Stop whining about specific details

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2007)

I'm so sick of reading reviews from stupid 15 year old girls pi**ed off their favorite part of the book was cut in the movie. Its a MOVIE not a biopic of the story. To satisfy some of these fans it would take a three part series carefully and dutifully chronicling Harry's every move and line from the book. Better yet how about a 8 hour movie of J.K. Rowling simply reading the book using crazy lighting effects and gesticulating wildly during the more dramatic scenes? 1st off, grow up, these movies aren't made to satiate your simple little desires but rather to capture the ARCHETYPES of the stories and characters. In OTTP, my least favorite novel but now most favorite movie, this was done PERFECTLY. You can see the straining relationships between Harry and his friends and his sense of abandonment from Dumbeldore and Sirius. We witness his struggle with being completely alone and eventually his determination to accept those who will never abandon him. This entire progression has taken the Harry Potter franchise so close to the realms of great cinema that i wonder if those only thinking Harry Potter was about whimsy and magic were missing the point entirely. The Harry Potter film franchise as a whole can only claim to brush greatness twice within its tenure. This with the Prizoner of Azkaban, by far the best adaption by a REAL director (Cuacaron) and now here under the hand of Yates. Yes much is cut and curbed for consistency but overall the story is thinned to only the best and most important material. If you want the harry potter experience, read the book and never watch the movies for you will be impossibly dissatisfied by the amount of detail excluded for sake of plausible running times, however, if you're not a whiner and appreciate the films as a separate entity you will be greatly satisfied by the job done in OOTP. The only complaints i will make is the lack of the brilliant John Williams yet again as composer. I pray to whatever religious entity might exist that he will have a change of heart and WB will be able to goad him back to the musical helm. Otherwise we will have to suffer through lack luster and no offense, British, composers. Also with as many truly incredible acting talents on display for the Harry Potter movies, why did they cast such a miss for Tonks? She looked nothing like the books description and had such an unnecessary role in the movie. Every time she was on screen i was just asking myself...why? Never the less i am eagerly awaiting Half Blood Prince and am glad they have given Yates the job in order to add some consistency to the bi-polar and truly unfortunate directing of the past (Columbus? Dear God who let this happen?). This series is on the right track and not even whiny detailers can derail it.