{"id":2056,"date":"2009-04-12T23:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2009-04-12T23:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T03:28:02","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-2001-chris-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2056","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone (2001, Chris Columbus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, they put the most beloved children&#8217;s book franchise in generations into the hands of <abbr title=\"Chris Columbus\">the director<\/abbr> of <em>Bicentennial Man<\/em> and <em>Stepmom<\/em>.  Why&#8230; because he&#8217;d made <em>Home Alone<\/em> a decade earlier?  Anyway, everyone knows good filmmaking doesn&#8217;t matter when it comes to franchise entertainment.  And since I&#8217;d been watching all things Potter, with works by Sally (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1629\">Orlando<\/a><\/em>), H.C. (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1980\">Hellzapoppin&#8217;<\/a><\/em>) and Dennis (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2054\">Secret Friends<\/a><\/em>), figured it was time we gave old Harry another chance.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Katy agreed that it&#8217;s pretty crap overall.  Good scene where <abbr title=\"guy who played the pope in The Pope Must Die\">Hagrid<\/abbr> busts down a door is the last good scene in the movie.  There&#8217;s something about a traitorous teacher (who was it?) resurrecting the main evil dude using the titular stone, but I was ignoring most of that and wondering why they couldn&#8217;t hire kids who could act.  Nice to see John Cleese and <abbr title=\"not his finest work\">Alan Rickman<\/abbr> anyway.  I&#8217;m sure <abbr title=\"guess I saw him in Unforgiven\">Richard Harris<\/abbr> was a very fine performer, but I prefer <abbr title=\"speaking of Dennis Potter!\">Michael Gambon&#8217;s<\/abbr> less-boring Dumbledore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, they put the most beloved children&#8217;s book franchise in generations into the hands of the director of Bicentennial Man and Stepmom. Why&#8230; because he&#8217;d made Home Alone a decade earlier? Anyway, everyone knows good filmmaking doesn&#8217;t matter when it comes to franchise entertainment. And since I&#8217;d been watching all things Potter, with works by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170,844,216,848],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-children","tag-harry-potter","tag-magic","tag-mst3k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}