Hermione - Harry Potter - How annoying!

[Tahani]

She is just annoying, much more so in the film than the books.

Just watching the Goblet of Fire, and she's 'ooo Victor is so physical... well he isn't loquacious, he likes to watch me study'

she just really grates on me...

There's been loads of criticism for Daniel Radcliffe on this thread as well but nobody's mentioned that. But god forbid you say anything negative about a woman without being accused of jealousy.

I have to confess I can never tell whether people are good actors or not. I just take it all at face value . One advantage of that is being able to watch films without having to analyse these things.

Surely part of the problem with the actors when they were cast was that nobody realised they would still be playing the same characters however many years later?
Perhaps if it was already known that there would be 8 films, and that the actors would be playing the roles into their twenties, then the casting would have been done differently.

Emma Watson is clearly a very intelligent and articulate woman, who is also very attractive.

Doesn’t make her a good actress though, does it?

Especially compared to others of her acting-generation: Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Carey Mulligan, Emma Stone for example are much more talented and have more than two tones of voice when saying their lines.

I find EW and DR endearing in the films. I mean, film Harry and Hermione are pretty insipid compared to their book counterparts, but films rarely live up to one's expectations from books anyway, and they're so young and hopeless, I can't help but forgive them their sins.

Surely part of the problem with the actors when they were cast was that nobody realised they would still be playing the same characters however many years later?

Well yes absolutely. Particularly when you think about Ginny who was cast as a walk on part in the first film. Then they realise she's an important character and they're stuck with her.

I wonder if they thought about recasting? It's not unheard of, they did quite a lot of it in the Game of Thrones series.

People love to hate Emma Watson. Again, she's supposed to be annoying, that's why Ron and Harry disliked her at first. She spends the next 7 years annoying them - she's still powerful and brilliant.

Like they recast Lavender Brown.

Largepieceofcrookedwood

It was known though. Right from the start, JK Rowling said there were going to be 7 books so I assume the plan was always to adapt the whole series. When the film rights were sold, it was for the first four titles.

Again, she's supposed to be annoying

Yes but there's a lot of depth to her in the books that Watson was never able to capture.

Even if 'annoying' was all they were going for, Watson was stagey, wooden and unnatural in her delivery. If she'd been convincing as a genuine 'annoying' pre teen, then I might have been more forgiving.

It's not just hermione. I've never seen a good performance from her.

THE WEASLEY TWINS 

How? Why? Did casting director get a fat brown envelope?

laurie

Yes she is wooden

She is better in the last few films as are the twins and Daniel

I think the bar for casting the Weasley twins was merely “Look very similar to each other and be willing to dye your hair ginger.”

There is a moment in the first film where Mrs W gets them mixed up and the actors delivery of the “Call yourself our mother!” line is totally cringeworthy.

I think if it was being recast in 2018 they’d just get one actor to play both parts with help from a green screen.

I'd rather mediocre acting from genuine identical Weasley twins than be tricked by clever computery shit though. I know that's a bit rich as it's all green screen magic in the film, but to use to it duplicate a Weasley... Too far!

Yes 'call yourself our mother' gets swallowed. Such a fucking disappointment, they should be cheeky scamps and they are wet weekends. Also - and you can never unsee this - only one of them can act at a time, so if George has a line/bit of acting to do, Fred forgets he's on camera and watches George. And vice versa.

rufus yes they do get a bit better, but from a very low starting point. I think Radcliffe showed the most improvement.

Yes would agree with that laurie

I still dont rate daniel but i havent seen him in much, pretty much just the woman in black

And now you see me 2,

shack

I have a feeling you may have ruined the films for me...potentially forever

Why, Shack?

Why?

I don't think EW is awful as a person, I just think she can't act and should never have been cast. She & Bonnie Wright are both a bit plank-like.

She is slim and pretty and intelligent and I'd never wish her ill, she deserves to do well and seems a dedicated, hard worker. But I wouldn't miss her leaden delivery & smirky smile if I never encountered either again because she'd stopped acting.

Let's be honest, no one is as annoying as Harry.

But the thing is duck, four films became eight. I suppose you could argue that JK has said her intention was for seven books, but at the point when the initial casting took place I don't imagine anyone really thought they would all be adapted and be the blockbuster success they were.

I agree that she comes across pompous when Emma Watson plays her as she is very mature and feminine but in the books she's not really annoying.

DR got sliiiiightly less terrible as the films progressed, but he has never been leading man (or boy quality).

The perfect casting for Hermione, time machine allowing, would have been the girl who played the youngest Dashwood sister in Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility.

I always thought the Phelps boys were wrong for F&G. I’d pictured them as stocky, rugby player-looking types, not that lanky pair.

Apparently Saiorse Roman auditioned for Luna.