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Funniest thing about HP is that Voldemort lost so badly to Harry in his first two years at Hogwarts, that he didn’t even bother to try anything in the third year. He just decided to take a break that year.
bro had his horcrux killed without harry even knowing what it is, on top of cheating death for a 2nd time and killing a giant snake with insta-kill eye contact. if i were him, i'd take a break too
Not that he could have done much if anything since he didn''t have his physical form and his ability to interact with the physical world was severely limited and requiring external help in order to do so. Quirrell was gone and so was the Philosophers Stone, His diary destroyed so by PoA he had already exhausted most of his available options until Wormtail found him the following summer
@@vikkran401 Exactly. To add to that as well, Voldemort didn't even know the diary had been destroyed until after he was reborn and found out Lucius no longer had it. Voldemort says that after the events of the Philosopher's Stone he had pretty much given up until Wormtail found him.
But think of how many shots you could get off in the time it takes someone to say 6 syllables. Even if the first one doesn't kill them it'll probably stop them from forming words
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The end of Prisoner of Azkaban is a glorious film. The ending where Harry thinks his dad is coming but he has to step up himself is simply brilliant. As someone who lost his father at a young age, its a very emotional scene.
i used to dislike azkaban because it meant their world was deterministic, but I've come to believe free will is only an illusion so i like it a lot more now.
At the point where he thinks its his dad he doesn't know Hermione is time traveling. I think I have that timeline right in my head. I love this book so much@@teamrocketsslowpoke2773
The marketing for movie 4 was so good. They hyped the movie itself but kept images of Voldemort completely under wraps. It made the reveal so much better than if we’d seen months of publicity shots.
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Ehhh it makes sense. It really gears into the grand story that completes the franchise and what makes it so great, but the story isn’t flawless and these flaws naturally show as the story gets grander.
The moment when snape tries to protect the kids is really great, he's been the mini villain for so long but he's still a human and he instinctually reacts with being their teacher/guardian.
So, JK Rowling has admitted that she very strongly considered killing off Ron in book 4. My personal theory, and this is a little tinfoil hatty, is that in her original draft, Ron was going to be selected to be the Hogwarts champion, then when Harry's name comes out of the goblet as well, that's why Ron loses his shit at Harry. It's a much stronger motivation, because after all these years, Ron finally has a chance at glory, and Harry has to swoop in and steal the spotlight yet again. Then they slowly make up over the course of the book, and at the climax, it's Harry and Ron who seize the cup together as a symbol of their renewed friendship... Then BAM. Graveyard. Ron is fucking ICED. Voldemort's back. And this catapults us into the darker, more adult section of the series. However, JK probably didn't want to put her readers through that shit, so she took a minor character from book 3 and elevated him to main character status and sacrificed him instead, and that's why Cedric feels so underwritten and out of place, and also why Ron's sudden falling out with Harry feels a little out of left field. Honestly, even as a child, I got over Credric's death really fast. Again, this is a tiny amount of fact combined with a large dose of speculation, but I think it all fits. Edit: for this storyline to be possible, there would have to be no minimum age requirement, or the minimum would have to be 14.
This makea sense. I remember in book three or four or five (?) Ron did show some jealousy. In book 1 didn't he see himself in the mirror as a quidditch player? Something like this would have worked a lot more.
That’s too bad if that’s the case. I think it definitely would have raised the stakes of the story a lot more and then Cedric could have, as Marcus suggested, come in and be even more chummy with Harry and help Harry through a potentially cool character arc and we wouldn’t have the cringeworthy Hermione/Ron romance. What a wasted opportunity.
It wouldn’t make sense for one reason. It doesn’t make sense in terms of all the movies. These movies were mystery movies. You’ll be taking away from that if you do that plot
I had rewatched all of the films recently with my mom and one thing that I really like about Harry in the movies is how he really doesn’t let Malfoy get away with bullying him or his friends. He almost always immediately stands up to him and Malfoy quickly cowers like the little weasel he is. I think it was a good way of showing both Harry’s bravery and how he cares about his friends.
Voldemort didnt give him the Horocrux to give to Ginny, he gave it to Lucius for safekeeping. Lucius, assuming Voldemort was gone, passed it onto Ginny to frame her father for having dark artifacts. Lucius was never aware that it was a horocrux. Also it IS established that the Time Turners can only go so far back, except for black market illegal ones, which are confiscated and destroyed.
its weird that he keeps referencing the books for certain parts so he's clearly read them, but then points out plot holes and calls JK an idiot but those plot holes aren't in the books...?
Ah yes, the illegal black market time turners that are so illegal and so black market that they simply *must* be destroyed and absolutely *cannot* be used to destroy the greatest threat to the wizard world and humanity at large ever. Because they're black market. And illegal.
Yeah, the point was that Lucius was nervous of his house being searched, so he wanted to frame the Weasley’s so they would be searched instead. This backfired because after Mr Weasley learned about the book he put in an anonymous tip about Lucius that got his house searched
Honestly, Goblet of Fire is just as good, if not better than Prisoner of Azkaban. Order of the Phoenix and the Half-Blood Prince are completely worthless, though
@@mattfromwiisports4911 Are you literally just restating the opinions of Cosmonaut. Also, I don't need to know what "is" as good as Prisoner, it's my opinion so don't be annoying
Voldemort never told anyone about his horcruxes he just gave the book to Lucius to take care of it and keep it safe. Lucius just wanted to get rid of it because the ministry was making house raids to find illegal objects in wizard families. So Lucius didn't know what he was doing. One of many mistakes Voldemort made because he never trusted anybody.
To this day I'm upset that Hermione is the one who explained being a mudblood and not Ron. Because Ron isn't stupid in the books and his role in the trio is supposed to be the one talking about wizarding culture
When people started recommending Harry Potter to me, I always heard about Harry being in a relationship with Cho, or Herimone, or even MALFOY. Not once did anyone mention Ginny, and I was genuinely confused when I found out she was to be Harry’s love interest
It’s because of the movies. Harry is very interested in Cho until after the Tri-Wiazard Tournament. He never had any crush for Hermione, the movies just made it look like they had potential for something other than friendship
@@Mialikesthings Honestly, half the students make for a better pairing with Harry than Ginny. I'm somewhat partial to Luna x Harry but even Neville would be an improvement to what we got.
Students fall off their brooms in Quidditch matches all the time, we literally see one dude faceplant on the sand and be fine. Even if the broom takes Harry 200 meters over the ground before letting him fall, Dumbledore can just Arresto Momentum his ass like he did in PoA.
@gaiusjuliuscaesar8450 in the books none of that would of happened without a penalty. Trust me once you read the books you'll realise that the movies aren't that good. (Except for POA and OOFP. I still like these two.)
i didn't care about cedrick that much in the movie either, but his dad's actor crying for real teared me up a bit, that cry felt like he really lost his son, props for the actor
I just love how Harry comes back with dead Cedric and everyone is cheering, the band is playing, and no one really notices for the first few moments that Harry is hunched over a dead body.
Mate, Amos Diggory absolutely STOLE that scene. Incredible performance. He knew he only had a couple scenes and had to make the most of it, but still didn't 'over-act' it, he smashed it perfectly. Really gave that scene the emotion it needed.
I swear, Marcus has this gift where he can explain literally any movie in existence and make it sound like the dumbest fucking thing imaginable. I love it.
I started to realize that when he described Palpatine’s convoluted plot of having Dooku send Jango Fett, who sends Zam, who sends a droid, who sends bugs.
That’s also why it helps to read the books so you can meet the real versions of characters instead of just the movie counterpart. But bc the writer has politics Marcus doesn’t agree with every work said writer does(that isn’t even political might I add) is automatically bad.
@@hunterthompson7605 Marcus doesn't claim the books themselves are bad, he finds J.K. Rowling's views as a TERF troubling, making him uncomfortable revisiting the series. He also takes issue with her reported narcissism and inflated ego.
@@atharvadeshpande4749 yeah, but still not to the point where I, reading as a kid, felt genuinely sad and shocked when he suddenly died, instead of a general, "oh damn, shit just got REAL" feeling. He definitely was more fleshed out in the books, but making him a bit more sympathetic with more dialogue would've made the emotional impact so much better.
As someone who only saw the movies, even as a kid I didn't feel... anything, when Cedric died. I don't think I felt sad in the slightest. To me Viktor, Fleur, and Cedric all felt like disposable background characters who were just there for this one movie to advance the plot and that's about it. The movie really wanted you to despair at the death of Cedric, to a degree that you'd only ever actually feel if it were Ron or Hermione that died. But since it was just this lame character we barely knew, the level of sadness they wanted you to feel was completely unjustified and unearned. Cedric was always disposable.
@@jeremiahvaleska8464 I feel like the only decent one was Aladdin. It was actually inventive the new parts that were added, and the new songs were pretty good.
@@bobbyshewan4229 I love all of the books, but 4 is my favorite (and maybe the best book I’ve ever read?) so in the books that’s not where the cracks start to show. I wish 4 had a better movie...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a really good movie. Not just a good Harry Potter movie, but a good movie. It's well directed, it's shot good, it has amazing visuals and the acting is great. I was suprised when I found out Alfonso Cuaron was the director, but quickly realized how this movie is literally his vibe. So yeah. I like it.
I absolutely love the scene where Snape comes out of the Shrieking Shack and is angry at Harry and about to scold him before seeing the danger and instantly switching into a defensive mode where his only priority is protecting the kids. It really helps to show how layered his character is.
@@anyanon3849 yeah a lot of movies fans don’t understand that Snape literally terrorized and antagonized his students in the books that wasn’t show in the movies
@@atribecalledlen3567 yea the guy literally threatened to kill Neville's frog and the explanation people give to that just makes him even more awful. Usually it is said that he antagonized Neville because he could have been the chosen one and if he was the one then Lily would have stayed alive and that's just a fucking sick thing to do. Especially to a clueless child.
I know Cedric's death scene wasn't that powerful But you gotta admit that when Harry and Cedric return from the maze and the band plays the upbeat music It's super eerie when everyone slowly figures out what's going on whilst such a happy tune is playing
I've always had similar issues with the Mad-eye Moody and Barty Crouch Jr. storyline from Goblet of Fire--even as a child. You put it into words so well.
Yeh it’s so weird. Moody was a great character on his own. The fact that all his development in goblet of fire wasn’t even real because it wasn’t moody is so dumb. Because we now have this character who’s said to be such an amazing wizard but we don’t know him at all, because he’s barely on page after
They could’ve done the twist better if moody had been replaced at the end of the school year. Just randomly he starting acting more strange a little bit before the final contest.
I always wondered why my interest kinda dropped off after the 3rd movie. I always thought John Williams stopped scoring the movies and that broke the magic for me, but sounds like I wasn't crazy for thinking 3 was where it was the best. And I was one of the fans who showed up to the midnight book release parties for 5-7
Dumbledore explained in Half Blood Prince that Voldemort told Malfoy that the diary had the power to reopen the Chamber of Secrets, but not that part of his soul was in the book. It's kind of a stupid thing of Voldemort to assume Malfoy would be more careful with the book, without telling him why it's important.
Remus Lupin's name is double on the nose. You caught the "Lupin=wolf" thing, but he's also named after Remus, brother of Romulus, the mythical founders of Rome... who were raised by wolves.
Sometimes Rowling is rly great at giving her characters thoughtful and meaningful names and then sometimes she goes and names a character fucking Cho Chang like wtf
JK Rowling names shit like this. What's the most obvious correlation to this character in english? Switch it to Latin, BOOOM. I mean sirius black LITERALLY MEANS BLACK DOG
Thats only a movie Snape move instead of a book Snape move. Personally I like movie Snape better because just because a characters more complex doesn't mean I have to like him, so I'll take my honorable Snapes any day, even if I mainly focus on the books
@@channeleditor9335 I imagine that most people who like Snape do so *only* due to his more heroic interpretation in the movies in addition to Alan Rickman's performance that was so good that Snape-lovers transpose him over the far pettier asshole that Snape actually is in the books. It's so pervasive that it even applies to Rowling herself given she admitted while the movies were going on that she had increasing trouble separating Rickman's performance from Snape in the books.
@@athenajaxon2397 Snape doesn't deserve much justice imo. He was a 'racist' nazi who only stopped being a nazi when his crush was threatened (so not even because he realised being 'racist' was wrong lmao), then spent years abusing children as a teacher. Snape is a complex character, which is good, but he's an asshole who got what he deserved. Also I don't really like that scene because him protecting them doesn't square with his constant abuse.
@@caoisekamay1175 yes the true snape doesn't deserve justice, the movies didn't give him justice but created a new snape, which isn't the best when making adaptations. However the past has already happened and movie Snape is more likable, which wasn't supposed to happen and misses the point, but we can enjoy simpler things like Rickman snape, and acknowledge that this isn't the real snape
I think we should treat Rowling like we're doing Lucas. He used to be a visionairre while he was making his early works, but in the sequel trilogy, he was treated like a Master Artist no one could contradict. And we all know the results. The whole book series she made is legitimately good, especially if we treat it like a series of novels about growing up, not an infallible fantasy-science fiction. Not in the least because she was making them literally FOR LIVING. So she has to work with editors and take their advice to improve her books and make them more consented internally. But then she became a "celebrity", an authority figure, and her flaws have been corrected more rarely since then. And we got "Cursed Child" and all Fantastic MF Beasts. Which are incredibly bad in terms of story-telling.
I'm rewatching some of your review series' and I have to say a separate video on Prizoner of Azkaban would be sweet. It's definitely the best of the bunch and would be worthy of the extra attention.
I think that even though Cedric is a mediocre 2D character, his death scene is just fucking tragic. First Cedric is murdered pretty brutally, and when Harry and Cedric get back (with Harry lying on top of Cedric), Cedric is dead and Harry is in a fuck ton of pain, physically and emotionally. We transition from one of the darkest scenes in the series (the graveyard scene) to everyone (including Cedric's dad) clapping and cheering, and the band playing an upbeat triumphant song. The juxtaposition is perfect. And when Hagrid becomes the first to notice something is wrong, we know shit is about to go down. The band quickly stops as they realize someone is hurt, and the adults (Fudge and Dumbledore) quickly realize he is dead. Fudge wants to keep it quiet as a deadly, suspenseful silence permeates the audience as they all try to see what happens. And then Cedric's dad, with no regard to anything, pushes through people to get to his dead son. His screams and cries of anguish are perfect acting. And when he shouts about his son, the audience realizes Cedric is dead; we pan over their reactions as they realize Cedric has been killed. The audience's sorrow then contradicts with the aesthetics of the scene: most of them are wearing colorful clothes and they have Gryffindor and Hufflepuff flags and tattoos for the celebration of the final tournament. Again, amazing visual juxtaposition. And Harry, in one last desperate attempt to save Cedric, tries to cling to his body and not let go. So, even though I didn't care much about Cedric, this scene made me feel terrible for him and for everyone who knew him.
I think the whole point of Cedric’s death was how sudden and shocking it was. He was just a regular kid. There was no buildup to his death at all. It was shocking to see a kid die just like that. It was a great introduction for Voldemort.
@@bobgenghiskhan1397 I think it also serves to demonstrate to the other Hogwarts kids that the plot has effects on people other than the main characters.
I'm kinda conflicted on it. On one hand, I totally agree with what you said. On the other hand, I agree that some of that power is lost by movie Cedric not really being significant enough to REALLY rack up that emotion. That all being said, I managed to develop an attachment to Cedric in the books (he was under-utilized there as well, but they gave enough to me to feel invested in him anyway), and that was enough to make me latch onto movie Cedric regardless, so... I cried at his death scene. I hope that all makes sense! My wording isn't always the best haha ^__^;;
I actually like that Harry and Cedric's relationship was distant and awkward, with Harry being very jealous of Cedric from time to time. Cedric is everything he's not, and you see Harry experience an inferiority complex for the first time. He's the chosen one but he feels very small standing next to Cedric Diggory, who's practically perfect in every way.
I think ur 100% on the money with the kind of relationship they have but the issue with alot of book to screen adaptations is that inner thought is hard to convey on screen. I've never read the books but I'm sure theres alot of inner dialog from Harry talking about his jealousy. Someday a film maker will figure out how to ace that translation. The movie did the best it could I'm sure.
For me they're christmas movies because ABC Family always did a Harry Potter marathon as part of their "25 days of christmas". Now ABC Family is Freeform so I don't even know if they do that anymore.
Talking about the prisoner of azkaban film, the long takes are so good and effective, and i feel like the reason for that is that the director uses long takes as just a film technique instead of a gimmick.
To be fair, Daniel Radcliffe himself has said he's not fond of his earlier performances in the series because he was just breaking into the film industry and his acting is pretty rough.
On the note of the time turner. I always assumed they didn't use it for more intense time travel because no matter what you do you're stuck in the past until you catch up with when yourself spinning it the first time. So if you went 15 years in the past to kill Voldemort you would have to live out those 15 years.
Hi there ! i think the last shot of the 3rd movie is quite clever (25;06). It's a parallele between the pain that the dementors caused to harry, and the joy he finally feels at the end
The first movie and the second one will always have a special place in my heart, and I really liked the fourth movie, but there is no doubt that the Prisoner of Azkaban is the best of the series, due to its development, those sequence shots and that wonderful direction by Alfonso Cuarón while highlighting the wonderful soundtrack by John Williams makes it perfect.
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I remember someone else saying suggesting something with the killing curse and time turners where the curse is the one thing that's immune to other spells or something like that. It makes it so some characters can't come back to life, and it gives the spell itself more weight/makes it feel more dangerous.
Voldemort didn’t NEED Harry’s blood to be brought back. He just needed it to get around the whole “power of love” spell placed over Harry by his mother. After the first movie, Voldemort realised he needed to do this if he wanted to kill him
Even though that screwed him over because as explained by dumbledore in the last book it bound harry to earth so he couldn't die because the power of the sacrifice
@@bellowingsilenceI thought the prequels were relatively planned out, he once said in an interview really early on the reasons why audiences wouldn't like the first and second movies, and he was correct. The twists of the original trilogy were a bit WeirdChamp, we see George Lucas scrambling to ensure that Obi-Wan didn't lie about Anakin Skywalker being killed by Darth Vader, that Vader was supposed to be Luke's father the whole time, Skywalker Incest is Wincest, etc.
Another interesting note about Remus Lupin that I didn't realize until the other day. Remus is the name of one of the brothers that were raised by wolves in roman mythos. In the story there were two brothers Remus and Romulus who were raised by wolves. Romulus kills Remus and founds the city of rome.
1. Chamber Of Secrets - it creates the mysterious, thriller affect in a kids movie but retains the fairytale like charm of the medieval castle , most of the scenes are at night with yellow lights in the castle, gives a cozy feeling. 2. Philosopher's stone - Introduction to the wizarding world, adventurous 3. Goblet Of Fire - Action filled, other schools, thrilling 4. Deathly Hallows 1 - ik some parts are boring like their wilderness quests but rest is so good. 5. Deathly Hallows 2 - Action, revelations, fun to watch 6. Half Blood Prince - The correct amount of grim and jolly , not trying to make it extra sad 7. Order Of the Phoenix - nothing much to say, just ok 8. Prisoner of Azkaban - I truly despise this movie. I know many of the so called film experts and wannabes state this as their fav, for Oscar winning Curon's direction, and brilliant cinematography. Yes I give credit there, but such a setting was not required, at all. It feels so much like the half blood Prince, if Voldemort was gone, there was no present threat of him, still the movie felt so much grim, not a single shot with sunlight, unnecessary cloudy weather all the fuckin time. Even when the dementors where gone. It Destroyed what Chris Columbus had built, A fairytale like land, nostalgic, old and dreamlike, I know a transition was needed but it was too much on the face, it just wasn't required.
chamber of secrets falls under what i have dubbed "second novel in a series syndrome" where the role of the second novel is to expand on the created universe of the series, and create future plot lines while also having to live up to what made the first novel great in the first place while also being a weird time for the author where a series implies escalating danger problems etc etc. my other example of this is sea of monsters, while despite being pretty solid is easily my least favourite of pjo. Normally authors will hit their stride by the 3rd book, (using same examples, azkaban is fondly remembered and titans curse is a strong entry
