[...] Original post by Frankk [...]

Nice buddy. I like it so much. Come on keep it up

Hi,
Firstly, thanks to Frank for extending this
curtesy. Yes. I actually walked out on the
first Harry Potter and havn’t been back since.
But, Rawlings can write, and very good. I felt
I was starting to see Star Wars again when I saw Harry Potter.
Her extroadinary talent is within her writing.

Last note different movie. I went to see
Michael Clayton last night with George Clooney
and observed the writer violated some basic
principals. However, the acting was good but
anyone could see where the writing messed up.
IE, George Clooney is being chased by murderers
who have planted a bomb in his car. –He just
happens to stop the car by a field, gets out of the car, sees several horses and gazes at them, and then the car blows up. HELLO?????
(He just happen to get out of the car to gaze at the horses and the car blows up?) The writer
quit doing his job at that moment.
Very dissappointing because I went to learn
from the film. I really make a lousy movie critic but I had to mention this. That was one
of about seven other writing violations.

Mickey Josephson

I totally agree with every single line of what you wrote. Just can’t add anymore.

JK Rowling is a good writer that writes good books. And that’s all. But when it comes to the movies I think the main problem is the first one: Bad acting.

Lord of the Rings was also adapted from a book, a very good one too. Though, it works much better than Harry Potter because the actors know how to express the emotions that, not only the original writter of the book (Tolkin) but also the adapted script, made clear they wanted to be in the movie as a part of it.

That’s probably the reason why when we watch Lord of the Rings we enter in the movie and it’s like we’re there with all the characters.
While watching Harry Potter we don’t feel as conected with the characters nor with the story.

1) I think the fact that Harry Potter is jumping from one director to another doesn’t help its losing battle to begin with. All of them have a different feeling so it’s hard to settle in on it.
2) You’re right, the acting in Harry Potter can’t even be saved by Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman and such because they aren’t the main characters. Would they give more screen time to them, you may get the terrible taste of the child actors out of your mouth but sadly, I don’t think they will do that for the remaining to movies.
3) Like you said, Middle Earth feels more real than Hogwarts ever will.
There’s more but like you said, life is short.

To Whom It May Concern:
Just because you guys don’t know how to read a book like Harry Potter that does not give you the right to chastise or bad mouth it. I have watched both movies and read them both as books and they are different in ways but if you are gonna do that, get real movie critics to do that for you, ok?
1) The changing of the directors has nothing to do with the movies. The directors change because they might not want to do the movies anymore or they only signed up for 1 or 2 movies. So get over it.
2) The people who play Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and the other main characters are beginning actors and actress, remember that.
3) Either both Middle Earth and the Wizarding world are real or neither one of them are real. If you can’t get into Harry Potter as much Lord Of the Rings, then don’t watch or read it. It is as simple as that!

Sincerely,
Freak for Fantasy

Interesting comments FFF. You do seem to get emotional about these discussions.

I was personally unaware that someones “right” to complain about a movie was governed either by their credentials or by your opinion about what they say. Probably they were not aware of that either.

What baffles me is how personally you seem to take the idea of someone else voicing their opinion. Does it matter at all (on an emotional level) if you don’t agree with them? Do they need a telling off from you because they don’t like something?

Seems like you could use a little fresh air and sunshine. Fantasy does not appear to be helping you.

Hmmmm. I don’t actually see where I told you to do or not do anything. I did ask some questions but I don’t see how that indicates anything but inquisitiveness.

As for caring what you think I’m not sure where you extrapolated that from. I believe what I did was engage you in some dialog. So you could say I was interested in dialog. I did that because emotional (your word passionate) people are almost guaranteed to respond. You did respond and in a rather predictable fashion I might add.

If the fact that I enjoy dialog seems like I care what you think I guess you are entitled to that interpretation. In a way I suppose showing even a mild interest in what someone else thinks is somewhat similar to caring what they think — but it really doesn’t matter to me how, or even if, you respond. Your response, whatever you say, moves the dialog forward.

As for your opinions I don’t see where I have done anything other than discuss them with you. I didn’t say I either liked or didn’t like them. To me they are something posted here to observe and dialog with if I get the urge.

I’m not sure I’ll ever get your idea of passion and emotion — what you call “straight” — since I tend to direct my passion towards producing results and tend to conduct my discussions in a more relaxed way.

I made the observation that your somewhat dramatic approach to telling people who don’t like the things you do — seemed as though you needed more fresh air and sunshine. I was clearly wrong about that in the literal sense but in a metaphorical sense I wonder if it doesn’t apply.

Nonetheless my observations are not based on any significant sampling of your behavior — only on this brief discussion.

Another question if I may? How could you be soooo tired of people saying “crap” about what you like — if you didn’t care what they thought? When we say “she doesn’t have a care in the world” we don’t normally use that expression to refer to someone who is sooooo tired because of anything that people are saying.

FT

Ok thanks for sharing your thoughts. And no — what you are saying does not make sense to me because it seems contradictory. However thanks for your effort in attempting to elucidate me.

I love what Ghandi’s son said when confronted with what critics were saying about his father:

He said that how Ghandi lived his life was sufficient to stand by itself without needing anyone to defend it — and that his legacy was robust enough to stand up to scrutiny despite what criticisms were launched. I found that to be a pretty good example of someone who did not care about what people thought.

It makes sense to me to pick hero’s that don’t need anyone to defend them.

FT

I agree with Philip. I really looking forward for the Harry Potter movie when showing times is near, but I really had been disapointed when i saw it, it’s really too boring instead. The plot was too slow,then. The character is too different than i expected (i hope Dumbledore don’t act like a gangster for Harry, just like a guardian & teacher, just like the book describe) and there’s too many changes that i couldn’t accept, felt like destroy all the plot of story (something important were been cut, the other hand, the unnecessary plot had been added)very confusing,instead. I really prefered for read the book for 10th times than watch the movie for the 2nd times. But the minus point for the book is, JK couldnt describe out the terror of Voldelmort as good as Tolkiens do (The Voldermort’s terror in the Harry Potter just feel like only a STATEMENT!!!But Tolkien,i can felt the horror of Sauron in the each words!!!)
Hey,have you read Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollow? just one word i can describe my feeling, DISAPPOINTED!!!
1. How Harry dueling the previous Hocruxes(SAD!!!)
2. How all the puzzle (from book 1 - 7) didn’t have a responsible answer from the author (JK, are you forgot all the puzzle you had placed in your previous story 1-6??????)
3. How the Dursley’s ending? (not stated even in a word!!!)
Guys, it’s feel like has been cheated!!!:(