Yeah, nothing says "I'm just here for the check" like telling the world that not only have you not read the source material, you don't hold it in enough regard to lose a week or two to do so.
Fair enough. But if it was a choice between a Harris kind of image or a Gambon kind of image, I would definitely have erred on the side of Harris, always.
Regardless of how you feel about Harris, Gambon is just awful.
Awful? Really? Even if you like Harris better, Gambon's Dumbledore is not some travesty. I think his work in the last film in particular was great. "Severus...Please" is just as heartwrenching as it is in the book.
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Gambon's was really bad at times, but mostly it was alright.
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Fair enough. But if it was a choice between a Harris kind of image or a Gambon kind of image, I would definitely have erred on the side of Harris, always.
Regardless of how you feel about Harris, Gambon is just awful.
Awful? Really? Even if you like Harris better, Gambon's Dumbledore is not some travesty. I think his work in the last film in particular was great. "Severus...Please" is just as heartwrenching as it is in the book.
Yes, I think he is awful. And I don't really care if it's his fault as an actor, the director's fault, or a combination of the two.
I don't want to shit on the thread though so let's just leave it at that.
Besides, she's the best actor of the three mains (although they lucked out that all turned out solid) and overall they really lucked out with their child actors
Eyebrows? Are you kidding?
She projects a single emotion at almost all times, and that's irate/concerned. I'm not saying this makes her a bad actress, but it certainy isn't anything too impressive.
Plus she really REALLY acts with her eyebrows. Particularly in film 4.
I don't know if there is a best of the three, really. I think they're all pretty solid given their direction/lines.
To be fair Hermione in the books was pretty much stuck in the irate/concerned section of the emotional spectrum at all times as well.
The one-dimensional actress portrays the one-dimensional character quite well.
Edit: Though, I would say that Hermoine is in "incredulous mode" throughout most of the book.
you know what i noticed, upon rereading deathly hallows?
when fred dies, you don't get george's reaction. i found that really strange. george's name is only used once after fred's death: you are told that he is kneeling at fred's head, at the conclusion of the battle. but no more detail. i know there are a lot of dead and equal attention can't be given at all but (especially with the scene around george's ear incident) and how central the characters are, i'd have expected george crying or screaming or flipping out or even making a joke to cope or anything. kind of stuck with me, that she let it go.
you know what i noticed, upon rereading deathly hallows?
when fred dies, you don't get george's reaction. i found that really strange. george's name is only used once after fred's death: you are told that he is kneeling at fred's head, at the conclusion of the battle. but no more detail. i know there are a lot of dead and equal attention can't be given at all but (especially with the scene around george's ear incident) and how central the characters are, i'd have expected george crying or screaming or flipping out or even making a joke to cope or anything. kind of stuck with me, that she let it go.
Thinking about Freds reaction to George almost dieing I think Fred dieing might be the one thing that would make him speachless. Thats gotta be like loosing half your body.
That fat guy, Paul, almost makes this unwatchable. So annoying.
If you call that fat, then I feel sorry for your girlfriend. Though, Paul does have a point in that it's basically GoW with a harry potter skin.
Yeah, I rewatched the video, he doesn't look fat at all. I guess I was just pushing the negative image I had of him in my head to grossly exaggerate how he looked. I'm not defending the game, I just found most of his comments annoying and his voice grating.
Though listening to the other guy try to deflect his comments got old fast too. No, it totally isn't like a machinge gun, nosiree.
To be fair, Harry did use the Crucio spell a fair few times in the last book without going through all of these emo "who have I become" feelings.
It's not like it's the Avada Kedavra spell or anything.
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Harry used the Cruciatus curse a couple times, both on Death Eaters and it only lasted a second.
However, the Cruciatus curse is not a spell that spams low-accuracy high-ROF projectiles at dudes until they fall over. Basically that is a magic-skinned videogame Uzi.
I suppose Expelliarmus is a short-range, powerful close-burst spell that gets progressively less effective the further away your target is.
I don't know if they'll ever make a great Harry Potter game. The only way I could see it working is if Bioware got a hold of it, came up with an original story with original characters, and put you in a MMO environment.
Here's how I would imagine it. Set up a number of pregame options to shape the story and then away you go. Lineage (pure blood, half blood, muggle born,) House, Wand (determines specialty of spells,) background (wizard family upbringing, anti-wizard muggle family, dark wizard family, orphan) and then you go to school. You get more powerful by upgrading and learning new spells while going through a storyline at the school. You graduate and pick a profession (wand maker, auror, magical creature tamer, curse breaker.) All of that set against the background of a wizard war.
I don't know if they'll ever make a great Harry Potter game. The only way I could see it working is if Bioware got a hold of it, came up with an original story with original characters, and put you in a MMO environment.
Here's how I would imagine it. Set up a number of pregame options to shape the story and then away you go. Lineage (pure blood, half blood, muggle born,) House, Wand (determines specialty of spells,) background (wizard family upbringing, anti-wizard muggle family, dark wizard family, orphan) and then you go to school. You get more powerful by upgrading and learning new spells while going through a storyline at the school. You graduate and pick a profession (wand maker, auror, magical creature tamer, curse breaker.) All of that set against the background of a wizard war.
This can only work if I can become 9 again, end up in the world of Harry Potter, and get invited to attend Hogwarts.
Technically, you'd start out at 11. But yeah, world of Harry Potter, invited to Hogwarts, the setting during the first war with Voldemort. You could pull an Old Republic and do it during a time setting that we have no real connection to.
Like I said though, never going to happen. JK Rowling would have to relinquish control, and I don't think she wants to go all George Lucas on her series.
Technically, you'd start out at 11. But yeah, world of Harry Potter, invited to Hogwarts, the setting during the first war with Voldemort. You could pull an Old Republic and do it during a time setting that we have no real connection to.
Like I said though, never going to happen. JK Rowling would have to relinquish control, and I don't think she wants to go all George Lucas on her series.
Not yet, but once she's tired of only having three money-mattresses in her house...
Isn't the theme park that .. Universal? ... is building. I think that's actually licensed off the movies and not the books, because from what I remember Rowling didn't sign off on that.
Isn't the theme park that .. Universal? ... is building. I think that's actually licensed off the movies and not the books, because from what I remember Rowling didn't sign off on that.
I believe she has final say on the movies but not any merchandising past that.
Which explains the awful awful toys and broombrator.
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I think I remember a quote from her re: the first few HP video games, something along the lines of, "Thanks for not giving Harry an M-16."
Cut to that gameplay preview, where they've apparently done exactly that.
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Awful? Really? Even if you like Harris better, Gambon's Dumbledore is not some travesty. I think his work in the last film in particular was great. "Severus...Please" is just as heartwrenching as it is in the book.
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Yes, I think he is awful. And I don't really care if it's his fault as an actor, the director's fault, or a combination of the two.
I don't want to shit on the thread though so let's just leave it at that.
"You see that thing you all like? Youre rating it wrong. I know becasue I am the correct arbiter of where things should be. Rated."
Yeah, 75% of that thread is "Look at me, I'm awesome for hating this thing people like!"
It's ok, that thread is over-rated.
Your mom is over-rated.
Wait, that makes too much sense...
I only blue-dotted in that thread to tell everyone they're wrong.
Very wrong.
The one-dimensional actress portrays the one-dimensional character quite well.
Edit: Though, I would say that Hermoine is in "incredulous mode" throughout most of the book.
That fat guy, Paul, almost makes this unwatchable. So annoying.
If you call that fat, then I feel sorry for your girlfriend. Though, Paul does have a point in that it's basically GoW with a harry potter skin.
Wow. That's...subtle.
Thinking about Freds reaction to George almost dieing I think Fred dieing might be the one thing that would make him speachless. Thats gotta be like loosing half your body.
Recoil from a wand?
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Yeah, I rewatched the video, he doesn't look fat at all. I guess I was just pushing the negative image I had of him in my head to grossly exaggerate how he looked. I'm not defending the game, I just found most of his comments annoying and his voice grating.
Though listening to the other guy try to deflect his comments got old fast too. No, it totally isn't like a machinge gun, nosiree.
If you use it your alignment shifts and you get an alternate ending.
I assume.
Otherwise it is fucking stupid.
Something like Ultimate Sith Edition for the Force unleashed? that would be awesome!
It's not like it's the Avada Kedavra spell or anything.
However, the Cruciatus curse is not a spell that spams low-accuracy high-ROF projectiles at dudes until they fall over. Basically that is a magic-skinned videogame Uzi.
I suppose Expelliarmus is a short-range, powerful close-burst spell that gets progressively less effective the further away your target is.
Here's how I would imagine it. Set up a number of pregame options to shape the story and then away you go. Lineage (pure blood, half blood, muggle born,) House, Wand (determines specialty of spells,) background (wizard family upbringing, anti-wizard muggle family, dark wizard family, orphan) and then you go to school. You get more powerful by upgrading and learning new spells while going through a storyline at the school. You graduate and pick a profession (wand maker, auror, magical creature tamer, curse breaker.) All of that set against the background of a wizard war.
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This can only work if I can become 9 again, end up in the world of Harry Potter, and get invited to attend Hogwarts.
Like I said though, never going to happen. JK Rowling would have to relinquish control, and I don't think she wants to go all George Lucas on her series.
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Not yet, but once she's tired of only having three money-mattresses in her house...
I believe she has final say on the movies but not any merchandising past that.
Which explains the awful awful toys and broombrator.
Cut to that gameplay preview, where they've apparently done exactly that.
At least it's a magic M-16 though.
And a magic rocket launcher.
Possibly a magic flamethrower later.
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