Harry Potter 4

[superwalrus]

This has been said before, because there was a thread when this movie came out, but Harry 4 has been playing on HBO a ton this week and I just can't stop myself anymore. I saw Harry Potter 4 in the theater, but I can NOT shake this. In the movie, Harry doesn't say shit about Lucius (aka the bad guy from the Patriot) being a Voldemort follower. I know the author mentioned it in the book, but the movie's lapse is unacceptable. WHOLLY unacceptable.

Walrus

[Kulaf]

I've never read the books but I would think it would just be Harry's word against Lucius, and Lucius has a lot more clout with the Ministry.

[Select]

Don't sweat it, it's not worth the frustration

Hrm, I'll phrase it like this. The movies are illustrations to me, they're not telling the story. A picture can tell a story on its own, but it can't reach the depth of the novel it's based off of.

[Hakthek]

I've read all the HP books, but I never really got into the movies.

However, the 4th one was playing a lot (on what I guess is our frenchy version of your HBO ) so I decided to give it a try.

I was disappointed. It just didn't entertain me like the books did, simply because our imagination doesn't have the financial and technical bounds that movies must work with.

[Alluveal]

They really need more than one movie per book to cover everything. Chances are, there's a snipped piece of film on someone's cutting room floor with that portion in it, but it was cut for whatever reason.

I view it like LOTR. These aren't necessarily canon, but tributes to the books themselves. I enjoy the movies. =)

[Ddrak]

They left a whole bunch of stuff out of the 4th movie, and with the 5th movie actually being shorter while the book is a few hundred pages longer, you can be sure there's a bunch left out in the next one too.

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