinesis, pyrokinesis, teleportation), and how can there exist slaves at all?? Does the Hogwart's "special" status, that frees them from having to explain their existence to the real world, also free them of inailable rights of existence and treatment? Secondly, how can anyone condone or allow the sort of behavior and treatment of the house-elf (kicking Dobby right in the back, sending him down a fleet of stairs)? Also, how can a school of magic let a poor, murdered girl's spirit remain and continue to torture herself in the girl's lavatory? What was it Dumbledore said? "Remember, you can always come to us and ask for help". That dim friend of Potter didn't even sound surprised when he guessed the flooding of water could be the ghostgirl's doing. If she's such a bother, why not try to alleviate her? And where do the girls go to the bathroom, if nobody goes there? Next, there's the whole Slytherin-detail. If the first-ever Slytherin (the claimed fourth founding member of Hogwarts) was a problem, a threat and an arrogant, careless practitioner of dark arts, why not kill him immediately? Why let a whole section of Hogwarts students get taught in the style of Slytherin? Malfoy and his group of over-emotional, chip-on-their-shoulders ruffians would be expelled in other schools for the numerous threats and abuses they do. Just look at the magic-fencing scene in the middle, where Malfoy, after stric instructions to disarm his opponent, summons a fucking poison snake at Potter? How would he go about using a snake to disarm? At that instance his teacher should've kicked Malfoy off the table and killed the snake, but somehow his direct violation was "okay", and instead Potter gets crap for snaketalking? Ha! And the guy Kenneth Branagh played, how could he have gotten to Hogwarts when his incompetence showed at every given moment? Sure, he used amnesia-spells on professors and critics to get fame, but the leaders of Hogwarts should stand over his low-level spells. But why did they let Potter's friend bash his skull in with a rock? It was a nauseatingly brutal and cowardly move. Didn't it strike anyone else as excessive? Onto the end fight. The whole basilisk-thing was confusing, the whole situation getting solved because of a "Deus Ex Machina" that is a red bird carrying the special-hat? Conveniently supplying Potter with a sword? Not that the basilisk exactly [i]tried[/i] to eat him, it just kind of waved in front of Potter ten times until he got a lucky thrust up the brain. Even Kevin McCallister could done [i]that[/i]. This is a school about a Messianic wizard-kid? In a school of wizards? Why not make him resolve scenes WITH MAGIC??? Then the very end, where Rufus Malfoy attempts to kill Potter over him taking over his servant? Right outside the Principal's Office? Smart move. Single good thing about the whole movie? Alan Rickman. He rocks, give him some more space. Richard Harris was very good of course, bless his soul, but he plays exactly as I've seen him in his last four roles (esp. Caesar Aurelius), so he feels typecast. Summary: A visually stunning production, I like everything in the movie, the beautiful castle/school, the quality work on the props (all the flying-brooms and the wands are really cool, and all the clothes are beautiful), even the wall-textures and stone walls are a feast for the eyes. And don't get me started on the rooms, the famous dining hall and all the living quarters are a dream, I'd like to live there myself. The rest, the script, the contradictions I mentioned, and Robbie Coltrane, suck. But that's just my opinion, mind you. Interestingly enough, I thought "Die Another Day" sucked for almost the same reasons, and I saw it yeasterday, how ironic that I would watch them one after another. Well, more on that later. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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