Docteur Qui

Yeah, I'm kind of getting tired of hearing my own voice, I'm sounding like a broken record with all this Dan-hating. I'm fine with him as Harry. I can't change that. But I can still be amused at the movies (for all the wrong reasons).

Oooh, they're very nice! I wouldn't mind the English versions if you could make them!

While I agree that Osment can act, he is the second last person in the world I'd cast as Harry Potter (the last person being Daniel Radcliffe). He's American. 'Nuff said.

That's exactly what I thought!! It's the secret base to the evil organization which has a legitimate face and good reputation. I smell EON picking this story up...

Or maybe they aren't aware of Shakespeare in the HP world. It happened in a godawful Potter fanfic that was a crossover with LotR. Apparently the events of HP took place thousands of years after LotR, and Dumbledore is Gandalf.... Or not, because there's more than one reference to Shakespeare in HP. Weird Sisters, anyone? Either way, the lyrics aren't exactly as they are in MacBeth. Obviously to make it more suitable for a song, but it's not word-for-word.

I originally had the Hobbit cover (the one with Merry, Pippin and Frodo on Weathertop) when I first got FotR (my second soundtrack ever, after Potter). Then for Christmas last year I got the 3-CD box set and I have the cover that Drax posted. I'm still annoyed, however at the lack of inconsistency with the CD covers and the CDs themselves. TTT AND RotK have the same style CDs; brown with TTT having a map of Rohan while RotK having the White Tree. But the Fellowship CD is completely different to the lot of them.

Yeah, but the music's original. "Into the West" doesn't have original lyrics, it was originally penned by Tolkien (altered, of course).

Spielberg? I dunno... I'd like the perception of filmmaking by the general public to not still be that Spielberg is the only director for popular, guaranteed-blockbusters. However I'd also like SOME sort of contunuity with the movies, so I'd rather one person receive the job and do the rest of the movies.

That seems... pointless. She hasn't even written HBP yet, pre-production hasn't started. Hell, we only got a rumoured director for Phoenix a few days ago!!

It's not worth trying to persuade him otherwise, he's obviously very stubborn. It's like trying to get a die-hard, Johnny Depp-loving fan of PotC to admit that Badelt's score was crap. Then again, that's a fact, while your situation is pure fantasy on your class mate's part.

I'm doubting the idea. But hey, maybe Spielberg's going art-house on us...

It's the Academy Awards all over again...

Sounds... something... *WARNING -- HUGE SPOILERS FOR JPIV* http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/tb_display.cgi?id=18166

Pffft! Where's Double Trouble???!

It depends, definitely. An easy example is Star Wars. A sci-fi movie set in the future, you'd expect a synthesized, futuristic score. But orchestral, brassy marches worked, didn't they?

Looking at that, my first thoguht was that the robes were changed again. Then I thought Quidditch robes, but remembered there is no Quidditch in GoF (apart from QWC). So I guess they must be raincoats, like someone said.

I really hope there won't be a four-hour movie. They're not going to cram the book into a movie and please everyone, so why try and extend the agony? I hope Newell goes with the artistic liscence à la Cuaron, I'd prefer another Potter movie that treads away from the book and becomes its own thing. It almost worked with PoA but I still feel as though Cuaron cut too much to let it stand by itself. Let's hope for GoF to answer my prayers.

I've never seen "Schneider's List". Is it any good? How about the soundtrack?

Hehe, looks like Lucas has joined the Peter Jackson money-hunt. Looking at the track titles I think I'd prefer it. The tracks seem divided more which is only a good thing to me.

There is no Nope for the Melons everyone.

Well, that's pretty much what they're attempting at "Themes of John Williams" (http://themes.jw-music.net), a part of the John Williams Music Netowrk.

I'd much rather a shorter Potter movie. There's no way they can get everything from book to movie, so why bother? That's where I believe Kloves and Cuaron excelled in PoA, they left enough room for Cuaron's own interpretations by letting the movie breather. LotR was good, but 3 and-a-half hours each is a bit much, I wouldn't wish that on the Potter movies.

Well, he was underway writing a musical of Peter Pan with Spielberg in the late eighties, which they scrapped in favour of Hook. There's no doubt that a lot of material Williams wrote for the musical made its way to Hook. Who knows, if the musical had happened it could be on Broadway now, opening a whole new door for Williams...

It's great that you can say that, but can you back your opinion a bit better? I like Mischief Managed, if for instance I'm walking to my piano lesson a few blocks away, it takes me about 10 minutes to walk there. I just pop the CD in my discman and listen to the last track. It's the best bits of the first half of the soundtrack, and then on my way home I listen to the latter tracks ("The Dementors Converge" adn "Finale", the two best tracks in the second half). Or vice versa, depending on what I want to listen to.

I'm liking what appears to be kept in. As long as Rita's scenes still evoke a sense of hatred for her, I'm all for shortening them. Of course, hatred for Skeeta is nothing compared to my hatred of Umbridge. I can't wait to see her on the silver screen. Snape's had a decent run, he's not really important until OotP, though it was a pity we didn't get to see him have a nervous breakdown in PoA he still had a bigger part than was required. Pity about Dumbledore, finally we were getting some similar characterisation as to what I imagined, adn this movie needs some humour to light it up a little. I hope his "chamber pots" are mentioned at the Yule Ball, though I can't imagine it being of importance, despite the fact it deals with a part of OotP (the Room of Requirement), we don't need to know about it 'till then. Regarding the humour, that short script excerpt that circled around the net a few weeks ago sounds promising on Dumbledore's part, I love that line. I agree, the Quidditch World Cut doesn't advance the plot much, I don't care much about seeing the whole thing. I think they may include something to do with the Veela, if only to advance Fleur's character. As long as they get the pivotal Graveyard scene and the Parting of the Ways well done I will be happy with the movie. I can't wait to see Mad Mister Fudge, and I hope Mrs Weasleys motherly nurturing of Harry stays too. Unfortunately it appears she has been cut altogether, a great pity as that's a very emotional scene. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to leave Maxime/Hagrid love story out altogether. The only use of it is that (spoiler for OotP- highlight to read) they seek the friendship of the giants in OotP, but it could just as easily be Hagrid doing it by himself. It may however, increase our hatred for Skeeta which is important. To me at least.