<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=39842.msg2055721#msg2055721">Quote from: Vandren on 19-07-2009, 01:27:25</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">And Harry has a "Peter Jackson's Faramir #1" - Two Towers - moment where he's totally and completely out of character.  But, like Faramir, he acquires counseling and becomes himself fairly quickly.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Years of reading bad fanfiction have prepared me for this.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Perhaps more importantly, the director "mundaned" everything.  Visually, inside, the Express and Hogwarts itself don't look like themselves.  They look like a normal everyday train and a normal mundane castle.  For example, none of the portraits (or photos for that matter) move throughout the entire movie, the ghosts aren't present even in the background, Hedwig is the only visible owl and even she doesn't really do anything, and the staircases don't move even in the background.  The movie lost something visually when these were removed.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>... Are you kidding?  Part of the appeal of the first five movies was in all the little things that reminded us that it really wasn't the Muggle world we were seeing.   I haven't been hearing good things about this movie -- hell, I often refer to the novel itself as<em>Half-Baked Plot</em>instead of its actual -- but this kinda cinches it for me.  I'll wait for DVD.  First time too, by the way.  I saw all of the other five in theaters.<br/><br/>It sounds kinda dumb, but setting something in the magical world, and then not<em>showing</em>us how magical this world is... it's kind of a deal breaker for me.