Harry Potter: Classic Or Dud?

Seriously brilliant. Where did Chris Morris get his ideas from, eh?

If Scott, Dan and Nicole have been talking about how much they love Left Behind on that thread, sanity has finally departed This Sad World.

The Hogwarts/Poudlard one has me stumped the most, I don't see why it wasn't kept the same.

"I didn't set out to offend. I'm a priest and I'm very careful about not offending people."

Rather.

Order of the Phoenix (movie) didn't even get its own thread?

kind of dud except for the crazy albino girl

best one to date, easily

I think it's good not great, about on par with the last one. The best is still Prisoner of Azkaban. As far as adaptations go, I'd say it's pretty well done - OOTP was so damn long and uneven, I'm glad they managed to make a fairly coherent and well-paced movie out of it.

Order of the Phoenix (movie) didn't even get its own thread?

We were talking about it on the Goblet of Fire thread. Lack of interest didn't make me feel like starting a new one.

Answering original question: CLASSIC BEYOND BELIEF!!!!!!!!

I'm currently embroidering an "I <3 Tonks" t-shirt to wear to the book release on Friday and my second viewing of OOTP next weekend.

I think it's good not great, about on par with the last one. The best is still Prisoner of Azkaban.

Completely OTM.

I need to re-watch POA. Haven't seen it in awhile.

I'm currently embroidering an "I <3 Tonks" t-shirt

That's awesome. Tonks was way hawt.

Favourite scene - the whole sequence in the Department of Mysteries because for once, something in the films looks exactly like it does in my head.

I haven't seen POA for so long that I can't really remember it. I liked the OOTP movie, but I liked Goblet of Fire better.

Also - Harry Potter very CLASSIC. Friday night they are transforming part of downtown Northfield into "Diagon Alley," and of course I'm taking my 9 year old to that.

Tonks was way hawt.

Absolutely. I have her as my desktop now.

I was disappointed by the Dept of Mysteries as they didn't depict all the rooms. Brains! Oh well, I know it's impossible to fit everything in.

True. But the Hall of Prophecy and the Death Chamber and the entire battle scene in there was pretty amazing. I wanted it to go on forever. Plus, Helena Bonham Carter!

HBC and Tonks made me love this movie 100X more. I'm looking forward to more Bellatrix next movie. Although sadly I don't think there's a ton more Tonks.

I'm going to have to re-read HBP now cause I can't remember a single thing from that book, other than the early scenes and who dies in the end.

I don't think less Tonks is totally a bad thing, since she just becomes JKR Trying to Make Lupin a Little Less Pitiful.

I just re-read it recently but my memory is crap. Here's what I remember of Tonks:

-Brief bits about her infatuation with Remus which would probably be cut
-Forgettable presence in the final battle
-Scene where she finds Harry on the train and walks him back to the castle

Bellatrix not much more really:
-last battle
-Great beginning scene where she and Narcissa visit Snape.

Prisoner of Azkaban is the Alfonso Cuaron-directed one, right? Definitely the best (of the three I've seen - that and the last two), the only one that felt like a movie rather than just fitting in all the plot points of a book.

This one had some great stuff (ministry intrigue, the pen that hurts students, etc.) but it all got swept up in the too-large story.

Puberty has not been kind to Harry Potter.

Puberty has not been kind to any of Harry Potter's friends. Except for Hermione who gets impossibly more gorgeous with each movie.

Daniel Radcliffe has gotten much better looking. I agree that Emma Watson looks good although I'm a little bummed they keep making her blonder. The Weasly twins are good-looking but not so much Ron or Ginny.

Radcliffe is acting much better too. even when he's saying crap like "I just feel so angry. All the time." Ngggh.

The Weasley twins looked like slightly uglier Ewan McGregors in OOTP which freaked me out a little.

even when he's saying crap like "I just feel so angry. All the time." Ngggh.

Classic teen angst.

I think the twins looked best in POA though. Ugly Ewan McGregor?? You are nuts.

http://www.phelps-twins.com/Gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_OotP_(74).jpg

http://www.totalformat.com/gallery/data/4139/Ewan_Mcgregor_Picture_0038.jpg

Ok fine so they look just like Ewan McGregor. Which is still kinda freaky.

I thought you were implying Ewan McGregor was ugly. Maybe they are his illegitimate children.

I loved the first two Harry Potter movies, but the next two were so unbelievably awful that I will never even THINK about watching the last three. Michael Gambon as Dumbledore = WORST CASTING DECISION EVER!!!

Oh hey another movie.

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o hey it was pretty good but a bit anticlimactic

Half the student workers here are in 'seeing it tonight OMG' mode. (So is my aunt Cheryl, doubtless.)

yeah this was pretty good w/ a terrible ending

the scene where harry & ginny run after the dark wizards in the field was great i thought

ya

i liked teh way it looked a lot... good cinematography, even the quidditch stuff looked good

but what a weird tone... death doom and dating

also the "oh btw" reveal of the half-blood prince's identity was a bit... uhhhh

x-post -- How is that not most teens' angst ridden lives?

it's true!