Recently, a so-called friend of mine and I had a Facebook conversation wherein I said that all of the Harry Potter movies I've seen are snooze-fests, and her rebuttal was that the third movie was the best and I should go see it. Since I knew the local Ye Olde Video Rental Shoppe had a Blu-ray copy of the film, I decided to rent it. Having now seen it, I can safely agree that it is the best of the Harry Potter films I have seen so far. Granted, that's not saying much. It was mediocre at best, and at worst… well, still mediocre.
The third book is my favorite of the series, so I went into the movie with serious reservations. Oh sure, it was largely faithful to the book and tried to cover all of the major elements in the story, but I always feel like it is going at fast-forward. Nein! Nein! Nein, nein, nein! I must remember. I was told to separate the movie from the book and judge it by its own merit. Phew, this is going to be tough; here we go. The story felt rushed, the CG graphics were unrealistic and distracted me more than anything, the wizarding world appears to be filled with @#$holes, and Rupert Grint remains an affront to one's sense of vision.
The twist that occurs about two-thirds of the way into the movie was strange. Harry was just a little too trusting. Standing before him was a man accused and convicted of murder, and he trusted him before any evidence was even presented. I'm willing to bet that if Harry made it into Ravenclaw, he would not have bought that rubbish at face value.
Of course, I did say this was the best of the movies, so there were some things I liked. I loved Lupin's character. He was always so calm and knowledgeable. Plus, he looked a lot like our glorious Führer, though a little taller and with a wider moustache. The Knight Bus (pronounced: Kin-nig-itt) scene was quite entertaining, though I can't help but wonder why they don't bolt down those beds, or something.
I was a little disappointed with Emma Watson's sudden display of female aggression against the film's Aryan exemplar. She is supposed to be the intellectual character, and here she is resorting to lowbrow violence. Is this the message we are supposed to present to our children; intellectuals should be the violent ones? No, they should be the ones producing our tools for acquiring lebensraum and purging our lands of unclean ones.
All in all, this movie passed the time. I was glad when its sudden "oh, by the way ending" arrived, but I did not hate everything that was presented before me. I give it a passable 7.46129 / 10.23. Heil Hitler!
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