Cinepals - HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

For the first time ever, Kristen and Michael dive into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, starting with the series’ debut, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.," as young Harry discovers his magical heritage and begins his journey at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he uncovers a dark secret about the mysterious Philosopher’s Stone.  Directed by Chris Columbus (Home Alone & Mrs. Doubtfire), the film stars Daniel Radcliffe (The Woman in Black & Swiss Army Man) as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint (Thunderpants & Cherrybomb) as Ron Weasley, Emma Watson (Beauty and the Beast & Little Women) as Hermione Granger, Richard Harris (Gladiator & The Count of Monte Cristo) as Albus Dumbledore, Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey & The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) as Professor McGonagall, Alan Rickman (Die Hard & Sense and Sensibility) as Severus Snape, Robbie Coltrane (Cracker & Ocean’s Twelve) as Hagrid, Tom Felton (The Apparition & Risen) as Draco Malfoy, Ian Hart (Enemy of the State & Finding Neverland) as Professor Quirrell, John Hurt (The Elephant Man & V for Vendetta) as Mr. Ollivander, and Richard Griffiths (Withnail & I & The History Boys) as Uncle Vernon.   Join our Patreon www.cinejump.com or become a YouTube member for access to full length watchalong reactions! You can find us on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA: ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals   ~KRISTEN STEPHENSONPINO~ Insta: @Kris10Kesp   ~MICHAEL~ Insta: @booseisloose

Senna. Pals. What's up, everybody? It's Chris and Stefan Spino, joined by Mr. Michael Boost. Hello, hello. Today, we are watching, believe it or not, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. My younger sister is going to go crazy

because she is a massive, untouchable Harry Potter fan. Her entire room was Harry Potter, okay? Love it. And let me tell you, she's going to be really pissed off that I'm doing this now and didn't watch it with her for her childhood. Oh, no.

I know. I was like, nah, this is dumb. So we're about to find out what it is and how we feel. And you know what? Thank you for coming on the ride. If you haven't done so already, please hit the subscribe button, bell icons, all notifications, and up about this video. Let's get to it. It feels strange to be going home, doesn't it?

Oh, what going, huh? Not really. Not really. I'm not going to... The Dudleys could never be home. Hoggworth's home That's true that's facts I was like I was like huh and I'm like

Oh yeah you're not going home not really You're not you're going to torture He's just leaving for summer break You're going back to hell Yeah right he's going to like literal child abuse Bye Harry Bye bye bye Harry Goodbye everybody

Goodbye everybody All right Wow it just kind of ends abruptly doesn't it Yes it did Wow speeding through the credits Oh my gosh All right. All right. All right. I thought this was absolutely adorable. I thought it was fun. It was exciting. It was different. It was I want to go there. You want to go to Hogwarts? Yes. We're going to Universal Studios. Next week. We're going. Done. We got go.

Hey, Valanos. Everybody, let's go. But no, I totally agree. I think they do a really good job of transporting you into the wizarding world of Harry Potter. The music is incredible. Acting is great. I love Daniel. Radcliffe as an actor. I think he's incredible. I think he's great. And I thought he did a delightful job in this character, despite being like very, very young to start, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, basically championing a series that would take him through like nearly two decades, I think. It's like, it's like 10 or 15 years that these movies go across. So I do know that at some point the original Dumbledore passes away, right? I believe so, yes. So that they replace him, because I remember my sister crying like she was upset about that. But I also heard, I was thinking about this while we were watching it, Snape, I heard, so Snape passed away as well.

Oh yeah, Alan Rickman passed away, yeah. I only know by Snape, but, so I actually heard that he's never watched any of these Harry Potter films. Really? That's what she said. Like, I remember, that's what she told me when we were growing up. And it's, like, because I remember when he passed, she was like, oh, my God, because he said he wouldn't watch them until, until, like, until the end, until they finished

the series? supposedly he did not watch the Harry Potter movie saying he was planning and watching it I don't know when and then he died before he could even watch him passed away before he could yes wow supposedly that's tough that's what I heard but anyways with that being said anyways yo the casting director struggled with these kids absolutely a thousand percent not just the three leads not just the three leads every single child they cast it in this was absolutely adorable super cute so damn cute and I was saying this earlier but like Rupert Grint, by far, the cutest.

Like, little Ron Wiesley, adorable. And the way he plays Ron is so good. Dude, they have, I know he does. Like, they have the strong cast on here, too. Like, Maggie Smith is one of my old-time favorite actresses. Yeah. I think everything about her is just stunning. She's incredible.

I think she is a stunning woman. She's aged gracefully. And she's just a badass, man. she's so damn cool and she's full of authority like she's great Professor McGonagal is like one of the best characters she's so fun

she's so good and like the thinly veiled passive like not at all passive aggressive but like also passive aggressive like firmness with which she communicates to everybody yeah and like the constant restraint of like this

dour you know reserved woman is so funny because some of her line deliveries are just hilarious I think there's a lot of great lines in here I think Ron definitely you guys already know he's my favorite character By far

She's a Ron stand I am I am team Ron all away Mr. Weasley take me with you I am there If I watched this back then I would have been drooling over this kid I would have like oh my God He's amazing

Perhaps it's best that we've waited until this long You know you got past your awkward crush phase and could appreciate him for the character. Right? Seriously. I think this is a good thing. Hermione Ranger is just adorably funny, but also such a pain in the knickers.

She is such a pain at the beginning that I'm like, I'm physically, like, tense when she talks in the beginning of the movie. But then she, she, like, mellows out. Like Ron and Harry said, they were bad influences on her in the best way. And she chilled out a little bit and, like, became better as a character, which I think is delightful and a fun little, like, micro arc

I guess, a fun little small arc where she's like, okay, I can loosen up a little bit and I don't need to be quite as no-it-all. But then her no-it-all came in handy. When they're getting to the philosopher's stone or the sorcerer stone, it came in handy. She knew what to do with the vines

and all of them. I still think, though, Dumbledore awarding them points for something they technically shouldn't have been doing. Oh, I felt like that was BS. So cheap. I think it's cheating. Like, yes, were they underage and did they go against some

intensity that, you know, they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. But do they look kind of cool for succeeding game that far? Yeah. That's true. But do I see favoritism? Yeah. Absolutely. A thousand percent. I almost feel like that was cheating. Just really took them from like

fourth place to first place. It's almost like the rules don't even apply anymore. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's like, okay, where do you draw the line? But like, uh... And he gave him like the exact mathematical amount of points to give them like a 10 point lead like that's so silly well it was funny because even professor mic uh you know professor mcgonigal yeah she got it nice she did the same thing though but you know like she

like with the troll that's true i mean okay so like she took away points there's a precedent for giving them points for bravery in the face of like you're already doing something wrong but she only gave them like five points each right it wasn't 50 50 60 and then a whopping 10 for Neville, Neville just gets 10. Like, he wasn't even going to give Neville points, but he realized that the amount of points he'd given the rest of them would tie them with Slytherin. That's what, that's, that's Michael's conclusion. He's like, shit, I didn't give him enough points.

No. Negal, you stood up to your friends. I'm going to give you 10 extra points to barely pass Slytherin. Yep, that's what I'm saying. Wait, so if you were to be on which team, which team would you do? Oh, I'm a Ravenclaw all the way. Why? smart and book learning and like I don't really know what's what because I don't think are we going

get into maybe like later on I think they start defining it a little bit more as you start interacting because like especially in this book you don't or at least this movie in the book there's a lot of like interaction with other people from other houses yeah outside of just like Draco and then the rest of the Gryffindores so you kind of meet like the other characters in the houses and you don't quite see them as much in this okay so then as we'll see it then I'll be able to kind of decide where I want to Hopefully, again, my experience is largely the books and the books have the ability

to elaborate more, whereas in a movie they kind of got to condense it, so we'll see what characters are condensed, but there's definitely at least a couple of characters that I remember that are from different houses that come into play in the later books. So you'll start defining the houses more,

but like Slytherans, like the crafty sort of ambitious ones, Gryffindor as a general rule, is like brave and strong. leaders and things like that. Ravenclaw is more of like the smart, learned, intelligent ones. And then Hufflepuff are the like fun, friendly ones. Wait, what's Gryffindor? Gryffindor is the one that Harry Ron and Hermione. They're like brave and leaders. Oh, okay. I was about to say, what are they then? They're not like, why? How come, okay, Hermione,

because she's smart. She fills under a lot of different categories. I feel like after what you just said. So that's what I was like, well, what are they then? Right. So she's, she went over the brave side. Yeah, she's on the brave side. Got it, got it, got it. Hermione could arguably also be a Ravenclaw, but she's got the bravery and, like, leadership and gumption of a Gryffindor. Slytherin are, they're often painted as, like, the evil house

because, like, all the evil wizards come from Slytherin, but Slyn is, like, the cunning, ambitious, sly ones. They're the ones who are willing to do whatever they have to in order to succeed to accomplish their goals. There's nothing wrong with being a Slytherin if you're out there, one of those people. I when I was reading the books And like had friends that were reading the books We were all talking about what houses we were in

You know, we were young And so somebody would say, I want to be in Slytherin And we'd be like, you're an evil wizard Oh my gosh There's nothing wrong with being a Slytherin Not every Slytherin is evil It's okay Well, I am yet to be determined what I am

However, if I was to be a character I would be Mr. Ron Wiesley Absolutely I buy that a thousand percent Yeah absolutely I guarantee that would be my character This was so much fun And I think it was filmed really well, even though I could tell some of the CGI, you know.

It didn't age. It didn't. I don't think it bothered me so much. No. It gave me excitement. It gave me wonder. It gave me that like little child inside me. And I almost felt like I was like going to Disneyland or something.

I felt like I was a little kid going to Disneyland for the first time going, wow. Like I almost felt like I was. I was so amused and so captured into the world. Yeah. But it felt like the music just felt very Disneyland to me. If I remember correctly. But it also gave me like. The music is done by.

Yep, John Williams. John Williams did the music. I was going to say that, but I wasn't super certain. John Williams also did most notably Star Wars. So you hear a lot of like Star Wars similarities. So I was saying, you know, if I was to say here, my younger sister, It's just like, oh my gosh, Chris, oh, now you're a fan of Harry Potter. Oh, now you're, I love to be like us.

Oh, no. I'm sorry. I know. It's just, you know, growing up, you know, I just, I didn't have time for it. I had to think I was out playing sports. Like, I was being a cool kid. I didn't have time for wizards and magic and we had a wand and would come to me and go, she would say the line from, I recognize. Wingardian, Liviosa.

She would say that. me all the time and I just look at her. I'm like, oh, you're so dumb. Get on my way. Like, stop it. And she's like, if I one day learn magic, like, I turn you into a toe and I do this, I did it. And I'm like, oh my gosh. She had the cape and everything. You mean the wizard robes? Thank you very much.

They're robes. You know what? If you love something, wear it loud and proud. Don't let your older sister make fun of you. And I bet you feel real silly now sitting here, watching these movies and being excited about the world, feeling like a

kid at Disneyland again. Like, you loved this. You got to admit you loved this and you need to, as soon as we leave the studio, call your sexer and give her an apology. You've got to apologize. Nope, taking to my grave. Hopefully she never sees this. I never could tell her that I'm like, you know, if I would have seen this, like during

her time, I probably would have been that kid wearing it with her. Honestly, if I'm being honest, I probably would have been like, yeah, maybe I want a wand too. I have my own wand and everything. She even had like, she even bought the candy. for it, but I didn't understand the candy. Oh, the Bernie Bots every flavored beans? That's a good thing.

I don't know. I just know it had Harry Potter stuff. Like that, everything she got for Christmas and her birthday, everything was Harry Potter. So I just remember seeing it. And I'm like, that looks weird. And she's like, oh, look, you can get vomit. You can get this. I'm like, I'm good.

I will say that is the one piece of like Harry Potter memorabilia that I will never understand. I heard they really do. They're awful. They're terrible. It's so bad. Really? I had the, um,

misfortune of eating a soap-flavored one, and that's not even, like, some of the worst ones they have. Yeah, I think I was just being a brat because I was just kind of like, okay, these books are big and stuff showing off and like, whatever. I'm not going to jump on your bandwagon. That's too mainstream for me. I'm going to be different. It was the only thing that I was like trying to stay strong on, you know?

Yeah, well, now here you are. It's like, it's like, yeah, you know, here I am. Here you are. Better late than never. My bad, Kelly, sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Anyways, you guys, yeah, it is yummy.

The beginning of the apology. I think the benefit for me is I've come far enough away from the books that I remember basic plot beats so I can watch the movies and enjoy because I've always been one person where I hate watching a movie adaption. Do you think this held up to the book or do you think the book's better? I personally always think that the books are better than the films. So if I want to watch a film, I sometimes struggle and I won't touch the book because if I feel let down by the film, I'm going to hate the film. You're going to, you like hate the book. Yeah.

Yeah. No, no, I'm going to love the book, but I'll hate, I'll hate the film. I'm going to hate the film. I think going from book to film is worse than going from film to book. Yes. I think if you watch this film and you're like, oh, man, I'd really love to, like, know more about this world and get the expanded fiction and things like that, then read the book. Yes, but I don't, yeah, they, I know they leave, like, some stuff.

Like I said, like bit characters that are more involved and, like, some. of the classroom stuff and a little bit more expansion on like the teachers and life at Hogwarts and more of the personalities and more of the personalities and like explaining of the world building is definitely left out so if you're a big fan of that because you've just read the book I don't know if the movies hold up quite as well but I mean like obviously these are well rated movies they're really really well loved across the the fandom of people who read the books and people who just love the film so like there's still I think a really great interpretation of the books I just feel like if I watch the film before reading the books, like the odds are, I'm not going to read the book.

Because if I read the book, I feel like my imagination has already been tainted. Okay. Yeah. So I don't like doing that. So I do love reading the books. I hate going from the book to the movie because I'm so disappointed in more ways than one. Yeah. Every single time.

And it drives me up the wall. I'm like, oh my God, they miss this, this, this. Oh, my God. They miss the best part. or there's something that you, like, cherished in the book, and then they didn't put it in, you're like, why am I, like, the book was so much better. It's almost like, for example,

if you guys have not seen the disaster artists, read the book, the book is a lot better than the film. Fascinating. That's, like, a perfect example. I think the film, yes, the film's great, it's funny, whatever, but for me, I died cackling with the book. I love the book.

And so when I saw the film, I was like, okay, it's good, but, you know, it wasn't the book. It wasn't the book. It wasn't the book. It makes a lot better. But anyways, this was fun. I loved it. It was great. I enjoyed.

I'm glad we're diving into this together. I know. I want to actually watch the next one right now. And I want to bend it. I want to bend watch right now, but that's not happening. Nope. So I got to wait. But anyways, you guys, let us know what you thought of this film.

if you've seen it in the past, how it made you feel that first time you saw it because I feel like right now I do really feel authentically like a child that has seen a whole new world going to Disneyland. Oh my God! Don't you dare close your eyes.

A new fantastic point of view. Okay, right, right, right. Moving on, different movie, different movie. No, really, if you felt that much joy and stuff, share your stories with us in the comments. Because I would love to hear them. I know he would as well I liked it

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