NICHOLAS HOOPER

The films are very enjoyable. Though they do remind me of BBC Sunday afternoon family drama but with a bigger budget.

The sixth film looks really great and is getting good reviews even from people who aren't fans of the series or disliked the previous movie (those who got to see it early at screenings). Eager to watch it.

OK!


: VOMIT :

The movies are nothing but eye-candy. They capture the magical world of the books quite well, but fail miserably in a lot of other aspects.

The stories are just too complex to fit into a two-and-a-half hour movie, and it shows. The movies leave out quite a lot of very important stuff, especially regarding to the development and backstory of the characters, and still feel rushed. They never explain anything, but take the audience´s good will and knowledge of the books for granted, and that´s why they fail.

The books tell a wonderful story that really IS worthwhile to read. Rowling´s immense, if not insane creativity takes us into a different universe with its own set of rules, but in the books, they work. Digging deeper into the internal structure of this magical world, you realise just how complex this is and how every tiny bit of the story has been carefully placed to make sense and further the cause: To spin a gripping tale about the seductive force that having power really is. Honestly, if you HAD magical abilities, what WOULD you do with it? The books are neither Shakespeare, nor Nietzsche. But they made a whole generation of kids read books again, and they teached them some very important lessons about friendship, about growing up, about taking responsibility for your actions. That´s quite an accomplishment if you truly think about it.

The movies feel quite stale in comparison, and that´s a shame.

I´ve always said that this should rather be made as a seven season TV series (with good writers and producers, of course). The books really are that rich.

Don´t judge the story based upon the movies.

I came across this post at FSM while searching about the subject -

"The word is that Hooper will not continue with the series past HALF BLOOD PRINCE. There's been no announcement on who _will_ be scoring the two DEATHLY HALLOWS movies, however."

Of course it's a rumour but it'll be terrific if they finally get Williams back. Or at least Doyle.

Ditto. Atlantis-esque action music and emotional music as in King Kong would be excellent!

please Doyle any day over Hooper

Doyle has written some spectacular, brilliant scores. GoF isn´t one of them. It is a loud, unimaginative, boring piece of $%&§ that doesn´t even try to cope with Williams´ previous work, but is full with Doyle´s typical full-blown megalomania he always uses when he has no other idea what to do. There are two or three nice tracks (if played alone and out of context), but Doyle´s music ruined the movie for me. Seriously.

Hooper at least had the dignity not to try to outdo Williams. There is not one scene in the movie that feels badly scored while watching it. On CD, the score lacks a lot of things, of course, but even then it is much easier on the ears than Doyle´s continously used tschingederassa-tschingderassa-don´t-you-notice-how-spectacular-my-score- is?-tschingederassa.

Honestly, if you are a composer and get the chance to score a Potter movie because the director is a friend of yours, you wouldn´t say "no", too. And to call Hooper´s score autopiloting, especially in comparison to Doyle´s score, shows that you never gave Hooper´s score a chance, Demetris.

The Umbridge Theme is pure evil in pink - which totally fits. The music for all the Dumbledore´s Army scenes is beautiful, as are the short sequences composed for all those Flying scenes. The first visit to the Ministry sounds great, and the whole Battle in the Ministry scene is perfectly scored, though I will give in to you that the approach is minimalistic here, but at least the Taikos have rythm and power and work a lot better than Doyle´s totally boring action stuff in GoF.

I´m sorry, but I strongly believe that if Hooper wouldn´t have been a noname composer, his score would be rated much higher.

Douglas Pipes? Who´s that?

Monster House? Never heard of that. Must be bad.

I like Doyle's score but I too feel parts of his score are quite over-the-top when they could easily have been subtle, especially in the [spoiler]final graveyard battle[/spoiler] scene where I felt the music actually distracted from the vocals.



Hall Of Prophecy is indeed one of the most exciting action cues on the CD and in the film, I really like those racing strings. But I felt the rest of the action music in the [spoiler]Death Of Sirius[/spoiler] track was unimpressive. And there's hardy any noticeable action music in Half Blood Prince from what I've heard on the CD. For that reason I'd like John Williams back for Deathly Hallows because I feel his action music (Dueling The Basilisk) and emotional music (Fawkes The Phoenix, A Window to The Past) would really enhance the film (I wasn't too impressed by Hooper's Possession music).

Frankly speaking, i appreciate Nicholas Hooper effort for Order of the Phoenix, there are some good tracks which will stay in our memory for long time like The Hall of Prophecies, Fireworks, Room of Requirements, Possession, The Flight of the order of the phoenix, The Death of Sirius and The Ministry of Magic are really outstanding. But i am yet to listen to his score for Half Blood Prince.

The score to HBP just bores me. Sure there's two or three tracks out of 28 that are alright, but that's about it. I suppose the one blessing is that they're all short boring tracks. I think two of them are above 3 minutes in length and none surpass 4 minutes.

People say "if it was anyone but Hooper, you would think the score is good" but I've been bored with Williams scores, I've been bored with Goldsmith scores etc etc etc

Come come. Let's stop the harsh words. The attention is mostly negative anyway. Let's not spoil the fun for people who like the music (wherever they are, and I'm not a big fan, but I didn't think it was bad).

But yeah, some other scores should get more attention.