Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie review
Here it is, what all of you have been waiting for. A movie review from a huge Harry Potter fan.
To quote Lord Voldemort is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire....."I confess myself disappointed."
I'm not saying the movie was bad or that I didn't enjoy (or that I won't go again and buy it when it comes to DVD). I'm saying that I was disappointed by it. The special effects were great; but I think there was so much more they could have done. I love the book; it is one of my favorite...and the longest, but this was the shortest movie. The scenes were choppy and it just went from scene to scene to scene before you could even process what you just saw. I think they could have put more in it and lengthened the scenes and movie. True Harry Potter fans are going to watch the movie over and over even if it is over 3 hours long.
Umbridge was perfectly cast. She was amazing and really made you dislike her. There was a lot of laughter from the audience I viewed the movie with. There were a lot of funny lines. My favorite (an no, this won't ruin anything, but you have to have read the books to understand if you haven't seen the movie....anyways...); Umbridge is being carried away by the centaurs in the forest and asks Harry to tell them that she is a good person or something like that so they will leave her alone (after she has called them unintelligent half-breeds), and Harry looks at her and says; "I'm sorry professor, but I must not tell lies.". It made me laugh.
On to more of the review. I didn't like how they changed some effects that were in previous movies. 2 main examples....the demeantors have a slightly different look to them., and when Sirius is talking in the fire, the effect is different from in movie 4. It bothered me. You can't change the look of things that the viewers already have a visual of. You just don't mess with things.
I remember reading somewhere that they screenwriter was different for this movie (someone please correct me if I am wrong), and it really seemed obvious. The writing was just different somehow. The way the scenes moved was different. It just didn't flow smoothly. I would have liked to see a lot more of Gimmauld Place. So much happens there in the book; it is one of the main settings, and in the movie it's just a place they pass through. Also, all the rooms in the Department of Mysteries. They showed the two most important, but I was so eager to see what the others looked like and to see the circular room floor spin. Maybe it just wasn't worth the money to make all the sets for the extra rooms and take the time to shoot and write scenes for them when it would only add about 10 minutes at the most to the actual movie. But, I think it would have made for a nice fight sequence.
I plan on going again this week (Wednesday afternoon in Barberton for anyone interested in joining me) because I want to be fully awake and try to pick up on things I missed. Also because Elisabeth pooped out on me and slept all but the first 10 minutes! She had gone swimming with the babysitter and had been getting up at 5:40am most days, so she was worn out. She slept in the car, at the restaurant before, in the car again, at my moms, in the car another time, but stayed awake at the theater until it actually started. Maybe if we go during the day she'll make it through it. We'll see. I'm actually just as excited to see it the second time as I was to see it the first! Well, that's all for now. I will have another update soon about other stuff going on...not that there's a lot of it. Talk to everyone soon! :)
To quote Lord Voldemort is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire....."I confess myself disappointed."
I'm not saying the movie was bad or that I didn't enjoy (or that I won't go again and buy it when it comes to DVD). I'm saying that I was disappointed by it. The special effects were great; but I think there was so much more they could have done. I love the book; it is one of my favorite...and the longest, but this was the shortest movie. The scenes were choppy and it just went from scene to scene to scene before you could even process what you just saw. I think they could have put more in it and lengthened the scenes and movie. True Harry Potter fans are going to watch the movie over and over even if it is over 3 hours long.
Umbridge was perfectly cast. She was amazing and really made you dislike her. There was a lot of laughter from the audience I viewed the movie with. There were a lot of funny lines. My favorite (an no, this won't ruin anything, but you have to have read the books to understand if you haven't seen the movie....anyways...); Umbridge is being carried away by the centaurs in the forest and asks Harry to tell them that she is a good person or something like that so they will leave her alone (after she has called them unintelligent half-breeds), and Harry looks at her and says; "I'm sorry professor, but I must not tell lies.". It made me laugh.
On to more of the review. I didn't like how they changed some effects that were in previous movies. 2 main examples....the demeantors have a slightly different look to them., and when Sirius is talking in the fire, the effect is different from in movie 4. It bothered me. You can't change the look of things that the viewers already have a visual of. You just don't mess with things.
I remember reading somewhere that they screenwriter was different for this movie (someone please correct me if I am wrong), and it really seemed obvious. The writing was just different somehow. The way the scenes moved was different. It just didn't flow smoothly. I would have liked to see a lot more of Gimmauld Place. So much happens there in the book; it is one of the main settings, and in the movie it's just a place they pass through. Also, all the rooms in the Department of Mysteries. They showed the two most important, but I was so eager to see what the others looked like and to see the circular room floor spin. Maybe it just wasn't worth the money to make all the sets for the extra rooms and take the time to shoot and write scenes for them when it would only add about 10 minutes at the most to the actual movie. But, I think it would have made for a nice fight sequence.
I plan on going again this week (Wednesday afternoon in Barberton for anyone interested in joining me) because I want to be fully awake and try to pick up on things I missed. Also because Elisabeth pooped out on me and slept all but the first 10 minutes! She had gone swimming with the babysitter and had been getting up at 5:40am most days, so she was worn out. She slept in the car, at the restaurant before, in the car again, at my moms, in the car another time, but stayed awake at the theater until it actually started. Maybe if we go during the day she'll make it through it. We'll see. I'm actually just as excited to see it the second time as I was to see it the first! Well, that's all for now. I will have another update soon about other stuff going on...not that there's a lot of it. Talk to everyone soon! :)
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