PoA

[yakalskovich]

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...

Comments

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

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!?

[yakalskovich]

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.

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

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!

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

*cough* WHERE the werewolves look better.

Freudian slip.

[yakalskovich]

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

[yakalskovich]

Urgs. Yes. I forget the wargs.

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

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

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.

[yakalskovich]

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*

[woelfle.livejournal.com]

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?

[laizeohbeets.livejournal.com]

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

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

[woelfle.livejournal.com]

WOLF!

[yakalskovich]

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