Hasn't Chris Columbus done exactly what he was tasked to do?

[cagina62]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "hpoldfan" <WFeuchter at m...> wrote:
> 
> The dialog in the first two movies was 90% straight from the books.

 MANY reviews that I have read complained if the HP movies changed 
anything that was not like the books.  It seems to be expected, 
mostly among children, that the movies stay true to the books.  I'm 
seeing the same thing brought up about the movie "Holes".  Most of 
the readers of the book LOVED the movie because they said it was 
almost exactly like the book.  I think the difference is that the 
AUTHOR wrote the screenplay for "Holes".  Who else would intimately 
know the heart of the book and thus translate that to the screen? 
Maybe the HP movies should have been made after all 7 books were 
written and then JK would have been available to write the 
screenplays :-)

Gina