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HP: Order of the Pheonix (movie)

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E. Spaceman:
Overall pretty enjoyable but defintely the corniest movie i've seen in a long time. Honestly some of the dialogue seemed to just be brimming with diabetes, it's still not as bad as the last one but nowhere near as good as Prisoner of Azkaban. I went to see it with friends which made it all better, for example one of them remarked how similar Luna Lovegood was to Cyndi Lauper and i just couldn't stop giggling for the next hour. I was also amused by Sirius' death scene as it was pretty much the exact scene as when Gandalf falls in Moria during LOTR. Just replace frodo with harry and boromir with lupin (both Wood and Bean are far superior actors though) and you have the same; a character dies, slomo muted shot of the innocentish character screaming NOOOOOOOOO, redheaded bearded character holds him.

I also didn't like Helena Bonham Carter very much because she was really just playing her role in Big Fish (which was also a far better movie).

I did however love Umbridge, and her office was a perfect study in kitsch

Faker:

--- Quote from: ThePQ4 on 11 Jul 2007, 14:06 ---I don't think it could be as bad as what Cuaron did with PoA (waaaaay to dark).
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Gonna have to completely disagreed with you there. PoA is, in my opinion, the best of the films so far, and by quite some distance.

Going to see OotP tonight and am really genuinely looking forward to it, I have never really be that pushed about the previous films, but think the excitement building round the last book has spilled over to this film for me

ThePQ4:

--- Quote from: TrekkieTechie on 12 Jul 2007, 00:13 ---I think the movie was better than the book.

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BLASHPHEMY!

As for Kreacher being in the film, via Rowlings request --yes, because he did have an interesting role in the 5th novel (and I'm not sure if that role was upheld in the movie, since i won't see it until next week), and I think he'll be making a fairly important return in the last book... I like that Rowling has some say in what goes on in the movies, because she kind of keeps it real, and can veto anything that is ludicris --such as, in the PoA when Cuaron wanted to have tiny little people playing a piano or something, and Rowling said no, because that was just something that wouldn't exists in her world... I wish she would have vetoed that goddamn shrunken head. Cripes. That thing still pisses me off...

And I'm not saying that PoA was a bad film, or that Cuaron is a bad director (quite the contrary, I love his films), but I wanted that kind of darkness for later...I mean, the third one is still sort of...light, and airy, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel sort of thing. Harry is never in any actual great peril in it...Where as the tunnel begins to close at the end of the 4th film, which (after watching it again recently), was done very well... I have high hopes for OotP, but I am worried about being disappointed. OotP is one of my favorite books, and I want it done justice. Ack.

TrekkieTechie:

--- Quote from: ThePQ4 on 12 Jul 2007, 05:40 ---
--- Quote from: TrekkieTechie on 12 Jul 2007, 00:13 ---I think the movie was better than the book.

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BLASHPHEMY!

As for Kreacher being in the film, via Rowlings request --yes, because he did have an interesting role in the 5th novel (and I'm not sure if that role was upheld in the movie, since i won't see it until next week), and I think he'll be making a fairly important return in the last book...

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Yes, I am a heretic. Hell, I think I'm a heretic -- movies are never better than the books. And the thing is, Kreacher doesn't have a huge role in this movie, so the only possible reason for his inclusion is that he has some über-important role to play in Deathly Hallows. So we can infer from this that Kreacher is more important than, say, the two-way mirrors, because even though Rowing said they'll play a part in DH, she didn't insist on them being present in the film.

StaedlerMars:

--- Quote ---I feel slightly guilty -- I think the movie was better than the book.
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Really? I didn't like the movie at all. I went in with great hopes (I've loved all the other Harry Potter movies so far), but I was just so disappointed. I mean sure, great special effects and a great story. But really, I felt like the movie was just sum up of the book. Something like "in case you didn't read it, here's the most important stuff that happened." Which it basically is.

I feel like they could have done so much more with this movie. I felt a lot less connected with the characters in this movie than in the others.

Maybe it also has to do with the fact that the book was so much that it was impossible to get all the important story details in AND make it a good movie. I feel like they cut out several parts of the movie to make it of a presentable length (I believe just over two hours).

*Spoiler if you haven't read the books (which you should. NOW)*
Plus, Am I the only one who thinks the scene with the weasleys leaving school could have been so much cooler/was a lot cooler in the book?

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