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For me, the fifth film is the worst one in the whole series I have ever seen! Let me point out several reasons of my position.

First, WORST plot. It is true that the movie director must delete many scenes of the original book to fit his movie in such a short time, he, at least, shouldn't ignore crucial events in the movie. Just allow me to give some examples. 1. In the book, Harry was quite angry with Ron and Hermione in Grimmauld Place because they didn't keep him informed about Voldy events. However, in the movie, he DID get angry, which is confusing, because I can't see a slightest trace why. Actually the film completely ignore the part in which Harry got depressed and desperate for information at Privet Drive. 2. Harry's unwitting intrusion into Snape's memory is a crucial hint for the following plot and even for the following books. Again, the film only revealed a couple of shots absentmindedly and just skipped the part. 3. The Order of the Phoenix seems just a minor and negligible thing in the movie, not even as important as D.A. The film simply brushed aside all the scenes inside Grimmauld Place and glossed over the whole thing with a few pictures of Order members. For God's sake, it's the title of the book and the essential strength for the later installments!.........etc. I don't have to say more.

Second, WORST costume. It is quite perceptible that David Yates tried to create a magical world different from the previous four. However, he got too far. In the movie, many characters started to wear clothes contradicting with their original style. Bellatrix Lestrange dressed like a lunatic, not a desperate criminal. Hogwarts students forgot to wear wizard robes in the Great Hall. And the most ridiculous part is that Voldemort, who hated Muggle so much, even started to wear suit! Maybe Yates was just too excited for his opportunity of such a great movie and forgot to read the book!

Third, WORST special effects. The fifth movie was thought to be full of dazzing artificial effects because so many new things and events showed up and happenedin it, such as the Room of Requirement, Hagrid's brother, DA's fight with Death Eaters, not to mention Dumbordore-Voldemort big fight. However, the film disappoints me again. The seemingly exciting fight between Harry's buddies and death eaters was depicted as a big escape and everyone's spell except Harry's can only blow away enemies, not Stun them. And the big fight bettween D and V was more like a firework than an actual battle. The magical Room of Requirement seemed only a room with shrinking door. The new Giant's appearance is way off the mark because of clumsy computer 3D effects. The whole movie failed to give the impression that the charaters are living in a real, magical world but seem to be in a huge, artificial room. The classical scenery in the previous movies of the British castle is wiped out of the film.

Fourth, WORST director. It seems to me that all of the huge flaws in the film is largely due to the new director. And what is even more worrying is that he has decided to direct the sixth movie as well! I don't know who is more anxious, HP fans or the director of the seventh movie? With so many plots deleted, the seventh movie will be destroyed because, as we know, the previous six books mainly serve as a preparaion for the final battle. In my opinion, the essential point is that David Yates emphasized too much on his personal preferences and not remotely enough on the original book. So watching the movie gives the impression that the director is flustered, rushing from one scene to another without any necessary connections. The movie is not a movie, it's just a huge collection of images and videos.

Fifth, WOES for successive movies. As I have mentioned earlier, the fifth film missed too much crucial details about the magic world. The biggest example there is the Order of the Phoenix. I dare say that an audience who has never read HP books would be confused at the mention of the Order. What is it? What is it up to? Absolutely no idea from the movie! All one can know about it is that it's a crowd of wizards. Another crucial point is Dobby, which is completely abridged from the film. Without it, one cannot possibly understand why Harry was so depressed when Dobby died in the DH. Furthermore, the humiliation Harry had gone through for sticking to the truth about Voldemort's return was just casually mentioned. And the misunderstanding between Harry and Dumbordore was brushed away. With all these negligence, the plot for the sixth and seventh films is impossible.

Finally, another minor flaw exists in the cast. As actors grow older and more mature, some of them seem too affected and artful than before. One of them is Emma Watson. I don't know why but she kept breathing heavily throughout the movie, her eyebrows kept racing up and down and she was speaking way too fast(Nervous?). Maybe we still need to wait for a few years for her acting skills to pick up.

Therefore, I think the big trend is this: The books are getting better and better while the movies are getting sluggish. I still love the first movie of the serious best. Everything in that movie seems great. Great cast, great scenes, great music.... just everything. I sincerely hope David Yates can actually learn something from his predecessors and present a better movie.

I agree fully that way to much was cut out about what happened with the Order. I mean the Order was so essential, and even what happened at the house with things like the locket and such. Some of my favorite laugh out loud moments from the book were not there either such as the screaming portriat of Mrs. Black.

I hated the point that everyone was walking around in regular clothes. Part of the magic of the movies has been in the Hogwarts robes. The school uniform really made you feel like you were in a different place, a world seperate from our own. When the kids were walking around without their robes it just didn't feel right!

The special effects were not great, but I have seen movies with worse as far as that goes. I just didn't feel they were quite as fitting to the movie as perhaps they should have been.

I think the things that disturbed me the most is the way that some of the charater reactions were not even in line with what happened in the book. The biggest one that stood out to me was the photo of the old Order Members. In the book it is not Sirus at the train station who gives this photo to Harry, and Harry is not particularly happy when he gets it. I think that by changing this bit of the story it cast Harry into a different light. Maybe that is just me though. I also don't like how it is Cho who turns them in because in the book IT WASN'T HER!!! I was just overly fustrated by all these small changes that overall changed the whole story. I understand that some things need to be left out on in order to make it fit into a movie, but there was just to much left out.

I also felt as if the entire film was rushed. It was like I was in a speed boat going so fast that everything was a blur. I was truely disapointed in this film and sad to hear that the director would be doing the next movie as well

because of the locket, i wonder how theyre going to introduce it in the next movie.

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