Definition of a "good movie" for me & Problems with "Ship"ping

[draco382]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" <patientx3 at a...> 
wrote:
> florenceklecka wrote:
> 
> >>The main reason I joined this discussion group was because after 
my
> husband and I saw PoA, we sat there in disbelief, muttering, "Oh,
> *hell* no!" that this was the way to end a movie that had been at 
> least a half hour too short and so different in focus, 
> characterization, and "feel" of the book.<<
> 
> Just curious, what did you think the feel of the book was? Because 
> personally, I thought it fit the overall feel of the book quite 
well 
> (CoS, on the other hand, was butchered).


I snipped many of the previous comments for the sake of space, but 
let me just say I think they are all very good points.  In addition, 
I just wanted to pose one question.  It is fairly obvious that the 
movie-makers are definetly leaning Ron/Hermione.  The movie has 
become terribly coy and suggestive (and blatant) about Ron and 
Hermione "ending up together" and even in interviews, the cast now 
openly says that there is something going on with Ron and Hermione.  
Wow -- that's quite an assumption to make!  Now, I'm personally not 
shipping in one direction or another, but it surprises me that such 
a strong opinion about this would be expressed -- especially when 
JKR has a penchant for throwing her audience WAAAAY off guard at the 
last minute.  I am under the impression that the movie makers really 
don't "get" JKR and for that matter, Harry Potter at all.  

Aren't the film makers concerned that they would like quite silly 
when making movie # 7 and inexplicably, JKR has written that Ron 
will end with Susan Bones while Harry ends up with no one and 
Hermione is engaged to Draco Malfoy (for example)??  Does anyone 
else think the movie makers are really "jumping the gun" in trying 
to out-guess JKR?  

draco382 (who really does like the movie though...)