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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 489442" data-attributes="member: 1455">You are corrrect in assuming that the problems you bring up were created by the moviemakers, not by Rowling.  They all make sense in the book, but were poorly executed or explained in the movie.IIRC, those were invented for the movie, and serve no purpose.  In the book, they only start having trouble when they start to run out of gas near Hogwarts.That's actually from the book, though the spider scene was different.  In the book it makes it clearer that the car has become sentient, and is doing them a favour out of a sense of loyalty.  In the book there is only one giant spider, and he hides in the depths of the forest with a ton of normal spiders.  In the book it also makes it clearer that Hagrid is a softie when it comes to his creatures, not believing that they are harmful to others.The muppet of the huge spider was also too fake looking.While Branagh was brilliant, the direction was ham-fisted, making it obvious from the beginning that Lockhart is incompetent, while in the books that only comes out gradually.We missed them because we've read the book and understand the context.  Not that you should have to have read the book to understand the movie, but that's the way it is.They didn't shut down the bathroom, people just avoided it because Myrtle is annoying.Firstly, it wasn't that huge in the book.  Second, it moved around through the pipes in the walls (though the movie neglects to mention this).  That's why Harry heard voices in the walls.Because the director is a hollywood hack?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   This movie had many good points, but also suffered from most of the flaws that made the first movie hopelessly mediocre.</blockquote>

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