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Originally posted by daniel'schick@Jun 25 2004, 08:51 PM
ok, that review made me so sick i didn't even finish reading it. "better directing." BETTER DIRECTING?!!! 
. this guy doesn't know how much they changed in the movie and how much they left out. that is all i have to say. The point of this thread is to discuss the merits of the film.
99% of the posters here agree that PoA was better than the previus films, and credit that to Alfonso (and rightly so).
You're obviously upset about the movie because you feel it left important stuff out and that too many changes were made. That's fair, and you're certainly not alone.
But you need to realise that good directing is NOT making a movie identical to the book. That has nothing to do with directing at all.
It's the script-writers job to get the story from the book to the script.
The director takes that and shoots it in his own style.
If you didnt like the style of the movie, or the "feel" of it, you can blame Alfonso. But saying "he left stuff out" and "they changed so much!" and cursing the director for it is simply wrong.
You did get one thing right though:
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this guy doesn't know how much they changed in the movie and how much they left out.
This is true. He hasn't read the books. So he judges it only by its merits as a film.
And it is a good film!