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July 19, 2025, 01:50:42 AM
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While I still really enjoyed this movie, I did wonder about some of the changes - I still don't think there was a need to move the Whomping Willow or Hagrid's house. I also think that a few explanations were left out that should have been included. I know someone who hadn't read the book before seeing the movie and they were completely confused on some things. It wouldn't have taken that long to share the few little bits. It is a decent adaptation overall. I like the new characters and creatures that turn up. The story continues to get a little darker, just like with the books. There is a little more violence, though nothing too extreme. There are a lot of magical elements to the movie. I love how often the moving portraits are seen, even just in the backgrounds. I was disappointed that Nealy Headless Nick was missing. This was the first of the books that didn't deal with something closely tied to Voldemort....and he doesn't turn up in any way. The dementors are wonderfully creepy. The movie, like the first two, looks wonderful on Blu-ray. I still don't really like the look of the werewolf in wolf form, but that is a minor issue for me.
The main extra in this Ultimate Edition is focused on how the different creatures have been made. Creatures from all the movies through the sixth one are featured. The different models used are seen, including a huge one of one of the dragons from the fourth movie. The special effects used to create other creatures, like Buckbeak, are discussed. The featurette is wonderfully entertaining and interesting. Again there are interviews with cast and crew, including Daniel, Emma, and Rupert.
I did post a review on Epinions after I saw the movie in the theater originally.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(From Marie's Random Movie Viewing on August 8th, 2011)
Member's Reviews
Wanted, a review by Tom
Title: Wanted
Year: 2008
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Rating: 18
Length: 110 Min.
Video: Widescreen 2.35
Audio: Japanese: DTS 5.1, English: DTS HD Master Audio, French: DTS 5.1, Italian: DTS 5.1, German: DTS 5.1, Spanish: DTS 5.1
Subtitles: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Stars:
James McAvoy
Morgan Freeman
Angelina Jolie
Terence Stamp
Thomas Kretschmann
Plot:
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac, with a boss who humiliates him and a cheating girlfriend. His life is going nowhere.
Wes discovers that his estranged father has been brutally murdered and finds himself thrust into a secret society of assassins, called The Fraternity. During his training, at the hands of a skilled mentor named Fox (Angelina Jolie), this once office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity.
However, with his first assignment, Wes finds out that the only thing more difficult than ending the lives of others, is summoning the courage to take control of his own.
Extras:
BD Live
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Motion Comics
Scene Access
U-Control
My Thoughts:
I had seen this movie in the cinema and couldn't wait to watch it again. I think it is one of the only decent attempts of making a Matrix like movie since the first Matrix came out (way better than the two Matrix sequels).When the Blu-ray arrived, I was surprised, that it had a rating of 18 (both British and German, both ratings are printed on the disc). The cinema I had visited plays movies in their original language and usually do not display the rating. I didn't remember that this movie would warrant such a high age restriction, but seeing it again now, I can understand why. There is a lot of bloody violence in it (but nothing which would endanger an US R-Rating
).I enjoyed this movie just as much as the first time around. Even though the action reminds a little of Matrix, this movie has an interesing story different from Matrix.
But that Angelina Jolie should eat something. I don't remember her seeing as such a stick-figure in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", the last movie I have seen her in.
Rating:
(From Tom's Random Reviews on January 24th, 2009)
Member's TV Reviews
Tom's TV Finales marathon, a review by Tom
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Plot:
The Western Front 1917: There's disorder in the ranks when that numb-headed ninny, Captain Blackadder, stumbles onto the battlefields of WWI and discovers that people are trying to kill him. The British may be able to defeat the Germans, but it's unlikely they'll ever survive a comic assault by Blackadder.
Black Adder
Series 4.06 Goodbyeee
Writer: Richard Curtis (Writer), Ben Elton (Writer)
Director: R Boden
Cast: Rowan Atkinson (Captain Edmund Blackadder), Tony Robinson (Private S Baldrick), Stephen Fry (Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett), Hugh Laurie (Lt. Hon. George Colthurst St. Barleigh), Tim McInnerny (Captain Kevin Darling), Geoffrey Palmer (Field Marshal Haig)
The fourth and last series of Blackadder is also good. Although I like the second and third better. But this series has a very well done ending. Probably the best of all series.
Rating:
(From Tom's TV Finales marathon on February 17th, 2013)