David Yates ruined the movie

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2011)

I found other comments from boards and posts around the net, I found that I agree with all of them. I'm a fan of the books and Yates ruined the franchise. He sucked out all of the magic and unnecessarily changed key parts of the story or left them out all together.
Other HP fans on the film:
"I think that the film missed too many points of the books.

If Voldemort could feel the horcruxes being destroyed, he would have changed their location in book 6.

Things Just Happen: for example when Harry gets Resurrection stone, he doesn't turn it three times. The spirits just appear.

People were laughing in the cinema for many many things, not because they were funny, but because there was bad acting, bad lines, bad effects. Imagine most of the theater laughing for the mauled Voldemort in Harry's dream.

Unnecessary changes. Why every wizard can fly without brooms? It was supposed to be Voldemort's specialty. That sucked big time.

Making exciting moments of the books so boring or omitting them totally. In the book it was so exciting to have Harry wonder in the castle with his cloak.

Blowing up a bridge with 100 death eaters on it  wait? There was a bridge in Hogwarts? Wait, at the end there is another bridge on top of some bottomless valley.

Voldemort's death, final battle, watch 8 movies and at the end Voldemort dies with bad CGI effect. There was no dynamics. The book's version was million times better with Harry telling things and what he had understood. And Bellatrix didn't blow up in bits and pieces. It seems to me that killing people with CGI effects is OK to show to kids. Killing people as it would happen in "real life" isn't.

Yates decided that the movie had to be shot from his personal point of view, as a director, pitiful fight scenes, saw little action the whole movie and if you did they were short.
1. It failed to create a satisfactory ending for all characters. Where was Neville being surrounded by admirers? Where was Kreacher in the battle of Hogwarts? How was Percy suddenly reunited with his family? etc.
2. It left out the whole Dumbledore and Grindelwald plot which i thought was great in the book. It started it in part 1 but never really finished it. There was no possible reason i can think off to remove this from the film other than stupidity.
3. The final battle was neither as epic or as dark as was promised. It never created that sense of peril that it should of done or the sense of finale that it also should of done.
4. It never explained why Harry survived Voldemort's killing curse. Dumbledore wanders on and tells the audience the one thing that they already bloody knew (which was that harry was a horcrux) failing to explain anything else.
5. It differed far to much from the book which was amazing. I can't understand the logic of taking something amazing and changing it so that its not.
6. The snake lasted longer than Bellatrix Lestrange in a fight. Plus Bellatrix blew up for some reason. Went for comedy rather than epicness.
7. The final conversation between Harry and Voldemort was cut out. Plus Voldemort died without anyone watching and by somehow evaporating.
8. Where was Grawp and Hagrid in the battle. In fact where was everyone. The battle scenes were surprisingly short.
1) Scenes were awkward and dragged out 2) Shell cottage was on a cliff on a beachnot just on straight up sand 3)Bill's face was hardly maimed 4) If you hadn't read the book you'd have no idea how Hermione became Bellatrix or for what cause 5) Nothing is explained"
Everyone else said it for me. I hate Yates for ruining Harry Potter, but at least we have the books.