Emma was incredible in the first two movies. I mean, there were times her inexperience as an actor showed through but she really captured Hermione. But around the time of the third film, she turned into girl power Hermione. This may have something to do with Cuaron, or Kloves, but since he wrote Hermione well in 1 and 2 (or, well for his limited talent) I think it must have been either Cuaron or Emma herself. Of course, her eyebrow acting is terrible, and I wish someone would tell her to stop doing that.

Happy birthday, Alfonson!

To Iz and hufflepuff lady: you guys are so picky, i mean come on. I heard the reason POA didn’t make money was because COS was too long and non-reader decided not to watch the new one in theaters. Could you serious tell me that COS is better than POA just because it made more money? i think not.so mr. cuaron add the shurken heads,that didn’t ruin the movie what so ever. even j.k rowling(in an interview) wished she thought of them and put it in her books. POA is the only HP movie that i was emotionally involved. Watching it over and over again never gets boring like the other HP series. J.K.Rowling said it’s her personal best, she haven’t said that with the other movies. So, give it a rest with the pickiness and see that the movie as a whole is just brilliant.

It’s nice it’s his birthday and all but he still butchered Prisoner --yepers he brought his “vision” and yepers it was all artsy and cool but at the expense of the story. I know people who love him don’t want to hear it but…shrunken heads that channel JarJar Binks, Hitler Flitwick, bird killing tree, giant hairless werewolf, Igor Tom, and on and on and on. Huge hunks of Prisoner Of Azkaban were just plain bad! I can’t imagine how his “vision” would distort Deathly Hallows. There is so very much for him to misunderstand, misinterpret and get wrong.

Honest, I think he and Michael Gambon read the books together…...

Ah, the perennial Cuaron/PoA debate.

You’re all wrong. :P

Oh, and happy birthday, Alfonso! Thank you for Children of Men.

Did anyone notice that IMDB has Cuaron listed as the Director of Deathly Hallows?

Happy birthday to the best thing that’s happened to the HP films so far!

“Ah, the peremnnial Cuaron/PoA debate.

You’re all Wrong. :P”

Well sticking your tongue out sure convinced me! My mind is changed!

Yepers now I just love those toads in the choir and the shrunken head added such DEPTH and well just don’t get me started on how terribly artistic it was to shave the werewolf. And the symbolism of a tiny Hitler figure surely foreshadowed the Nazi-esq behavior of the Death Eaters while the whopping willow’s attack on birds is a statement on how humanity has decimated the environment causing it to turn on it’s very self. Oh the genius of the man! How could I have been so blind??

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Happy Birthday, Alfonso! Hope to see you back on the HP scene, one way or another.

yea Alfonso was the best director by waaay far. The other directors don’t even compare to him!! He actually got Emma to seem kinda cool. Prisoner of Azkaban was truely the best film out of the lot, no question about it! I love the way Alfonso made Prisoner of Azkaban seem dark but funny at the same time, thats a really hard thing to do. His idea of Remus Lupin being portrayed as a gay junkie was just genious because thats how Lupin comes off in the books. The only thing i didn’t like about POA was the way Sirius was portrayed, he didn’t seem like the Sirius from the book at all but i think that was more to do with Gary Oldman. I really really hope Alfonso does Deathly Hallows if he doesn’t it’ll probably suck.

and yes, Emma Watson is a terrible actress and does move her eyebrows too mch lol. she was crap in SS COS and she got worse in GOF and OOTP. The only film she was bareble in was POA. Daniel radcliffe is awful at acting too but not as bad as Emma, and he has shown a little improvement but after all these years i still don’t beleive he’s Harry. In the last 3 books, Harry is kind of well….emo for lack of a better word. He’s got messy hair, has a bitter dark sarcastic sense of humour. It starts in book 5 obviously because of Cedrics death and gets worse and worse with every death. My point is that Dan Radcliffe does not portray this dark bitter part of Harry AT ALL! He’s way too posh to play Harry Potter i think, that posh accent drives me mad! He should sound normal like the twins. In DH harry is basically a full blown EMO/GOTH, he’s aggressive, bitter and dark while he’s on the run and i don’t think that Daniel Radcliffe can do this at all. Please reply i want your opinions people!

Kerrie

I thought I was the resident site curmudgeon but you have well and truly outdone me.

I do not agree that Emma is a terribel actress. I simply observe that she seems to have not progressed since Pr of Az and, perhaps due to school work, has not been able to devote the time to her craft as she could have.

As for Daniel Radcliffe- I could not disagree more. I think he has shown outstanding improvement especially over the past two films. Yes -he must now take a very dark turn towards the end of film 6 into seven -and I for one, read the character indeed like you, as being near demented by determination to destroy Voldemort.

But its up to the screenwriters, the director and the producers. If they do not give him the material -there is only so far he can go.

But I will end with a moan; IF ONLY WARNERS BELIEVED IN THE SOUCE PRODUCT AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF ITS READERS AS MUCH AS PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE OBVIOUSLY DID FOR THE LORD OF THE RINGS; -THE POTTER FILMS AND DVDS WOULD HAVE BEEN SO, SO MUCH BETTER.

Happy Birthday to the Director of MY PERSONAL favorite movie of the series so far. With so many to choose from it is not unusual to have so many differences of opinion about who or which is better. However, one thing that stands out to me is that the books and the movies have always been two different beasts. The movies are never going to follow exactly where the books have gone, and that they have stayed this true to the story for so many is a suprise to me. The Lord of the Rings series was super, and probably the truest of most books made movie, however there are SO many that are so much worse. PoA was beautiful, and humorous and the last movie not to be so stinking DARK…I realize that the books turn DARK from then on, but let us have our light where we may. If he added a little bit of his vision to it, then who is to say that the billions of us who did love PoA didn’t have that same vision! I can deal with the whomping willow having a nasty personality when it comes to birds a lot more that the absense of DOBBY where he should be in each sucessive movie!

Happy birthday. This man should direct DH, absolutely! PoA was my favorite HP movie, tied with OOTP, and I still watch PoA frequently. I hope that if he does direct DH, he will make sure the naked Harry scenes are put in, and Molly Weasley’s infamous battle cry! :D CUARON FOR DH!!!!

CUARON FOR DH!!!!! CUARON FOR DH!!!!!

Meek: Agreed