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⌈ Secret Post #6850 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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The only Harry Potter movie that works as its own movie was the third one.

[(Anonymous)]

Back in ye olde times (before Rowling was consumed by the black mold in her home) I saw PoA in theatre before I ever read any of the books. My friends dragged me along, as I never had any interest in the series before that (Worst Witch ftw).

[philstar22]

Meanwhile, back when I was into the Potter movies, 3 was my least favorite. It was decent as a movie on its own (though still overrated), but it was a terrible adaption.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but that's why it works for me as a stand-alone. It wasn't a faithful adaptation. It was "Alfonso Cuaron makes a movie about the adolescent identity crisis inherent to the ruthlessly persistent yet equivocal nature of time, and it just happens to be set in the HP world." A masterpiece.

[philstar22]

Honestly it just doesn't work for me. It doesn't feel particularly magical, if that makes sense. The magic was there in terms of spells and stuff, but other than that, it didn't really feel like fantasy. It could have just as easily be set in the real world. So it was meh for me.

[(Anonymous)]

The movie just doesn't make *sense* without having read the book. They don't even tell you why Harry would have thought the stag was his dad. It's nonsense. But it's pretty! So it has fans I guess.

[philstar22]

Yup. A bad adaption that also needs the book to actually make sense. And personally I don't even love it as a movie. But yes, it looks artistic.

Honestly, there are quite a few movies that are considered great just because they are artistically pretty. And generally if the story doesn't work, I'm not a fan.

[(Anonymous)]

Saw the movie before I read any of the books or saw the other movies, and I understood it. The movie showed that Harry really desperately misses his dad, and really wants any connection to him, I get there is a whole different take in the books, but I got it okay. Harry thought it was his dad, because he wanted his dad and on the brink of death needed his dad, so convinced himself it was his dad without the need for any sort of evidence. It worked.

[(Anonymous)]

Didn't it leave out the Marauders plotline?

[(Anonymous)]

That was one of the things that stuck out to me. There was no payoff in terms of Lupin knowing how the Marauder's map works. I know that the film/book explained it as "Lupin is the DADA teacher therefore he's familiar with material items that can be magicked."
But a big part of book 3's brilliance was that this particular year Harry uncovered part of his father's past. The Maruader's map, Lupin himself, the form of Patronus...all of that ties the story together.

The film leaving out the Marauder's origins and the importance of Harry's Patronus had me liking the film less than I wanted.

Yes, if I hadn't read the books I still would be able to follow the story and find it satisfactory, but still...

I guess it bothers me more because the Marauder's roles and their animagus forms play a big part of the story in the books, and the films never addressed it.

[(Anonymous)]

Up until the end where the most important plot points that explain the whole damn story is diluted to three dudes just hollering at each other, explaining nothing.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I guess so. There was a bunch of stuff that suddenly came up that was really relevant to Harry's life, but somehow had never been mentioned before or hinted at. And there wasn't a whole lot of connection with the previous movie, as a matter of fact, it's like there never was a big-ass snake wandering around petrifying students, a possessed diary, students thinking Harry was the Heir of Slytherin, Lockhart, Dobby, or a dueling club.

[(Anonymous)]

Minus the ugliest werewolf known to man