Disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (11 July 2007)

The Order of the Phoenix movie was horrible. I have never been more disappointed with something to do with Harry Potter.
There were so many good things said about it... I believed John and Melissa of Pottercast, and I believed Jo Rowling. How was she able to sit there and say in the Jonathon Ross interview that this was the best movie yet and that she was really happy with it? It's unbelievable. That movie made me sort of ashamed to love Harry Potter as much as I do. It made me wonder about her and about how much she actually cares about the fans, and how much she really cares about the money. And I would practically slap someone for saying that about her before this.
When the movie ended and a few people clapped, I just said "bullshit." It was bullshit the way they butchered and twisted the plot of the fifth book. Why did they even bother making a movie like that? This wouldn't have been so devastating for me if it weren't for the fact that the series is ending. No more books, but at least we had the last two movies to look forward to. But after this travesty of a movie, I have very little hope for the next two.
I'm mad at Jo for letting them do this to her story, I'm mad at the actors for taking part it it, but mostly I am mad at the director David Yates for doing this to my favorite book of the series and for signing on the for last two. All I can say for that is, at least he's not the one writing the seventh book. I still have that.
I'm not going into the specific things that bothered my in the movie. I am probably going to see it again before I do that. I imagine that after I see it one or two more times it won't bother me as much and I may even like it a bit more, but this is my reaction from the initial shock. Because it wasn't supposed to be like that. I went into that theater fully expecting to be blown away. And not in the way it ended up blowing.