Castleman Reviews He keeps referring to the subsequent movies/books as sequels. But to me, "sequel" implies like a continuation that wasn't necessarily planned out at first. But literally every part of the HP series was planned out in its entirety from the get go. She knew how everything was going to work out before she even started writing.
True, nothing is perfect. But the first concept of a Horcrux was right there in the second book, the dairy. Tom Riddle's concisous inside of it. A piece of his soul. She definitely knew what she was going to do with the horcruxes from the start. She didn't just throw that concept in later down the track.
One of the most underrated parts of this film was the way they did the Basilisk (the big snake). They used Jurassic Park's method of using life size puppets in the close up shots and CG for everything else, making the whole thing that much more convincing.
The thing with the diary being a horcrux was actually planed. Chamber of Secrets was initially called The Half-Blood Prince, that's why there's alot of conection between book 2 and book 6. From wikipedia: "Some objects that play significant roles in Half-Blood Prince first appear in Chamber of Secrets: the Hand of Glory and the opal necklace that are on sale in Borgin and Burkes; a Vanishing Cabinet in Hogwarts that is damaged by Peeves the Poltergeist; and Tom Riddle's diary, which is later shown to be a Horcrux.[39] Additionally, these two novels are the ones with the most focus on Harry's relationship with Ginny Weasley."
I never knew it was underrated honestly. the second and first were some of my favorites as the following movies seemed to focus too much on teen drama.
Personally, I thought Chamber Of Secrets was better than Sorcerer's Stone. COS had more going on, of course, I'd still say, just read the books over watching the movies.
Bose-Einstein It's been confirmed in the past. Rowling may not have had everything perfectly planned out, but she had a layout of the major plot points from the beginning. So maybe she hadn't settled on the concept of the "horcrux" yet, but she knew always knew what the diary's significance would be.
She spent years planning out the plots and major beats for all seven books. So yes, she did know all along. Not to mention that it's clearly hinted at in Dumbledore's office at the end of the book.
Um, really? I never really heard anyone talking about this being the one film the fans hate. Usually when I ask someone which Harry Potter movie is the weakest and/or hated, it's either Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince or Deathly Hallows Part 1.
I personally found this one the scariest of them all. Not darkest, but scariest. The fact that there is 'something' on the loose and no one knows what it is or how to stop it, plus all the whispering Harry hears... Legit horror.
please. please. Pleeese review it, you have until Halloween. Seriously WTF dude, it's 8 episodes, review it. (Fast forward to Halloween) UA-cam Comment: Hey Jeremy, pls review season 2. YT Comment 2: He has yet to review season 1! Me: still the only person who I have no clue on what they thought of the show. Wonder watch it will take... Maybe a brand new Shmoedown series w/ TV shows and Jeremy looses to a Stranger things question????? lol
Actually a huge disappointment, the score for those movies are mediocre. If there is one thing I am unimpressed with Marvel movies, its it's original music. Hopefully future MCU movies will get a better and more memorable theme and music in the future. I don't expect some legendary 10/10 Star Wars type music, but at least not bland AF like the Avengers movies.
This will always be my favorite. It stays to the book and improves when necessary. It strikes the perfect line between fun and magical and dark and serious. Honestly, I'll take the extra runtime to flesh out the world.
actually Jason Issac said at his panel at salt lake comic con "I was asked to do a spell and I didn't know one so I asked the food guy what's a Harry Potter spell and he told me 'avada kadevra' so I used it and the director told me I almost killed him." still funny though
Honestly, of all the movies, this one is my favourite. The Chamber of Secrets stepped up the Harry Potter lore in so many ways and provided a very fascinating Agatha Christie mystery tale woven into the plot on top of that. Not only do we see more magic, but also more creatures, more of Hogwarts, the action is more intense, the stakes are higher, and the actor they got to play Tom Riddle was awesome. The Basilisk fight was also super cool. Favourite parts though were definitely Harry and Ron's flight to Hogwarts and nearly getting hit by the train, crashing into the Whomping Willow, and Ron performing subpar magic with his broken wand and making himself spit up slugs.
JK Rowling worked on the entire story for five years before writing the first book, she was aware of the horcruxes. Chamber of Secrets used to have a lot more elements of the Half Blood Prince in it (introducing horcruxes and explaining Voldemort's powers) but she thought it'd be too early to reveal such important information. It was thought out.
Great review. I think JK did know the diary was a Horcrux in book 2 though as there are signs of the Horcrux concept as early as the conversation between Harry and Dumbledore after the confrontation with the Basilisk in Dumbledore's office. He says that Voldemort put "a bit of himself" and transferred some of his powers to Harry on the night of his parent's murder.
In my opinion this movie is underrated its my third and people said it was the worst. To be honest the book gets listed as the worst out of all the books and its my second favorite book. I think it is so underrated because its amazing.
I'm loving these Harry Potter reviews! It feels refreshing to see reviews like this without a special occasion (though really it's for Jeremy to refresh his memory). As much as I like what Chris Stuckmann does from time to time, there are times when I just feel like I want to see a review of something from a long while back, without seeing it coming, and just enjoy it from a point-of-view that I'm curious to hear.
I hope Jeremy talks about the first scene in Prisoner of Azkaban where Harry uses the Luninus Maximus spell and how the sound affect of the speed went so well with the John Williams theme
I remember I lucked into the Potter universe. Can't even remember how old I was, but my mom's cousin-in-law(if there is such a thing) bought me Sorcerer's Stone for xmas that year, and by new years I had finished it. It was in english, which is only my 2nd language, and I was at an age where I could read and understand it, albeit slowly. There were 3 books released at the time, 4th was announced, and she bought it to me as she had heard great reviews and was convinced it was both an engaging book, and a chance for me to develop my english. She was right on both accounts. I had never been that engaged in a book, ever. I can't remember my exact emotions around this time, but I know for a fact I've never been this happy being engaged in a world that didn't exist. I also remember I was devastated none of my classmates had read the book(only one existed in a translated form at the time) or cared much about Potter in general. I had so much to talk about, but no-one to talk to.. This was also before internet became a household thing. My dad had it on his work computer, that I was allowed 1 hour on every day. But dial-up made surfing something out of my hands :p When eventually the movies were announced and released, I was like "FINALLY, my friends will understand". Until they didn't Most watched it, few liked it, but no-one cared enough to try and read the books. "Why read a book when you can just wait for the movies?" Bah, unimaginative primals :@
Actually JK Rowling DID know that the diary was going to be a horcrux, she spent years planning out all the major beats of the entire story. Also it's hinted at in Dumbledore's office at the end of the book.
The main thing I love from HP2 that is not mentionned in this review is the brilliant performance from Kenneth Branaugh as Gilderoy Lockheart. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen this film, he always manages to get a chuckle out of me.
My favourite movie in the series. I loved the way they made the school this magical, mysterious place, with a dark history, and tons of secrets. I love the way the school is portrayed in the first two movies. Also, the basilisk was really cool, and I liked the Tom Riddle story.
In the books and movies (library scene), it says basilisks are scared of Chickens. Instead of a sword fight with a giant snake, they could have brought a chicken or at the very least Ron.
Actually the diary was always a horcrux, it's heavily foreshadowed in the book. Now the word horcrus may not have been thought of until later, but the diary was always one of them.
creepybeaver3981 no she wrote each book individually. She never knew where she was going. That's why there are plot holes with tri-wizard tournament which was never mentioned before. it's like Olympics and no one knows about it. The time turner they use it in book 3 and bam it's never seen again. She didn't even know the books would be published. She didn't plan it.
Tom Felton forgot his line when Draco sees Harry disguised as Goyle, so he improvised "I didn't know you could read". Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle) is the oldest actress (age thirty-seven) to portray a Hogwarts student. Although based on the second shortest book, this is the longest of the movies. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), which is based on the longest book, is the second shortest of the movies. Robbie Coltrane had to turn down a part on The West Wing (1999) to reprise his role as Hagrid. Daniel Radcliffe has said that "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is his favorite book. The only Harry Potter movie to have a post-credit scene J.K. Rowling actually created a guide to teach the cast members how to speak Parseltongue. One of two Harry Potter movies not to be nominated for an Academy Award, the other being Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and this movie are Chris Columbus' two biggest financial hits. Lucius Malfoy slaps Draco's hand with his cane. Jason Isaacs didn't know there were small fangs on the top, so Tom Felton's pain was real In the novel Aragog is blind, as his eyes were milky white. In this movie, his eyes are black, implying he can see. This is Toby Jones' first voice-over movie. His next one was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). Jason Isaacs provided the voice of the basilisk calling to its victims. Chris Columbus thought Isaacs was so good at doing voice-over work, he asked him to create a creepy sounding voice for the basilisk, considering the book only describes it as a hissing sound. (at around 16 mins) When Harry leaves Borgin & Burks a witch walks by the alley close to him, smiling in a creepy way. This witch is played, uncredited, by Pamela Kempthorne. Harry's Arania Exumai spell, which Harry learned from Tom's diary and used against the attacking spiders, was not in the book. During post-production, producer David Heyman went to visit Richard Harris in the hospital. Though he was very weak from his illness, Harris insisted that the role of Dumbledore not be re-cast. Sadly, Harris died shortly before production was to begin on the next movie, necessitating a re-cast. It was Jason Isaacs' idea for Lucius Malfoy to have long, blond hair, as well as carry a walking stick inside of which he would conceal his wand. He grew attached to the stick, and once tried to take it off set before he was caught. (at around 15 mins) The opal necklace, which plays an important role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), can briefly be glimpsed inside a display case in Borgin and Burkes' shop in Knockturn Alley when Harry first enters. In the UK this became the first movie to achieve a million DVD sales in its first weekend.
Actually, Rowling did think of the Horcruxes at the time of writing them. Her notes reveal that the second book would introduce the concept, and the chamber of secrets was originally going to be the plotline of the sixth book, probably using the diary as a way to explore voldemort's past, instead of the pensieve. Rowling decided against it because it would make it very obvious that Voldemort would return at some point, and because it would kill the mystery to soon, I guess. But she knew the diary was a horcrux, which is why she had it destroyed with the venomous basilisk fang, and not with magic or with the sword. :)
Thanks for the reviews Jeremy. I got introduced to the Potter movies quite late when I was 22 in 2015. Have watched the series 3 times since, and I just keep loving them even more. The amazing thing is that all 8 movies are good to great. Not one bad movie in the series. JK Rowling wrote some fantastic books, but the filmmakers also deserve credit for bringing her world so brilliantly to the screen. The spider scene in Chamber and Ron's expressions always amuse me. Excellent scene.
This one is my personal favorite. Dives deeper into the lore, introduces an intriguing mystery for the main characters to solve, and Harry uses a sword. What more do you need?
Are you serious?! I'll bet you any amount of money you like that J.K Rowling definitely knew where she was going with the diary. She'd previously considered putting part of the plot of "Half Blood Prince" into "Chamber of Secrets", but decided to put it in Book 6 because it didn't work in Book 2. (Although full disclosure: it was the "Prince" part she was considering) Do you also think that she didn't know Harry was a Parselmouth when she wrote Book 1? I remember reading Chamber of Secrets when it turned out it was a rare ability and realising that "The Vanishing Glass" incident - which you'd think is just an isolated magical moment when reading Book 1 - is actually a set-up/foreshadow of a pretty important theme throughout the series. I'm not saying J.K Rowling is flawless, but give her credit where credit is due. She plans ahead and you did her a major dis-service here. I'd appreciate it if you'd be big enough to correct your mistake in your next Harry Potter review.
Wow, like...you can say he's wrong, and I might even agree with you. Don't know enough to agree with either side really, but to be like "I want a correction from you" is just....pretty dumb. Don't really know if there is a 100% way to know if she did or not...and yes, I'm sure if someone ASKED her today, she'd say, yes of course...but no one really knows if that'd be the truth. Point is, don't be such a fan, that you expect "corrections" in people's work, for stuff you can't really prove. Even if you can, what he said was such a small part of the video, to ask for a correction in it...again, its a crossed line.
My source? JK Rowling. Exact links will take me some time because I've absorbed quite a bit of info about the series and how she wrote it from documentaries and interviews etc and I'll have to remember which bits I got from where. I'm pretty sure there's a clip on UA-cam where she talks about how she feels a "writer should know everything" about the world they're writing about. For those who have read the books, not just watched the films, there are plenty moments where you can tell she knew the whole story before she published Philosopher's Stone. I did not say, quote, "I want a correction from you". I said I'd appreciate it from JJ if he did - because I have faith that he might be reasonable enough to do that. Not all UA-camrs would. He didn't frame what he said as an OPINION - he just straight up accused her of not planning ahead like he knew best. I mean, you ask for my evidence; where's his?! Do not see me as some blinkered fan. I disagree with JK Rowling on a number of issues - mainly political, but also literary - and I'm willing to criticise her where it is due. But I also give her credit where credit is due, and she's a highly skilled author - someone I, as a budding author myself, take inspiration from. Last point: I personally don't feel it is dumb or crossing a line to suggest correcting something you've publicly stated. It might seem "a small part of the video" to you, but I believe my OP covered this when I said he did her a major dis-service. JJ has a subscriber base of over a million and this video currently has 114000+ views. You'd think with that kind of influence he'd take the time to fact-check what he's saying first. I'm sorry if you don't think that borderline slander is a big deal. To be honest, an annotation on this video would do; I didn't think of that earlier.
She definitely had it planned out. The foreshadowing was heavy in the books, and she's even said before HBP came out that plots from CoS were cut out and revisited in book 6. That was the cut out plot.
I remember my teacher in 6th grade read the book to us, and when the reveal of Tom riddle came up, she wrote it all out on the board, and we all gasped!
This is honestly my favorite out of the films as this is where I officially became a fan of the series and I feel this one translated the book the best.
Really enjoying this series of reviews! I can't wait for your take on Prisoner of Azkaban - it's my favourite of the movies, and I'm excited to hear what you have to say about Cuarón's direction. If you end up reading this comment, I'm just curious - were you ever a Twin Peaks fan? If you are I'd love a video on the original series or what you think about the new series!
This was the movie that made me Love the world of Harry Potter! Sorcerer's Stone felt fun and enjoyable...but honestly Chamber of Secrets was the movie that made me think 'this story is actually going somewhere' Example...Sorcerer's Stone: Hey, Harry Potter can talk to snakes. Isn't that neat! Chamber of Secret: Um, talking to snakes is bad. Harry you could be the next Voldomort. Started reading the books after this reveal
I love this series so much. The nostalgia factor is through the roof (at least for me), but the movies are still amazing to this day. I don't really know how to explain it, but watching these movies makes me so happy. Makes you forget about the real world for a little bit.
My favorite moment in the series is Harry saying, "Don't worry. I will be." Learning the story of that being a 'made up on the spot' line based off of Jason Isaacs thinking the scene needed to be longer, blew my mind when I first heard it.
I'm just gonna throw in my two cents on the whole "did JK plan for the diary to be a horcux since the beginning or was it retconed to be a horcrux later thing". I definitely think she knew what she was doing. Many people have brought up some good points on both sides, but the clincher for me is Harry himself. Forget book 2 having a horcrux... we find out at the end that we see a horcrux in book one. Harry himself. From the literal beginning of the first book all the years ago Rowling gave Harry the ability to talk to snakes and an undeniable connection with Voldemort. You telling me there was no larger plan behind that and years and years later she said oh yeah i guess that was cuz he was a horcrux or whatever.
Last April I met the actor who played Lucius Malfoy, Jason Isaacs. He was very nice and cool to talk to. I even got the privilege to get a photo taken with him
Oh addressing the Avada Kedavra thing: it wasn't really intended that Lucius was gonna kill Harry. This movie was before the proper introduction of the killing curse but the actor, having read the books already, said "Avada" since it was the first spell that popped in his mind and they didn't redo it. 🌠 _The more you know_ 🌠
I rarely get fooled by what is CGI and what is a practical effect/animatronnic. But I was honestly convinced that Aragog in this movie was CGI. Turnes out he's a puppet! A HUGE puppet that's now at the Warner Bross Harry Potter Studio in London, hanging at the ceiling. I was blown away by the idea this spider was actually there! Well played.
I think they were both really good. I also love how JK rowling was able to come up with such a good name for Voldemort. Tom is a normal name, Marvolo kind of sounds evil and Riddle is just awesome because his life is kind of a mystery up until that point and really still is until the 4th book. Also having the name match to I am Lord Voldemort was genius and why I love J.K Rowling's creativity. This movie scared the shit out of me when the Basilisk is talking through the walls because I was like 7 or 8 when I saw it. By the time I saw Harry potter this movie was already on dvd so the Prisoner of Azkaban is really the first one I saw in theatres.
Awesome review Jeremy, Chamber of Secrets is a minor improvement over Philosopher's Stone. The battle with The Basilisk is one of the coolest Harry Potter climax's!
For me as a child what really put this movie to a whole new height was the INCREDIBLE set of the chamber itself and the fight against the Basilisk that really makes this movie feel so much bigger than the first one.
The scene of jason isaacs trying to kill harry was one of the first scenes they filmed and hed been reading goblet of fire at that time. In the book no words are said he can just tell hes about to curse him and avada kedavra was just the first spell that came to mind for isaacs so thats why he says it in that scene.
In the book, it doesn't specify what spell Lucius was going to use. Avada Kadavra was the only spell that Jason Isaacs could remember, that's why in the movie he used it. Just wanted to clear that up.
I've scrolled back Jeremy's list of uploads to see when was the last time he has cleanly shaven his beard off based on the thumbnails for his reviews, and my gosh it has been years...
Will you, please, review the Pirates of the Caribbean 5? It opens tomorrow in my country and I'm waiting for your review to decide should I spend money on Imax or no...
I'm excited for your review of Prisoner Of Azkaban, please feel free to go as in depth as possible. I wanna know what you think about every aspect of the film possible!
Hey, @JeremyJahns, I dunno if anyone has already mentioned this in the comments. But back then...like 10 to 12 years back...there was a webpage for Tom Riddle's diary. I used to spend ages on it...oh, youth.
Funny bit of trivia for that Lucius Malfory scene. It happened because Jason Isaacs forgot his line and tried mumbling the first spell he could remember.
I love all things Harry Potter, but the first was definitely better than the second. Also you saying the castle becomes a living entity of its own reminds me of this Gothic theme about spaces becoming characters and/or representing the human psyche, and now all I want to do is write a paper on it.
This is probably hands down my favorite Harry Potter movie but Prisoner of Azkaban is up there too simply because of the A Window to the Past song by freaking John Williams, as far as books are concerned I'd probably say Deathly Hallows if not Order, but this movie really had so much going for it. As it already stands this story has so many memorable set pieces/plot points in the story that practically every chapter something big was going down, and also just still retaining that Chris Columbus atmosphere of the original while expanding on it making it gloomier while still being colorful is really where it's at, and again, very memorable John Williams soundtrack.
Honestly the 2nd movie was and is still one of my favorites. I get that it's a bit longer than the rest & one of the shortest books, but I just always loved it.
I'm so happy to listen to a good review of this one, it has always been my favorite!! :) But lately I've been hearing and reading that people like this one the least, and I don't get why...
Is it weird: we've all seen the film, yet we come to watch a review made years later because Jeremy is fricken awesome!
SmasherBoy that's only because Jeremy Jahns is Awesometacular! 'Heres cheers in the background.'
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Gandalf: "I'll bring lemon-drops."
Iroh: "I'll bring the tea."
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My favorite line of all time 😁
... said the principal of school where selection is chosen 100% out of abilities the student have.
Your Grandson's Dark Knight "It's not I am underneath, it's what I do that defines me"....or something like that
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The real magic though is the fact Ron ended up with Hermione
Evan Acree Honest to God. Should've been Harry.
ThatTVaddict t Rowling herself agrees with that statement
Evan Acree I think shw should of ended up with draco.
Some suppressed sexual vibes between them two I think lol.
SpyengoEen I totally agree. totally forced.
Actually Rowling wouldn't agree
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I thought it was Harry Potter and the Wardrobe of Gossip
_Harry Potter and the Hall of Cryptography_ actually.
XD amazing comment.
Wtf I thought it was Harry Potter and the sewer of the ninja turtles
Actually, NO. JK knew what the diary was from the start. If you re read the books, you can really tell who well orchestrated this entire series is.
not saying its without plot flaws but she knew where she was going.
Castleman Reviews He keeps referring to the subsequent movies/books as sequels. But to me, "sequel" implies like a continuation that wasn't necessarily planned out at first. But literally every part of the HP series was planned out in its entirety from the get go. She knew how everything was going to work out before she even started writing.
TheHPExperiment you cant say she new the ENTIRE plot, there are clearly things that she didnt plan out
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True, nothing is perfect. But the first concept of a Horcrux was right there in the second book, the dairy. Tom Riddle's concisous inside of it. A piece of his soul. She definitely knew what she was going to do with the horcruxes from the start. She didn't just throw that concept in later down the track.
Personally I think the 2nd was really scary
It was truly petrifying
One of the most underrated parts of this film was the way they did the Basilisk (the big snake). They used Jurassic Park's method of using life size puppets in the close up shots and CG for everything else, making the whole thing that much more convincing.
The thing with the diary being a horcrux was actually planed. Chamber of Secrets was initially called The Half-Blood Prince, that's why there's alot of conection between book 2 and book 6.
From wikipedia: "Some objects that play significant roles in Half-Blood Prince first appear in Chamber of Secrets: the Hand of Glory and the opal necklace that are on sale in Borgin and Burkes; a Vanishing Cabinet in Hogwarts that is damaged by Peeves the Poltergeist; and Tom Riddle's diary, which is later shown to be a Horcrux.[39] Additionally, these two novels are the ones with the most focus on Harry's relationship with Ginny Weasley."
Who here agrees with me this is the most underrated Harry Potter film, it's in my top 3 favs.
Im totally with you. super underrated.
Definitely
Dave4493 never though it was underrated
I never knew it was underrated honestly. the second and first were some of my favorites as the following movies seemed to focus too much on teen drama.
Personally, I thought Chamber Of Secrets was better than Sorcerer's Stone. COS had more going on, of course, I'd still say, just read the books over watching the movies.
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KuroTengetsu91 Apologize
Junaed Islam Who the hell apologizes in the internet?
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love these reviews Jeremy, Watching along with you and its a pretty fun experience
Actually, JK Rowling did plan the horcruxes from the start. The Tom Riddle diary being one of the 7 of them wasn't a retcon in any way.
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Highly doubtful.
Bose-Einstein It's been confirmed in the past. Rowling may not have had everything perfectly planned out, but she had a layout of the major plot points from the beginning. So maybe she hadn't settled on the concept of the "horcrux" yet, but she knew always knew what the diary's significance would be.
She spent years planning out the plots and major beats for all seven books. So yes, she did know all along. Not to mention that it's clearly hinted at in Dumbledore's office at the end of the book.
Rowling said in an interview the horcrux plot of HBP was supposed to be the CoS story but her editor convinced her to cut it down to the diary.
"The one that everyone hates..." - Honest Trailers
Nope, Not. At. All.
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GShockBullet Same with you
Um, really? I never really heard anyone talking about this being the one film the fans hate. Usually when I ask someone which Harry Potter movie is the weakest and/or hated, it's either Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince or Deathly Hallows Part 1.
I agree with Jordan. Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire are actually my two favourite Harry Potter movies.
Callum Welsh True!
TJ Jordan Exactly, they like to put out jokes.
I personally found this one the scariest of them all. Not darkest, but scariest. The fact that there is 'something' on the loose and no one knows what it is or how to stop it, plus all the whispering Harry hears... Legit horror.
The best Harry Potter film, I actually like it more than the book.
please review Stranger Things season 1...better late than never..season 2 is coming😄
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please. please. Pleeese review it, you have until Halloween. Seriously WTF dude, it's 8 episodes, review it.
(Fast forward to Halloween) UA-cam Comment: Hey Jeremy, pls review season 2. YT Comment 2: He has yet to review season 1!
Me: still the only person who I have no clue on what they thought of the show. Wonder watch it will take... Maybe a brand new Shmoedown series w/ TV shows and Jeremy looses to a Stranger things question????? lol
good thing about these movies, you can rewatch it. but if i had to select one i would least like in rewatching it's this one
Conclusion. Hermione is still to young to for us to consider hot.
Meren Dagnir Ren Suspicious comment lol 🤔
Meren Dagnir Ren Not until Deathly Hallows could it be said without sounding creepy
Emma Watson was never hot
I've always thought she looks the same now as she did back then, and therefore isn't hot.
Until Prisoner of Azkaban :)
Good news for you Jeremy, the composer of The Avengers is coming back to compose Avengers Infinity War and Avengers 4
Who gives a shit? The music for the first one was pretty bland
Fuck ya, that shits lit asf... wait that movie had a score...?
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Actually a huge disappointment, the score for those movies are mediocre. If there is one thing I am unimpressed with Marvel movies, its it's original music. Hopefully future MCU movies will get a better and more memorable theme and music in the future. I don't expect some legendary 10/10 Star Wars type music, but at least not bland AF like the Avengers movies.
This dude with the Spiderman thumbnail is talking about Avengers on a Harry Potter review. You are the definition of a fanboy, calm the fuck down.
This will always be my favorite. It stays to the book and improves when necessary. It strikes the perfect line between fun and magical and dark and serious. Honestly, I'll take the extra runtime to flesh out the world.
actually Jason Issac said at his panel at salt lake comic con "I was asked to do a spell and I didn't know one so I asked the food guy what's a Harry Potter spell and he told me 'avada kadevra' so I used it and the director told me I almost killed him." still funny though
Honestly, of all the movies, this one is my favourite. The Chamber of Secrets stepped up the Harry Potter lore in so many ways and provided a very fascinating Agatha Christie mystery tale woven into the plot on top of that. Not only do we see more magic, but also more creatures, more of Hogwarts, the action is more intense, the stakes are higher, and the actor they got to play Tom Riddle was awesome. The Basilisk fight was also super cool.
Favourite parts though were definitely Harry and Ron's flight to Hogwarts and nearly getting hit by the train, crashing into the Whomping Willow, and Ron performing subpar magic with his broken wand and making himself spit up slugs.
JK Rowling worked on the entire story for five years before writing the first book, she was aware of the horcruxes. Chamber of Secrets used to have a lot more elements of the Half Blood Prince in it (introducing horcruxes and explaining Voldemort's powers) but she thought it'd be too early to reveal such important information. It was thought out.
Great review. I think JK did know the diary was a Horcrux in book 2 though as there are signs of the Horcrux concept as early as the conversation between Harry and Dumbledore after the confrontation with the Basilisk in Dumbledore's office. He says that Voldemort put "a bit of himself" and transferred some of his powers to Harry on the night of his parent's murder.
In my opinion this movie is underrated its my third and people said it was the worst. To be honest the book gets listed as the worst out of all the books and its my second favorite book. I think it is so underrated because its amazing.
I'm loving these Harry Potter reviews! It feels refreshing to see reviews like this without a special occasion (though really it's for Jeremy to refresh his memory). As much as I like what Chris Stuckmann does from time to time, there are times when I just feel like I want to see a review of something from a long while back, without seeing it coming, and just enjoy it from a point-of-view that I'm curious to hear.
I think chamber of secrets is better than the first one.
gursimar singh fuck no!...Gets close though.
Nick Feizabal I think the ending in chamber of secrets is much better than the first one.
I hope Jeremy talks about the first scene in Prisoner of Azkaban where Harry uses the Luninus Maximus spell and how the sound affect of the speed went so well with the John Williams theme
Rumor suggests Jeremy has invited Hermione to his "chamber of secrets" where he's given himself full permission to "slytherin"....
I remember I lucked into the Potter universe. Can't even remember how old I was, but my mom's cousin-in-law(if there is such a thing) bought me Sorcerer's Stone for xmas that year, and by new years I had finished it. It was in english, which is only my 2nd language, and I was at an age where I could read and understand it, albeit slowly. There were 3 books released at the time, 4th was announced, and she bought it to me as she had heard great reviews and was convinced it was both an engaging book, and a chance for me to develop my english. She was right on both accounts. I had never been that engaged in a book, ever.
I can't remember my exact emotions around this time, but I know for a fact I've never been this happy being engaged in a world that didn't exist. I also remember I was devastated none of my classmates had read the book(only one existed in a translated form at the time) or cared much about Potter in general. I had so much to talk about, but no-one to talk to.. This was also before internet became a household thing. My dad had it on his work computer, that I was allowed 1 hour on every day. But dial-up made surfing something out of my hands :p
When eventually the movies were announced and released, I was like "FINALLY, my friends will understand". Until they didn't Most watched it, few liked it, but no-one cared enough to try and read the books. "Why read a book when you can just wait for the movies?" Bah, unimaginative primals :@
Actually JK Rowling DID know that the diary was going to be a horcrux, she spent years planning out all the major beats of the entire story. Also it's hinted at in Dumbledore's office at the end of the book.
The main thing I love from HP2 that is not mentionned in this review is the brilliant performance from Kenneth Branaugh as Gilderoy Lockheart. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen this film, he always manages to get a chuckle out of me.
No views. Yup I'm that early.
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My favourite movie in the series. I loved the way they made the school this magical, mysterious place, with a dark history, and tons of secrets. I love the way the school is portrayed in the first two movies. Also, the basilisk was really cool, and I liked the Tom Riddle story.
Who played the ps2 game?!?!
In the books and movies (library scene), it says basilisks are scared of Chickens. Instead of a sword fight with a giant snake, they could have brought a chicken or at the very least Ron.
WHAT YEAR IS IT?!
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Actually the diary was always a horcrux, it's heavily foreshadowed in the book. Now the word horcrus may not have been thought of until later, but the diary was always one of them.
Because it's J K Rowling, I'm fairly certain she already knew back then that the diary would be a Horcrux.
Movie Reedviews I'm not sure she knew the complete logistics of it, but she definitely set it up as being something that would be important later.
She spent years planning out the plots for all seven books, there is no way in hell she didn't know exactly what the diary was.
creepybeaver3981 no she wrote each book individually. She never knew where she was going. That's why there are plot holes with tri-wizard tournament which was never mentioned before. it's like Olympics and no one knows about it. The time turner they use it in book 3 and bam it's never seen again.
She didn't even know the books would be published. She didn't plan it.
arnold arun she wrote the last chapter of the last book before the first book got published, so yes she knew where she was going.
The time turners weren't used again due to issues with time travel.
Tom Felton forgot his line when Draco sees Harry disguised as Goyle, so he improvised "I didn't know you could read".
Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle) is the oldest actress (age thirty-seven) to portray a Hogwarts student.
Although based on the second shortest book, this is the longest of the movies. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), which is based on the longest book, is the second shortest of the movies.
Robbie Coltrane had to turn down a part on The West Wing (1999) to reprise his role as Hagrid.
Daniel Radcliffe has said that "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is his favorite book.
The only Harry Potter movie to have a post-credit scene
J.K. Rowling actually created a guide to teach the cast members how to speak Parseltongue.
One of two Harry Potter movies not to be nominated for an Academy Award, the other being Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and this movie are Chris Columbus' two biggest financial hits.
Lucius Malfoy slaps Draco's hand with his cane. Jason Isaacs didn't know there were small fangs on the top, so Tom Felton's pain was real
In the novel Aragog is blind, as his eyes were milky white. In this movie, his eyes are black, implying he can see.
This is Toby Jones' first voice-over movie. His next one was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).
Jason Isaacs provided the voice of the basilisk calling to its victims. Chris Columbus thought Isaacs was so good at doing voice-over work, he asked him to create a creepy sounding voice for the basilisk, considering the book only describes it as a hissing sound.
(at around 16 mins) When Harry leaves Borgin & Burks a witch walks by the alley close to him, smiling in a creepy way. This witch is played, uncredited, by Pamela Kempthorne.
Harry's Arania Exumai spell, which Harry learned from Tom's diary and used against the attacking spiders, was not in the book.
During post-production, producer David Heyman went to visit Richard Harris in the hospital. Though he was very weak from his illness, Harris insisted that the role of Dumbledore not be re-cast. Sadly, Harris died shortly before production was to begin on the next movie, necessitating a re-cast.
It was Jason Isaacs' idea for Lucius Malfoy to have long, blond hair, as well as carry a walking stick inside of which he would conceal his wand. He grew attached to the stick, and once tried to take it off set before he was caught.
(at around 15 mins) The opal necklace, which plays an important role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), can briefly be glimpsed inside a display case in Borgin and Burkes' shop in Knockturn Alley when Harry first enters.
In the UK this became the first movie to achieve a million DVD sales in its first weekend.
Actually, Rowling did think of the Horcruxes at the time of writing them. Her notes reveal that the second book would introduce the concept, and the chamber of secrets was originally going to be the plotline of the sixth book, probably using the diary as a way to explore voldemort's past, instead of the pensieve. Rowling decided against it because it would make it very obvious that Voldemort would return at some point, and because it would kill the mystery to soon, I guess. But she knew the diary was a horcrux, which is why she had it destroyed with the venomous basilisk fang, and not with magic or with the sword. :)
Tom Riddle's dairy is just a magic book version of Google Assistant/Siri
Can't wait to see all the fan-girls going nuts at Jeremy's mispronunciation of the killing curse
Dirvinator i have yet to see one lol
Thanks for the reviews Jeremy. I got introduced to the Potter movies quite late when I was 22 in 2015. Have watched the series 3 times since, and I just keep loving them even more. The amazing thing is that all 8 movies are good to great. Not one bad movie in the series. JK Rowling wrote some fantastic books, but the filmmakers also deserve credit for bringing her world so brilliantly to the screen. The spider scene in Chamber and Ron's expressions always amuse me. Excellent scene.
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Taylor Conroy why you gotta butcher his line like that😂
It's honestly my favorite of the series. Gives me a lot of childhood memories.
Deathly hallows part 2 is the best of the franchise. Anyone else agrees?
This one is my personal favorite.
Dives deeper into the lore, introduces an intriguing mystery for the main characters to solve, and Harry uses a sword.
What more do you need?
Are you serious?! I'll bet you any amount of money you like that J.K Rowling definitely knew where she was going with the diary. She'd previously considered putting part of the plot of "Half Blood Prince" into "Chamber of Secrets", but decided to put it in Book 6 because it didn't work in Book 2. (Although full disclosure: it was the "Prince" part she was considering) Do you also think that she didn't know Harry was a Parselmouth when she wrote Book 1? I remember reading Chamber of Secrets when it turned out it was a rare ability and realising that "The Vanishing Glass" incident - which you'd think is just an isolated magical moment when reading Book 1 - is actually a set-up/foreshadow of a pretty important theme throughout the series. I'm not saying J.K Rowling is flawless, but give her credit where credit is due. She plans ahead and you did her a major dis-service here. I'd appreciate it if you'd be big enough to correct your mistake in your next Harry Potter review.
Realister MicLoud Your sources for this?
Wow, like...you can say he's wrong, and I might even agree with you. Don't know enough to agree with either side really, but to be like "I want a correction from you" is just....pretty dumb. Don't really know if there is a 100% way to know if she did or not...and yes, I'm sure if someone ASKED her today, she'd say, yes of course...but no one really knows if that'd be the truth.
Point is, don't be such a fan, that you expect "corrections" in people's work, for stuff you can't really prove. Even if you can, what he said was such a small part of the video, to ask for a correction in it...again, its a crossed line.
My source? JK Rowling. Exact links will take me some time because I've absorbed quite a bit of info about the series and how she wrote it from documentaries and interviews etc and I'll have to remember which bits I got from where. I'm pretty sure there's a clip on UA-cam where she talks about how she feels a "writer should know everything" about the world they're writing about. For those who have read the books, not just watched the films, there are plenty moments where you can tell she knew the whole story before she published Philosopher's Stone.
I did not say, quote, "I want a correction from you". I said I'd appreciate it from JJ if he did - because I have faith that he might be reasonable enough to do that. Not all UA-camrs would. He didn't frame what he said as an OPINION - he just straight up accused her of not planning ahead like he knew best. I mean, you ask for my evidence; where's his?!
Do not see me as some blinkered fan. I disagree with JK Rowling on a number of issues - mainly political, but also literary - and I'm willing to criticise her where it is due. But I also give her credit where credit is due, and she's a highly skilled author - someone I, as a budding author myself, take inspiration from.
Last point: I personally don't feel it is dumb or crossing a line to suggest correcting something you've publicly stated. It might seem "a small part of the video" to you, but I believe my OP covered this when I said he did her a major dis-service. JJ has a subscriber base of over a million and this video currently has 114000+ views. You'd think with that kind of influence he'd take the time to fact-check what he's saying first. I'm sorry if you don't think that borderline slander is a big deal. To be honest, an annotation on this video would do; I didn't think of that earlier.
She definitely had it planned out. The foreshadowing was heavy in the books, and she's even said before HBP came out that plots from CoS were cut out and revisited in book 6. That was the cut out plot.
All these reviews are just making me want to rewatch all of them too
The Secret Life of Pets is the best movie to ever exist.
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I remember my teacher in 6th grade read the book to us, and when the reveal of Tom riddle came up, she wrote it all out on the board, and we all gasped!
This is honestly my favorite out of the films as this is where I officially became a fan of the series and I feel this one translated the book the best.
What's really interesting is that the spell Avada Kedravra' was not known yet as Goblet of Fire (the book) was not yet release back then.
Really enjoying this series of reviews! I can't wait for your take on Prisoner of Azkaban - it's my favourite of the movies, and I'm excited to hear what you have to say about Cuarón's direction.
If you end up reading this comment, I'm just curious - were you ever a Twin Peaks fan? If you are I'd love a video on the original series or what you think about the new series!
It was good as it added a dark undertone to the world which geared you up for what's coming.
I love that you added the Lucius/Avada point. That was always a "what?" moment for me when watching.
Being a person who loves the books I felt like this one is the BEST execution of bringing the book to life in the entire series.
CoS is my favorite movie in the entire series and my favorite book (up there with the Deathly Hallows book.)
This was the movie that made me Love the world of Harry Potter! Sorcerer's Stone felt fun and enjoyable...but honestly Chamber of Secrets was the movie that made me think 'this story is actually going somewhere'
Example...Sorcerer's Stone: Hey, Harry Potter can talk to snakes. Isn't that neat!
Chamber of Secret: Um, talking to snakes is bad. Harry you could be the next Voldomort.
Started reading the books after this reveal
The dairy was well thought out in my opinion. Cause at the end they use a basilisk fang to kill a horcrux. And the sword of Gryffindor too.
Chamber of Secrets is actually my favourite of the franchise. Followed closely by Deathly Hallows Part 2.
I love this series so much. The nostalgia factor is through the roof (at least for me), but the movies are still amazing to this day. I don't really know how to explain it, but watching these movies makes me so happy. Makes you forget about the real world for a little bit.
That tom riddle app you were looking for, it's called SIRI. And why i don't use an iPhone.
My favorite moment in the series is Harry saying, "Don't worry. I will be." Learning the story of that being a 'made up on the spot' line based off of Jason Isaacs thinking the scene needed to be longer, blew my mind when I first heard it.
I am so stoked you are reviewing all of these!!!!!
I love how out of nowhere these reviews came from xD
Awesome as always Jeremy.
I'm just gonna throw in my two cents on the whole "did JK plan for the diary to be a horcux since the beginning or was it retconed to be a horcrux later thing". I definitely think she knew what she was doing. Many people have brought up some good points on both sides, but the clincher for me is Harry himself. Forget book 2 having a horcrux... we find out at the end that we see a horcrux in book one. Harry himself. From the literal beginning of the first book all the years ago Rowling gave Harry the ability to talk to snakes and an undeniable connection with Voldemort. You telling me there was no larger plan behind that and years and years later she said oh yeah i guess that was cuz he was a horcrux or whatever.
waking up watching jeremy's harry potter review AWESOME!!!
Last April I met the actor who played Lucius Malfoy, Jason Isaacs. He was very nice and cool to talk to. I even got the privilege to get a photo taken with him
Oh addressing the Avada Kedavra thing: it wasn't really intended that Lucius was gonna kill Harry. This movie was before the proper introduction of the killing curse but the actor, having read the books already, said "Avada" since it was the first spell that popped in his mind and they didn't redo it. 🌠 _The more you know_ 🌠
I usually refer Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy and Lucifel from the underrated PS3/Xbox 360 game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
Siri is basically a Tom Riddle Diary... haha
I rarely get fooled by what is CGI and what is a practical effect/animatronnic. But I was honestly convinced that Aragog in this movie was CGI. Turnes out he's a puppet! A HUGE puppet that's now at the Warner Bross Harry Potter Studio in London, hanging at the ceiling. I was blown away by the idea this spider was actually there! Well played.
I love how before you started doing these reviews I had just recently bought and watched all of the Harry Potter movies on blu ray.
I think they were both really good. I also love how JK rowling was able to come up with such a good name for Voldemort. Tom is a normal name, Marvolo kind of sounds evil and Riddle is just awesome because his life is kind of a mystery up until that point and really still is until the 4th book. Also having the name match to I am Lord Voldemort was genius and why I love J.K Rowling's creativity. This movie scared the shit out of me when the Basilisk is talking through the walls because I was like 7 or 8 when I saw it. By the time I saw Harry potter this movie was already on dvd so the Prisoner of Azkaban is really the first one I saw in theatres.
This is my personal favorite film in the series. I also never realized that Evadda Cadavra was the spell Lucious was gonna use on Harry til now.
Awesome review Jeremy, Chamber of Secrets is a minor improvement over Philosopher's Stone. The battle with The Basilisk is one of the coolest Harry Potter climax's!
*THE VIDEO CAME OUT EXACTLY A YEAR AGO*
For me as a child what really put this movie to a whole new height was the INCREDIBLE set of the chamber itself and the fight against the Basilisk that really makes this movie feel so much bigger than the first one.
The scene of jason isaacs trying to kill harry was one of the first scenes they filmed and hed been reading goblet of fire at that time. In the book no words are said he can just tell hes about to curse him and avada kedavra was just the first spell that came to mind for isaacs so thats why he says it in that scene.
In the book, it doesn't specify what spell Lucius was going to use. Avada Kadavra was the only spell that Jason Isaacs could remember, that's why in the movie he used it. Just wanted to clear that up.
I loved it but the Sorcerer's Stone will always be my favorite. It was also the last HP film with Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledor.
I've scrolled back Jeremy's list of uploads to see when was the last time he has cleanly shaven his beard off based on the thumbnails for his reviews, and my gosh it has been years...
Will you, please, review the Pirates of the Caribbean 5? It opens tomorrow in my country and I'm waiting for your review to decide should I spend money on Imax or no...
I'm excited for your review of Prisoner Of Azkaban, please feel free to go as in depth as possible. I wanna know what you think about every aspect of the film possible!
Hey, @JeremyJahns, I dunno if anyone has already mentioned this in the comments. But back then...like 10 to 12 years back...there was a webpage for Tom Riddle's diary. I used to spend ages on it...oh, youth.
Funny bit of trivia for that Lucius Malfory scene. It happened because Jason Isaacs forgot his line and tried mumbling the first spell he could remember.
Your reviews are making me want to go rewatch them myself. Damn you, Jeremy!
Apparently Jason Isaac was just asked to mutter something vaguely magical so the fact that he said "avada-" is completely coincidental
I love all things Harry Potter, but the first was definitely better than the second. Also you saying the castle becomes a living entity of its own reminds me of this Gothic theme about spaces becoming characters and/or representing the human psyche, and now all I want to do is write a paper on it.
This is probably hands down my favorite Harry Potter movie but Prisoner of Azkaban is up there too simply because of the A Window to the Past song by freaking John Williams, as far as books are concerned I'd probably say Deathly Hallows if not Order, but this movie really had so much going for it. As it already stands this story has so many memorable set pieces/plot points in the story that practically every chapter something big was going down, and also just still retaining that Chris Columbus atmosphere of the original while expanding on it making it gloomier while still being colorful is really where it's at, and again, very memorable John Williams soundtrack.
Honestly the 2nd movie was and is still one of my favorites. I get that it's a bit longer than the rest & one of the shortest books, but I just always loved it.
I'm so happy to listen to a good review of this one, it has always been my favorite!! :) But lately I've been hearing and reading that people like this one the least, and I don't get why...
Gee... I had no idea Lucias Malfoy was about to hit Harry with the killing curse there at the end till Jeremy pointed that out. WOW!
No mention of the Basilisk and how good it looks for a 2002 film?
Up at 1:40 in the morning.
Just for Jeremy.
im watching this movies along with you jermy! every time i see one of your reviews come out for harry potter, i watch that movie.