A complete and utter disappointment: An obvious terrible adaptation but by itself just a bad movie

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2007)

I at first scanned the other comment titles before writing this an i'm baffled as to how many people actually thought this movie was good. I on the other hand found the movie to be anything but that. Yes, I am a hardcore book reader but i must say this first. I have come to terms with the fact that the movies are not the books and so from there i say that the 1 and 2 weren't bad adaptations and 3 and 4 were decent movies minus my feelings about the book. As movie alone they can stand on their own but this movie is a different story.
The movie as a whole is very confusing even if you have read the books. It jumps around a lot and the shots are done very oddly. It also feels really rushed. I was sitting there watching this thinking this is going so fast. All this important stuff happens and it's just whizzing by without even a chance to acknowledge anything. The movie as a whole is set up like a bunch of different scenes with really odd or random transitions here and there. The movie does not flow right. The best way to explain it is like a strobe light. You're seeing somethings but you're not seeing everything you're only getting glimpses. Anytime it felt like it got into a scene that was important it shifted again.
Aside from the direction of the movie some of the scenes and i mean big scenes like ones they did use were so lack luster. The big battle in the department of mysteries was meh. It could have been so good and it was just so short and kinda whatever. That also includes the battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort in the entry to the Ministry of Magic which that scene seemed ackward and too long for what they were trying to accomplish. All the jumping around that occurs in this movie make it difficult for anyone who has never read the books to get an actual grasp on it. You need to have read the books to draws some connecting paths in your head to get it.
OK i think that's it for my feelings on the movie away from the book so if you're not into the books or feel whatever about how it's an adaptation than ignore this part of my review. FROM HERE ON IT DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!! be forewarned.
OK my fellow avid HP readers. Lets begins with the stupidity that this movie had. Yes i'm away that this book is over 800 pages and that they can't fit it all in but there's probably about and hour of this movie total full of things that just did not occur! You've got 800 pages to work with there is no reason to create so much it's done for you!!!! A major major disappointment for me was Snape's memory scene. It is like 5 seconds (literally maybe a tad longer maybe 10 secs) and it's very static like. You can barely make out who's who; except for Snape and James otherwise you're out of luck. The battle scene is so crappy. They don't show any other the other rooms they just all randomly end up in the room with the veil. Things in that are completely not possible in at hogwarts happen in this movie. The biggest i would say has to be that Umbridge breaks into the Room of Requirement while the DA is practicing. Anyone with half a brain knows that you can't get in unless with the same desire and purpose for the room. HELLO book 6 harry can't get into it to catch draco so how could umbridge break it down?! And then i guess there's just lots of little things that just drove me nuts. Hagrid and Ginny basically don't exist in this movie (Ginny more so) Bill and Charlie STILL never introduced. The Hogwarts Express is called Hogwarts Railways. Ron and Hermoine are mentioned to been have made prefect nor does it show on their robes. And more little bits and pieces like that that just don't add up. There's so much in this movie that is added that is unnecessary that they could have given that time to developing the plot better. As a final thing, the whole book harry's very angry it's teen angst time like a billion with magic and in the movie he's completely just emo kid like the worlds ending very rarely getting angry. And then at the end when he should be depressed because of Sirius he's happy and whatever when he leaves when he should be devastated. I dunno there's so many things about this movie that drive me nuts. It could have been so good and yet they decided to go a different route leaving the book fans disappointed and movie fans confused.