I went to Harry Potter 2, which was great, much better than 1
I agree 2 was better than 1, without in any way decrying 1 which I thoroughly enjoyed. The comment from a critic over here left me ...well... He said the trouble with the film was that it stuck too closely to the book. Chris Columbus hadn't brought any fresh creativity to it!
Okay. I can see that for well established books, Shakespeare's plays, Pride and Prejudice and so on, there is scope after some years to explore the effects of varying the way you play the characters to give a different perspective on what is going on between those characters and that can be fascinating. But Harry Potter? Surely not..or not yet at least!
Really looking forward to The Two Towers, although without wishing to carp I do have a problem with the orcs. In the books they come over as having leathery hides and horny hands; in the films they seem like something out of Alien - sort of oily and dripping. For some reason that jars on me, as if the orcs are a modern anachronism.
