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So, the Nazgul and I went to the English language midnight premiere of "Prisoner of Azkaban" here in Munich.

It was a very grown-up audience; we two were the only ones in costume, but as we know that Where We Are Is Up, we didn't mind. My huge witch's hat made quite a splash, and the people in the row behind us sighed audibly with relief when I took it off before the movie began.

Just a few remarks:

The werewolf: Gah!! Euuchhh!! So not it! Whoever designed that creature should be fired summarily and condemned to the hell of doing wire removal for third-rate superhero action movies.

That. Wasn't. Moony.
Am in denial.

The chain of clues for Sirius/Remus: all missing. More than made up for by a) Snape's pointedly nasty "Old married couple" remark, and b) that desperate, passionate blather Sirius spouts at Remus to keep him from changing. The next time I see the movie, I must disregard the action in the foreground of that scene and listen solely to what Sirius says.

They hugged very intensely in the Shrieking Shack, too.

Buckbeak was well done.

While I was cycling home, I noticed a fat orange moon hanging low in the sky. So it was actually werewolf night tonight...

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I am a shameless fangirl, and shall be watching the movie solely to bounce up and down during the "old married couple" line and the hug. To quote one lj review, "They don't hug like brothers, they cling like lovers." On the downside, I understand the movie is most bogusly Great Snape Moment-less. Nevertheless, I shall watch it for what it is: an adaptation, not the Book On Film. Or at least give it a good shot.

Yes, we very much missed Snape going totally ballistic at the end. That would have been fun. And he wasn't guided along the passage all inanimate, either.

But everything was fine and made sense in the context, really. Apart from the terrible were-CGI.

*quietly goes and spews forth popcorn at the thought of the beastie*

Ahh, and Sirius grabbing Remus and trying to get through to him so he wouldn't change, and even succeeding for a while - that was a classic moment that shall be much considered in the months to come, I think.

Ahahahh, well put! I shall try and metaquote you, so's to spread the word of the true wolf, or something!

And yes, Buckbeak was surprisingly well-done, and even sorta solid and gravitatious (?). At least compared to the were-CG.

Know what: I'm such a sad creature, I totally missed out on the full moon yesterday until I saw it. And such a beautiful one it was. Shame. No pack, no howl...

I tend to notice werewolf night. I was in Dublin with my sister once on a night of the full moon, and we talked a lot about Remus Lupin that night (she likes him just as much as I do), and the next morning, when we went to Glasnevin Cemetery, there were huge canine-like pawprints in the thawing hoarforst on some of the slablike gravestones, and we found that very fitting...

Buckbeak was very superior for a CGI. Still, the CGIs in the HP movies were, as a rule, alsways inferior to those WETA did for the LOTR movies. Especially apparent in the first two years when they were running sorta against each other, troll for troll and Dobby to be compared with Gollum.

LOL! I love the graveyard story. I've actually been howling at the moon for years, ever since I was unhappily in love, watched the guy get together with someone else, and found it quite a suitable vent. :-)

Hm, surely got a point about Dobby (tres annoying) and Gollum (interesting if repetetive). Ack, gotta go!

I haven't actually howled at the moon yet. But the Metropolitans' dog howls at passing ambulances. Very impressive.-

I shall try howling at the moon if I am ever really deeply unhappy again. But I rarely am, you know. I leave that to my RPG characters...

Mah aunt is actually quite down on Gollum. Something to do with his CDlike eyes.
Picky picky, animators.

Of course - as a professional, you always find something wrong. But really, pur-leazse, contemplate:

Dobby <-> Gollum

And then honestly say which is superior...

It's a rhethorical question, hmm?

I didn't think Dobby was that bad, actually. But yeah.

Of course, Dobby was quite good, especially compared to the third part's Monsterwolf!Remusthing.

I couldn't help but adapt the term for the thing, by the way; it is so apt...

I wouldn't know [yet]. Some friends of mine are going in a few hours, but sadly I have not been asked, and as such shall not go sticking my nose in like a...a person who sticks their nose in.

Go on your own - you don't have to be with a throng to see a movie. Common misconception. It was good to go with the Nazgul, but that was because of the costumes, because of screeching in unison when Snape said "Old married couple" (and there was a collective little screech in the cinema, I can tell you), and because anything is better anyway if I can comment it to shreds with the Nagzul afterwards.

Well, I do have, y'know, stuff to do. So soonish. I have other friends.

Remus/Sirius is Not For Me. Am weird, I guess.

Well, I don't read Sirius/Remus slash much any more, as it's all been done and re-done and then re-done as well, every new fanfic writer reinventing the wheel. I don't even follow the oeuvres of our esteemed ex-Patrician.

And I've only ever written one little fragment of it, on a long train journey with the Nazgul when we went to Strasbourg to go to an Apocalyptica concert, last summer. I had forgotten my book and had nothing else to do, and OotP was still new and fresh in my head.

But I think they are utterly canon. Well anchored in the text. On purpose. Put there by JKR with intent.

didn't like the werewolf ONE BIT. or sirius. not... shaggy enough.

but buckbeak = wow. he really did look like a horse/bird.

The were-CGI is truly bad. I mean, did they run out over budget or what to resort to that? Buckbeak, albeit good, can't have been that expensive.

I just say they employ WETA for their special effects. Then that HP/LOTR rivalry can be done with, and the fans can have great CGI.

Oh yes - WETA so rules! Silly old ILM or whatever they used can really just close up shop, in comparison to WETA.

Well, I thought ILM had good special effects for Pirates of the Caribbean, but I must admit... REMUS WEREWOLF LOOKED LIKE CRAP. Honestly! If you can do a bang-up job on Beaky, why not Remus!?

He should have been a wolf, mostly. Not this Monsterwolf!Remusthing (to mis-quote something else entirely out of context). This thing so doesn't explain or justify why his friends turned animagi for him, does it? That's not an animal, it's a monster.

Most definitely. Then again, WETA has problems with wolves, too. *thinking of the dreadful wargs, the superhyenas*

DO NOT RUUU EENNNN my pretty werewolf thingie that really should look like a wolf. There are movies from the 70s and 80s were the werewolves look better!

*cough* WHERE the werewolves look better.

Freudian slip.

Hah - cute icon. Never mind the typo. If we wanted to go back on every typo, we'd be here till Hogswatch...

Urgs. Yes. I forget the wargs.

I wonder what is so difficult about all this. Repeat after me: "Wolf!"

Dear WETA and ILM,
My icon has a husky in it. A husky looks like a wolf. In fact, I think they are part wolf. This is what wolves look like. They do not look like Superhyenas of Doom, and they do not look like Icky Half Transformation Wolves that Walk Upright. Is it so hard to make wolves look real in CGI?
Love,
Jessi.

It would have been so easy. Underworld, they could have used a trained wolf for the part instead of CGI, could they? Hiding the transformation in the shadows or something?

Instead, we're now stuck with Monsterwolf!Remusthing. It will never go away again! *wails*

You're So Right! I'd metaquote the letter right away, but I don't want to ~~seem as wolf-obsessive as I am~~ get into trouble.

And the icon: I once found that pic and was trying to make a sort-of reassuring post about it being a sign that there'll be a wolf in POA - and then I lost it. Sigh. Glad others didn't, though! It's from some Radcliffe site, isn't it?

You could always put it under a cut for spoilers. ;)

Yeah, I think I found it on danradcliffe.com or something to that effect.

WOLF!

Yes! WOLF! It's not hard at all; no idea why they can't do it.

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