GOF - My View!

[starjackson1]

For what it's worth:

I have seen the movie twice now, and I simply *adore* it. It is 
certainly the best one so far, and it will be a hard one to live up 
to when they do the remaing three films in the series. 

I have read a lot of fan reviews of GOF - and the main complaint 
seems to be that it did not follow the book - left tons of important 
stuff out - and made stuff up in some cases.

I am fortunate I guess, in the fact that I have not read GOF in a 
couple of years. So I am a bit sketchy on some of the plot. For that 
reason, the inconsistancies in this movie did not bother me at all.  

I just feel that if fans are going to be upset because so much of 
the books are left out of the films, and plot lines altered, they 
had better not go to the films anymore.  My own opinon is that 
people should enjoy the films for what they are and stop wishing for 
something else.  I can guarentee you that if you don't try to do 
that, you are going to be disappointed again and again.

The films will never do justice to the books. They can only be 
appoximations to the book, and nothing more.  That is the nature of 
film making.  Having said that, I am pleased with the way the films 
have indeed captured the spirit, and to a large extent the intention 
of the books. 

There are some things I don't like.  I don't like Michael Gambon as 
Dumbledore.  Richard Harris was wonderful in the role, and Gambon 
just doesn't get it right.  I think it's a lapse on his part, as an 
actor, that he did not do some research on his part and at least 
talked to JKR or read some of the books. 

Regarding characters, I don't think we will be seeing more of Flur 
in the movies. In the movie version of GOF, she does not meet Ron's 
brother Bill, so she can't fall in love with him and be engaged to 
him by "Half-Blood Prince".  So I think that whole story arch will 
be shut out.  

Regarding the *books* themselves, I found it odd that Victor Krum 
never made another apperance in a HP book after GOF.  Usually JKR 
doesn't introduce a character and then not bring them back sometime 
later.  

My two cents...