Thunderous Cacophony said:
portal_cat said:
it may have 8 movies to it but we're just going on the worse 3rd movie of a series then I'd say the third Harry Potter movie. / Not to mention the fading to black transitions was over done.
Aye, there were a few liberties with the script and the direction wasn't great (Alfonso Cuarón hadn't read any of the books or seen the previous films previously, and he had to take it across the gap between 'reasonably lighthearted magical childhood romp' to 'hero's journey complete with soul-eating creatures'), but it wasn't BAD. It was not great, but it was still serviceable.
Yeah, I'd have to agree that the overwrought drama of the third HP film made it my least favorite as well. A lot of Radcliffe's line readings were borderline comically bad, and the freeze frame ending was the stupidest thing I've seen in any of the HP movies.
On the other hand, I generally have a pretty good relationship with many film series' third installments. "Son of Frankenstein" was a terrific cap on what I consider the Karloff trilogy, and I side with Randall Graves in my love of Return of the Jedi over Empire. Then there's Spiderman 3, a movie I'll side with Gladstone [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-famously-terrible-movies-that-actually-dont-suck_p2/] and Devin Faraci [http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/02/in-defense-of-spider-man-3s-dance-scenes/] in defending, though perhaps not outright liking.
Also, don't know if anybody's seen the surprisingly excellent Gamera trilogy from the '90s (heck, even the first three Gamera films from the '60s are enjoyable with the right mindset, "vs. Barugon" in particular, I'd contest, being legitimately good), but the series on the whole (the third especially) are a fascinating deconstruction of the whole Kaiju genre.