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The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
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KhaiJB
10/15/09

In reply to Douglas Adams to Return to TV, No Hitchhiking Involved
a dozen Electric Monks please.. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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dirtybacon
10/15/09

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I'm excited for this.... I absolutely devoured these novels. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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Dunny0
10/15/09

In reply to Douglas Adams to Return to TV, No Hitchhiking Involved
I loved the Dirk Gently novels... I can't wait to see this. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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Chuck
10/15/09

@Dunny0: Me too. And I have to admit that through the years, a whole lot more has stuck with me about the Dirk Gently books than the Hitchhiker books. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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raygungraphics
10/15/09

@Chuck: I feel the same way. I think about the couch stuck in the stairwell at least once a month.
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Chuck
10/15/09

@raygungraphics: yup... and zen driving, and old norse gods swaddled in Irish linen, and the refrigerator of the damned... #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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JennaW
10/15/09

In reply to Douglas Adams to Return to TV, No Hitchhiking Involved
I hope it's better cast than the radio series -- which I loved, by the way, but which had a really good actor totally miscast as Dirk.

Dirk is not an old-school hard-boiled gumshoe. The whole point is that he was kind of a hippie! And the same age as Richard, the ostensible protag of the first book. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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NefariousNewt
10/15/09

@JennaW: Less like Mike Hammer, more like Jerry Garcia with detective skills. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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Stephen Goldmeier
10/15/09

@JennaW: But also constantly slightly out of control of the situation while trying to maintain the illusion that he's totally in control. Like Willy Wonka. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveagency...
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TheGreenRanger
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
they completely ruined the ending (among other things) in this movie for me, and while the funeral cut out was annoying, the set up of how dumbledore is killed was the worst thing in my opinion. It gets rid of the whole twist of which side snape is on, and makes it look like potter let dumbledore die without doing anything. I was surprised the film got decent reviews in the first place, I found it mostly boring and daniel radcliffs (harry) acting never seem to click for me. He puts on that same pained expression throughout so much of the film, and it just looks silly to me. I'm hoping the next film will be better, but its hard to adapt a book to screen with the time constraints.
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Makidian
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
Hopefully when WB reboots the series in 10-15 years they will get the sixth one right. Kinda like this concept art which is pretty neat, that funeral scene would have been awesome on film, instead we got a bunch of crap.
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Jeriba
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
The concept art for the funeral looks far too cartooney, and I can't really see how it would translate onto the screen. All I can think of is the funeral in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

I'm digging Tonks's cobalt blue hair, though. It's certainly more funeral appropriate than bubblegum pink.
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Makidian
10/08/09

@Jeriba: It doesn't matter at this point because the writer and director deuche bags changed the movie so much it was the worst of the series. Visually it was fantastic but the adaptation of the story was ridiculous to the point that people will be confused when they watch the last two and things are present they have never seen on screen or explained properly.
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Jeriba
10/08/09

@Makidian: The problem with the HP movies is that they can't seem to decide who their target audience is. Do they aim it at people who haven't read the books, or hardcore fans who have? In the end, they end up failing at both by changing major plot elements (which pisses off the fans) and leaving tons of things unexplained (which leaves the non-readers lost and confused). It also seems like the films the casual viewers like best (the 3rd and 6th films) are the ones that piss off the fans most.

I think part of the problem is that they started making the movies long before the series finished, so they had no way of knowing which plot details would be vital later on, and which ones were dispensable. Maybe they'll get it right the second time around when they film the remakes in 20 years.
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IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
I love the way those Inferi look in the drawings, but I was disappointed with how they looked in the film. I thought they all looked like Gollum from LotR.
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Edited by IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel at 10/08/09 3:55 PM

Griff
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
Oh man, seeing that concept art opened up old wounds for me... I was seriously pissed that this scene was cut, especially when they felt the need to extend and add other scenes that didn't progress the plot much at all.

In fact, I've been holding out hope that the scene was just moved to the beginning of the next movie (especially because they can't show Ron's brother's wedding, due to the fact that he's never appeared in the movies.) Seeing that the scene was indeed intended for Half Blood Prince just makes it that much more unlikely. *grumble*
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bookling
10/08/09

@Griff: Bill and Fleur's wedding IS in the movie. I believe they've already filmed it, actually! They'll just have to make up some introduction scene for Bill, which I'm sure will be awkward and weird. As long as he's a hottie with his ponytail and fang earring, I'm good! ;)
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Makidian
10/08/09

@Griff: They made a lot of mistakes with this movie that are going to confuse the piss out of people with the next. Like the wedding, and Bill, and the other Horcruxes, Tom Riddles past. Seriously you almost have to read the sixth book just to make sense of the seventh movie.

I made the mistake of re-reading HBP before the movie came out and my expectations got shattered into a billion pieces.
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Ryanrule
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
WTF is the stick in #17?
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Yamato
10/08/09

@Ryanrule: # 7 will explain #17 for you
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Ryanrule
10/08/09

@Yamato: Yeah saw it there, still blanking.
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psybab
10/08/09

@Ryanrule: It's a...probity probe? I can't remember the name, but it's like a metal detector for magic.
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k4man
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
I think it was a good choice to cut it. It would've slowed the momentum in the film by dragging a bunch of actors just for the fumeral. Rowlings must not have thought it that important if she didn't even bother to detail the ceremony. Instead we get a laundry list of characters jockeying for seats and barely getting along during the service.

Frankly, that tribute with the wands by the school had the emotional wallop that the funeral could've provided. Also, it would've been harder to show the intimacy of the three characters and their decisions not to return if they had been in a crowd of folks arriving and departing.
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Colander
10/08/09

@k4man: I agree that the movie version served it's purpose--we can always revisit the book for that specific version.
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Tenbinzan
10/08/09

@k4man: Eh, I disagree. Perhaps the funeral scene wasn't entirely necessary (though Dumbledore is a big character in the series, and deserves to be mourned by the other characters and by the audience) . . . but if you're going to cut the funeral scene, at least make his death scene nice and epic. Instead we vaguely saw Dumbledore fall over a railing, the next shot was of a close up of his head (no blood or chaos, kids!), Harry fake-crying next to him, and then the dumb wand tribute. . . . Cut to Harry and Hermione joking about snogging Ginny and shit. WTF? It felt kinda like, "That's it? What happened?" throughout it all, haha.
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Willow01
10/08/09

In reply to The Harry Potter Funeral You Never Saw On Screen
I'm still pissed that they didn't at least film the funeral for the DVD.
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Ruthless, If you let me
10/08/09

@Willow01: I wouldn't be surprised if they filmed something now (during concurrent filming of the other movies) and it showed up on the "Extra Special Director's Über Edition available only on Purple-Ray" released as a boxed set of course.

/Cynical
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Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 10/08/09 10:42 AM

Daumier
09/04/09

In reply to Five Short Films That Should Get Big Screen Treatment
Damn, the more I see of Blomkamp's work, the more I like him. "Tempbot" made me all sniffly. Poor Tempbot. I agree though that I'm not sure how if its muteness would translate well in feature length. Wall-E had more to say than Tempbot. At the same time I don't think that the concept would work as well if it spoke either. If Blomkamp were to ever figure something out though, I'd watch it.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/04/09

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Transgressions is basically the movie version of the world that people who watch Glen Beck dream about.
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NerD: Blattella
09/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I thought that it was really effective in creating a great deal of tension in a very short time.

I'd watch it.
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Hamslicer
09/04/09

In reply to Five Short Films That Should Get Big Screen Treatment
I'd like to see full length movies based on music videos.
And not the "hiding in the closet" thing either.
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