Did they run out of film?

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2005)

I've read lots of the reviews here and I'm in the middle. Yes, it was long-awaited and it was a great book, and it's Harry Potter, so it's defacto great. And it sure has taken in a lot of money, so people are obviously liking it - and I did too. But if you know the book and the books (and therefore movies) that come after it - it was way too short, and left out so much, and added some very silly things and wasted time on others. I like one reviewer's idea that it should have been released as two movies a few months apart. I also agree with the comment that whoever adapted this one has no feel for the characters and the deeper story at all.
The previous reviewers have itemized the many things that were left out. The first big disappointment is - no World Cup match to watch at all? Still, I held out hope while noticing every omission -- until the final task and the graveyard scene. No Sphinx? No down-is-up section of the maze? No giant spiders? And then, the graveyard. Movie Voldemort makes nowhere near the horrible, visceral impact of the one described in the book. And I think the book took at least 40 hair-raising pages to take us through from the murder of Cedric, the revival of Voldemort, the cracking appearance of Deatheaters, Voldemort torturing and playing with Harry, the brother wands forming a barrier as the two combatants are moved away from the Deatheaters, the Phoenix song, the Priori Incantatum appearances, and Harry's wild, needs-all-his-Quidditch-skills-to-make-it and ultimately successful dash -- amid curses firing all around him breaking headstones and narrowly missing him -- to get Cedric's body and escape.
I wonder what J.K. Rohlwing thinks of this - what another reviewer here called - very long trailer.