Not doing justice to the book

Rating: 4/10 (30 November 2005)

WARNING! This may contain spoilers for anyone who is not familiar with the book! Since my opinion is rather negative, you should probably also not read it before seeing the movie.
Positive: Um, this is hard. I liked Luciuses hair. And I thought there was more of a 'schoolish' atmosphere in some scenes. The band at the Yule Ball looked like a goth band or something. Filch's way of running gave me a laugh. He was really funny in this movie, but that's probably also negative because he's not really supposed to be funny. Some stuff is just nice to look at.
Negative: I don't know where to start this. Well allover, the movie felt like a total haste. The scenes were incredibly short and HUGE amounts of detail were missing (again...). But worse, they even added some total crap to the plot, stuff where you just think 'What's this sh*t supposed to be?'. For example Barty Crouch Jr. in the Riddle Mansion. Didn't make sense at all and spoiled the whole plot. Also the Pensieve scene with him was ridiculous. Dumbledore wasn't Dumbledore. He was some weird crackp*t or something. He was just mean. Dumbledore is a wise, silent old man, and that wasn't him. Richard Harris was so much better, especially his voice and his way of speaking. No Sirius at all (that fire thing doesn't count). Also, no Dursleys. I was looking forward to them meeting the Weasleys... too bad. And no Charlie Weasley at all. They totally could have left out the Quidditch World Cup. Those two seconds weren't worth it. The whole dragon chase was unnecessary. The Great Hall looked scarily small to me. I remembered it to be a lot bigger in the first movies. Daniel Radcliffe's leg hair is rather gross. Yuck. Mad-Eye Moody also didn't look like anything I ever imagined. He's supposed to have no nose and have a scared face. Well... The music at the maze was really ridiculous as well. Sounded like German Oktoberfest. The maze was also weird. No obstacles? On to the interesting parts... The Death Eaters looked, as a friend suggested, like a mixture of Sido and the Ku-Klux-Klan. Ridiculous. And Voldemort himself looked totally nice. And harmless. Nothing at all like the Moste Evile Wizarde of all time. He didn't have any crinkles (he must be at least 65 years old), he wasn't tall at all, and his nose looked stupid. His eyes weren't really red. His fingers weren't really long. His toenails were quite ugly though. I always imagined him a head taller and much thinner than any normal man. The whole graveyard scene didn't scare me at all. There's nothing really evil there. The 'vibe' isn't there. The Prior Incantatem was also not really stunning. I thought they would be floating. And I didn't understand the ending sequence. Why the f*ck are they all so happy? Stupid.
Thoughts:I could probably rant and ramble on like this forever. But it's true, you can never do a book like that justice with a 3 hour movie. I really think they should have made a TV Show of this, one season per book, maybe 12 or 15 episodes per season. Then there wouldn't be any details missing. Also, the people who create this still hold on to the thought that this is for children. It's NOT. Poor children, honestly. But by trying to make this viewable for children, they ruin the whole thing. It has to be a lot darker and a lot more depressing. Especially all that evil stuff. That wasn't evil. I couldn't see anything evil there. But maybe the actors are just bad? Who knows... The kids, especially Harry have to learn how to become more emotional. There was a lot of emotion missing, especially in the end. Nothing can ever do justice to one's own imagination. That's one of the reasons why I started to read the first book again yesterday night. I'll go for all six now. Haven't read one after another in quite a while now.. Must have been at least two years or so ;)