Last Potter Picture to be adapted into two

[cignus_pfaccari]

You think I could sit it through without a bathroom break?

Never mind the many campfire songs and the Council of Elrond meeting.

...um, those *are* the bathroom breaks.

Every time an Elf talks to another Elf, that's an intermission.

Brad

 

[horacethegrey]

You think I could sit it through without a bathroom break?

Adult diapers are your friend, my good man.

Never mind the many campfire songs and the Council of Elrond meeting.

Here's where I must respectfully disagree, the Council of Elrond happens to be my favorite chapter in the first book. It's a testament to Tolkien's underrated skills as a writer that he makes what normally should be a boring and glacially paced part of the book into such an engaging and compelling passage.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

So's Lord of the Rings. JRR Tolkien always consider it one big book, but his publisher insisted that making it three books more profitable.

We could have had LOTR in one film.

I did see that movie. Just as RotK was being released select theaters showed FotR EE, tTT EE, and RotK back to back to back. That was a great 12 hours in the theater. I think they made the right choice though in releasing them separately since I don't think that experience was for everyone.

 

[Umbran]

Sure, those movies may have (and did, again IMO) worked in two hours.

Thing is, I don't agree - I don't think they worked. They come across as weak Cliffs Notes versions of what they should have been, greatly lacking in transition between scenes, and generally incomprehensible if one had not read the original source material. That isn't acceptable moviemaking, IMHO.

 

[Ranger REG]

I did see that movie. Just as RotK was being released select theaters showed FotR EE, tTT EE, and RotK back to back to back. That was a great 12 hours in the theater. I think they made the right choice though in releasing them separately since I don't think that experience was for everyone.

You sat through without a bathroom break nor an intermission?

You must be thirsty when it's over.

 

[Darth Shoju]

Thing is, I don't agree - I don't think they worked. They come across as weak Cliffs Notes versions of what they should have been, greatly lacking in transition between scenes, and generally incomprehensible if one had not read the original source material. That isn't acceptable moviemaking, IMHO.

I've never read word one of a Harry Potter book and I've enjoyed all of the movies a lot. I've never had any trouble following what's going on in them.

 

[frankthedm]

You think I could sit it through without a bathroom break?

Never mind the many campfire songs and the Council of Elrond meeting.

...um, those *are* the bathroom breaks.

The arrival at Elrond's crib is the bathroom break, the council scene is pure money.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The arrival at Elrond's crib is the bathroom break, the council scene is pure money.

Eh... mine was the whole "Oh NOES! Frodo iz poisoned!" five minute ride towards elfland.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Thing is, I don't agree - I don't think they worked. They come across as weak Cliffs Notes versions of what they should have been, greatly lacking in transition between scenes, and generally incomprehensible if one had not read the original source material. That isn't acceptable moviemaking, IMHO.

From that viewpoint, yes, they wouldn't have worked. Honestly, though I'm not a huge HP/JKR fan, if they wanted to make the movies completely faithful to the books, anything past the fourth movie probably needed to be at least three hours long. I don't think there would have been a huge problem with that... I think people would have bought into that, even with restless children.

However, if you view the movies seperately from the books, I think they work. I don't really view them as adaptations of the books so much as interpretations. Maybe this is just me. I read the books a while ago, and I honestly didn't retain a whole lot of them. Like I said, I wasn't a huge fan. I thought the movies flowed fine, and I don't think that there was any ambiguity.

My whole point before is if they were doing faithful adaptations, they would have made the movies longer and splitting the last book wouldn't be as big a deal. They weren't though, they were doing interpretations, and all of those were done in a two-ish hour format. Therefore, changing that for the last movie only seems disingenuous, in my opinion.

 

[Mark]

I've never read word one of a Harry Potter book and I've enjoyed all of the movies a lot. I've never had any trouble following what's going on in them.

I am in the same situation.

I'm also okay with having two movies. They are always visually enjoyable and I would rather pay for two of those than one of those and some other piece of crap movie. At least with the HP series, you know the film will be worthwhile.