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I saw OOTP for the sixth time today, and I still love it. It may be my favorite film of the five. I saw it in IMAX 3D this time, which was interesting. The 3D wasn't as impressive as I expected it to be, for some reason.

In the last few viewings, I've noticed a few interesting little gaffes. Not canon gaffes, of course, but actual film-making-type errors.

1. Hermione mentions the OWL exams twice and pronounces it differently each time. In the scene where she's complaining about how they're not learning enough (just before the DA is formed), she pronounces it "owls". In the scene with the Trio after the kiss, when she's talking about what all Cho is worried about, she pronounces each letter: "O.W.L."

2. When Hagrid is first talking to the Trio in his hut, there is one shot where his steak is suddenly missing. It reappears in the next shot.

3. When Neville first finds the RoR, he turns toward it and you can see the prosthetics they put behind Matt's ears to make them stick out.

4. In the beginning when Dudley and Harry are running through the rain, their shirts are clearly wet, but when they get into the tunnel, their shirts are dry.

5. When Bella is behind Lucius in the DoM and says "He knows how to play", her lips aren't moving in synch with what we hear her saying.

6. During one of the scenes when Filch is putting up educational decrees, the Ravenclaw robes in the shot seem to be lined with a very light blue material. Everywhere else in the film, they're dark blue.

I could swear there were a few more, but now I can't remember them.

Other things I find interesting:

• It's hilarious that they give the temperature at the beginning in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. I don't know why that strikes me as funny, but it does.
• I love Grimmauld Place. I know a lot of people have complained that it didn't match their mental image of what it would look like, but I've been inside those sorts of houses before and it reminds me exactly of how they're laid out, especially that first narrow, claustrophbic corridor.
• Dan's acting during the scene after Arthur's attack and in the Occlumency scene is stunning. He looks so young, frail, terrified and vulnerable, and it works perfectly. The fact that he's dressed in pajamas that are too big for him just adds to that impression.
• The mysterious fat black kid from POA is all over the DA, but never has a line.
• Is Nigel taking Colin Creevey's place or something? He's a cute little kid, even if he isn't canonical.
• There's a moment in the scene with Harry and Sirius in the tapestry room where Harry's eyes flick from Sirius's eyes down to his lips and back up again. Just sayin'.
• It's interesting that Draco seems to spend most of the film glued to Pansy's side. I liked Pansy better with short hair.
• When Umbridge slaps Harry in her office, Crabbe and Goyle exchange a look of glee, but when she mentions using the cruciatus curse, they exchange a look that's almost like concern.
• Are we meant to understand that no one but Harry heard the prophecy ball when it spoke, sort of like with the sorting hat? The shot cut to the other five during the part where it would have said, "One must die at the hand of the other", and then back to Harry again for the rest of it.
• I like the fact that the RoR grew the mistletoe right over Harry's and Cho's heads. I also want it to grow over Harry and Neville when they're talking alone in the RoR a bit later on. ;-)
• Remus looked damn sexy when he apparated into the DoM. :-D

My comments after the first viewing

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cheshyre

• It's hilarious that they give the temperature at the beginning in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. I don't know why that strikes me as funny, but it does.
I noticed that too.

Struck me as a gratuitious pandering to American ignorance, but that's just my reaction...

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The vast majority of Americans just have no experience with temperatures in celsius. It's only used in science, and nless people have traveled overseas (which only a tiny percentage of Americans have, sadly), they've usually never heard temperatures expressed in celsius. I've done a lot of traveling in my life, but I still don't have a sense of what a random celsius temperature is without doing a conversion to fahrenheit. And you know, I wouldn't call myself ignorant because of it.

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