Went to see the Harry Potter movie with my family. Of course, there was the Monster Queue From Hell at the cinema... hehe. Good thing we had bought the tickets yesterday. So we happily skipped the queue while the other people who had not thought of buying the tickets in advance glared at us. ^^v
The movie was... well, cute. That's the only adjective I can think of to define it. Cute. Not bad, overall, though some things were really bad.
Warning - spoilers (not that there isn't anybody who hasn't seen the movie yet.. :p but you never know.)
Good things:
- Ron and Hermione. Very well portrayed. Hermione especially, though I think they overdid it with the "I-am-better-than-you"-ness. She got on my nerves throughout the first half of the movie, every time she came onscreen I thought "oh hell not Hermione again". Heh. Same goes for Draco Malfoy.
- Snape. Snape was perfect. (Ragabash-san? That Snape skin. Finish it. Please?)
- Hagrid! Hagrid 0wned.
- Quidditch.
- Hogwarts in general. Well done, though it looked a little fake at times. But I guess that's to be expected.
Bad things:
- Harry. Good GOD the kid does not know how to act. He apparently can show only two emotions - surprise, and extreme happiness.
- The ghosts. Thankfully they were only in a couple of scenes, but they were really badly done.
- They did not explain clearly enough some plot elements (for example, how Harry lived at the Dursleys' and everything related to that, or why Harry and friends started suspecting Snape of wanting to steal the Stone). I understood what was going on because I had read the book, but it just confused people who had not read the book (my father, for example... he kept asking me what the hell was going on).
- The scene at Diagon Alley where Harry first meets Quirrell. He's supposed to be famous. People crowding around him and all that. Not two people shaking his hand, him meeting Quirrell and that's it.
- They did not spend enough time in Diagon Alley! Come on. Gringotts was very cool, Olivander's shop was very cool, but why did they skip the rest of it? Where's the scene with Draco and Harry in the robes shop?
- Speaking of skipped scenes, why did they skip the potion riddle on the way to the Stone? I mean, Harry had his moment when he caught the key (and when he got the Stone), Ron had his moment with the game of chess, but Hermione? It was silly to just skip that scene.
- Where's Peeves, anyway? Okay, the ghosts sucked so it was probably a good thing that they skipped him, but still...