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]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:31:56 GMTMovies we do not want to seeWed, 22 Mar 2006 14:27:50 GMT203190Group Spout Post: One More Time For the HP Nuts http://www.spout.com/blogs/arconna/archive/2007/7/27/16690.aspx Post By: Arconna
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Post Date: 7/27/2007 7:00:41 PM
Body: Initial Thoughts: I was enthralled and disappointed in the film. On the one hand I think they did a good job bringing together many of the important aspects of the book. They managed to capture Umbridge very well. Staunton is absolutely perfect as Umbridge. In fact, I can't imagine anyone else playing her. She made me hate her as much as I hated the character in the book (that's a good thing mind you). She captured the twisted evil that is the Ministry of Magic. As a movie I can see this as being a fantastic film. The pace is very tuned and once again there is a fantastic cast. While the direction is surely not perfect, as a film it is rather good. As an adaptation, however, it is terrible. That's to be expected though, and if you are fooling yourself into thinking that Hollywood might one day do a really great book-to-film adaptation you should probably seek help. Hollywood has yet to accurately portray a book on the big screen, so it's no surprise at all that this would turn out to leave behind extremely important aspects from the book.Now for what I usually do in regards to films--grading. This is done as follows. There is potential for 5 points in each category: direction, cast, score, adaptation, writing, and visuals (CG, etc.). Here goes.Direction 3/5As I mentioned, the direction is not perfect. This is very evident in various scenes where a good use of direction could have made things more convincing. One scene is where Fudge proclaims "he's back". To the audience that's like a big "well duh..." moment. This is partly a writing flaw, for writing that line in the first place, and a directional flaw. The director should have seriously looked at that scene. Fudge should just have looked surprised, maybe collapsed. There is plenty of liberty that could have been taken with that scene.Generally speaking things seem fairly smooth in direction. It's not nearly as good as Columbus--back in the good times for the series--but it will suffice for the next film. Hopefully for book seven they bring back Columbus and Williams though. While good, it's far from what it could be. Being smooth isn't enough--the wow factor gets that 4th star, and the super wow factor gets the 5 (thanks Peter Jackson for making me realize this).Cast 5/5There is no doubt in my mind that the producers of this series were right in their choices for the different cast members. We all know full well the ability of the actors that were picked to play the main characters, and they are well noted for their rolls. Stuanton, who plays Umbridge, is the perfect person for the position, as I mentioned. While I am upset by the change in Dumbledore's due to Harris' death, I can say that at least this new Dumbledore stays consistent. Actors for Lupin, Mad-eye, Tonks, and many many more continue to prove that they are perfect for the roll. This is solid, folks, perfectly solid. There is little room for failure in the casting. They did a great job and it continues to show.Score 1/5 This is where I think the film takes a huge fall into no-man's land. Yes, there was yet another change in film composers, and this time it is so glaringly noticeable in the score that I almost wanted to scream out loud. John Williams, the guy we've all heard of, started this all off by creating truly original and memorable music for the first three films, and he left behind that legacy for Patrick Doyle in the fourth film. Now, with this new composer (Nicholas Hooper) who has taken the foundations left to him and completely destroyed them. We get minor glimpses of Williams' foundations, but I am mostly disturbed by the almost complete absence of the main theme! How can you possibly leave behind the power and useability of that memorable theme? And how does giving us a little moment of it in the beginning of the film enough of a tribute? It's not. The score is dismal, not because it isn't original and interesting, but because it has almost nothing to do with the feel of Harry Potter. It sounds, ironically enough seeing how Hooper is British, like a score written for a Nicholas Cage action movie--like National Treasure. It's so American sounding that it made me cringe in the theaters (both times mind you). Electric guitar does not belong in Harry Potter, not by any stretch.To add to that, there is this complete lack of understanding of space and silence. Several moments in the score when things seem dire or quiet, or for some reason some sort of low emotion needs to be presented, there is almost nothing interesting going on in the music, just low, inaudible tones without substance. This is unacceptable.I hope they bring back Williams soon. The soundtracks are degrading at an alarming rate now.Adaptation 2/5 Now, I mentioned it already that one should not expect greatness from a Hollywood adaptation. This is still the case here. While the story is still strong, it's not the full story. So much is left behind so there can be this bare bones plot to cling to. A simple half hour of additional footage could have added depth to the world--further depth really. I'm not going to go into this part much more simply because those that are loyal to the books know exactly what has been left out here. It's usual to leave stuff out and all of us should understand this, but when half of the story is gone that's a whole different issue.Writing 3/5 Now, generally speaking the writing wasn't all that bad. The lines were good enough, but every so often there would be moments where you really just thought it was corny or annoying. One of the scenes I thought hurt the story was the one where Dumbledore explains himself to Harry. That could have been written so much better in such a way to make Dumbledore look wise, but in such a way that he can still be wrong. Instead, it was written to portray him as somewhat of a fool.Otherwise, the script is good enough. It gets the job done.Visuals 5/5 As usual, the visuals were stunning. Great landscapes, amazing sets, and of course wicked CG wizard battles! How freaking awesome it is to see Death Eaters shooting through the air like fluid blobs of black smoke, and the good guys doing the same as white almost Patronus Charm style smoke. Light and magical explosions are completely fantastic here. In fact, I think this is one of the coolest magic battles of all time--the one between Voldemort and Dumbledore. Likely this will be outshined by book seven. But the blazing sparks and fire and all of it are just so amazingly cool to me. Top marks for this because they managed to do something quite powerful here. And the Kestrals were amazing too!Overall 3.2/5 It's a good film, but it has its flaws. Hopefully these will be rectified in the upcoming sixth film and hopefully all the kinks will have been worked out by the seventh. Obviously there will be kinks in the adaptation, but we can live with that can't we? Definitely worth seeing in theaters since the visuals will surely make everyone leap with joy and the story itself is fantastic. That and we all seem to have a fascination with how these kids are growing up in such a bizarre and amazing world.Kudos to Harry Potter.
]]>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:00:41 GMTArconnaArconna Blog7/27/2007 7:00:41 PMInitial Thoughts: I was enthralled and disappointed in the film. On the one hand I think they did a good job bringing together many of the important aspects of the book. They managed to capture Umbridge very well. Staunton is absolutely perfect as Umbridge. In fact, I can't imagine anyone else playing her. She made me hate her as much as I hated the character in the book (that's a good thing mind you). She captured the twisted evil that is the Ministry of Magic. As a movie I can see this as being a fantastic film. The pace is very tuned and once again there is a fantastic cast. While the direction is surely not perfect, as a film it is rather good. As an adaptation, however, it is terrible. That's to be expected though, and if you are fooling yourself into thinking that Hollywood might one day do a really great book-to-film adaptation you should probably seek help. Hollywood has yet to accurately portray a book on the big screen, so it's no surprise at all that this would turn out to leave behind extremely important aspects from the book.Now for what I usually do in regards to films--grading. This is done as follows. There is potential for 5 points in each category: direction, cast, score, adaptation, writing, and visuals (CG, etc.). Here goes.Direction 3/5As I mentioned, the direction is not perfect. This is very evident in various scenes where a good use of direction could have made things more convincing. One scene is where Fudge proclaims "he's back". To the audience that's like a big "well duh..." moment. This is partly a writing flaw, for writing that line in the first place, and a directional flaw. The director should have seriously looked at that scene. Fudge should just have looked surprised, maybe collapsed. There is plenty of liberty that could have been taken with that scene.Generally speaking things seem fairly smooth in direction. It's not nearly as good as Columbus--back in the good times for the series--but it will suffice for the next film. Hopefully for book seven they bring back Columbus and Williams though. While good, it's far from what it could be. Being smooth isn't enough--the wow factor gets that 4th star, and the super wow factor gets the 5 (thanks Peter Jackson for making me realize this).Cast 5/5There is no doubt in my mind that the producers of this series were right in their choices for the different cast members. We all know full well the ability of the actors that were picked to play the main characters, and they are well noted for their rolls. Stuanton, who plays Umbridge, is the perfect person for the position, as I mentioned. While I am upset by the change in Dumbledore's due to Harris' death, I can say that at least this new Dumbledore stays consistent. Actors for Lupin, Mad-eye, Tonks, and many many more continue to prove that they are perfect for the roll. This is solid, folks, perfectly solid. There is little room for failure in the casting. They did a great job and it continues to show.Score 1/5 This is where I think the film takes a huge fall into no-man's land. Yes, there was yet another change in film composers, and this time it is so glaringly noticeable in the score that I almost wanted to scream out loud. John Williams, the guy we've all heard of, started this all off by creating truly original and memorable music for the first three films, and he left behind that legacy for Patrick Doyle in the fourth film. Now, with this new composer (Nicholas Hooper) who has taken the foundations left to him and completely destroyed them. We get minor glimpses of Williams' foundations, but I am mostly disturbed by the almost complete absence of the main theme! How can you possibly leave behind the power and useability of that memorable theme? And how does giving us a little moment of it in the beginning of the film enough of a tribute? It's not. The score is dismal, not because it isn't original and interesting, but because it has almost nothing to do with the feel of Harry Potter. It sounds, ironically enough seeing how Hooper is British, like a score written for a Nicholas Cage action movie--like National Treasure. It's so American sounding that it made me cringe in the theaters (both times mind you). Electric guitar does not belong in Harry Potter, not by any stretch.To add to that, there is this complete lack of understanding of space and silence. Several moments in the score when things seem dire or quiet, or for some reason some sort of low emotion needs to be presented, there is almost nothing interesting going on in the music, just low, inaudible tones without substance. This is unacceptable.I hope they bring back Williams soon. The soundtracks are degrading at an alarming rate now.Adaptation 2/5 Now, I mentioned it already that one should not expect greatness from a Hollywood adaptation. This is still the case here. While the story is still strong, it's not the full story. So much is left behind so there can be this bare bones plot to cling to. A simple half hour of additional footage could have added depth to the world--further depth really. I'm not going to go into this part much more simply because those that are loyal to the books know exactly what has been left out here. It's usual to leave stuff out and all of us should understand this, but when half of the story is gone that's a whole different issue.Writing 3/5 Now, generally speaking the writing wasn't all that bad. The lines were good enough, but every so often there would be moments where you really just thought it was corny or annoying. One of the scenes I thought hurt the story was the one where Dumbledore explains himself to Harry. That could have been written so much better in such a way to make Dumbledore look wise, but in such a way that he can still be wrong. Instead, it was written to portray him as somewhat of a fool.Otherwise, the script is good enough. It gets the job done.Visuals 5/5 As usual, the visuals were stunning. Great landscapes, amazing sets, and of course wicked CG wizard battles! How freaking awesome it is to see Death Eaters shooting through the air like fluid blobs of black smoke, and the good guys doing the same as white almost Patronus Charm style smoke. Light and magical explosions are completely fantastic here. In fact, I think this is one of the coolest magic battles of all time--the one between Voldemort and Dumbledore. Likely this will be outshined by book seven. But the blazing sparks and fire and all of it are just so amazingly cool to me. Top marks for this because they managed to do something quite powerful here. And the Kestrals were amazing too!Overall 3.2/5 It's a good film, but it has its flaws. Hopefully these will be rectified in the upcoming sixth film and hopefully all the kinks will have been worked out by the seventh. Obviously there will be kinks in the adaptation, but we can live with that can't we? Definitely worth seeing in theaters since the visuals will surely make everyone leap with joy and the story itself is fantastic. That and we all seem to have a fascination with how these kids are growing up in such a bizarre and amazing world.Kudos to Harry Potter. Spout Post: Re: Youmacon Pix http://www.spout.com/groups/Anime_Lovers/Re_Youmacon_Pix/142/10217/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: Arconna
Post To: Anime Lovers
Post Date: 6/5/2007 9:11:41 PM
Body: lol. I'm not opposed to information about cons--such as when and where, and the occasional blurb from those that have attended one.As for me, I've been to FanimeCon in San Jose 3 years in a row now, and SacAnime--Sunrise & Scottish Rite (it sucked, hence why I only went once. FanimeCon is superb). Other than saying that FanimeCon is freaking awesome I don't know what else to say :S. It's so much fun and HUGE. It's so crazy. The first year I went there was nothing but Naruto cosplayers EVERYWHERE, the second year it was FMA, and this year it was...well I don't think there was one big one this year to be honest. One of these days I'm going to cossplay lol.
]]>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:11:41 GMTArconnaAnime Lovers6/5/2007 9:11:41 PMlol. I'm not opposed to information about cons--such as when and where, and the occasional blurb from those that have attended one.As for me, I've been to FanimeCon in San Jose 3 years in a row now, and SacAnime--Sunrise & Scottish Rite (it sucked, hence why I only went once. FanimeCon is superb). Other than saying that FanimeCon is freaking awesome I don't know what else to say :S. It's so much fun and HUGE. It's so crazy. The first year I went there was nothing but Naruto cosplayers EVERYWHERE, the second year it was FMA, and this year it was...well I don't think there was one big one this year to be honest. One of these days I'm going to cossplay lol. Spout Post: Re: Sub Vs. Dub http://www.spout.com/groups/Anime_Lovers/Re_Sub_Vs_Dub/142/10152/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: Arconna
Post To: Anime Lovers
Post Date: 6/4/2007 9:35:51 PM
Body: Generally I would agree. Most, 99% really, of all dubbed Anime is garbage. Naruto anyone? I couldn't stand any more than ten seconds of it, it was just so horrible. The only Anime I thought was dubbed appropriately was Gundam Wing, but that's because it was the show that introduced me to Japanese animation and it was the only one that didn't sound entirely ridiculous. There might be other dubbed works that are good, but I haven't seen them yet. Well, Princess Mononoke maybe.In any case, I like the subbed works better for that very reason--you get a better imrpession of the characters with the original language.
]]>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:35:51 GMTArconnaAnime Lovers6/4/2007 9:35:51 PMGenerally I would agree. Most, 99% really, of all dubbed Anime is garbage. Naruto anyone? I couldn't stand any more than ten seconds of it, it was just so horrible. The only Anime I thought was dubbed appropriately was Gundam Wing, but that's because it was the show that introduced me to Japanese animation and it was the only one that didn't sound entirely ridiculous. There might be other dubbed works that are good, but I haven't seen them yet. Well, Princess Mononoke maybe.In any case, I like the subbed works better for that very reason--you get a better imrpession of the characters with the original language. Spout Post: One of the worst attempts at a good zombie film...ever. http://www.spout.com/blogs/arconna/archive/2007/6/3/10068.aspx Post By: Arconna
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Post Date: 6/3/2007 10:51:54 PM
Body: I watched the first 18 minutes and 47 seconds of it before I started skipping around to see what would happen. The story is idiotic, cliche beyond rational thinking.First, in a world of high technology as we have it today it is impossible to legitimately believe that the walking dead would actually force mankind to begin holing itself up in bunkers for any considerable amount of time. Bunkers is figurative here. Bunkers can mean cities with defense nets, etc. In this movie we have your typical slow moving zombies. These are only effective in the short run, in those little towns and places where there aren't a lot of people, but a hell of a lot of zombies. These are also your typical zombies in that the infection takes a long while to spread in someone--they have to die to become one of them. This is exactly why flicks like 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later and the remake of Dawn of the Dead became a thousand times more frightening. The former two more so because the infection is instant, and the monsters freakin' run. Even when you watch the film you immediately get the impression that people aren't really scared of the zombies at all and if they banded together with weapons and the like the infection could be supressed within a week or two world wide. Zombies are slow, zombies are stupid. Guns are fast, bombs work really well. Now what makes this movie even more stupid is the grunting and annoying sounds the zombies start making. It's comical at best. A zombie going "uuuuuuuuuuuh" in the night is not frightening, especially when it's almost like caveman speech. That might have been freaky in the 60's, but not now. They aren't fearsome at all. Then there is the part where the zombies start picking up stuff to use. Excuse me? No. A zombie has no higher brain function. It's not supposed to. That's what makes it a zombie. If it can start to think then by god it must begin thinking about other things than "must get revenge, pick up gun, shooty".Needless to say I didn't even finish this film. I got so bored with it and how stupid everything was (like how humans use infected for entertainment and sport even though a single bite means infection...or how a guy hangs himself who has been bitten and thus becomes infected and then infects someone who tries to help him down...). The idiocy was frightening 30 years ago. It's not now. We have to assume that people are smarter these days. The effects were stupid, the zombies were laughable. I can see now where the people from Shaun of the Dead got all their ideas from...
]]>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:51:54 GMTArconnaArconna Blog6/3/2007 10:51:54 PMI watched the first 18 minutes and 47 seconds of it before I started skipping around to see what would happen. The story is idiotic, cliche beyond rational thinking.First, in a world of high technology as we have it today it is impossible to legitimately believe that the walking dead would actually force mankind to begin holing itself up in bunkers for any considerable amount of time. Bunkers is figurative here. Bunkers can mean cities with defense nets, etc. In this movie we have your typical slow moving zombies. These are only effective in the short run, in those little towns and places where there aren't a lot of people, but a hell of a lot of zombies. These are also your typical zombies in that the infection takes a long while to spread in someone--they have to die to become one of them. This is exactly why flicks like 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later and the remake of Dawn of the Dead became a thousand times more frightening. The former two more so because the infection is instant, and the monsters freakin' run. Even when you watch the film you immediately get the impression that people aren't really scared of the zombies at all and if they banded together with weapons and the like the infection could be supressed within a week or two world wide. Zombies are slow, zombies are stupid. Guns are fast, bombs work really well. Now what makes this movie even more stupid is the grunting and annoying sounds the zombies start making. It's comical at best. A zombie going "uuuuuuuuuuuh" in the night is not frightening, especially when it's almost like caveman speech. That might have been freaky in the 60's, but not now. They aren't fearsome at all. Then there is the part where the zombies start picking up stuff to use. Excuse me? No. A zombie has no higher brain function. It's not supposed to. That's what makes it a zombie. If it can start to think then by god it must begin thinking about other things than "must get revenge, pick up gun, shooty".Needless to say I didn't even finish this film. I got so bored with it and how stupid everything was (like how humans use infected for entertainment and sport even though a single bite means infection...or how a guy hangs himself who has been bitten and thus becomes infected and then infects someone who tries to help him down...). The idiocy was frightening 30 years ago. It's not now. We have to assume that people are smarter these days. The effects were stupid, the zombies were laughable. I can see now where the people from Shaun of the Dead got all their ideas from... Spout Member:The_MOW - Mickey Micklon http://www.spout.com/members/148616/default.aspx Identity: The_MOW
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