Harry Potter Movie 5
Minor spoilers for the fifth movie. Though, not that much that isn’t in the fifth book.
Saw the fifth movie. Loved it, but then I am a sicko. I also saw all the other movies leading up to this and I realized what bugs me about the fourth and fifth movie. The Dumbledore. And I just figured out why he bugs me. He has no sense of humor, and is overstated. They took Dumbledor and replaced him with Gandalf. Dumbledor is understated and funny. My wife pointed out that even when they give him a humorous scene, like warning harry about the licorice snaps in the fourth movie, it isn’t funny at all, but rather a grave warning.
My other problem with the fifth movie was that they left too much in. I have to wonder if JKR told them to leave certain elements in there because they would become important later. I view the movies as different stories from the book, so having stuff missing doesn’t bug me. I’d rather have the movie be self coherent.
Stuff I loved about it: Luna was awesome. Apparently Ivanna Lynch grew up a harry potter fan and wrote JKR saying how she wanted to be in a potter movie. She was awesome. Imelda Stauton playing Umbrage was deliciously evil as well. They did a pretty good job compression huge numbers of scenes in the book into one in a number of places in the movie, though like I said, I would have been fine with just leaving more stuff out. Interestingly they did the same thing with the The DA meetings were great. Harry’s failed relationship with Cho was perfect, though I was hoping they would fade to black on the kiss like they did in the book. Hermione and Grawp had me rolling on the floor laughing. Finally number 12 grimwald place was completely different from my interpretation from the book, but it gave it a very creepy presence which was awesome.