Third Movie let down???

[lisanicr]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "dally1025" <dally_1025 at h...> 
wrote:
> Since the PoA is my favorite in the series, I am looking forward to 
> this movie more than the other two.  After looking at the some of 
the 
> released pictures from the film, I'm starting to feel like it is 
> going to be a major let-down.  The characters seem to be wearing 
> muggle clothes and it doesn't seem to contain the fantasy I loved 
so 
> much.  I guess I won't know for sure until next June, just thought 
I 
> would see if anyone has the same concerns.  
> Cera

Now Me:
I have to say my fav of the series is PoA and I don't want to say 
that I'm setting myself up for a letdown of a movie but I don't know 
how I will feel until I've seen it. I wasn't too keen on Gary Oldman 
as Sirius and frankly, I'm still not. I'm keeping an open mind 
though :) For me, I keep the books and the movies separate and accept 
that things that are filmed will be different than things that are 
written. While books are entertainment, films are seriously mass 
market entertainment so they have to play up to the audience. I think 
the crew will do the best they can with the time frame and script 
they have been given. *crosses fingers*
Slightly OT, on of my favorite books is High Crimes by Joseph Finder 
(read it in under 24hrs)and I was ecstatic that it would be made into 
a movie, especially with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The two 
could not have been more different. Characters names were changed and 
the plot was missing one key element which put a hole in the movie 
for those of us who have read the book. The second time that I 
watched the movie, I watched it as just that, something completely 
unrelated to the book and actually enjoyed it as a separate entity.