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Deleted user 21 November 2005 01:17:06

Hmm, might need some help with this then. Foreveryadayada you up for kicking the crap out of dan while I pummel rupert's face in with a shovel?

Syrette 21 Nov 2005 01:26:08 51,181 posts
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cubbymoore wrote:
Hmm, might need some help with this then. Foreveryadayada you up for kicking the crap out of dan while I pummel rupert's face in with a shovel?

yes, though i don't appreciate having to do all the hard work.

Deleted user 21 November 2005 01:28:22

Well it was my plan, I didn't see anyone else offering one.

ilmaestro 21 Nov 2005 01:33:30 32,932 posts
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foreverafternothing wrote:

cubbymoore wrote:
Hmm, might need some help with this then. Foreveryadayada you up for kicking the crap out of dan while I pummel rupert's face in with a shovel?
yes, though i don't appreciate having to do all the hard work.

Yes, because either of them look like they'd be 'hard work'

Deleted user 21 November 2005 01:38:51

Exactly.

Deleted user 21 November 2005 01:39:08

Apart from the whole 14 year old bit.

Deleted user 21 November 2005 02:39:18

Stop looking at me like that.

ProfessorLesser 21 Nov 2005 07:40:20 19,693 posts
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Wonder if there's even the slightest chance she'd ever see this thread?

harrisimo 21 Nov 2005 11:35:26 383 posts
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saw the film on sat. quite enjoyed it really - not a huge fan of the books, but it was entertaining enough and had some nice moments here and there, moaning myrtle acting like a filthy sex-starved ho in the bath in particularly.

oh. and there was an interview with daniel radcliffe in the observer music magazine yesterday, in which he said that he'd made a compilation CD for emma watson of some of his favourite music, but she'd lost it.... so, it sounds like not too much competition from him. can't blame the girl for that. he's a weird kid.

pistol 21 Nov 2005 11:46:48 13,018 posts
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Does anyone think that Daniel Radcliffe is a bit weird looking?

http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1203367,00.html

Syrette 21 Nov 2005 11:53:30 51,181 posts
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pistol wrote:
Does anyone think that Daniel Radcliffe is a bit weird looking?

http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1203367,00.html

�33 Million!?!?

that's just wrong.

Syrette 21 Nov 2005 11:54:51 51,181 posts
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on another note, exactly HOW many pictures of her do you have stored on your Photobucket Cubby?

Edited by foreverafternothing at 19:24:56 21-11-2005

ProfessorLesser 21 Nov 2005 16:45:23 19,693 posts
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Radcliffe looks and talks worryingly like a young Geoffrey Archer, if you ask me.

Did anyone see him on Johnathon Ross?

fergal_oc 21 Nov 2005 16:58:58 2,764 posts
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ProfessorLesser wrote:
Radcliffe looks and talks worryingly like a young Geoffrey Archer, if you ask me.

Did anyone see him on Johnathon Ross?

I thought he was great! Obviously extremely nervous and trying a little too hard to be funny but all in all a pretty likeable young lad.

ProfessorLesser 21 Nov 2005 17:09:51 19,693 posts
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Yeah seems about right. He'll learn how to cope with being famous. But the Archer resemblance was uncanny.

Deleted user 21 November 2005 18:20:23

foreverafternothing wrote:
on another note, exactly HOW many pictures of how do you have stored on your Photobucket Cubby?

412

ProfessorLesser 21 Nov 2005 19:02:26 19,693 posts
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tengu wrote:

cubbymoore wrote:

foreverafternothing wrote:
on another note, exactly HOW many pictures of how do you have stored on your Photobucket Cubby?
412

Prove it

Nobody wants to see that many naked pictures of koti, methinks.

Deleted user 21 November 2005 19:05:23

MGSfan wrote:

otto wrote:
SHE'S A CHILD

So am I, but that didn't stop cubby :'-(

How many times do I have to tell you? "No" is not the safe word!

Deleted user 22 November 2005 22:13:22

Well! Just been to see it, and boy am I glad I wore my overcoat.

Very much agree that it needed an extra 30 minutes to embellish it all. Even despite the length as it was it still felt like too much was cut. There were some really good scenes where I was thinking I could happily watch a whole movie of this, the scene in the courtyard when everyone was hating Harry for being in the tournement, in particular came as a breath of fresh air, even though not much happened in it. In fact I quite liked all the scenes where there was a distinct naturalistic quality to them. Just small things, where they started acting like normal kids would at school rather than the superfluous stuff that's been passed off before in the previous films.

Of course even some of that hit a dead note sometimes, the bits with the twins mumbling in the background when McGonagall was talking and when Harry was being cheered after defeating the dragon and him saying "Shall I open it? You want me to open it?" just made me cringe.

The tasks were good, the third one being the stand out one, even though the actual task itself was something I felt needed embellishing, the only challenges the maze seemed to pose were the walls closing in and roots grabbing at you. Where was the sphinx? I was really looking forward to that.

When Harry brought Cedric's body back from the graveyard: Best scene in the film. Bar non. Some of the earlier ideas in the film led me to believe at this point that it would be dealt with heavy handedly, with everyone crying out in horror straight away. But nothing of the sort, they cheered! They cheered and then gradually they noticed that Diggory wasn't moving. And for the first time in the history of the Harry Potter films something strange happened. Daniel Radcliffe started acting! Now I didn't notice this at the time because that's what good acting is, making sure the audience don't notice you're acting, if while you're watching someone act and think boy they're a good actor, they're not. Simple as. And this is what Radcliffe did.

Now after Barty Crouch Jr (I like how Barty Crouch Sr's death has no seeming significance at all in the film) was exposed and Dumbledore's address to the school about the murder of Cedric Diggory the film turns to shit. The last five minutes messes up the tone completely. It gets so messed up that the one line that has any sense of foreboding, Hermione's line "It's never going to be the same now is it?" or something like that, well, and I know Watson delivered it wrong, but I can see the trouble she'd have trying to get from what she last said before that line to getting into the right frame of mind to say it too, as I said the tone was too jovial and that line and what Harry says after stand out like sore thumbs in it. Personally I don't think the whole farewell scene was neccesary at all. What would've been better in my opinion would be to have Ron Harry and Hermione sitting alone in silence, and Hermione just saying "It's never going to be the same now is it?" Bang, cut, paste, send. Would've been so much more effective.

Oh yeah, and in the graveyard scene did anyone else wonder why Harry pretended he was pinned by that statue when he clearly wasn't?

ProfessorLesser 22 Nov 2005 22:33:05 19,693 posts
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Some good points cubby. I really liked the scene where Harry brought Cedric back. "My boy! That's my boy!" ;_;

Deleted user 22 November 2005 22:38:15

Krum the world's best seeker? Did anyone else see any proof of that?

ProfessorLesser 22 Nov 2005 22:39:53 19,693 posts
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Don't even remember hearing he was the world's best seeker, to be honest.

Looked more like a beater to me. There's no way Hermione would've gone with someone looking like that. I'd pictured someone... well, without a shaved head, for a start.

Deleted user 22 November 2005 22:41:41

Distinct lack of library action from Hermione too.

Deleted user 22 November 2005 22:49:03

He's about as like Orlando Bloom as Luigi is to King Bowser.

Click

Edited by cubbymoore at 23:00:18 22-11-2005

Deleted user 22 November 2005 22:53:26

Still didn't stop all the girls I went with saying how much they fancied him though. They love doing that don't they? Saying how much they fancy people in films and magazines. Bloody love it. Right in front of me.

If I curled one out and filmed it they'd be saying how much they fancied that too no doubt.

Syrette 22 Nov 2005 23:09:10 51,181 posts
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cubbymoore wrote:
If I curled one out and filmed it they'd be saying how much they fancied that too no doubt.

i hope you never find out for sure.

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 17:39:40 19,693 posts
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cubbymoore wrote:
Distinct lack of library action from Hermione too.

There was a brief, conspiratorial moment when I wondered if this was a deliberate attempt to not Watson's career by making her the archetypal geek.

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 18:55:10 2,764 posts
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Odd dilemma now. Now that my rage and sadness have died down I know i need to read the Order of the Phoenix. But there's something inside me telling me that if i do, it'll make the next film shit.

So should I read the book then watch the film and feel cheated again or
Watch the next film and enjoy it, then read the book, enjoy that and see where the film could've been better?

Deleted user 23 November 2005 19:01:30

Sounds like a plan. Of course I can't do that though.

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 19:23:45 19,693 posts
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Don't read the book. There are many reasons for this.

About 700 pages of them, if I remember correctly.

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