Chamber of Secrets comments:
I have been enjoying working my way through these edits, but HP2 had some issues I wanted to bring up.
Most important is that nearly every deleted scene has it’s volume noticably lower than the rest of the film. I found myself grabbing the remote everytime an added scene came in. I don’t know what kind of effort would have been required to fix that though, since I’ve never edited 5.1 content myself.
Also what I found most jarring was one scene out of order.
Shortly after the dueling club incident, there is a deleted scene where Harry overhears people gossiping about him being the Heir of Slytherin. ADM then edit’s to Harry finding Nearly Headless Nick and the kid (can’t remember his name) petrified.
In the ABC version after Harry hears the conversation and leaves the library, he bumps into Hagrid who is holding a dead chicken and explains about needing a charm for either a fox or a blood-sucking bugbear. This explains later why when he bursts into Dumbledore’s office (to say Harry is innocent), he is hold a dead chicken.
In ADM’s edit, the dead chicken conversation takes place much later in the film, which starts you wondering why Hagrid keeps walking around the castle with dead chickens all the time. He isn’t, it was only once…
Besides that, I still love these discs.
