Potter 5 (the film)
Jul. 23rd, 2007 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSaw it tonight. I didn't expect much, which was just as well. Stunning visuals, as usual, and some very good character acting also as usual. Dolores Umbridge played by Imelda Staunton is perhaps even more brainwashed, toady and disgusting than she was in the book.
However, as a whole, it's disappointing. Anyone who sees it without having read the book (perhaps more than once) is either going to miss at least half the story or be left wondering WTF these people are talking about and doing. It's all visuals and no substance. The plot has been hacked up so completely that it would be utterly unintelligible.
It occurred to me on the way home that this may be why I think anime films are so frigging bad. Most of them are based on books. Most of those I've seen, I had never read the book. Consequently, the storyline becomes unintelligible to me when chopped up into visuals the way movie directors always seem to think.
Mind, I'm not entirely left brained. I can draw fairly well, I'm quite good at music for a non-professional, and I appreciate art generally. But telling a complicated story in pictures just doesn't cut it with me. A picture is not worth a thousand words, no.
However, as a whole, it's disappointing. Anyone who sees it without having read the book (perhaps more than once) is either going to miss at least half the story or be left wondering WTF these people are talking about and doing. It's all visuals and no substance. The plot has been hacked up so completely that it would be utterly unintelligible.
It occurred to me on the way home that this may be why I think anime films are so frigging bad. Most of them are based on books. Most of those I've seen, I had never read the book. Consequently, the storyline becomes unintelligible to me when chopped up into visuals the way movie directors always seem to think.
Mind, I'm not entirely left brained. I can draw fairly well, I'm quite good at music for a non-professional, and I appreciate art generally. But telling a complicated story in pictures just doesn't cut it with me. A picture is not worth a thousand words, no.
