From: deevo37@NOSPAMbigpond.com   
      
   "VD"  wrote in message   
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   > On Sun, 1 May 2011 14:55:52 +0800, Deevo wrote:   
   >   
   >> And overall I was pleasantly surprised bu the film adaptation.   
   >   
   > Glad to hear. ;)   
   >   
   >> I skipped this one at the cinema mainly because I felt that in breaking   
   >> the   
   >> seventh book into two parts, WB would be making this a cash generating   
   >> action fest rather than telling the story of the book.   
   >   
   > Considering your historical stance on these matters, did you not see   
   > the previous movies?   
      
   I did indeed though the POA film nearly ended the screen odysey early.  GOF   
   was marginally better and OOTP was a pretty well done adaption.  HBP was   
   fair but as it was my favourite of the books it would have been a hard one   
   for me to find satisfactory.   
      
   >> There was some pretty intense action in the film but not so over the   
   >> top as to diminish the story telling even though there were a   
   >> coouple of small scenes that were deleted that I felt would have   
   >> fleshed out the story a bit further.   
   >   
   > Do tell. :)   
   >   
   >> If part 2 keeps the story going effectively this could potentially be the   
   >> filmic adaption that actually improves on the book.  I've made no bones   
   >> in   
   >> the past that I felt this is the weakest of the latter books.  Personally   
   >> I   
   >> get the impressionm that much of it was written by Rowling around the   
   >> same   
   >> time as the Philosopher's Stone and she just fleshed out and refined the   
   >> work rather than writing the story from scratch.  I felt that the style   
   >> of   
   >> the book seemed to take a backward step after book 6 (my personal   
   >> favourite   
   >> of the books) and this is what gave me that impression.   
   >   
   > Ms. Rowling has been forthcoming in stating that she had the ending in   
   > her head as she penned SS.   
      
   As I said I feel that she has more than had the ending in her head, I   
   suspect she had much of it on paper well before sge got to publishing the   
   book.   
      
   >> On the whole there were still elements of the film that required a   
   >> reading   
   >> of the book to understand so, like some of the previous films, it would   
   >> have   
   >> presented some difficulties in comprehenstion but on the whole it was   
   >> pretty   
   >> good.  Not Academy award winning stuff mind you but a fair filmic   
   >> adaption.   
   >   
   > To be honest, the reading of the book would create problems in   
   > interpreting the movie. WB/Rowling contrived this scenario --> books   
   > to movie, movie to books expatriation. ;0)   
   >   
   >> As films go I'd give it a solid three and a half out of five stars.   
   >>   
   >> P.S. The seven Harrys scene is a pretty decent chuckle on its own.   
   >   
   > Not my cup of tea but I am happy that you enjoyed yourself. ;)   
      
   British humour can tend toward the silly and purile at times, the benefit   
   being that they don't take themselves too seriously.   
   --   
   Deevo   
   Geraldton Western Australia   
      
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