I was disappointed by this movie

Rating: 2/10 (19 July 2008)

I was really disappointed by this movie. I understand that the producers, screenplay, director, etc. cannot fit everything from the books into the movies. However, i thought that it was a little ridiculous that the longest book in the series (870 pages) is the shortest movie to date. I also believe that they took out a lot of important things in this movie (For example, what about the whole chapter The Lost Prophecy in the books, that scene was almost taken out of the movie all together-And it was a very important chapter in the book and for the movies, what about st.mungo's? things like harry fighting malfoy? what about giving actual justice to the department of mysteries-explaining the love room, the brains, going back to the time-turners, things like the end scene where Fawkes jumps in front of the killing course for dumbledore?). I know that I have very big expectations for the movies, but I really think that with this movie they really made a great mistake in taking out so much from the books. They are not really explaining much in the movies and I think that this makes the audience confused, those who have not read the books, and also endangers the understanding and completion of the next two books. And just a quick question: Why did they change the screenwriter for just this movie, but have Steve Kloves writing the script for the rest of the movies? It seems that the people behind this movie are always concerned about a budget and such, yet they make more then enough money to make 14 films, not seven. Honestly, I don't think that anyone would complain if the movies were five hours long. I thought that a positive of the film was the acting by, Helen Bonham carter, Gary oldman, and especially Jason Isaacs-those three actors I think do brilliantly in the film. As for Michael gambon, he is a terrible Dumbledore. Two more things, why did they change the appearance of Padfoot (Sirius as the dog) and the dementors? And who the hell is this nigel we introduced in the fourth film, they could have just stuck with the Creevy brothers.