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This is the official thread for talking about the movies! Loved them or hated them, in here they go!

Comments on great jobs done in the movie are great, but if you want to fawn over your favourite actor/character/movies vs books/random chat, please take it to the appropriate thread!

Unfortuneately, for the movies alot HAD to be cut out or else by the time they got the GoF the movie would have had to have been at least six hours long and even then there would probably be alot missing. I haven't really had a lot of problems with the editing jobs done so far. I have to say though, my least favorite movie to date is definately PoA. There was no chemistry between Gary Oldman (Sirius) and David Thewlis (Lupin). Separate they fitted the roles resonably well but together... nothing. But that's just my opinion. I'm kind of leary about how OotP is going to turn out.

well..... i loved all the movies except the third....for some reason i found it rather boring but the book was as exciting as ever.... lolz many ppl didnt like the 3rd movie!

My mom really liked the 3rd one. She said it was sort of right for there to be a darker tone, a more mature theme, some angst. Harry's life is definitely far from a piece of fluff after all. She thinks the changing of directors was a good thing for the movies. She, in short, approved. Heh heh. 3nodding

As for me, well, I liked the first one! Am I odd? >>

I agree with you Moonfire, it's so hard to love the movies as a whole, because they're so eclectically portrayed. Every director wants to make his own 'mark' on each film, so the movies suffer from them trying to make each one different from the last. There were things I didn't like about the first 2, but at least they both looked like the same world! The 3rd looks completely different and the 4th one different again! gonk

Now... the werewolf in PoA... seriously. It's atrocious >.< It's SO damn ugly. Has anyone played the Diablo 2 expansion? The druid turns into a werewolf that looks like this. Not really a good picture, but he's got a golden retriever-esque tail and when he runs he goes down onto all fours and looks a lot like a dog and less like a human. Whilst reading the book I imagined Lupin to look more like this and less like a chihuahua sweatdrop

i didnt like the 3rd movie
..actually the movies arent that gud but still i LOVED the first one heart
i think it was the best

I know what you mean. Sometime I just don't understand filmmakers. It's not like that one little quote means much (or in this case any at all) difference to the plot so I don't know why they bothered to change it. Then again, maybe the actor just said it wrong and they didn't bother to re-shoot for the sake of one word.

*side note*
the next movie looks great! I can't wait to see it!!!

Actually, my friends, who don't read the books, all found the fourth book really confusing - because it jumped so much between scenes and we had the books to fill in the blanks but they didn't.

And I would DIE of happiness if they had extended versions like Lord of the Rings crying It would be soooooo good biggrin