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Wednesday, December 04, 2002

Posted 10:04 AM by Floyd

I was very impressed with the first Harry Potter movie, which my wife and I watched last night. I do have some comments, which are hidden in the following paragraph to avoid spoiling the movie (and the book). Select the space below to see them:



  • The climax was a wonderful surprise and an important moral lesson, that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But poor Snapes deserves better in the ending. At the least he is owed an apology from the young wizards who have spend the last two hours slandering him. Instead at the end we see him glowering over his nasty young charges at Slithering, with nary a word from Potter and company.
  • The Valdemort parasite was well done, though it revived uncomfortable memories of watching Total Recall.
  • Ron Weezely controlls the chess pieces by voice when playing on the dungeon chessboard. So why does he need to stick with his knight? Can't he hop off and order it to move?
  • The Harry Potter troll was about ten times better than the Lord of the Rings troll. (But the centaur was poorly done and scarcely believable.)



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