{"id":981,"date":"2004-06-05T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/05\/growing-in-the-right-direction\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T02:38:31","slug":"growing-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/05\/growing-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing in the right direction."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I went to see <em>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em> last night, and thought it was significantly better than the first two.  With 1 and 2 I felt like I was watching a series of distinct scenes from the book being acted out, with limited emotion, and nothing connecting one scene to the next &#8211; when I left the first movie I remember wondering if anyone who hadn&#8217;t read the book would even understand what was going on in half the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>But this third movie was great.  Sure some of the kids are still a little limited as far as their acting skills are concerned, but for 13-year olds who were cast originally based on their looks and the fact that they were unknowns, I think they&#8217;re doing quite well.  And Cuaron just made the movie flow so much more evenly (the very fact that it &quot;flowed&quot; in the first place is an improvement).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of sad that he&#8217;s not directing the next one, but I hope that the next director takes this lesson (and the reviews) to heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban last night, and thought it was significantly better than the first two. With 1 and 2 I felt like I was watching a series of distinct scenes from the book being acted out, with limited emotion, and nothing connecting one scene to the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}