OK, so “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” may end up being the most popular movie of all time. After all, close to 20 million people saw it the first weekend alone.
But there are some things about the movie that really bug us. They just don’t make sense.
1. The computer graphics. The movie cost more than $100 million to make, and yet the computer-generated characters, such as the forest centaur, look like they came out of “Clash of the Titans.”
2. Quidditch. The game sounded cool in the book, but as you watch Harry loitering on a broomstick (obviously in front of a blue screen), you wonder: Why do the other players bother scoring goals when catching that winged golden ball will win the game?
3. Composer John Williams. Cloying, overwrought music is enough of an annoyance but unmemorable cloying, overwrought music? That deserves a 50-point penalty.
4. Professor Snape. Why does he act in such contradictory ways toward Harry? The book tells you. The movie leaves you clueless.
5. Hermione, girl of inaction. After Ron gets injured in the book, Hermione goes ahead with Harry and uses her intellect to help him reach the Sorcerer’s Stone. In the movie she has to stay back and take care of Ron. Does she bake him crumpets, too?
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