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HP: Order of the Pheonix (movie)
Mnementh:
I have tickets to see it tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to it.
Hairy Joe Bob:
Nah, I like my films to be a bit more grown up. More violence. And sex, sex is always good. And there's just not enough in Harry Potter.
Blue Kitty:
I can not wait to see it as this film series is one of the few that I can actually go out and see a film with my mom and we will actually have a good time
really, I owe her for having her take a friend and I to see Pokemon: The First Movie
TrekkieTechie:
Literally just walked in from seeing it.
I feel slightly guilty -- I think the movie was better than the book. Yes, heresy, fetch your pitchforks, torches, etc. But it was much more tightly woven than the book in many ways (the Traitor!Cho subplot? the Legilimency/Occlumency final-battle tie-in? Harry's snarky last words to Umbridge? hell yes) -- it's as though they took what JKR came up with and refined it; they created what JKR should have written in the first place. Sweet!Grawp was excellent. The underlying theme of family was executed pretty well.
The final battle was fluid and realistic (or as realistic as a bunch of wizards fighting for good vs. evil can be), and the visual effects were potent without being overpowering. I agree it was too quickly-paced in general -- and it almost isn't that it's too quickly paced, it's that there was no real sense of time passing; it felt like it all took place in September -- but some of the editing was infuriatingly slow (holding too long on the wrong shots, et cetera). The score was at times perfect and at other times strangely absent.
Also interesting, as always, is what's included and what's not leading to clues about what's important and what's not in the book(s). No mention of prefects is made; Sirius' two-way mirror is conspicuous only by its absence, though JKR has said it will play a part in Book 7. Kreacher was included, reportedly at JKR's instructions, so we know she has some control over what's included and what's not.
The best of the movies so far; the only I'll be guaranteed to purchase for home viewing.
CmonMiracle:
AWESOME!
Also for some reason I have a picture of Ariel from The Little Mermaid next to my smileys.
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