Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection

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By this point, they’ve taken to desaturating the image of colour to add to the gloominess, and quite often a scene will fade to black in the background, really only highlighting the foreground elements.

As it is, it’s difficult for me to judge this film on its own, and I really have to watch the final instalment also to see how well The Deathly Hallows fares on its way to the screen. There might have been a smidge of digital banding around an illuminated wand at one point, but that might have been my imagination. The CG effects also blend in seamlessly, and Dobby and Kreacher in particular have never looked so tangible and part of the action.Such movies need to find one or maybe two or three ongoing plot lines and develop them through the script so that you get a narrative flow through the film. I loved the way the books were written, growing up with their target audiences; fantastic, colourful children’s stories for The Philosopher’s Stone, and full on angsty teen fiction by the time Deathly Hallows came around. Making a successful movie from a literary source actually involves a whole lot of adaptation, distillation, and indeed ruthless culling.

The Harry Potter stories continue to get darker in tone, and that’s reflected in the look of each subsequent film. They weren’t killed in a car crash, they fell afoul of a dark wizard, Voldemort, a wizard whose power waned and vanished when he tried and failed to kill Harry, leaving him with a lightning shaped scar on his forehead. Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with a complimentary commemorative Limited Edition Remembrall™ enamel pin from the Harry Potter Fan Club Pin Seeking collection. They’re no longer child actors, but actors full stop, and deliver consistent, strong, and effective performances, really conveying the emotional content of a scene.

The Triwizard Tournament is taking place this year, and Hogwarts is competing against Durmstrang and Beauxbatons schools. Bloomsbury, Scholastic, or any of the individuals or companies associated with producing and publishing Harry Potter books and films. It’s pared down to beyond the bare minimum to tell Harry’s story in this film, and the film really only works for those who have the knowledge of the book to help place the scenes in context. As such, a lot of significant developments happen off screen, we only hear about Snape becoming headmaster of Hogwarts on a magical radio, we don’t even see the fall of the Ministry of Magic, and appearances from other regular characters are brief enough to be merely cameos. Of course, Harry's wishes for an uneventful school year are almost immediately shattered when he is unexpectedly chosen, along with fellow student Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson), as Hogwarts' representative in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which awards whoever completes three magical tasks the most skilfully with a thousand-galleon purse and the admiration of the international wizarding community.

The Harry Potter movie collection is very affordable on Blu-ray, and it will provide entertainment for children of all ages, including us middle-aged children, and you might as well pick up a copy, rather than wait for a better transfer of The Philosopher’s Stone, the one film in the series that really needs one.The tone of the film certainly suits the story well, as things become more ominous and worrying in the world of Harry Potter. But there is no safety any more, even Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour’s wedding is attacked, just because Harry is there. For the conclusion of the film, we follow Harry’s arc all the way through, which is a great choice, as it hold the narrative and emotional focus of the film while all the action set pieces and destructive conflict happens around him. This year, Draco Malfoy has a mission of his own, one that visibly takes its toll on Harry’s nemesis, and a mission that will change Hogwarts forever. There’s a nice level of depth to the image, even in the darker and mistier scenes, while during the more frenetic of action sequences, I didn’t notice any compression or artefacts.

Fortunately there is a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts and Professor Lupin is concerned for Harry`s welfare. The image wasn’t all that degraded when it came to smoky or misty scenes, usually retaining depth and clarity throughout, with the one exception of the rock fall just prior to the film’s conclusion when Harry, Ron and Lockhart first discover the location of the titular chamber. It has only eight discs and does not include special features or the Creating the World of Harry Potter documentaries. widescreen transfer using the VC-1 codec, and once again I’m hard pressed to pick out any particular flaws with the image. As the conclusion to the Harry Potter saga, a story that fans would have been eagerly anticipating for years, I can’t imagine how deflating the cinema experience must have been, watching the start of the movie in 2010, and then having to wait until 2011 for the end.They could so easily have gone the Jake Lloyd route, cute, photogenic, button nosed future Dark Lord of the Sith in 1999, who grew up to be a normal looking, everyday guy. If you’ve read the book, and know the backgrounds to the characters, the reason why things happen in the story, then you’ll enjoy the film a lot more. It’s all about the Triwizard Tournament leading to the momentous climax of the film, and any scene not at first appearing to be associated with that, winds up adding to that plot anyway. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Unlike the first five discs, this is really a disc for the world, offering the English audio in Dolby True-HD 5.