https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/06/meanwhile-back-at-the-oasis/ My little corner of the web Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/06/meanwhile-back-at-the-oasis/#comment-1678 Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:27:22 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/06/07/meanwhile-back-at-the-oasis/#comment-1678 I’ll have to work out exactly how long I’ll be staying up there, possibly through Thursday.
Or you could stay through sunday and go to the CL show in chicago on saturday 😀

]]> https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/06/meanwhile-back-at-the-oasis/#comment-1677 Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:36:09 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/06/07/meanwhile-back-at-the-oasis/#comment-1677 I wasn’t as totally blown away by Harry Potter film this time. Some of the cinematography was very good, but there were art-house touches that kinda popped me out of the nice fantasy I was in.
One was the overexposed, undersaturated, grainy forest scene with Harry and Lupin. I looked at it, and lost my suspension of disbelief. Did they totally botch that shot? Damage the negative? No chance of a re-take? Bad print? Oh, I had to remind myself, this is a technique the director is using. Ok.
I’d also just reread the book on impulse, on my trip, and the plot cuts were jarring. They could have let it run a little longer, and explained just exactly why Prongs, Wormtail, and Padfoot were what they were.
The effects work was amazing, and Michael Gambon did a good job as Dumbledore.

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