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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:06 pm
Honestly - while I prefer the books (I like my own imagery) the movies are fantastic in their own right. I don't always agree with their artistic view, but I still enjoy them.
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:26 pm
There is no screen big enough that it can contain all of the intensity of the imagry described in a novel. No emotion can be more pronounced on a television screen as tenderly as if you are stepping into the feelings of a character and feeling what they feel. No color wheel can fully show just what can be seen inbetween the pages of a well written book. You can destroy a movie and fail to remember, but if you were to (heaven forbid) destroy a book, the story would forever live on, in perfect detail in your mind. No character can be just right from a book, compared to what you thought it would be!
Books cannot be beaten-it is impossible to meet the outstanding capturing of words so that they bind themselves to paper and tell your heart a story. Constantly people think "I can make this movie as good as the book!" But really-can they? No. The movies cannot hold all of the emotion, and content that is described through the eyes of someone else. If every book was shown in movie as it is in paper, the movies would last for days....weeks. Never can a movie (taken from a book) replace the gentle care that an author took to place each clue and thought. Books are irreplacable. And when the world moves on, and movies are thrown aside-books will still be there so that we can succumb to someone who will understand us....
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:18 pm
I guess if you expect the movies to not follow the books at all (like I did for the 5th movie) then you won't be disappointed.
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:57 pm
The first and second movies were excellent, and they followed the story wonderfully. I was shamefully disappointed in the third and the fourth ones however. They were probably my two favorites, and I felt like they were "slaughtered". The storyline was so confusing in the third one, that I had to give my mother an hour long discussion on how the story really was, so that she could understand what was going on. Not to mention the director (I am NOT going to blame the new dumbledore) had Professor Dumbledore shown as an overreactive, uncalm, old man, and I was disgusted at how he was shown in both this one, and the following one. The fourth one was a lot on spectacle, and I felt like the spirit wasn't there. This was another one of my favorites, and it wasn't nearly as bad as the third, but I didn't like it very much.
I must admit I went to the fifth one expecting the worst, and was pleasantly suprised to find how much I liked it. Although it wasn't the same as in the book, and it wasn't perfect, I really enjoyed it.
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