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Chris Columbus: Harry Potter
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Chris Columbus signed card. I obtained this in a trade from a friend in the UK who obtained it through the mail. Mr. Columbus is ... in my Harry Potter collection, but I left him here because he's most known for: Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Adventures in Baby Sitting and two of the Harry Potter films among others..
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Fans of J. K. Rowling's best-selling novel will find much to enjoy in the film adaptation directed by Chris Columbus -- the casting, for starters, is spot-on. Daniel Radcliffe is delightful as Harry -- downtrodden by his nasty relatives the Dursleys but convinced deep-down that he was meant for better things. A Who's Who of British stage and screen performers stood in for the staff at Hogwarts -- Dame Maggie Smith is particularly prim and perfect as Minerva McGonagall, Alan Rickman is a dead ringer for the oily Severus Snape and Robbie Coltrane was J. K. Rowling's only choice to play the gruff but gentle giant Hagrid. Young actor Rupert Grint is terrific as Harry's best friend Ron Weasley and Emma Watson makes Hermione Granger -- a character who could easily have been annoying if miscast -- smug, smart and eminently likable.
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No, no, the problem with Columbus is simply that he's no good. He has only the shallowest grasp of emotion and drama, and a terrible feel for pacing. He's the epitome of the Hollywood processing factory. The problem with his Potter movies isn't that they weren't dark enough or serious enough, but that he tried to be serious and wasn't any good at it.
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His daughter Eleanor Columbus appeared as the character Susan Bones in the two Potter films he directed, making her the only American cast as a student. She ... had a small cameo along with her father in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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