Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Big Rick Cook]

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^ This is true!

Mind you, and this isn't a spoiler, but a good chunk of the movie will be flashbacks.

From what I read, they removed a lot of the flashbacks, or condensed them down into two big ones.

[Eso Teric]

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Awwwwwwww, yeah.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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My Mom loves Harry Potter, while I lost interest after the third movie because it was so far from the book. (I read all books but 5, they weren't bad.)

I'll still probably see this though, because she needs someone to go with and because... Alan Rickman.

[Riotsword]

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Oh for christ sake this dumb complaint crosses into film now?

What, pray tell, is so dumb about that complaint? I've read all the books, so I'm not just complaining to complain here. Maybe there are better ways to convey a mood than by making it look like the film accidentally sat in the sun.

[John Mora]

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Maybe there are better ways to convey a mood than by making it look like the film accidentally sat in the sun.

Yes, but the director is a hack, so don't expect him to know that. :B

[Loki]

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I thought Order of the Phoenix was pretty good...

[Big Rick Cook]

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It had the potential to be pretty good. It squandered it all in ceaseless montages.

[John Mora]

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Order of the Phoenix is easily the most delicate and introspective of the seven novels. Why did the movie have to be two hours long? Every other Harry Potter movie ran longer, why can't this one?! They screwed themselves out of some major plot points.

[Bon]

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Order of the Phoenix is also the longest book, at 869 pages...

[Loki]

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It had the potential to be pretty good. It squandered it all in ceaseless montages.

I feel the montages were clever, conveyed lot of information quickly, and were generally delightful.

[Funk]

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I didn't like the last two Potter movies, but I really liked Azkaban. I'll still go see this one this week some time.

[John Mora]

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I don't think Goblet of Fire was better than Azkaban, but it had a lot of exciting subject matter to work with and the director did a good job culling the wheat from the chaff in that adaptation.

[Big Rick Cook]

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I feel the montages were clever, conveyed lot of information quickly, and were generally delightful.

And instead of getting a movie that felt something like the book, or even a Cliff's Notes version in movie format, we got a dozen scenes loosely tied together with Filch tacking mandates to the wall and the kids shooting spells at each other.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Order. There were some things about it I found delightful as well. But given the nature of the book, we received only a pale facade of a derivative work that was churned out as quickly as possible. It felt like one montage after another with a few very loosely tied-together plot points to keep the plot moving.

[josh]

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I loved Order of the Phoenix and am eagerly anticipating Half-Blood Prince. that's all I has to say, really. :I

[Sampson]

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I've read all the HP books and loved most of them (except the end of the last book which sucked).

I hate the movies. Not because they're completely terrible, but because its obvious that the only reason they're made is to cash in on the existence of millions of HP fans.

It's like when a Star Wars movie comes out and some two-bit author writes a book version of the movie, or if some mediocre video game studio puts out a 10 hour, six-star game based off a movie the day the movie is released.

These movies are not like the LOTR movies, for example, which were great movies in their own right. If the HP books had never been released and thus these movies were stand-alone, there would've never been a third movie let alone a sixth.