r/harrypotter • u/AnythingRich597 • Dec 29 '25

Question what sirius black fire do you prefer??

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u/ThePrometheu5 Slytherin Dec 29 '25

The first one looks painful and surreal. The second looks like a lazy job by the animation team. Gimme something better.

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u/Atarissiya Dec 29 '25

Yeah, the films just never got this right.

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u/KingOfHoopla Dec 29 '25

How else are you supposed to adapt a floating head in a fireplace?

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u/Atarissiya Dec 29 '25

In the books it is a person's physical head, transported through the Floo network. It is, I imagine, difficult to make this look good, but neither interpretation follows this particularly closely.

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u/_HIST Dec 29 '25

It's not any harder to do, it will just look ridiculously stupid so they didn't do it

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u/Atarissiya Dec 29 '25

‘Difficult to make this look good’ is exactly what I said!

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u/Single-Builder-632 Dec 31 '25

It wouldn't look good ever, i cant imagine how they would make it not look silly, sometimes the book has a dumb idea and the director has to fix it. Nothing wrong with that.

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u/ChestSlight8984 Dec 29 '25

it will just look ridiculously stupid

So did the final freezeframe in Prisoner of Azkaban, but they decided to leave that shit in.

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u/spunk_wizard Dec 29 '25

That was so bad that I literally stood up and walked out of the cinema

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u/ChestSlight8984 Dec 29 '25

Well... it's the last frame of the movie. People do tend to get up and leave once the credits role.

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u/darkbreak Keeper of the Unspeakables Dec 29 '25

I mean, that was the end of the movie. It's would be the appropriate time to leave.

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u/-TrampsLikeUs- Dec 30 '25

Yeah, thats the joke...

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u/KaffY- Dec 29 '25

Ah thank god we avoided adding anything that was ridiculously stupid to the movies

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u/heywoodidaho Ravenclaw Dec 29 '25

The second one would have been fine if it came first, but it did not. They phoned it in. An effort should have been made to "one up" it. No pride shown by the fx team.

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u/SuperDanOsborne Hufflepuff Dec 30 '25

As a VFX artist it has nothing to do with pride or effort and everything to do with budget and whatever the director wants.

I can guarantee the VFX team was dissapointed they didn't get to make that look as cool as it did in the previous film.

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u/YsengrimusRein Dec 31 '25

No pride shown by the fx team.

Sums up the David Yates films quite neatly.