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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 492956" data-attributes="member: 1455">MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW..............My pleasure.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The HP books are great, and I dislike it when people get the wrong idea about them based on movies produced by hollywood hacks.No, but I do swallow the idea of a 20 ft snake sneaking thru the school's pipes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />They're both, and many other things besides.  Peeves is a PITA, the Bloody Baron is downright frightening, NHNick is a nice patron, and Myrtle is annoying.By all means, but I'd also like to hear what you liked.  It's very easy to get caught up with the negatives, and forget about the positives.I liked the greater darkness and drama in this movie, as opposed to the purely flat and mechanical presentation of the first movie.  The three kids were all surprisingly good, and seemed to have developed a real sense of comraderie since the first movie.  If only the kid playing Malfoy could act. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I was particularly impressed with the acting of Tom Riddle, and the subtle way that whole plot was developed.  Finally, the visual presentation and art design was great, from the appearance of the mandrakes, to the design of the Chamber of Secrets, even to the final image of harry stabbing the book.The aspects of the movie that most irritated me were, in order or most to least irritating:- Richard Harris once again utterly murdering the character of Dumbledore.  Dumbledore is not a doddering ancient half-corpse.  He's a lively eccentric, with more life and wisdom in him than any two other characters, and a complete awareness of everything that's going on (the scene with the cloak in Hagrid's hut was decently done in that regard, but that's it).  Dumbledore is an old English word for bumblebee, with J.K.Rowling chose because she pictured him wandering from hallway to hallway, happily humming to himself.  (I've heard a rumor that Tom Baker, of Dr. Who fame, may be playing the role.  If he looks the part, the eccentric livliness and wisdom may finally come out.)*ahem*- The sword of Griffindor looks like a cheap toy.  This was the sword of a grown man, so it shouldn't be scaled for a boy, and should look like a real sword, not a shiny plastic one.- And a bunch of things you've already mentioned, particularly the unneccessary car scenes, the fake-looking spiders, and Lockhart being portrayed as an incompetent from the very beginning, rather than as a merely vain and self-absorbed wizard.I found dobby annoying, but then I found dobby annoying in the book too, so that's hardly surprising.  The Chamber of Secrets is my least favorite of the HP books, but I was riveted to my seats for many parts of this movie, especially the ending.</blockquote>

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