Finally got to see the movie - Spoilers Warning (Review a little long)

[Anne Marie Flynn]

  I just got the chance to see the movie last night. I'm still rather conflicted on how I feel about the movie and whether or not I liked it. I watched it with my sisters and husband, one of whom reads the books and is also a fan, and the other who has only seen the movies (and only 2 out of the previous 3). The sister who hasn't read the books had a very hard time following along. Myself and my other sister didn't. My husband bailed half-way through (But, he's only seen PoA anyway.)     
  I wasn't surprised that all the elf stuff came out. They had to make cuts somewhere, and I don't think that storyline really took off after GoF anyway. I don't think that it was an appropriate choice though to have the audience make the assumption that Neville of all people would steal from Snape who terrifies him. But I'm wondering if that scene with Neville and Harry by the lake wasn't meant to help the audience make the assumption that Neville got the gillyweed from there?
   
  I was disappointed that all Fred and George's joke stuff came out, as well as the fact that there was prize money involved in winning the cup. How does that set up Fred and George's departure in OotP? One line that the winner gets 10,000 G's would have taken care of that. I would be very saddened if their departure from Hogwarts were deleted in OotP. I can't wait to see their swamp.
   
  I was also disappointed to see that Sirius was 99% gone from this one, as well. They took out the end scene when Dumbledore begins to mobilize the OotP. That scene sets up the whole next book. Again, I can understand they needed to make cuts, but in my opinion, not at the expense of this scene.
   
  I also don't think Dumbledore adequately explained to Harry what happened with his and Voldemort's wands. He just sort of glassed over it. I also missed Percy's character. He had a big role in this book and a big role in the next one. I'm thinking we won't see him there either. I think Marisa Richardson was fantastic as Rita Skeeter and I wish we saw more of her, but that story also got the ax. It'll be interesting to see how they reconcile that in the next one, but maybe they'll take out the whole bit with everyone thinking Harry is crazy and shunning him (which I think would be a bad decision on their part).
   
  Overall, I think I liked it. I'm sure I'll watch it again and again like the other ones. I think the graveyard was too quick, and I didn't really like the way to they did the ghosts coming out of Voldemort's wand, especially since unless you read the book, you had absolutely no idea who Harry's parents were or what was going on there. 
   
  I could go on, but I think I have long enough.
  





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