Overrated!

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2007)

Are you kidding me? After years of inspiring books and movies that keep getting better, the Harry Potter franchise has finally hit a snag.
When I saw this movie, I was with two people who hadn't read the book. At the end of the movie, my best friend turns to me and says, "I liked it, but what was with the prophecy?" WHAT WAS WITH THE PROPHECY?! Gosh, David Yates has no talent if he can't even make the main point of the book come across clear.
Also, with all of the missing pieces, and the pieces of the movie that were wrong, he's really set himself up for the next movie, that he's already been told he's directing. I watched Daniel Radcliffe on Jay Leno the day before I saw the movie, and he said that Yates had kept up the integrity of the other movies while adding his own spin. Well he certainly added his own spin, even if it was poorly made and had no continuity with the other movies.
Can you really have Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with only 2 scenes concerning the Order? Honestly, Umbridge was an important part of the book, and I understand that, but she wasn't the main character. If you just go by the movie, you'd think that she was supposed to outshine Harry!! Also, did anyone else notice that Sirius died WRONG? There was no Firenze? Umbridge never almost caught Sirius in the fire? There was no Quiddich?!
I read that there was going to be no Quiddich before the movie came out, and even then I was outraged. With that being such an essential part of this book, with Harry's privileges being taken away, and Ginny having to become Seeker...Gosh, again, I blame it all on David Yates.
Luna Lovegood was the only remotely interesting new character this movie, and as much as I hate to admit it, Fred and George were boring. It's crazy when two of my favorite characters are boring in my eyes. Their leaving scene was completely messed up, and they leave at the wrong time, but HA! you'd never know that, since there was no real time progression in this movie.
This is just one super Harry Potter fan speaking about a movie that made her disappointed.