My "disappointment" with the Movie Part 2

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "karategal1210" <karategal1210 at ...> wrote:
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> Larry,
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> I totally agree with all your points here. JK Rowling wove a better ending to this story.  Harry's speech to Tom Riddle was one of my favorite parts of the book. .... Well, we got a good ending to the films. It just could have been so much better if they stuck to Rowling's marvelous ending.
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> danielle 
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Steve replies:

In the books, I thought the scene between Harry and Voldemort, as well as the King's Cross scene with Dumbledore and Harry, dragged a but, at least from a cinematic perspective. Those long complex dialog scenes would have slowed the movie to a crawl.

Though I do agree, that a few details in the movie could have been handled better. 

One additional criticism I have is that there is too much 'stand on your mark and react' to David Yates directing. It is his TV background showing through. There are many scenes in which people should have moved forward, when instead they simply stood on their mark. 

Now in the books, there is more time for long drawn out scenes, and I really enjoyed those scenes in the books, but at the same time knew full well that they couldn't play out that way in the movies. 

Steve/bboyminn