Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (DVD)

Harry Potter and the Philosipher's Stone. The first movie of J K Rowling's famous (and much hyped books) is, in my opinion, a poor attempt at bringing the books to life. We are first introduced to Harry, as a baby, at the beginning of the film in a misty flash-back which, unless you have read the books, you would find difficult to understand fully. Harry is the only survivor of an attack by the evil 'one who must not be named' on his parents. The ...
...When we next see Harry it is near his 11th birthday and we see how badly he has been treated by his guardians, lies that have been told, and the many ways they try to prevent him from discovering what he really is. I will not spoil it for you, just in case you haven't read the books or managed to avoid the Pottermania that has erupted around this film and now its release to video and dvd. Needless to say, the beginning of the film is rushed through, ...

ChrisBishop 29.05.2002 · Read full review
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...the past couple of years). Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is the first of four (up to now) books that has been made into a film. It follows the life of a young boy called Harry Potter who is the son of a Wizard and Witch. They were killed by an Evil Wizard called Voldemort who had the rest of the Wizarding community running scared. Harry survived the attack with only a lightening shaped scar on his forehead to show he was attacked. Voldemort ...
...such Harry gained instant celebrity status among the wizards of the world, even though he was barely born. Harry is placed with his aunt and uncle who are less than enthuisiastic at having to bring him up. As such he lives in the cupboard under the stairs in their house. All this changes when Harry turns eleven and he receives an invitation to study at the Hogwarts School of Wizardry. The film follows the events surrounding Harry's first year at ...

stevecook 12.11.2001 · Read full review
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...see the first of the harry potter films based on the books by J K Rowling. I had never been interested in reading these books before and the only reason I went to see the film was because it had had so much publicity that I thought it would be worth going to see. From the moment the film started I was on the edge of my seat wanting to find out more about the books and also couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next in the films. The ...
...harry who has been left to his auntie and uncle is growing up in surrey he is an ordinary boy but his mum and dad were killed by a evil wizard (harry was told that they were killed in a car crash). He is treated very badly at his house he sleeps in the cupboard under the stairs and is basically a modern day slave. One day he receives a letter (his very first one) he try’s to open it when his uncle snatches it off him and reads it silently to ...

bhairuk 29.11.2001 · Read full review
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...that I am NOT a Harry Potter fan, I haven’t read any of the books and have not been eaten up with anticipation for the past year waiting for this film. I feel like as though I have, due to the fact that my husband has read all of the books, and insists on reading passages out to me whilst he reads. I should point out here that we do not have any children so he bought these books purely for his own consumption. He has also because he has been ...
...looking in toy shops for Harry Potter merchandise “for his nephew” and for the past several months has been asking on a regular basis “Can we go? Can we? Pleeeeease!” Yes, it’s true, all men refuse to get past the age of 8. So, last week I was informed by e-mail that we were going to a special preview screening of the film in the company of two of his friends from work. Great, I thought, I feel like the responsible adult ...

indychick_uk 12.11.2001 · Read full review
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Harry Potter! Harry Potter! ~The hype has been huge, the critics love it, the celebs love it, Jk loves it, it seems everyones love Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone The Movie! But is it really that good? Well, the answer is it is pretty darn good yes. As a renowned die-hard fan of the books, I'm afraid I did not enjoy it as much as everyone else seemed to, but for some quite strange reasons. I'll elaborate on those later. For those of you ...
...also tried to murder baby Harry but stuffed it up and ended up reducing himself to little more than a ghost and has not been seen since. Hagrid then whisks Harry off to the enchanting Diagon Alley, and from there to Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, where he makes new friends (he's never had any before) and gets up to all sorts of hi-jinks and escapades! Whew! The film has had an awful lot of hype, and the mechandising business has ...

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Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone is the first book in J K Rowling's series about the young wizard at school, and this is the first Harry Potter film. The film has been hyped enormously and there is a lot of Harry Potter merchandise around in the shops, from chocolate frogs to Nimbus 2000 broomsticks. So, it was with amazement that I discovered that it was showing a week before its official release date at the Regal Cinema in Redruth in West ...
...Harry Potter books. And listened to the tapes. And discussed them at length. So I was very worried that the film would spoil all the pictures in my head, miss bits out and generally be annoying. But it is not so. In case anyone does not know what I am on about, Harry Potter is a boy who lives unhappily with his uncle, aunt and cousin until he one day finds out that he is a wizard and goes to study at Hogwart's School where he meets all sorts of ...

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...read all four of the Harry Potter books, and, like most other people who have, been drawn into the magic that is the world of Harry Potter, I decided that the film should be fairly good, although maybe not as good as the books themselves, since film adaptations never are, but should be in my opinion. However, in believing that such a movie would be good based upon the books, and how much reporting there has been surrounding the making of it, and ...
...it. The script writer for Harry Potter, however, appears in this case to have been deciding all thought out the film which path to take, and has ended up with a not very incoherent film, which is not very good either. Special effects, I thought, were sadly lacking, for a film of this calibre. One would have thought in a film about magic and the world thereof, we could have the opportunity for some really good special effects. Instead, the special ...

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...the first moment I read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling I have been a great fan of Harry Potter. I have eagerly awaited the film and all the media hype and merchandise has just added to the anticipation. At the weekend, I went to book tickets for the film, which is on general release on 16th November. I was expecting to be told it was already sold out. I couldn't believe my luck when I was told there were still tickets available ...
...in on the success of Harry Potter - charging for tickets which should be free. Anyway, on with the show. I've already written an opinion on the book but just to set the scene, Harry Potter is a young wizard (unbeknown to himself) orphaned at the age of one and lead a dog's life at the hands of his aunt, uncle and cousin (collectively known as the Dursleys) who bring him up. On his 11th birthday he discovers the truth about himself and is invited ...

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...dreamed up the character of Harry Potter whilst unemployed and staring at a field of cows. This seems to be a theme with classic (no danger of Rowling not entering the annuals, now is there?) fiction writers – JRR Tolkien imagined the Hobbit whilst doodling. Bram Stoker stole the Dracula idea from popular theatre of the time, and previous works of fiction (not that Rowling has “borrowed” any ideas from other works. Oh no). And of ...
...bugger. ***YER BASIC(ish) PLOT*** Harry Potter (newbie Daniel Radcliffe – poor lad is going to be typecast to the nth degree) is a famous little baby. Why? Does he have twelve legs? Did he pass his GCSEs at age 4? No, he is the only known wizard ever to have survived a magical attack by the evil sorcerer Voldemort. All the wizard world are petrified of this rogue, and dare not speak his name (Hey! Just like Sauron in Lord of the Rings). A ...

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...was going to be a Harry Potter film, I decided it was time to read the books. There had been so much hype about them that I thought they MUST be good and with a blockbuster film coming out too? Well...this must be huge! So I read the first book. Then the second, the third and the fourth! I fell in love with the magic of Harry Potter! I couldn't wait to see the film and when it was released, I sat in the cinema excited as all the little kiddies surrounding ...
...If you don't know about Harry Potter, let me elaborate briefly to fill you in. Harry Potter is a young boy of 11 who doesn't know that he is a WIZARD. He lives with his evil aunty and uncle as his parents were killed by the Dark Wizard (Voldemort) when he was just a baby. The film is about Harry finding out that he is a wizard and starting out at Hogwarts - the school of magic. If you haven't read the books, it's no problem to see the film as it ...

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...emerges and he is carrying Harry Potter, a one-year-old baby who is the only person to overcome the evil Voldemort. Eleven years jump by and then we see Harry at home, stuck under the stairs in Privet Drive, with his evil Uncles - the Dursleys. Harry is bombarded with letters, but who from? Uncle Vernon is driven mad and the Dursleys, along with Harry, go and move to a windswept island. Here, Hagrid emerges at the cabin and knocks down the door, ...
...along with a birthday cake. Harry did not know he was a wizard, but at this point he finds out he has been allocated a place at Hogwart's school! *** I really liked this film with its dramatic scenes and interesting storylines, and I believe it does an excellent job of showing the book well and describing it. However, I do believe that it does not live up to the very high standard set by Miss Rowling's books, which apparently are going to make ...

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I first read Harry Potter when I was about six (nearly seven), it had been out for quite a while when I got it for Christmas. I promptly read it cover to cover in a matter of days (I have always been a really fast reader). Ever since then I have really loved the books, and bought each one the day it came out when there was a new one released. So, when I saw the trailer for a film version I was really excited and decided that this was one film I definitely ...
...for the later films though. Harry Potter’s parents die when he is a baby, and he is then sent to live with his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Venon and cousin Dudley who neglect and treat him horribly, making him live in a cupboard under the stairs. Harry’s life seems awful, but when the letters come his life starts to improve. Letters rain down into and on the house like water that are addressed to Harry, and Uncle Vernon is having none of it, taking them ...

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...shiny cellophane-wrapped DVD packaging for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in HMV. I really did. Like any self-respecting eighteen year old, I was thoroughly opposed to the hype around the eleven-year-old wizard, and therefore tried and tried to put anything Harry Potter out of my mind. Hype preys on you. It eats away at you, until you just have to find out what all the fuss is about. So in that little corner of the big department store, ...
...I watched. I watched as Harry woke up in his aunt and uncle's little house in Privet Drive. I watched as they forced him to cook the breakfast and to live in the cupboard under the stairs. And I felt sorry for him. I empathized with the character. I believed his plight. I enjoyed the rest of the movie. Harry Potter isn't a ninety minute cash cow. In fact, it runs at one-hundred and forty-seven minutes long. It is a 'motion-picture event.' It isn't ...

ex-machina 31.08.2002 · Read full review
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I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan, so it seems fitting that I write at least one opinion on the subject. I have read all four books cover to cover at least twenty times and I always seem to succumb to the merchandising. My partner points at me and laughs for being a 24 yeal old woman who drinks tea from my Harry Potter mug and goes to work with my Slytherin House Scarf. (Yes I'm aware 'that there isnt a witch or wizard that didnt go bad who wasn't in ...
...know that there was another Harry Potter present in the form of a replica wand. This led to us re-watching the entire film with me waving my wand about like a loony. Excuse me I seem to have digressed from the point, what was it again? Oh yes the DVD. Well I think the film is fantastic! Whether your young or old I think everyone will get something from watching Harry Potter discover he is a wizard and explore his new magical world. However, as ...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2 Disk DVD Set (WIDESCREEN) Because this is a widescreen edition it means you can watch it in 'letterbox' mode. Therefore the edges of the film aren't missed off. It is the same aspect ratio as originally shown in the cinema. This set originally cost £22.99 but has since come down in price considerably. Amazon now sells this set for £9.97. PRODUCT DETAILS: • Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen • ...
...who have read all the Harry Potter books and who hate this film, calling it disappointing and 'magic-destroying'. However for many people, including me, this was a gateway into the Harry Potter phenomenon. I found the books daunting as there was so many of them (the fourth book was already out if I recall) and so I never got into them. But after watching this film I was launched into the magic, and have since not lost the sense of wonder that it ...

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