Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Originally Posted by VitaPup

Whatever, Goblet of Fire was a great movie and by far the beast Harry Potter movie. It managed to maintain a high level of quality while still maintaining the essence of the 4th book (which is my only complaint about the 3rd movie). Sure the movie was choppy in the begining and they left out a few unimportant story lines but it hardly detracts from the entire movie.

I disliked GoF a lot. It was a massive backward step from Prisoner of Azkaban, which remains the only one to capture the feeling of the books and the general magic atmosphere at the school. Plus it was a damn fine film in many aspects; cinematography, editing, score, direction, CGI etc.

Acting sucked though. As it always will with HP movies.

I'm just sort of taking the movies as they come now. It's hard to get excited when the book series isn't even finished yet, and most people are waiting for that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Granted, they can never put in everything, but a decent adaption should be at least fully coherent in itself, without any open threads and no unnecessary baggage either. Five minutes of well used additional screen time could do wonders sometimes.

Indeed, but sometimes five minutes is all a film needs to drag along when it was going perfectly well before. The best thing to do is find the theme of the book and try to cut things that don't relate to it.

God knows the OotP book could have done with some serious cutting. I hope they cut the right things for the film though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.