Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I finally saw the movie for the first time the other day (yes, bad Robert, bad), and well... I struggle to actually like it... in fact I hate it.
I don't deny it was more stylish and visually impressive then the first two films, and the camera work was definately to die for, but I don't go to a Harry Potter movie to see fucking cinemotography. I go to see the book live on the big screen, and frankly I just feel that Alfonso Cuarón ripped the heart and soul from the book and turning it into some vision quest of his and not what should be the third chapter in the Harry Potter series.
Okay the first two movies may have not been the greatest cineomatic accomplishments of modern film, but they where in the spirit of the books (okay the clapping for Hagrid at the end of CoS was puke worthy, but for the most part they where). Yes if all three where to be placed side by side PoA would win all the technically stuff, but in terms of story (which really is what we all saw the movie for, I doubt any of us saw it because Cuarón directed some soft-core pornflick called "Y tu mamá también" and where following the director (like people do with Spielberg, Spike Lee et al). We went to see Harry Potter and Co, not Alfonso Cuarón or his "vision".
Cuarón seemed to have zero regard for continuity, major and minor plotlines and all the interpersonal twists. Okay, it is difficult to put them into a two and a half hour film, but Chris Columbus did a pretty good job. So his camera skills and editing are not the greatest, but I came to see Harry Potter, not Citizen Kane. All Cuarón seemed to have any regard for was his ego and vision, and I felt it made the movie suffer in the end.
I was just like an empty christmas box. All pretty and decrative, and it definately looks lovely, but open it up and you see it is empty and hollow inside.
I don't deny it was more stylish and visually impressive then the first two films, and the camera work was definately to die for, but I don't go to a Harry Potter movie to see fucking cinemotography. I go to see the book live on the big screen, and frankly I just feel that Alfonso Cuarón ripped the heart and soul from the book and turning it into some vision quest of his and not what should be the third chapter in the Harry Potter series.
Okay the first two movies may have not been the greatest cineomatic accomplishments of modern film, but they where in the spirit of the books (okay the clapping for Hagrid at the end of CoS was puke worthy, but for the most part they where). Yes if all three where to be placed side by side PoA would win all the technically stuff, but in terms of story (which really is what we all saw the movie for, I doubt any of us saw it because Cuarón directed some soft-core pornflick called "Y tu mamá también" and where following the director (like people do with Spielberg, Spike Lee et al). We went to see Harry Potter and Co, not Alfonso Cuarón or his "vision".
Cuarón seemed to have zero regard for continuity, major and minor plotlines and all the interpersonal twists. Okay, it is difficult to put them into a two and a half hour film, but Chris Columbus did a pretty good job. So his camera skills and editing are not the greatest, but I came to see Harry Potter, not Citizen Kane. All Cuarón seemed to have any regard for was his ego and vision, and I felt it made the movie suffer in the end.
I was just like an empty christmas box. All pretty and decrative, and it definately looks lovely, but open it up and you see it is empty and hollow inside.
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