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Saw it just a few hours ago. Yeah... not worth seeing. There was an UNGODLY long amount of time spent on scene parts dedicated to showing that Ron and Hermoine, or Harry and Ginny, really like each other. RIGHT, WE GET IT, THEY'RE THE COUPLES THAT ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO BE TOGETHER BUT ARE PAINFULLY OBLIVIOUS TO EACH OTHER'S FEELINGS!
Also, on a real wall-banger moment, Ginny's boyfriend. What it was SUPPOSED to do is show tension between Harry and Ginny, and the book was good at this. But the movie ended up with there only being ONE SMALL SCENE with him in it, and several mentions of it! And by the time the Harry x Ginny facebattle scene came, I was thinking "WHAT THE HELL, LADY? YOU ALREADY HAVE A BOYFRIEND! AND GODDAMIT HARRY, YOU'RE MEANT TO BE THE GOOD GUY, NOT A SOULLESS BASTARD!"
In other words: book was decent, movie was utterly horrible because it tried to cram everything important into 2.6 hours.
THE CAPITAL LETTERS EXPRESS HOW ANGRY I AM AT SUCH POOR SCRIPTING!
Talking about the series:
I read the first six books and saw 5 of the six movies (not the fifth). It started out really good, both books and movies, but at the time they were children's books. They were grand, having a slow-but-getting-there main character was easy to relate to, and character archetypes were easy to understand. And the movies actually had the time to explain stuff, along with excellent use of special effects and other imaginative stuff for the time.
These... didn't work out well later on. As it went from a children's book to a young adult's book, the main character didn't develop competence like he should have, and the characters remained as archetypes when they should've diverged; along with this, Rowling made the critical mistake of thinking Stupid Relationships = Young Adult Orientated. As for the movies... they started having to condense the stories very badly, and what was thoroughly breathtaking in terms of special effects became pretty much common place.
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