Anyone else think this was actually pretty bad casting?
the whole cast was off, but the adults were all great actors so I didn't care. They would never have been 100% perfect unless they made it animated.
I could never imagine Umbridge as anything but an actual pig in a dress.
>>64915006
>tfw the inevitable NIN movie lost the only actor who could've done it justice
>>64915212
NINE INCH NAILS WERE FUCKING TRASH
GO BACK TO /mu/ OR /b/
>>64915236
>WERE
u wot m8?
>>64915236
did your daddy listen to NIN?
>>64915006
rickman was a good snape, not book snape but very good
michael gambon was shit
Hair not greasy enough. Actually attractive. I feel that Rickman has supplanted actual Snape in the minds of most readers.
>>64915079
>woman who's constantly likened to a toad
>looking like a pig
U wot m8.
First Dumbledore was GOAT.
>>64915383
Same. I reread the books a few months back and the illustrations for him are so fucking different. He has a bald head and a mustache/beard. It was weird because I can't picture him that way anymore
No.
>>64915006
ONCE I START I CANNOT STOP MYSLEF
>>64915006
The entire Harry Potter movies were fucking retarded. Just awful.
>>64916112
Can someone explain to me why the casting was bad for these movies? I always thought it was good.
>>64915006
At the end of HPB Harry calls Snape a coward and Snape absolutely loses his shit. Would have liked to see Rickman do that but he was just too calm for me. Ruined what should have been a great moment.
Dumbledore from 3 on was terrible. He was supposed to be calm and wise like a Gandalf/Yoda hybrid. Not shove Harry against a wall and scream at him about putting his name in the goblet.
McGonagall was on point.
Trelawney was extremely over acted and had a stupid costume. Her voice during the prophecy was dumb as hell too.
Umbridge was okay. Didn't make me hate her enough.
Voldemort was decent. Except for that scene with him in a suit. Voldemort would never soil himself with muggle clothes. He just never seemed evil enough.
Sirius was shit. Sirius should have seemed more reckless and dangerous. He was as levelheaded as lupin in the movies.
Lupin was good.
Hermione was too attractive. After the first movie she stopped being the bossy know it all from the books, which was disappointing.
Ginny wasn't attractive enough. She's a 10/10 now though if that counts.
Harry's hair was too neat, his eyes were blue not green, and he was a manlet but that's out of radcliffes hands so it's not his fault. Still they make Cruise look tall in movies so they could've done the same thing here.
Ron was pretty good, but ruperts face is so fucking punchable.
Malfoys actor seemed to want to make himself look good instead of being the sniveling shit that Malfoy was. Kind of a recurring theme. Actors in the franchise wanted to look good in a famous role rather than be true to the characters.
Twins weren't funny at all.
Bellatrix was good. HBC is basically Bellatrix in real life though.
Weasley parents were perfect.
Overall really disappointing casting. The whole movie series sucked upon reflection.
Also, Harry's and Voldemorts wands only connected that one time in the graveyard because their cores were feathers from the same Phoenix.
>>64915006
Since I saw sorcerer's stone first as a movie before reading any of the books I can't really imagine a Snape who isn't Oldman.Adam Driver did a pretty good impression of him in TFA tho
>>64916155
Magnolia and Amadeus my arse! GTFO!
>>64916334
Malfoy desperately trying to make himself look good in every situation is actually very close to the book Malfoy.
>>64916515
I'm a huge fan of the books and he's right. The movies were shit. It's like the Star Wars prequel effect. Fans went to go see them because they love the franchise and something is better than nothing, but that doesn't make them good. They're poorly casted (even though they castes great actors they weren't right for their roles), everyone was out of character and they just weren't well made.
>>64916601
That's pretty true. I'm talking more about the actor though. He seemed to want to come off as talented and attractive (which is VERY Malfoy) but he never really displayed Malfoy's brash arrogance masking self-doubt, or his mounting inner conflict. Maybe the actor wasn't talented enough to pull it off.
>>64915006
I thought it was weird that Umbridge was so hot in the movies, while in the books she looked like a toad.
>>64916334
The HP movies had some of the WORST actor direction I've ever seen. Specially David Yates, that guy is a fucking amateur.
>>64918661
So hot in the movies??
dude, what a bad taste
>>64916642
The past tense of cast is cast not casted you mongoloid
>>64916334
>Twins weren't funny at all.
I feel like the only criteria they were looking for was "have to be identical twins" and "have to look related to rupert grint"
>implying Lucius Malfoy was not the only one that got cast according to what the fucking book said
>implying
Also, Rickman was far too old for Snape. Younger Rickman would've been great, but late 50s-early 60s Rickman stood out like a sore thumb. Moreover, to those complaining that Snape was "too pretty" in the movies, remember the books are written from Harry's POV and his description might have something to do with Harry's own distaste towards Snape.
The casting in his last harry potter film was pretty awesome, so fuck you.
>>64915006
It's good enough, book snape was quite different and movie snape was only good at being silently passive aggressive
Though he is way too fucking old, in the books he is the same age as sirius black
>>64918731
Agree with some of it but I think the main point is what >>64918731 said about the shitty actor direction. It wasn't necessarily on the actors but the director, so much so that Sirius looks a thousand times better in The Prisoner of Azkaban which is undoubtedly the best film in terms of directing and film making
>>64916334
Richard Harris dying was one of the worst things to happen to the films.
ARRY DEID JU PUUT YER NAME IN DA GOBLET OF FIERE
>>64916334
>McGonagall was on point.
Rowling herself said that she was thinking of Maggie when she was writing McGonagall, so of course Maggie would be on fucking point.
>>64915006
He was too old.
>>64919470
Agreed. Cuaron was the only good director they ever had.
>>64915006
at least state why, dammit. shit thread
>>64921727
Too old, too refined, not slimy/dickish enough.
He was more like if Snape had matured a bit and cleaned up.
>dumbledore is supposed to be calm
>movie dumbledore is angry
>snape is supposed to be angry
>movie snape never raises his voice or changes expressions
why is this allowed
>>64921772
>not slimy/dickish enough.
I get that but in the end it might have been too hard for the audience to like him in the end if he was any more dickish than he already was
It was PERFECT casting except for him being 20 years too old.
>>64921843
You weren't really meant to like him at the end. He was always a snivelling creep with a grudge against the world. His redemption doesn't undo a lifetime of being a prick.
>>64921963
>You weren't really meant to like him at the end. His redemption doesn't undo a lifetime of being a prick.
see I think thats where they screenwriter must have thought otherwise and imo that was a fair decision.
The casting is perfect. The only thing is that he was older that Snape should have been (which doesn't damage the story tbqh) and that Rick was an attractive man even characterized.
Oh, man, what a bummer his death :/
>>64915990
I don't know what illustration is that, but he was never bald in the books, he had very greasy curtain hair iirc.
>>64922042
I'll never forgive him for his remark on Hermione's teeth.
>>64922042
>>You weren't really meant to like him at the end. His redemption doesn't undo a lifetime of being a prick.
And yet Harry himself liked him enough in the end to cringely name one of his sons after him.
Btw, Lily James biggest off-page Mary Sue of all time? She's basically the HP lore's jesus christ.
>>64921495
Why didn't they keep Cuaron for the other films?
>>64922413
She really should have left the post-hogwarts stuff out of it. Left it untold.
>>64916334
>Harry's hair was too neat, his eyes were blue not green, and he was a manlet but that's out of radcliffes hands so it's not his fault. Still they make Cruise look tall in movies so they could've done the same thing here.
Harry's not supposed to be tall though. He's supposed to be small and skinny because he grew up in a goddamn closet.
>>64922583
What was the point of that. If you couldn't get the original actor get another one who looks bit like him or at least has some characteristics of the original. Also if you do it for the color shouldn't white men still be the bad guys? So by the liberal playbook they should have changed Ron
>>64915990
That's Slughorn
>>64916775
Are you high?
>The movie wasnt adapted perfecty from the books.
Get over faggots, most book adaptations are total shit. The fact that these are passable is a testiment to the production team.
>>64915428
sorry, toad then
its been like a decade since i read that shit
>>64923040
>He's supposed to be small and skinny because he grew up in a goddamn closet.
What does that have to do with his genetics?
>>64922583
It's a different character, this still rustles me
>>64923874
and different =/= better, get over it, faggot.
>>64916334
These sound like problems with the directing rather than the casting
>tfw we never got a good film-accurate video game
We had film-based games of the later films, but OOTP was Extended Sidequest: The Game, HBP was Minigames: The Game and Deathly Hallows were both shitty cover shooters.
I would have liked to the see the series done in the style of Bully, where the Minigames from Half Blood Prince are just that; minigames, not the whole game. Meanwhile, the story is tokd through actual missions with real objectives, and not just one movie, all 8 of them, includingscenes from the books adapted into movie-style via the game.
The GBC games were GOAT. Couldn't tell you how many times I've played through Sorcerer's Stone.
>>64924488
PS1 Philosopher's Stone was GOAT
Flippendo best spell
>>64924488
>anti art dogshit
Kill yourself you IQlet paedo
>>64924534
>>64924567
The earlirr games were great when they weren't trying to match the films. I'm not saying they shouldn't have been made the way they were. I'm just saying I'd like a game that let me luve in the movies in addition to the book-based ones of old.
>>64915236
Chill out Fred
>>64924488
>Deathly Hallows were both shitty cover shooters.
The correct term is Gears of Potter.
>>64924488
I played the shit out of the gameboy one too. I still have a new game+ save where I'm stuck on the curse part because I couldn't remember how to fix it.
Anyway if I were a billionaire I would make a trilogy of hogwarts RPG's where game 1 is year 1-3, game 2 is year 4-5 and game 3 is year 6-7. It would be set after Harry fucks off but before his children arrive.
>>64916476
>sorcerer's stone
>>64915332
>michael gambon was shit
Yeah. Even if we hadn't have had the literal perfection of Richard Harris's performance first, I still wouldn't have warmed up to Gambon.
No one posted the comic comparing the book characters and the tv characters?
The one for Snape is:
>TV Snape
Alan Rickman
>Book Snape
Alan Rickman
>>64924080
genetics is like 40% of height
if you are are malnourished abused kid you probably won't be tall
>>64916334
>Except for that scene with him in a suit. Voldemort would never soil himself with muggle clothes.
That was a dream.
>>64924488
First one and second one were amazing.
Third a stepdown and I gave up. Tried the Deathly Hallows. It truly is just a shooter and I returned it immediately.
>>64915006
If you have any reading comprehension skills at all you would know he is easily the best casting in the entire series
>>64926411
>angst angst angst
>>64926411
>ten points from everyone
I'm crying.
>>64923874
>mfw I'm not the only one
>>64925969
>if we hadn't have had the literal perfection of Richard Harris's performance first
Fucking hilarious, kid. Harris was decrepit. He was barely even mobile at that point and wheezed out every line. One of Dumbledore's most prominent qualities was that he was spry for his age, full of life.
The gif tumblr teens use to back up Harris is pointless. Are you really going to be pedantic enough to look up specific moments in the book and compare them to the movies? Spoiler alert, they're going to be different. Constantly. A single instance does not a stupid point prove.
And even if we're going off the books, Dumbledore grows seemingly bipolar as time goes on. He's conflicted, contradictory, and full of ulterior motives. And batshit insane? He's called almost exactly that very often by other characters.
Anybody who honestly thinks Harris was a superior Dumbledore either didn't read the books or just didn't get them. Which is hard to do.
>>64915332
he's a great actor, but yeah, his Dumbledore was really off the mark.
>>64926235
I would like some source for that
>>64925806
They dumbed it down for the Ameritards
>>64923874
>>64926516
wtf is going on here?
>>64923874
>>64926516
why are these bags of water nailed to trees?
>>64926519
lol, fuck off Gambon
>>64926606
you act like you've never nailed things to a tree before
>>64926629
Trees need water to breathe
Tim Roth was originally cast they should've stayed with him.
>>64926629
>>64926606
you must be new
>>64926629
WOOW hownew.ru
>>64915006
inaccurate, but superior to book snape
rickman claimed ownership over it
Doesn't matter mate as Harry Potter was easily 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
>>64922528
This is a good question. I hope someone answers it.
>>64926671
based Tim
>>64922528
He probably didn't want to be stuck directing the same franchise for nearly a decade, then he said that he wanted to come back to direct the final ones if offered but the studio chose the safe and unremarkable David Yates
>>64922583
>black guy
>crabbe
That's Zamboni or whatever his name is.
>>64922583
The actor of Crabbe got caught having 3 weed plants in his car and a ton of weed in his basement. That's why they didn't allow him to play in the last movie.
>>64926842
I like Mark Twain.
>>64926640
>>64926681
this makes me uncomfortable
I think I read somewhere that Rowling had Rickman in mind when writing the books, or that she recommended him as Snape, or some along those lines. So she clearly approved.
And he did do a pretty good job, but I agree that he was too attractive, and probably too calm about things. Rickman is the reason why so many girls refer to Snape as "the real hero of the series," or act like he was some kind of romantic, misunderstood figure. Snape in the books was a basically a complete shit.
Good casting; the Dursleys, Hagrid, First Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy, McGonagall, Treelawny, Fudge, and Slughorn.
>>64926411
>wild messy hair means a fucking afro
As a man with a natural JUST hair I'm offended by this picture.
>>64915006
Rowling wrote Snep with him in mind. Nearly all the vet British actors outshined their book counterparts to the point that nothing the paper characters did was livelier than what their actors did. Apologies if this was already pointed out.
>>64923169
Zabini was a character in both the books and the movies. They replaced Crabbe in that scene because he got locked up.
>>64927115
you should try it sometime
its all the rage
posting more images of things nailed to tress
I liked him in Costners 'Prince of Thieves', never bothered with this Harry Potter crap.
>>64924080
>>64926235
The 40% may not be completely accurate, but the rest is true. Vertical growth in childhood requires an abundance of resources. Without proper calories, the body focuses on maintenance rather than growth. Frankly, I'm surprised Harry didn't exhibit mental problems from both emotional and nutritional drought.
>>64924655
The atmosphere of the first game was wonderful because the movie was not out yet for a reference point.
Not to mention Jeremy Soule (Skyrim composer) did the soundtrack and John Williams mimicked some of it, as he did with Holtz and Star Wars. Soule could make a blank white room feel vibrant with music alone
>>64927872
>tfw you've run out of nails and fruit
I saw the first movie before I started reading the books. He'll always be Snape to me. Same with the rest of cast. I never finished watching the films though. I don't feel like I missed much.
>>64927686
>Dawn of War
>Guild Wars
>Supreme Commander
The soundtrack to my 00's desu senpai
>>64916334
HPB being shit had nothing to do with Rickman and everything to do with the director making a shit movie.
>>64926842
Don Quixote is fucking boring and unfunny. 1984 can be summed up in a sentence.
>>64926411
I remember Harry in the books making witty comebacks all the time, what up with that?
>>64926519
There's no way Harris would have been physically able to do the stuff in book 6 even if he was alive
>>64915236
The fuck are you talking about? NIN is basically Trent Reznor, and great. Develop taste and perspective and get back to us, faggot.
>>64921799
>>64926842
>Dune is shit tier
I'm more than a bit triggered
>>64926496
Jesus Christ this is /tv/ not /tumblr/
>>64926411
What the fuck does "nuggetty" mean
>>64929404
To have the properties of a McDonald's Chicken Nugget.
It was excellent casting. You stupid black dick sucking motherfucker
