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07-01-2004, 01:06 PM
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 A letter from a fan to Mike Newell Summary:
She is steaming about PoA and hopes GoF will be way better, apparently. Article:
Thanks to Wizardnews Quote: Dear Mike Newell,
I fear for the next movie, Goblet of Fire.
After seeing Alfonso Cuaron butcher Prisoner of Azkaban, I can only hope that as new director for Goblet of Fire, you will read the many thousands of emails that are furious with the way he sucked the soul right out of the movie! Might as well have had a dementor direct. Did he read the book?
Mr. Newell, you have a GIANT chance to make an epic movie of Goblet of Fire because the story is so rich and wonderful. Chris Columbus put powerful actors in place to represent the first two stories. I can only hope that you will not be afraid to put Hogwarts back the way it should be and give the actors some room to provide the richiness to the characters that J.K. Rowling created.
None of those books needed emblishments, the people in the pictures don't need to be cartoon characters. The Stag really needs to attack the dementors, etc.
I guess I am still steaming about Azkaban...
Mr. Newell, Peter Jackson did a wonderful job on Lord of the Rings, why don't you take some lessons from him, not Alfonso? Although Peter Jackson did not necessarily follow the books, he made sure that the important core and heart of the stories were portrayed in some way. Alfonso just plain left them out.
As an avid fan of the Harry Potter books, I beg that Goblet of Fire be as good as the first two. Some depth, and no shortcuts and better cinematography.
Thank you.
Becky F
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07-01-2004, 01:26 PM
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| | Banshee
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OMG POA is so much better than PS and COS for a start the acting is better!
as for Hogwarts it looked amazing even thought most of it was CGI but it was filmed in Scotland.
It isnt up to mike Newell about the script i dont think anyone should be blaming Alfonso for POA it should be STEVE KLOVES he had runied the bost HP book.
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07-01-2004, 01:36 PM
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| | Faerie
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Holy crap, I hope this letter never reaches Mike Newell!
How can she even pretend to represent a majority of fans ("the many thousands of e-mails..") with her tainted view of PoA?
Nearly everybody - well the overwealmingly vast majority anyways - agrees that Azkaban was the best movie of the three.
She needs to get a grip.
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07-01-2004, 01:39 PM
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| | Bundimun
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Well, neither do i know nor do i care who's fault it is. i just want the next film as awesome as the books are. :sorcerer:
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07-01-2004, 01:39 PM
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| | Banshee
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I agree with u Dumbledore i think this person has just not enjoyed POA (Dont know why) but she does not reperesent the vast magority of Harry Potter fans.
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07-01-2004, 01:41 PM
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| | Bundimun
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can i ask a question, have you watched PoA?
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07-01-2004, 01:46 PM
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:/ I liked PoA, although I hope they keep the little things that PoA missed in GoF. PoA was overall brilliant, but the story telling left a lot to be desired, good movie but bad story.
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07-01-2004, 01:47 PM
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| | Faerie
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Quote: Originally posted by Gary@Jul 1 2004, 12:15 PM
can i ask a question, have you watched PoA? Whom are you asking?
I think it's pretty clear that all of us have.
Unless you mean "Becky" who wrote the letter to Mr. Newell. I can agree that it's questionable whether she's actually seen the movie! lol
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07-01-2004, 01:51 PM
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| | Kappa
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Ohmygoodness it's that person nuts?! I love PoA- i don't know anyone who doesn't! It's by far the best!!! Argh, that person is craaaaaaazy!
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07-01-2004, 01:53 PM
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| | Bundimun
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Well i am asking everybody because i thought that it wasn't yet on the big screen.
i just saw an extensive advert while watching another movie and i can say from what i saw that i expected more.
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07-01-2004, 01:57 PM
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| | Mooncalf
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Oh man, does she need to grow up!
She's acting like a little 6 year old, whinging about the movie to the new director! To me she seems to be complaining about the fact Alfonso stopped the kiddy stuff and made Harry, Ron and Hermione teenagers, which they are! Maybe she just doesn't realise that.
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07-01-2004, 01:57 PM
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| His life is like a river Kneazle
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Gary, you said in your PM to me that you are from Greece, so I am expecting that you won't see the movie till November, sorry. I would be really upset. It has been in UK, USA, Australia etc. Since early June. 
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07-01-2004, 01:59 PM
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What the hell this fan thinks about POA?
First a fall....why does this person thinks that POA is a badly made movie?i mean when we compare to the books,it may not be entirely thruthful.But remember,these guys are movie makers.They have to make a movie by keeping all general viewers in point of view.They cant make movies just for the book readers.In our place,there are very few people(20 out of 100)who have read all the books of HP.I think in that way,POA is much much better.
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07-01-2004, 02:00 PM
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| | Bundimun
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well looking at it that way you are right.
but still:
Geez .now i'm frustated. :/
this is unfair.
gosh...
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07-01-2004, 02:16 PM
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i liked the first two better than POA but i wouldnt say it was ruined
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07-01-2004, 02:17 PM
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one word to describe that letter:
stupid
darn_n00b
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07-01-2004, 02:32 PM
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cool!
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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07-01-2004, 02:37 PM
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i loved POA but soemthing this becky said run true, i would of loved the stag to be the Patronum as it was in the books, that is the only thing i agree on , she is nuts
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07-01-2004, 03:11 PM
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I think POA is the best movie I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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07-01-2004, 04:00 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Dumbledore@Jul 1 2004, 09:10 PM
Holy crap, I hope this letter never reaches Mike Newell!
How can she even pretend to represent a majority of fans ("the many thousands of e-mails..") with her tainted view of PoA?
Nearly everybody - well the overwealmingly vast majority anyways - agrees that Azkaban was the best movie of the three.
She needs to get a grip. Ditto!
(Bleh. You said everyhting i wanted to say!)
Oh and Gary - put it this way...It's different...
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07-01-2004, 04:09 PM
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| | Faerie
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Quote: Originally posted by Ms Wood@Jul 1 2004, 01:11 PM
i would of loved the stag to be the Patronus as it was in the books, that is the only thing i agree on , she is nuts I understand how a lot of people think the stag should have "charged" the dementors like in the books but I also can agree with the choice for it not to.
The reason the stag can't charge the dementors in the filml is because in the movie, the dementors "fly" instead of "float". If they can fly, then when the stag charges, why wouldn't they just fly over it. And he could only reach the ones very close to the ground (there were loads of them swaring around in the air).
That's why they decided to go with the shiny spreading of light to rid them instead. And I can appreciate that.
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07-01-2004, 04:31 PM
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this girl really needs to learn how to see a movie and review!!!
i mean, what is wrong??? i think it particularly real cooooool!!!! sheesh! the great potential there in the movie... man u can actually feel it! what does she think she's saying when she says 'he sucked the soul out of it'
geez, some people!
poa was way better than the first two... its more adventrous, its emotional, its super-terrific!!!!
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07-01-2004, 04:43 PM
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If Mike Newell gets that letter, then he will probably think that...
a) He will be under more pressure to succeed.
and B) All us Potter fans are sad people.
For one thing, LOTR was not perfect at all. Even the 'fans' hated some of the things PJ altered.
I think she should get her facts straight.
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07-01-2004, 04:53 PM
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What this girl wrote is total crap!!! cmon Alfonso put all his aweat and blood (well maybe this is a bit emotional i cant find anythin better to say) into making PoA atleast give the guy some credit and everything cant be exactly as written in the book!!! and hte guy turned out a great movie if not perfect but a great movie and how does this girl know majority of hte hp fans dint like the movie if shes amongst a few who didnt
and why is she comparingg it with lotr both are completly different..
i agree with lemondrizzle this girl is a giving Mike Newell a wrong impression of hp fans
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07-01-2004, 05:05 PM
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| | Doxy
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I liked the way Alfonzo did the movie and yes the actors were better but i have to say I did like it as much as SS and CoS. I think he did miss some of the great parts of the movie. And for that GoF has to fill in all the stuff that he did miss and that makes GoF have to take out parts of its movie so it can correct PoA. :/
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