{"id":2566,"date":"2004-06-06T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/06\/part-three\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:46:25","slug":"part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/06\/part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Part Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10863,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001AW0HU\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311094000\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001AW0HU\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001AW0HU\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 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Movie 3<\/h4>\n<p>Actually, I have to admit, while I&#8217;m no huge fan of the series, this was easily my favorite of the three. The humor was a little less scatological in nature and tended more towards the purely absurd, the reason for which became all too clear when the end credits came up and I realized that the director was <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001878\/\" title=\"David Zucker\">David Zucker<\/a>, one third of the Zucker\/Zucker\/Abrams team responsible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00004Y62W\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Airplane!\">Airplane!<\/a> series and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B000066C6Z\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Top Secret!\">Top Secret!<\/a>, among many other spoof films.<\/p>\n<h4>American Wedding<\/h4>\n<p>Not as amusing as either of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B000031WD9\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"American Pie\">prior<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B00003CY6D\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"American Pie 2\">two<\/a> American Pie films, unfortunately. Too much of the film revolved around Stiffler, who works well as a secondary character, but doesn&#8217;t have enough to carry as much of the film as he was expected to here. The look of the film bugged me, too &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure how best to describe it other than to say that it looked like a beer commercial (high contrast, lots of hand-held camera work, many shots with a very shallow depth of focus). It had its moments, but wasn&#8217;t that great, either.<\/p>\n<h4>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/h4>\n<p>Prairie and I caught this one Saturday afternoon at the 12:30 show, early enough in the day that we didn&#8217;t have to stand in line to get into the theater. Interestingly enough, while we generally have fairly similar tastes in films, I ended up liking this latest installment more than she did. It is <em>very<\/em> obvious throughout the film that there&#8217;s a different director this time around, and while I very much enjoyed the end result, Prairie wasn&#8217;t as impressed. After talking it over for a while after we got out, we think that it&#8217;s simply differences in the way we pictured the books as we read them &#8212; her mental images were more in line with how Chris Columbus directed the first two films, while I found Curanzo&#8217;s vision much more in line with how I&#8217;d &#8220;seen&#8221; things as I read the books.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say that she didn&#8217;t like it, of course, just that she didn&#8217;t like it quite as much as she did the first two. As for myself, I&#8217;ll quite happily join the many other people declaring HPatPoA to be the best of the three films so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through no real reason other than happenstance, this became a weekend of &#8216;Part Three&#8217;s &mdash; Scary Movie 3, American Wedding (the third American Pie movie), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban were all part of the weekend entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,587,2542],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-harry-potter","tag-scary-movie-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}