Should have known it......

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2007)

What shall I say about this movie.. I admit, that the special effects where great. I admit, that the actors did a very good job indeed. But other than that, watching the movie made me really angry. So many things where missing. So many things have been changed, I don't know why? For more drama or sense, or what? I know that it's not possible to adapt a book on screen taking every part of it, but one should stick to the facts and not change basic subjects into something totally different from the book.
And where was the main thread running through the movie??? Nowhere. People who have not read the book can't understand why things happen when they happen, or why there is a cut in the scene and it starts somewhere else and no one knows what happened in the meantime... The complete movie seems to me like shot as an commercial; 30 second shots and then simply assembled.
It is true, it wasn't the best book at all, but does this mean that they had to do an even worser movie? I understand that even J.K. Rowling said that she has to differ between the books and the movies, but as I said before: You have to stick to the facts!!! And not to just change them because someone thinks that it might be more dramatic or the viewers reaction could be more effective or whatever. And why David Yates?? Because of his amazing work as an director before??? Most of his experience is based on TV-Episodes and mini-series. (That might be an explanation that the movie seems to me like short shots without main thread and then just simply put together).
Well at least I hope that the makers and J.K. Rowling of course, learned from their mistakes. Think about The Deadly Hallows and ask yourself: Would you like to see the last chapter of Harry Potter done like that?? There's so much action and Drama and different locations and tons of stuff in it. So many details which I, or better we, want to see on the screen. Who should we trust to write and direct such a movie?? I just can think of Peter Jackson and his writer crew, who already did an amazing job by giving us three of the best writing adapted movies ever made...
So, let's hope....