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The score by Daft Punk is top notch, probably one of the best and most powerful scores I've heard in a in a long time. The music is perfectly scored to the action, pace and tone of the movie. It is powerful, deep, and will rock your socks off. I can't say enough about it, other than it made the movie. I'm almost certain they will get an Oscar nod.

The effects are groundbreaking and take cyberspace to a whole new level. Not only will they get an Oscar for the effects, they will probably win it.

I'm not sure why this movie has gotten such negative reviews. The plot is good. Different in tone than the first, but good. Perhaps these negative reviews are coming from people who did not see or were not influenced by the first film. I came of age during the arcade era, and the first movie captured that age perfectly. To see it come to life again with this stunning movie was thrilling. I could see a few more plot twists this movie could have explored, but it did a good enough job with attention to detail, some interesting conceptual ideas, and plenty of references to the old movie to be enjoyed by fans of the first movie.

It might sound quaint to say this was the best scifi show ever, but given the time when this show was made (1981), it was WAY ahead of its time. What made this show so compelling wasn't the special effects but the entire conceptual premise, which was more far out and mystical than any other show before or since. As a long-time fan of scifi such as Star Wars and Star Trek, this show more than any other is the most memorable in influencing my young mind about the possibilities of extraterrestrial intelligence, consciousness, and the outer reaches of human potential. Despite only 5 shows, I still see its influence on my conceptions of what's possible to this day. Judson Scott did an outstanding job of portraying a highly evolved, spiritual, intelligent and compassionate being that has been unmatched since this show. Like others here I would do almost anything, pay almost anything to get a copy of the show.

This is hard to post this, but I'm disappointed with the third film. Oh, don't get me wrong, the style, the acting, the mood, the intensity and visauls... all were simply awesome, best yet in fact! I was even able to get past some of the major discontinuities.

However, this film was paced too fast, almost as if everyone was over caffienated. All the scenes felt rushed. Very little was explained, too little detail, too many jumps from one scene to another - disjointed, not smooth.

I mean, the film went from fall to spring (as evidenced by the Womping willow dropping, and then getting its leaves back) in less than 15 minutes by the clock! Think about it, 6 months of the school year went by in 1/8 of the film!! Rushed, rushed, rushed.

They also changed the ambient "situationals" of several of the scenes, apparently all in an effort to get through this film as fast as possible.

And finally, I think the smoking gun, is this film is 15 minutes shorter than the first two films, yet the story is longer and more complex. Why did they cut out so much? What were they thinking?

No mention of Moony Padfoot, Wormtail?!!

From what I can tell, this film basically went from the highlights of every OTHER chapter.

Hopefully, upon repeated viewings this film will grow on me. But unlike the first two films, I walked out of the theatre feeling cheated. This film deserved to be 30 minutes longer. When the film came to an end.. my feeling was, "that's it, it's over?"

I think it obviously comes down to a combination of direction and editing. Was Alfonso on speed? Sure seems like it to me.

Hopefully, they will come out with an extended version at some point, assuming they filmed more critical scenes. Please oh please, lets pray they did!

Hopefully the new director, Mike Newell will do a better job for the fourth film, which is even more demanding of complexity, detail, pacing, and length.

P.S. Gary Oldman was brilliant!