Saw OotP today

[Richelle Votaw]

I saw OotP in IMAX today and absolutely loved it.  Leaving spoiler space 
before commenting....

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Okay, now for the movie.  Overall I was really pleased with it.  The acting 
was much improved, on a first watching at least no "wooden lines" jumped out 
at me like they have in the past.  Alan Rickman stole the show any time he 
was on camera.  Evanna was priceless as Luna.

Now for what wasn't there.   One of the key scenes I missed was Harry's 
post-Sirius death tantrum in DD's office, but I can see why they cut it. 
Same with all the other rooms in the Dept of Mysteries or else we'd have had 
a four hour movie.  I also missed the statues magically protecting Harry, 
but I guess we can't have it all.  No 2-way mirrors, does this mean they 
weren't important after all?

Now some random comments on what was there.  Very random.

a) Sirius through the veil--I keep reading comments that he was dead before 
falling, am I the only one convinced his facial expression distinctly 
changed?  Which couldn't have happened if the spell fully hit him.

b) They seemed to repeat the info about Neville's parents quite often.  Is 
this relevant or just making up for not having the St. Mungo's scene?

c) Luna's missing items were mentioned prominantly more than once as well.

d) Can Daniel Radcliffe possibly get any cuter?

e) I'm not sure how clear the possession thing was.  If I hadn't have read 
the book I'd have thought he was having a seizure until Voldemort appeared. 
I'm going again Monday with a friend who hasn't read all of the book, so I'm 
anxious to see what she thinks is going on there.

f) I wish they'd made a bigger point of Snape being the one who notified 
everyone what Harry was up to going to the MoM.  Unless I missed it we were 
left to make an assumption on that.

As for the 3-D effects, pretty good.  I especially liked the part when the 
prophecies started falling, I'm certain one of them nearly hit me. :)  Also 
the shattering glass was definitely in my hair. LOL!

All in all, an excellent movie and I can't wait to go see it again.

Richelle