The most cringe worthy scene on any Harry Potter film
The one with Nearly Headless Nick and all the house ghosts.
It's so cheesy and dumb I actually have to fast forward.
The prisoner of Azkaban scene where the boys are eating the sweets or whatever they are and becoming animals...that scene must have been so ridiculous to film. I hate it, it makes no sense
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The worst is in SS. "Happy Christmas Harry" "Happy Christmas Ron"
shareI think most parts of the movies can be classed as cringeworthy. I laughed to much reading these posts. I don't re watch the films after seeing them at the cinema, just cant bring myself to do it but now reading those it makes me want to watch them again.
I don't like watching them with people who haven't read the books, i.e my dad and boyfriend. Whenever an embarassing scene/line is coming up, I distract them so they don't hear it. I dont want people judging the books on the film!
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This cracked me up. My ex and I got together when we met at the pub and somehow got on to how he'd never seen the movies - he said he'd always intended to watch them but never had, so our first few dates were watching every movie and he hated them. It really highlights how corny they are when you watch them with someone who doesn't know the story. I kept telling him to read the books because they're actually amazing but he refused. It frustrates me that people think HP is terrible because they've only seen the movies but not read the books. I like the movies but they could have been so much better.
shareI might actually read the books, because they might be alright. The films have some of the worst child (over) acting I can remember seeing in film. Good for adults? Well, ok.
shareYou haven't seen many movies if you think the child actors were that bad. They were newcomers and not great, but they did get better.
Bob
I'd be very surprised if you've seen more, in all honesty. We can do some dick measuring if you like.
I was just surprised at how consistently over acted it is. It's like they all came from a background in pantomime, and the director thought their over acting was spot on.
I only re-watched about 10 minutes of it before the chess game scene, and every single reaction or expression was completely forced and mechanical, lines being delivered with all the nuance and realism of a Famous Five story. Just my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz4XmjBX31c
Perhaps I need to approach it as an example of a particularly British, and (I hope) obscure cinema. Of course acting can be stylised, and realism not even important, depending on the film. However, Radcliffe looks like he is fed his lines, and his expressions, and so do the rest. Leaving them the appearance of two-dimensional stock characters. That's a kind of 'acting' I suppose, and one you might get to be very good at, it's just not what I expect from people pretending to be actual humans, with actual emotions, and motivations. So not acting in any sense that I meant.
"I was just surprised at how consistently over acted it is. It's like they all came from a background in pantomime, and the director thought their over acting was spot on."
This may have been a way that Christopher Columbus handled the acting of the kids. I noticed one scene in the first movie (I don't remember what the scene was) where it was obvious that Emma was waiting for a cue from the dialogue before she started acting. I think the director did this for the most part for the kids, giving them a cue such as a line or action that reminds them when they should be reacting or doing something.
But as I said before, this can't just be blamed on the child actors. These were the best takes as decided by the director since they were put into the final movie. This is what the director obviously wanted.
Bob
Or this was what the director had to go with after 16 takes. We don't know.
If we blame the director then we can logically infer that he didn't have a lot to work with and those instructions which lead to such clunky acting were a result of the inabilities of the actors to take his direction without acting like automatons.
The worst is in SS. "Happy Christmas Harry" "Happy Christmas Ron"
What's wrong with that one? I think it's perfectly fine and fitting. I think they say this in the book also. And I love the Happy Christmas, most British say this instead of Merry Christmas. I thought it was a sweet scene.
They were eating animal crackers. You know how they have animals and train sugar cookies in the little novelty box that looks like a train car? You're right on the pointlessness, though. They cut so much of the story for the films, only to add little silly scenes.
"Clever, that. I had thought the sky was ... real." The Vampire Lestat
i think on the way to the quittich match in the beggining of goblet of fire, when the kids fall and the parents walk out of the sky like marry poppins after transporting.
shareAh, Paddy, I LOVE that scene. It's one of the few times in the later HP films where you see the kids just being typical kids. Tell me Wizarding kids wouldn't do that!
shareI agree with the colonel. The animal scene was the worst.
shareMy old best friend and I used to love that scene. We were probably like 11 and we would A-B repeat Ron's roar because we thought he was soooo hot.
Watch it!