Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Official Thread

[AstroBlue]

Astro, Cpt Veg, & everyone else involved in this purely speculative (thus truly endless) argument have shit all over this thread. I don't have enough patience to go however many pages required to find actual discussion of the fucking movie. Boo.

Sorry. The good Captain was really only in the discussion when it was actually relevant to the topic (about literature and movies). It was really only me and MysteriousRacerC that went on with the bullshit "colour theory" stuff.

A topic on TNL that doesn't derail isn't a topic at all

[Nomi]

Kappas are in those little charity extra books they made. I was given one for free... They obviously didn't explain the whole anus-sucking vampire deal though. Lovely.

[Rumpy]

Just thought of another thing, in the movie they never explain how Black escaped Azkaban. It's said a few times that he's the only one who has done it, but they cut that part out (pretty sure they talk about that in book 3). Would have been cool to see what Azkaban looks like.

[Nomi]

Yeah, that bothered me a bit. I would have settled for a thirty-second flashback or something... Would have been pretty cool. There isn't much to his escape (he turned into a starved dog and snuck out, whohoo) but it would have been nice to see in the movie.

[AstroBlue]

They obviously didn't explain the whole anus-sucking vampire deal though. Lovely.

It's not completely because the Japanese are devos, a common side effect of drowning is having a swelled or bleeding arses after drowning. So a turtle/monkey/fish with a friar tuck haircut who has a penchant for cucumbers and sucking arse is just plain logical in explaining the phenomina.

Yeah, that bothered me a bit. I would have settled for a thirty-second flashback or something... Would have been pretty cool. There isn't much to his escape (he turned into a starved dog and snuck out, whohoo) but it would have been nice to see in the movie.

Isn't there also the whole "Sirius was not-guilty, so the Dementors had nothing on him". I really have to read these books again, I've forgotten so much.

[Rumpy]

Isn't there also the whole "Sirius was not-guilty, so the Dementors had nothing on him". I really have to read these books again, I've forgotten so much.

Nah, Dementors suck whenever they get the chance to. Like they said in the movie, even if you haven't done anything and get in their way they'll take you down too. In the books is it ever said where they come from or who controls them? I assume the Ministry of Magic?

[Ashen Victor]

i don't think anyone really controls the Dementors. in OotP, Voldemort and his band of merry nazis, successfully (?) have the Dementors join them. they showed up at the beginning when Harry and that greaser of a cousin got into the fight in front of their house and their creepy cat lady neighbor saved them.

and yea, Dementors will suck away because they don't distinguish between good or evil.

[AstroBlue]

"I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the Dementors couldn't suck it out of me..."

[AstroBlue]

Just finally saw it.

I REALLY enjoyed it, it was easily the best movie so far. David Thewlis (Lupin) has the best performance in the movie, I don't give a shit he didn't look sickly enough or had flecked hair.

The only things I really think they should've explained was that James, Sirius, and Peter learned to become Animagi to make Lupin feel better (or was that in five) and that they were Prongs, Padfoot, Wormtail, and Moony respectively.

Also, the whole "Bogart turning into the moon, quickly followed by them learning about werewolves" was pretty blatant. I think it was far more ambiguous in the book. Didn't the book just say that the Bogart turned into a "silvery sphere", not a distinct full moon with clouds.

The only thing I was disapointed by, was the Patronus enchantment. I never thought of it as like a throbbing Dragon Ball Z light ray. In the book isn't it more like a summon? Like the light turns into the stag, and then the stag trots around scaring this shit out of the Dementors.

J K Rowling talked about how Alfonso touched on things that are in books 6 & 7 but not actually mentioned in book 3. I wondered what they were, I think it's possibly:

* Ron and Hermione obviously are in love.
* Sirius soul leaves him, but then goes back.
* Lupin's final speech about people never really leaving you.


Anyway, Like I said I really enjoyed the film. The audience I was watching it with was awesome. It was packed, yet they were quiet during dialogue, laughed at all the right places, cheered at all the right places (Hermione laying the beat down on Draco and The End). A girl also screamed at a moment that wasn't meant to be THAT scary, everybody laughed.

Great film, they should just have made it longer to fit more in, and MORE STAG LESS DRAGON BALL.

[Rumpy]

Yeah, I always had the impression that it wasn't a sphere of pulsating light, but the "summoned" stag pushing foward and glowing. I think the emphasis of the stag was toned down because the bit of the "Marauders" group wasn't mentioned in the movie.

I thought the bit with the class and lupin was done incredibly well. A shining example of how well the SFX were done (the Jack in the Box was sick). Again, the translation from book to film changed things. So instead of a vague discription of the moon we actually see it (I thought it looked pretty sick too). My biggest complaint with the movie is that they left out the whole concept of the guys being friends in school. It sets up so much and is so important (and would answer the huge holes in the movie) that I'm surprised it was left out. Plus it makes the story so much richer, the movie felt too simple to me.