Why are Harry Potter 1 and 2 so fricking good, while the rest of the series so fricking mediocre, or even straight up bad?
Can someone help me rationalize this?
Why are Harry Potter 1 and 2 so fricking good, while the rest of the series so fricking mediocre, or even straight up bad?
The directors changed. The first two were directed by the same person, and the rest I think kept changing directors. There was some other reason, can't remember why.
I liked the first two movies, and most of the third movie. The fourth had good moments. I don't remember what happened in the the rest of them except the ending of the last movie.
Chris Columbus was a great director and Richard Harris was a great Dumbledore.
Prisoner of Azkaban is good too imo.
PoA is good, but does a full twist from the more innocent previous movies. The next movies should have kept the same tone, but they rather focused on the teen romances and drama and the CGI than the actual plot.
>first movie with post wall emma
Nope.
Nostalgia
They're the worst ones.
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Chris Columbus directed both and he is apparently really good with kids and is able to get great performances out of them.
Also, John Williams stopped scoring these movies after 3. Everything afterwards was just cheap imitation.
Each film has its own merits
>1
Comfy core
>2
Best story
>3
Good all around
>4
Goofy and fun, also mad eye
>5
Expanded the wizard world
>6
Grey filter rom com kino
>7
Non stop action
Based enjoys-every-hp-movie-on-it's-own-merits anon.
As other anons have said, Chris Columbus directed the first two. His vision and style carried over. I haven't read much on the BTS shit of these movies but I'm pretty sure his main goal as a director was to translate a magical world from paper to the screen, while the rest just chose to focus on the drama.
The latter directors decided anything that doesn’t explicitly have to go with Harry was open to getting cut - which was everything
Meanwhile they are happy to waste 1/4 of the film's runtime on an epic Harry being chased by a dragon sequence that never happened in the book
Goblet of fire and prisoner of asskiban are better
2 is third best, rest are ass including the first.
Why don't you like the first one(explain your moronation)
The third one's good but it also started the trends that make the rest shit
>everything's fricking gray and dark
>no Ed Harris
>everyone wears ugly 2000's clothes
>less focus on the worldbuilding
>plot starts to feel like a cliffsnotes of the book
true points. the kids wearing muggle street clothes was stupid as frick. it reduced the coherence of the world in a spectacularly bad way for such a high budget production
3 and 4 are good
1.Prison of Azkaban
2.Goble of fire
3.Chamber of secrets
4.Order Of The Phoenix
5.Sorcerer's Stone
6.Deathly Hallows Pt 1
7.Half Blood Prince
8.Deathly Hallows Pt 2
Because they closely follow the books, which start off charming, turn into mediocre teen mystery boilerplates, and is ended in a hotmess of wordswordswords that was a slog to read.
I agree with the latter part of your post but I have to say the movies don't really follow the books closely. They each ripped out the main plot and adapted it with with a shit ton of cut content. Then the next movie does the same thing, but with even more cuts because new plot threads in the books follow shit they cut from the last movie, and so on
Drew Struzan mojo
they're both fricking boring and the same
>first part is kino
>whole middle is a shitty mystery slog
>last part is kino
Everything after 4 I consider Tumbler tier. 1 and 2 had a chill sublime atmosphere. 3 had an atmosphere of vengeance and pain which makes it the black cat of the series. 4 feels like “The World Cup” feeling. Idk how to describe it.
>Would for both
I’d be hanging out in knockturn alley if I’m being real
>Harry! What are you doing down wienerturn alley? Buncha troons and worse folk in there dont you know?
>what were YOU doing down wienerturn alley, Hagrid?
>Oh I was um... look Harry i'm not going to lie to you, I was eating wiener behind the dumpster. Bible camp got me off it for a week, maybe 10 days, but the allure of jamming a fat meat wand down my throat in a dingy part of town is too much to resist. My advice is to keep these acts to yerself. Having a go with the lads in the dorms is one thing, but leave it all at Hogwarts unless you want your hog to end up with warts, if you catch my drift.
Because David Yates is a talentless hack.
Cuaron's movie was so shitty that it ruined the entire series
>singing frogs
>shrunken head
>etc.
the third movie is superb kino even though it departs from the delightful tone of the first two.
after that they continued to hand the movies to mediocre directors and continually failed to align with the source material and added more nonsense when every moment of editing should have been dedicated to translating the ever-increasing lengthy books. also the colors and tone of the films visually looked terribly dull and dreary. even Azkaban, which had a canon reason for being gloomy was visually appealing and appropriately colorful, was anything like this
if they had kept the Azkaban director to do the rest of the films, extended the movie by 20-30m and stayed focused on the books I think they would have been a lot better
Prisoner of Azkaban is also straight up kino thoughey.
They’re not even as good as Prisoner of Azkaban. But the ones that came after that one were really terrible which made the first three seem even better.
The biggest drop in quality came with cinematography, and it seems inherently stupid to forget about a core part of movie magic in a movie about magic.
First two are colorful and with a lot of cool magic. The rest are not.
Chamber had the most kino moments
soul
I don't like the second one because I have to close my eyes when it gets to the Aragog part because I don't like spiders.
The first few books and films knew exactly what they were. Fun adventures for kids. The later films reeked of desperation. Look, the colors are desaturated to match how DARK and MATURE this film is! Look, Voldemort is now LITERALLY HITLER. Look, now we have interpersonal drama between friends just like REAL STORIES. Even the length of the books increased to make them seem more adult. Every attempt to be mature failed, like a kid smoking a cigarette or saying swears. Rowling and the films never actually did anything thematically interesting.
you have no taste