Jurassic Park! Ahh. The special effects in that amazed me for ages. 
Yes, I think too much fire and somoke and flashes of light would not work for such a wizard, though I wonder how Gandalf fought the Nazgûl at Weathertop (is that Amon Sûl?) in LOTR, that might have been a spectacular display of the kind 
zxcvbn was talking about, only I agree with 
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					Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard
					
				 Wizards were loremasters and among the very wisest in ME, but were very capable of doing extradonary things with their powers, but it was not something that they did lightely. In Harry Potter they just pop off those magic spells as if they were nothing. It's called a wizards duel, not a fireworks duel, like they show in Harry Potter | 
	
 Thats how real wizards fight. Harry Potter is a... erm...*
And as for 300, that did not even make an attempt to be real.
*edit: I still haven't found a word, and spellcaster just won't do the trick, as that gives an image of knowledge and power, of which young (even though he might be older than me in over half of the books) Harry has none.