Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

ruthers, that's why I'm saying that whole scene was very weird. I KNOW that all that crazy stuff is required to get into the ministry, and then all of a sudden it's like "we're in the sky" POP "we're in the department of mysteries!". I bet you they actually filmed the scenes of them breaking in, but they left them on the cutting room floor. They didn't even have to go into such detail but just show SOMETHING. Having no transition at all just made things very jarring and poorly constructed.

I do hope there's a director's cut of the movie as I imagine a lot of things were cut to get the overall time down to a "sellable" range (HP movies tend to be pretty long).

And the third movie is so awesome with the whole time travel bit, I loved that. I've heard that each book gets better, so the 5th movie obviously had the most potential to be the best, but the poor film-making ruined its chances unfortunately. It's still a good movie though, and I'm sure I'll be watching it again.

I downloaded it off of bitTorrent, and watched it yesterday, and I thought that it was pretty good. The beginning was way to rushed, and there were some things I would have liked to see included that were left out. About half way through the movie it really picked uo, and the end was awesome, but I liked the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemore more in the book, with the way Dumbledore bewitched the Fountain of Magical Brethren. They left out Ron becomeing a prefect, all the Quidditich stuff, which really helped develope Ginny, a lot of stuff about Grimmauld place (the locket, Regulus, some KReacher stuff, anyone?), and more people escaped Azkaban than just Bellatrix who vaguely reminded me of Calypso from Pirates 3.

I agree with you dialupinternetuser. I was listening to Mugglecast (a Harry Potter podcast), and they were talking about how they left out WAY too much Kreacher stuff because he becomes quite important in HP6 and 7! And there hasn't really been any quidditch in the movies for a while, which is rather disappointing (maybe the special effects are too expensive?). However, the locket & Regulus Black comes into the story in Half Blood Prince, although Sirius does mention his brother Regulus in book 5.

The main thing that I've been disappointed with the movies is how they NEVER introduced Bill or Charlie Weasley! What are they going to do in movie 6 when Bill and Fleur are engaged? Argh.

I've seen all the HP movies and I am actually not keen on them. I love the books and the whole fantasy stuff there but the movies are not my cup of tea. Maybe because everybody imagines the world of Harry and Dumbledor in a different way and this is why I was disappointed after I watched the movie. Does that make sense? 

I've only watched the first movie, yet I've read all the books, I think that says something. I'm not against the movies, per se, I'm just not that excited by them. So yes, that makes sense.