movie opinions

[hickengruendler]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at e...> 
wrote:
>
> I won't be going to the movie till next week, if then.  i have to 
find out
> if it's playing in a local theater equipped with Descriptive video 
service,
> since this seems to be a very visual movie.  However, i will be 
interested
> to hear opinions from everyone who gets to it sooner.  Especially 
from those
> who didn't particularly like the POA movie because of changes to 
plot or
> things left out.  POA was so disappointing to me, and so far, all 
i've read
> sounds like those who liked that one, like this one.  i can't wait 
to read
> what you all think!
> 
> Sherry
>

Hickengruendler:

I liked PoA, therefore I might not be the right person to answer you 
here, but in spite of the fact that several scenes were cut (due to 
the length of the book), I think it is closer to the books than the 
PoA movie was. IMO; everything they cut in GoF were things they could 
cut or simplify, while the biggest flaw in PoA was that they cut the 
Marauders explanation, of all things. 

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I think the biggest change was, that Crouch senior seemed much nicer 
than in the book. You can't really call him a sympathetic, but he was 
not unlikeable in the movie either (despite of looking like Hitler). 
Everyone else was pretty much in character, and that includes 
Dumbledore, for the most part. There was only one scene, where he 
acted OOC, which was after the Champions were chosen. I find it a bit 
unfair, that many fans seem to judge movie Dumbledore solely by that 
scene currently, because I think it's the exception rather than the 
rule. The houseleves were gone, Rita was there, but the Beetle 
storyline wasn't. The Crouch family tragedy was simplified a bit. 
Molly and the older Weasley sons are missing, as are the Dursleys. 
These were the biggst changes, and I can't say that I really minded 
any of them.

Very good movie.