One book-One movie. Good idea?

Rating: 8/10 (6 December 2005)

Don't get me wrong. I liked the movie. But there is just too much in Book 4 to cover. On the contrary, there isn't much in book 5, or it is possible to cut out more from Book 5. Book 4 has more commercial movie making material. I remember the plot had not gone *anywhere* for the first 150 pages or so in Book 5.
Frankly, I would have preferred Book 4 spilling into the next movie for about a 3rd of the movie. Movie4 could end at Task 1 with Harry's Dragon fight as the finale. In spite of some comments here, I liked that part. You need not follow the book to every last sentence. You can take some creative freedom.
They could have released the movies within 7-8 months of each other, that would have kept people interested. Frankly, I am not sure how good movie-5 would be given the content in the book.