My OotP Review

[kslmoran]

Just saw the movie and have to say I guess I've resigned myself to the
movies being a Reader's Digest Version of the book.  It feels like I'm
watching the movie in Fast Forward.  You get little bits of lots of
things but they don't dwell on anything for more than a few seconds.

I realize that you can't fit such a large book into a 2 hour movie,
but I can't imagine that any non-reader could figure out half the
things that were going on. 

And you really don't get a chance to get to know any of the new
characters.  We saw Luna, what, like 3 times.  She was such a huge
character in this book.  And somehow she escorts our main 3, Neville
and Ginny to the M of M.

And was Crabbe in this movie?  Goyle was, but everything went by so
fast I couldn't tell if the tall kid standing next to Goyle was a more
grown up Crabbe.  

And I hate it when they throw in characters who get big lines that
weren't in the book.  Like in PoA, the black kid who got 2 juicy,
dramatic lines and the other kid who was hanging out with Malfoy
instead of Crabbe.  You know that they must be related to someone big
in the movie.  Those lines or scenes should have gone to Dean or
Seamus or Crabbe.  

Unfortunately due to time constraints they leave out all the FUN stuff
too.  Fred and George's little end of the year fling was good, but
where was the huge swamp that they left?  That scene was my favorite
in the book.    

I guess I'll just have to wait until it comes out on dvd.  I always
seem to catch more things the more I see it.  They have the kids talk
so fast and the scenes move so quick that sometimes they actually
mention something but it went by so fast that no one actually caught
it (so what's the point, really?)

Karie


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at ... wrote:
>
> I could not understand anything Dudley said at the beginning. I was  
> wondering if it was the same kid.
> 
> sharon<<
>  
> He's the same kid, just grown up and he was making fun of Harry, so
 he was 
> talking funny.  He has the same last name as the little boy playing
 Nigel, 
> IIRC - but they simply can't be related, they look too different!!!
  Can they??? 
>  Weird.  Nigel's a cutie - I'm glad they put him in the  film.  But
that big 
> (heavyset) black boy in the DA isn't the same one  who was in PoA
and took all 
> the lines Dean could've said, is he?  Boy,  Dean's grown up nicely,
but he 
> was always a good-looking kid.  I'm glad  they gave him decent lines
this time.  
> I think that's the most he's said in  any of the HP films.
>  
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