Harry Potter and the Great Sequels
Movies
Posted by: sue
August 22, 2009, 05:26 PM
Empire Magazine has a new feature online where they list the "50 Greatest Ever Movie Sequels" including two of the Harry Potter films. Coming in at number 15 was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with the magazine: "David Yates took over the directing reins for this fifth film, based on
the longest - and, some would say, dullest - book in the series, and
knocked it out of the park. Excising large swathes of not much, he cut
it down to one of the leanest films and delivered a barnstorming last
act in the Ministry of Magic, with the sort of magical duels we'd been
waiting four-and-a-half films to see."
The list also include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which is ranked at number 24. Of the the third Harry Potter film, the magazine has the following:
"Alfonso Cuaron took over from original director Christopher Columbus,
and with the difficult task of world-building out of the way was able
to take the story and run with it, making Potter feel like a real
adventure story for the first time, and one taking place in somewhere
bordering on the real world.
How does it stack up to the original?
It's better than the previous two, and remains many people's favourite
entry in the series. Potter's relationship with godfather Sirius Black
(Gary Oldman) is beautifully played out, and one of the great "Hell
yeah!"s comes when Hermione punches Draco Malfoy. It's also the first
of the films to use a rather wonderful washed-out colour scheme, and to
revel in its darkness.
Thanks Elliot!
Hmmm. I liked the Order of the Phoenix movie (just like I liked them all), but I can’t say it was my favorite. The dullest book however? For me, the book was one of my favorite in the series. Long, but exciting and I loved the darkness of it all and the way Harry was finally allowed to be angry and combative.
4452 Points
I was about to check that email!!! I get newsletters from them :)
I personally don’t agree with OotP being the dullest but its just my opinion :)
Hell Yeah! when Hermione punched Malfoy! That was the highlight of the movie :P
But YAY!! Harry Potter is on there!!! Well of course it would be!!! But still!!! :):)
1457 Points
All of them should be on the list! well, except Sorceror’s Stone, lol…GoF is my favorite…and OotP was a great book…whatever, its all opinion :) and good to see that they recognize the quality of the films!
153 Points
I’m boycotting the HP movies for now. I’m really irritated with the whole cutting-canon-out and making-their-own-stuff-up. It’s actually pretty much just HBP that caused this. I loved the movie as a movie, but I hated it as a HP movie. If I hadn’t ever read the Harry Potter series, I probably would have thought it was brilliant. But (fortunately/unfortunately) I have read the books, so… =/
(This Is My Opinion. If You Don’t Like It, Forget About It; Don’t Complain To Me, Please. Thank You…)
-DrishtiChoudhury
I am pleased that they included both of these spectacular films on their list. Each of them enhanced and improved this franchise wonderfully.