I LIKED IT (bracing for rotten fruit thrown)

[shannon.koch at pharma.novartis.com]

I am a first timer to posting, but after having seen the movie on Friday
and reading the post's (or most of them) I have to say I agree with most
points.

I think the movie would do good to stand alone if you had never read the
books, but unfortunately most, if not all of us have not only read them, we
have memorized them and so we feel a bit cheated out of things we would
have liked to have seen.

To that end, my problems were only the following:

The quiddich being final being cut, would have been nice to see Harry throw
the patronus at Malfoy and finally win the cup

The relationship with Diggory being explained as there will be animosity in
GoF that I thought should be shown where the roots come from.

The tension between Hermoine and Harry and Ron is never developed and that
was one of the plot points I liked in the books, the fact that they grow so
far apart and then come together,  in the movie the scabbers/crookshank
fight is barely an argument

I too had problems with the relationship between the "Marauders" and Snape
not fully explained as the tension between Snape and Black continues in the
next 2 books

 I also thought that maybe the story of how Black, Potter and Pettigrew all
became illegal Animagus to be with Lupin should be explained to show the
bond they had and also to give an idea in GoF of why Hermoine will think
that Rita Skeeter may be one, it's her past experience here that I believe
leads her in part to find that out.

All in all I loved the film, I think the kids are great, Gary Oldman was
terrific as I knew he would be and though Lupin is not how I pictured him
when I read the book, he was great as well, wise and caring and yet fun.

The great thing is, I can read the books over and over and see the "movie"
in my head as I would like it to be and  no-one can make criticisms to it
there!