The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It's not always clear why...

The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It's not always clear why. But I think it is clear that we can expect great things from you. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great

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based film on the dank book series

Best line delivery of all 8 movies

I know magic fucks with electricity, but what if a wizard's magical foci was a mechanical wind-up wristwatch? Seems like it would be hard to keep using a wand on the DL.

That's what you get when hiring John Hurt

Quenten posters in bound.

It was a metaphor for Hitler

Too bad the wand chose to be in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the seriesüf only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but itüfs certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books are g-g-good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King

Honestly it's the variations of the first line that kills me

>Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art
>Spielberg
>work of art
why tip your hand like this?

Same it's what I click on Potter threads for

Based John Hurt, was a total downhill spiral from here onwards.

The Original Dumbledore was the only other saving grace outside of the >however meme.

Its all the physical stuff in the later movies that had me worried about Richard Harris as dumbledore. I mean could you really see Richard Harris have doing this though? He looked pretty frail in the 1st I just cant see it? Maybe in his younger days he could have.
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I get your point but after click skipping through the vid it seemed like very shot dumbledore was a long shot where they theoretically could have used a body double or even side/back shots, but again this is all on the thesis that Harris had lived another 6 years.

>Too bad the wand chose to be in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises

I wish they hired him as a professor

>that opening
I chuckled

Atlas Shrugged being in top-tier always kills me (alongside F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Steinbeck, and Orwell, who were all known socialists, as well as Hemingway who was arguably socialist).

Holy shit, that was John fucking Hurt?

A wind-up wristwatch isn't electrical dog

>Voldemort did nothing wrong. Just like Hitler, Harry.

jesus christ how did they get away with this?

What did the other redditors from /r/Sup Forums think when you meme'd this?

>You're a wizard, Harry.
> I-I'm a what?
>A wizard. And not just any wizard, the Grandwizard in fact of the Ku-Klux-Klan. Once you train up a little, you'll be slaughtering kikes and niggers by the ovenload.

I had no idea they consulted with Raimi when adapting the book to the movie, not sure it was the correct choice to be honest.

Those parts was truly KINO

>I WANDered when I'd be seeing you, Mr. Potter

Seriously?

>DRY UP DURSLEY, YOU GREAT COON!
>*bang*

Holy shit, Rowling.

Why does OG Dumbledore get so much praise on here? He felt like he was half dead in both movies. At least Gambon gave him some energy and some personality beyond "I'm an old frail wizard".

>Too bad the wand chose to be in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.
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Well fucciboy?

WELL GIVE IT A WAVE

>I remember when your parents were in here getting their first WANDS

Seriously?

>For God's sake, pull yourself together man. You're going into the ghetto after all. Got to have your wits about ya...
>The ghetto? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are- niggers.
>Oh, there's more than niggers in those crackhouses, lad. You can be sure of that. Seig Heil.

Yeah and turned him into a raving fucking loon with a gay side, I read the books at school and when I saw the first film I felt Harris nailed it, especially the opening scene at the start, and the frailty adds to the greatness, like how Gandalf was not just a conjurer of cheap tricks, yet looked old as fuck, or how darth Vader was menacing because he stomped around with certainty, but slowly, would Vader have been as iconic if he was a backflipping ninja? No, Gambon is a good actor, but he sucks as Dumbledore.

Someone post the 'did you put your name in the cup' scene of him, it's cringworthy, and again, isn't Dumbledore

>its an autists argue over what books are placed in which tier in the harry potter copypasta episode

>After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes. But great.

Was it because he was kinda immortal?

Always wondered why they deleted the scenes where Ollivander scraps democracy and rules Britain with an iron fist.

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I'm not really a fan of the Harry Potter books or the films, but Gambon was one of the highlights of the series for me. I get that book readers might not like him because he's far from the Dumbledore they imagined, but I've a really hard time seeing Harris do it in a more interesting way.

That scene was an unnecessary deviation from the source but Dumbledore is meant to be sprightly, not almost dead.

Except nobody is doing that, you massive faggot.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? ATLAS FUCKING STRUGGLED?

>Some say 6 million died. Codswallop, in my opinion.

>We must secure the existence of our people and a future for magical children.

Did JKR predict the issues we face today? Is she an unrecognised jenius?

see

what?

>tfw to smart to spell genius correctly

>I'm half and half. Me dad's a nigger; Mam's husband's a cuck. Bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out.

>turned him into a fucking loon with a gay side

Are you just referring to his freakouts during Goblet of Fire? I chalk that up to weird direction. He's fine the other 90 percent of the time he's on screen. The difference is that Gambon could pull of "kindly, soft spoken old man" just as well as he could his intense side.

Why is John Hurt in literally everything ever made? He played TWO roles in just this series alone.

Is Dumbledore gay?

Lel

which changes from the book did you hate most?

>all death enters can fly now where in the book voldemort flying was a unique feat until snape did it too which was supposed to be a huge deal
>there was a scene where ron and malfoy's dads have a fucking fist fight in a bookstore in front of all the kids and they didn't include it
>killed dobby off for no reason whereas in the book he champions hermiones SPEW campaign by getting luna pregnant
>they almost never wear their hats, cloaks and robes around school after the second movie, they literally run around in muggle clothes
>so much cool shit happened in the maze in book 4, like the sphinx's riddle and the blast-ended skrewts, but in the movie it was just a shit foggy hedge maze

The fourth movie really turned me off the movie series.

>that dragon chase scene instead of things that were actually in the book

To this very day I'm still butthurt.

i don't care what anyone says, order of the phoenix is better than 1, 2, 4 and 8

and the part in the maze where harry steps into the fog and the world turns upside down

i don't know why i liked that bit so much in the books

but i think i remember they implied snape did some kind of bat animagus thing though, didn't they say that he had wings and mcgonagall described him as a bat or something?

Wheres clifford the big red dog

there was a huge number of cool things in book 5 when they went to the ministry

i'm fairly sure that they either left a lot of it out in the movie, or did a terrible job with adapting that segment because i barely remember any of it

I don't even know what they were thinking there lad

>lets have them fly out of bounds
>no really lets let the fucking hungarian horntail break it's bond and fly around and nobody got fired for it's safety measures and the crowd didn't run away and the staff didn't go holy shit the fucking dragon is loose stop it
>let's do that for a scene where it crawls on the roof of hogwarts like a koala bear

snape's teaching in HBP. they even mention how snape will take over DATDA in the film, and then never show any scenes with him. which means no comparisons from nhermione about how harry teaching DA last year was like snape teaching DATDA, which means that the foreshadowing of both being half blood wasn't made.
the girl at beginning of HBP for no reason
the gloomy filter in 6 and 7 making it almost unviewable at times

STOP

I remember that part too, if I recall it mentioned harry's fear of falling forver into the sky, terrifying

no JK just said he was 'like a bat' as he flew, he wasn't an animagus. not to quote the pasta but JK really does love similies

>not including peeves
>not casting rik mayall as peeves
>letting rik mayall die before remaking harry potter to include him as peeves

no he didn't? he played ollivander in philosopher's stone and deathly hallows?

Number 4 is the biggest crime. The movies felt so uncomfy because of it.

It just never stops being funny. Possibly the greatest pasta, ever.

Literally who?

Agreed

What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television... I WANT EVERYONE TO REMEMBER, WHY THEY NEED US!

That part was really memorable for me as well. As a kid I used to imagine gravity reversing suddenly and falling into the sky to my death if I couldn't grab onto something

I AM NOT AN ELEPHANT! I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I AM A HUMAN BEING! I AM A MAN!

>tfw you're probably one of the few people in America that knows Rik Mayall exists
I know him from Jesus-kino.

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Yates did a decent job adapting it (except cutting out the hospital visit with Lockhart and Neville's parents) but it was a pretty terrible book overall. This was the point where JK Rowling started to take her silly fantasy books too seriously. It's 800 pages long and almost nothing happens. The first four books have a plot that is introduced in the beginning (and given in the title) and developed throughout the story before reaching a logical conclusion. Order of the Phoenix was not about the order of the phoenix, nor was it about the prophecy in the end, nor was it about harry's visions, or the ministry or the secret club. It was a mess of random unconnected plot threads and boring teenage drama.

They were suppose to split it into 2 movies, but thought it wouldn't work.

Then Twilight ect started doing it and now they'll do it with a 150 page book if that means they can make more money.

I liked that they brought it back in 4 but you're right, after that it just doesn't feel like the same series especially after Voldemort gets revived.
The Graveyard scene was godly though.

I've had a hard time imagining what Peeves would look or sound like, but this guy is perfect. This is what the Harry Potter movies were missing.

>Too bad the wand chose to be in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises

Good/10

He means the 4th point, that they wear muggle clothes instead of robes, not the 4th movie

>Too bad the wand chose to be in one of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

I'm actually convinced this thread was made to make this post

That fucking opening. Well done, user.

My enjoyment of the Umbridge subplot carried me through OotP.

And I actually just found out Rik Mayall was cast as Peeves and cut out of the movie. What a fucking mistake. He would have been perfect comedic relief for the later movies where everything was boring and any humor was forced and unfunny.

Nearly everyone past the second movie wearing muggle clothes was perhaps one of the most regrettable movie decisions.
Wizards are supposed to wear robes ALL THE FUCKING TIME in the book. When they visit the Quidditch World Cup there's some amazing scenes with wizards trying to pull off muggle clothes but they have no idea how so they just grab whatever seems comfortable. It would have been great to see some of these wizard muggle fashion mistakes in the movies.
Pic related, the Weasleys are supposed to be one of the most wizardey families around. They know nothing about muggles and are always around other wizards. Yet they look like this.
Actually, the only wizards who are consistently in robes are the teachers and the "evil" wizard families, like the Malfoys and the Blacks.
They don't even all have to be black robes either. Like, sure, give Luna bright purple wizard robes. But don't give her purple muggle clothes, god damn it.

>the wand that chooses you is SUPER FUCKING IMPORTANT
>no wait you can just defeat another wizard and take his wand and it's yours no matter what

I always hated how they just seemed to be some regular peasant family with some quirks here and there

Kys

John Hurt was one of the people that was considered to play the role of Dumbledore. I can't remember why he didn't.

>they almost never wear their hats, cloaks and robes around school after the second movie, they literally run around in muggle clothes

Harris wasn't that old and frail. He died of food poisoning not old age

God damn Voldemort was good in the movies. It was actually unsettling seeing him in normal clothes.

Just trying to imagine this now
>the day your wife tells you she's pregnant, best day ever
>11 years later "um our kid has magical powers also so do i but i never told you."
>he can't go to a local school instead he's going miles away to a school where kids sometimes die or get mind-wiped also 1/4 of the school will hate him for having your inferior non-magic genes

How would you deal with this?

Bullets are faster than magic blasts and wizards are retarded, I think I have a chance