Pic of the Day: ♫ “Hey baby, thought you were the one who tried to run away / Ooh baby, wasn’t I the one who made you want to stay? / Please don’t bet that you’ll ever escape me / Once I get my sights on you / I got a license to kill / And you know I’m going straight for your heart / Got a license to kill / Anyone who tries to tear us apart / License to kill.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Part I — “That Maid Just Got Hurricaned in the Face”
Today we begin another entry in our Fun with Franchises series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
In case you don’t know how this works — after doing a couple of trial runs without realizing it (Disney movies, Bond movies), I realized that I really enjoyed going through movies frame by frame, commenting on them and cracking jokes like I would if I was sitting around watching them with friends. So I decided to make it a feature on the site and enlisted my friend Colin to help (since it’s better when you have another person to play off). None of this is meant to be any real in-depth analysis. We’re just doing it for comedy and parody purposes. We’re basically just doing what we would normally when talking about this stuff, which I’m sure are versions of the same conversations most people have.
And of course, if you’re gonna do something called Fun with Franchises… you kinda have to franchise it. So we scribbled down a handful of franchises we knew we’d have the most fun going over, and that’s what you’re about to see. This is all done out of love and purely for the benefit of entertainment.
Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the first part of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Hey driver, where’re we going / I swear my nerves are showing / Set your hopes up way too high / The living’s in the way we die. / Comes the morning and the headlights fade away / Hundred thousand people / I’m the one they blame / I’ve been waiting long for one of us to say / Save the darkness, let it never fade away / In the living daylights.” ♫
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Meeting you, with a view to a kill / Face to faces, secret places, feel the chill / Night fall covers me / But you know the plans I’m making / Still oversea / Could it be the whole lot opening wide / A sacred why / a mystery gaping inside / The weekend’s why / Until we dance into the fire / That fatal kiss is all we need / Dance into the fire / To fatal sounds of broken dreams / Dance into the fire / That fatal kiss is all we need / Dance into the fire.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Final Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
All right… we’ve watched the film, talked about it, had fun with it, and then we went and listed our favorite images from the film yesterday. Now all that’s left is to finish up with what we actually thought about the film as a whole.
This is our space to go over what we liked and didn’t like about each film we watch for Fun with Franchises. We talk about specific things as we get to them during the articles, and we’ll mention our general thoughts during them, but we don’t really ever get to sit and do broad strokes during the articles. So this is why we do these Final Thoughts. We get to take a step back and talk about the films as a whole, rather than discussing specific scenes or images. We’ll talk about how we felt about the film, how we liked it as a film, how we liked it as a member of its franchise, and where we think it falls within that franchise.
Again, it’s not very complicated, but it is a place to find out what we actually thought about certain movies, since, while we’re having fun with them in the articles, it may get difficult to tell sometimes. Because we’ll just rip things to shreds for fun, even if we love them.
So here are our final thoughts on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets:
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Pic of the Day: ♫ “All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two / Had no intention to do / The things we’ve done. / Funny how it always goes with love / When you don’t look, you find / But then we’re two of a kind, we move as one. / We’re an all time high / We’ll change all that’s gone before / Doing so much more / Than falling in love / On an all time high / We’ll take on the world and wait / So hold on tight / Let the flight begin.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Favorite Images from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
One of the recurring features that we do in Fun with Francises (a feature within a feature) is, after we finish watching a film, we go through and pick out our favorite images from that film. These images could be anything from really famous images from the film or franchise, really beautifully composed shots, shots that are funny to us because of the facial expressions being made in them or because of what we said about them in the article in which they appeared, or simply because they have boobs in them.
What we usually do is, just how we watch the films, Colin and I go in separately and pick out about ten to fifteen shots that we really liked. Then we compare lists, and whichever ones we both picked automatically go on our final list. And everything else we talk through and discuss why we like them, and eventually we’re left with a final list of ten images we liked the best, along with five honorable mentions, which were also as good, but just missed out on making the list proper.
It’s not very complicated (like most things we do here on B+ Movie Blog), and is just a way for us to point out shots that we really liked in the films, especially since we tend to pick stuff that’s not always on the beaten path. (We also don’t officially rank the list of shots. We just put them in chronological order. Simply picking them is hard enough. We don’t want to make our lives any harder. Plus, we’re lazy.)
That said — here are our favorite images from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: (more…)
Pic of the Day: ♫ “For your eyes only, can see me through the night / For your eyes only, I never need to hide / You can see so much in me, so much in me that’s new / I never felt until I looked at you / For your eyes only, only for you / You’ll see what no one else can see, and now I’m breaking free / For your eyes only, only for you / The love I know you need in me, the fantasy you’ve freed in me / Only for you / Only for you.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Part IV — “Ten Years Under the Stairs Will Do That to a Person”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the fourth and final part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Where are you? / Why do you hide? / Where is that moonlight trail / That leads to your side? / Just like the moonraker goes / In search of his dream of gold / I search for love / For someone to have and hold. / I’ve seen your smile / In a thousand dreams / Felt your touch / And it always seems / You love me / You love me.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Part III — “What If Spiders Start Coming Through the Whomping Willow’s Dick Hole?”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the third part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Nobody does it better / Makes me feel sad for the rest / Nobody does it half as good as you / Baby, you’re the best / I wasn’t lookin’, but somehow you found me / I tried to hide from your love light / But like heaven above me / The spy who loved me / Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Part II — “Scat Man Thomas”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the second part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “He has a powerful weapon / He charges a million a shot / An assassin that’s second to none / The man with the golden gun.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Part I — “Dobby Unchained”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the first part of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “When you were young and your heart was an open book / You used to say live and let live / You know did, you know you did, you know you did / But if this ever-changing world in which we live in / Makes you give in and cry / Say live and let die.” ♫
Pic of the Day: ♫ “Diamonds are forever / They are all I need to please me / They can stimulate and tease me / They won’t leave in the night / I’ve no fear that they might desert me.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Final Thoughts on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
All right… the final article on our first film. This feels… actually not as exciting as you’d think. Since we have seven more films already banked up and are working on another (undisclosed, because that would give away what franchise is coming next) amount. But still, it’s momentous. So that’s something.
I’m drunk. Just go with it.
So we went through the entire film and did our thing with it. And it was great. And then we picked out our favorite images from the film. So now all that’s left is us summing up our thoughts about the film as a whole.
So without wasting time (something I am very good at doing), here are our final thoughts on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: (more…)
Pic of the Day: ♫ “We have all the time in the world / Time enough for life / To unfold all the precious things / Love has in store / We have all the love in the world / If that’s all we have, you will find / We need nothing more / Every step of the way / Will find us / With the cares of the world / Far behind us / We have all the time in the world / Just for love / Nothing more, nothing less / only love.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Favorite Images from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
This is the first time we’re doing this here, so it’s gonna be a bit of a learning curve for us. The first two weeks are gonna be a bit bumpy, since the first two movies only have four parts to them. That gave us an extra day to deal with. But we figured out how to deal with that. I’ll explain that part later. For now, and for every other week except this one and next one where we do a Fun with Franchises article, they will be five parts to them, Monday to Friday, and then Saturday we’ll do the same article we’re doing here, and on Sunday, we’ll write up our final thoughts about the film we covered all week. And the process will reset on Monday again.
But for our purposes right now, what we’re doing is picking out what were our favorite images from the film we’ve just spent the week covering. It’s pretty simple. We’re just gonna pick out the shots we like best. For whatever reason. It doesn’t have to be because it’s a really famous image. We could just like it because it has boobies in it. You know us. We have no morals.
What we did was each set aside a group of like, 15 or 20 shots each, then compared lists and whittled them down to a final list of ten, mostly from going, “Hey, you like this one, and I like this one, so there we go.” It’s not a complicated process at all. And for fun, we’re also gonna list a couple honorable mentions that just missed the final cut but are shots we enjoy anyway.
This is the first time we’re doing this, so the process and such might change, but whatever. It’s a work in process. It’s like a pilot. We’ll tweak shit in season if need be. I remember when I started watching Burn Notice when it came out, and Gabrielle Anwar originally had the Irish accent, and by episode four they had her start doing an American accent and explained it by her saying, “I need to fit in and not seem like ex-IRA,” and then she spoke like that from there on out and they never mentioned it again. That’s how we operate around here.
That said — here are our favorite images from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: (more…)
Pic of the Day: ♫ “You only live twice / Or so it seems / One life for yourself / And one for your dreams. / You drift through the years / And life seems tame / Till one dream appears / And love is its name. / And love is a stranger / Who’ll beckon you on / Don’t think of the danger / Or the stranger is gone. / This dream is for you / So pay the price / Make one dream come true / You only live twice.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), Part IV — “Sorry You Almost Died, Here’s Some Milk Duds”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the fourth and final part of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Pic of the Day: ♫ “He always runs / While others walk / He acts / While other men just talk / He looks at this world / And wants it all / So he strikes / like Thunderball.” ♫
Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), Part III — “That Would Have Made a Nice Christmas Card… If You Weren’t Murdered”
What better way to start Fun with Franchises than with the king of all franchises (that we haven’t done yet)? This is the highest grossing franchise of all time, and is without a doubt the main one I grew up with, so it made sense to start with it. Harry Potter is by far the one franchise that every single one of my friends and I could make jokes and references to and have everyone get those jokes and references. Plus it’s just great.
I had so much fun with the Disney films and later the Bond films, I thought, “Let’s just try this with everything else.” Essentially this is us just watching these movies that we can talk endlessly about because we grew up with them and just cracking jokes and asking all these logical questions. It’s all for fun and basically for parody. We do this because we love them.
And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the third part of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
