Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

[hermionegirl09]

did anybody notice that at the end of the movie when Lucius goes to cast a curse on Harry what he actually says sounds an awful lot like Avada as in Avada Kadavra and then after dobby has blown him off his feet he staggers back to his feet and tells harry that someday he will meet the same sticky end as his parents (i.e. the Avada Kadavra curse which it sounded like he just tried to do)??

i noticed i too

[Luna_Puella]

Yeah, tell me about it. I heard some woman (a complete idiot) laughing when Lucius Malfoy kicked Dobby. I wanted to turn around and swipe her across her ugly face! That is in no way funny.

Ack, the people in this world.

[Paul]

That person's reaction is exactly the reason why I'm still waiting to see the movie - I'll give it another couple of weeks and then go visit the cinema in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday. Hopefully it'll be relatively deserted then. It's horrendous waiting but it'll be worth it for the better viewing experience.

[Sirius Black]

I can't even remember when Lucius said that. I need to go see the movie again.

[star_light]

The only problem I had when I saw the movie was a little baby started crying a ittle bit in the end but it wasn't that bad.

I still think the movie had a few serious problems but I'm ver picky when they turn books into movies. I'm very protective over my books and don't like it when the movies stray even a little bit. You should have heard me after Tuck Everlasting my friends probably hated me that day.

[Shadow]

I remember that part. I just went to see it yesterday. I loved it! But, they really neede to get a new Quidditch plot. I like Quidditch, but the two in the movies are basically the same thing!

[Scellanis]

but thats only cos they miss out the other games due to lack of time so all u see is the important game....anyway next book's important games r different.....

[CloakedShadow]

Going back to the entire Avada Kedavra thing - YES! I noticed that too. My friend and I pointed it out to each other at the same time. While I think Lucius trying to murder Harry was a "meanie-mo" thing to do (considering it wasn't in the book)...it wasn't completely out of canon.


I, personally, adored the movie, and can't wait to see it this weekend for my fourth time to see it since it's been out! I'm trying to see it in theatres more times than I saw LotR: Fellowship of the Ring - and that was 7 times!

[Broccoli]

Wow! 7! No, I think I will go to see CoS some time again and will perhaps by a DVD, but not more than that...

[Deedra Malfoy]

First of all, there is nothing wrong with Lucious Malfoy! He and Snape are the only relatively hot people in the movie. I haven't seen it yet, but commercials are enough to turn my head. By the way, Jason Isaacs is in "Dragonheart" and he loses his pants (they fall down, actually)! Leave it to me to watch any movie period that involves dragons. I haven't seen "Reign of Fire", though I want to.

[Luna_Puella]

Uck! Lucius Malfoy DOES have a lot of things wrong with him as far as I am concerned. Look how he treats the Weasleys, Dobby, Hermione and Harry!

And sorry to Deedra and LadySnape and anyone else who likes them...but he and Sanpe are definitely not the only (actually I don't think they are at all) hot ones on the movie!

Look at Harry and Ron! Look at Draco! Look at...OLIVER WOOD!

*looks warningly and protectively around*

[CloakedShadow]

Look at Harry and Ron! Look at Draco! Look at...OLIVER WOOD!

You sing it sister! AMEN!

[hermionegirl09]

remember the deal,Draco mine, Oliver yours luna!

[TDM]

it was better than the first one.

[Paul]

I'm probably one of the last ones to see the movie but I visited the cinema today and it was absolutely brilliant. My trick of waiting until now and going during the daytime in the middle of the week to avoid the crowds worked perfectly - there were only about 20 people in the theatre and no annoyances at all.

Like the first movie, I thought it remained brilliantly true to the book and any diversions from the book itself were so slight as to be no problem - in fact I think some things did add to the book.

Like some have said already, I'd pictured Dobby slghtly differently when reading the book but by the time I saw the movie I'd gotten used to his movie-look and ended up thinking he was actually quite perfect. After all, the way lucius Malfoy seems to be, I can't see Dobby being a well-fed looking house-elf as Malfoy probably did half-starve him.

The fact that Lucius Malfoy is definately a nasty piece of work comes across so well in the movie - If you doubt how awful he is, remember, he's the one who gave Ginny the diary. If it wasn't for Harry, Ginny would have ended up dead because of this, and in the movie, if it wasn't for Dobby's protection, Harry might have been murdered by Lucius's Avada curse.

I thought the Basilisk scene was totally brilliant and brought the book totally to life. I'd been wondering so much how they'd do that scene and think it was absolutely perfect - yes, some slight differences to the book but (I hope this isn't herecy) I think it was actually better than I'd pictured it from the book.

On the other hand, like Broccoli mentioned, how could they miss out Ginny's poem? Actually I think Ginny should have had a lot more screen-time overall. The way she ran away from Harry when they first met at the Weasley's house <b>was</b> good (and funny) but if you've not read the books, I'm not sure whether in the movie overall you'd have realised how much of a crush she had on Harry throughout.

One thing that surprised me is that moaning Myrtle seemed to fancy Harry though. I didn't quite get that idea from the book but it was an interesting twist.

On the subject of romance, yes, I think the movie did seem to make it kind-of clear that Ron and Hermione may have some feelings for each other, although I may be wrong.

Yikes - those spiders were frightening. I loved the 3D sound too!

And the animals were brilliant - Errol was totaly hilarious and Hedwig and Fawkes were both absolutely beautiful.

I love the way too that Hogwarts is starting to feel like "home" in the movies - and so pleased to know this is still only movie number 2 out of 7 (or maybe even more if rumours are right about them splitting book 4 into two movies due to length!). Chris Columbus is definitely to be applauded as director and he's a hero in being able to bring a true-to-the-books Hogwarts to the screens. It's sad to know he's decided to stop after this movie but I've just read that he's not ruled out returning at some point. The new director of The Prisoner of Azkaban, Alfonso Cuaron has a lot to live up to but hopefully we'll have another great movie next year.

Until then, there's still the DVD to look forward to, and it'll be highly interesting to know it there are any extra scenes on the DVD that aren't in the movie - who knows, we may see Ginny's poem after all (I'm just hoping - don't want to start any rumours yet!)

Overall, if you've not guessed by now, I was totally bowled over by the movie. Absolutely brilliant!