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Damn this movie sucked.  Just a boring piece of crap.  Go see Transformers again instead of this dreck.

It’s a week to it’s release and already the negative reviews come out.
It’s bad enough the games suck, must the movie suck as well?
Well, I know I’m going to be seeing it so I’ll be the judge of whether it sucks or not.
It won’t stop the games from sucking (they’ve done that for a few years now since the games went on it’s downward spiral of simplying each release to dumb the games down while the movies reach upwards to an older audience) but why does the movie suck anyway?

I just recently saw all of the Harry Potter films within the last year, and I wasn’t completely “wow’ed” by any of them.  They were entertaining, but I never got what everyone was freaking out about.

I don’t read the books, so I’m happy to just watch the movies. Magic makes for SO MANY conveniences, its ridiculous! Any contrivances in these stories can be written off with “It’s Magic!” Goblet of Fire was such a refreshing change of pace, with Cedric Didgery dying and whatnot. If there’s more of that in the books, I’ll enjoy the movies when they come out.

I’ll be curious to hear what other people think of the movie.  One of the critics at the screening, fell asleep in the middle of the movie and started snoring.

I’m going to see it tomorrow. But to be fair, the fifth book was the most boring and had the most background information. There’s no way that they can fit all that crap into the movie to make it ‘good.’ This is the first one that I have low expectations for. But I’m seeing it for free, can’t complain about that.

It’s out now…what does everyone think?

As a summer movie, I really liked it. As a Harry Potter movie, I felt it could have been better. But I’m one of those freaks that during the film I was mentally saying “they skipped this, and this….” But to be fair Order was the longest and most boring book, so it makes sense that the movie would be too. But man, they sure did get Umbridge down.

Stefan,
you say it sucks.
But does it suck compared to the book? Suck compared to the other movies?
Suck compared to other things that suck?

I’m not a big fan of the books.  I read the third one and it just annoyed me.  I’ve really enjoyed the movies.  I think it’s the weakest of the films.

Rae_rae - 13 July 2007 09:33 AM

As a summer movie, I really liked it. As a Harry Potter movie, I felt it could have been better. But I’m one of those freaks that during the film I was mentally saying “they skipped this, and this….” But to be fair Order was the longest and most boring book, so it makes sense that the movie would be too. But man, they sure did get Umbridge down.

See, that’s why I don’t bother reading the books. No expectations, no complaining about what got left out or what they did wrong, etc. The movie could still suck on its own, but my expectations are usually so low for these movies, it would hardly make a difference.

I’ve been through the franchise since movie #1, and while they no longer make 3 hour plus sized movies (and they don’t seem any closer to previous promises of splitting the movies into 2 parts ala the Matrix) I do have to say I was… OK with the movie.

It was abit disturbing at times (which makes the strange marketing push to get kids into the movie all the more disturbing, including the free kid’s ticket you get if you buy the Wii version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix). It’s not… hmm… well it just seems to drag on abit and at times you start to wish the movie would end, but in the end it’s still a halfway decent enough movie (the effects were good and it had a nice solid ending battle) (which I say deserves a 3.5 out of 5 instead of the score it got). Still this movie by no means is going to harpoon the franchise anytime soon.

That’s the next movie’s job if Emma Watson really does bail out and force the franchise to have to dig up a new Hermione at the last minute. Thankfully at lest the actresses for Cho Chang, Ginny and that new spacey blonde girl Luna Lovegood or whatever her name was should be able to pick up the pieces if they have to reshuffle the cast and get a new Hermione.

Anyway it’s too late to fear the harpooning of the franchise in anycase.
They’re down to the last two movies, and pre-sales of The Deathly Hallows broke lots of records, odds are they will muddle through Half Blood Prince the movie just to get to the highly anticipated Deathly Hallows and finish off the franchise on a “high” note.

Of course should J.K. Rowling happen to muster the energy to write the much asked for and begged (from the UK publisher who recently put up a petition online to have fans beg Rowlings for more books) sequel (which she hints will probably be the equivelant of Harry Potter the Next Generation if she ever gets around to writing it, with the story possibly taking place 10 years after the events of Deathly Hallows), we may not yet see the end of the Potter movie Franchise.
Not by a long shot.

Well the good news is Emma Watson has signed on for the last two films.

Well hoorah for that.
Now millions of Hermione hentai fans… uh… I mean Hermione fans won’t have to go without Emma Watson as Hermione for the next two movies.
What was she complaining about anyway, it’s not like she (or any of the rest of the cast) actually spent the few hours every few years to do the VO work on the video games. Oh, no, clearly they couldn’t be bothered with THAT!

the wife dropped the bomb on me that she saw it yesterday with a friend. :/
so, I now have to see it, since everyone sle seemingly has.
Enjoyed the book a lot, I know the movie will be missing a lot, but I’ve made my peace with HP movies not comparing.

At least the movies aren’t on the dumbing down train to hell like the video games.
I haven’t seen the new one (the first for the next gen of consoles) but somehow I can’t imagine the games becoming any smarter after Goblet of Fire.