A disappointment...

Rating: 1/10 (11 July 2007)

I was extremely depressed by the way this movie turned out. I, being one who read and appreciated the story in the book, was forced to compare it constantly to the movie. The movie lacked significant parts of the book, parts that do end up in later texts, such as Siruis' two-way mirror, Ron and Hermione being prefects, and Neville being able to see Thestrals and hear the voices from the arch, while Ron and Hermione can not, which they made viewers believe that Neville could not..
I cannot view this movie as a good movie, without a book, because it randomly inserted parts of the book, such as the title of the D.A. which is first mentioned by Dumbledore when he was under question by the Ministry, expecting the viewers to have read the book.
The young witches and wizards are also seen using spells without verbally announcing the spells, an ability that they learn in a later book. Also, the D.A. uses the spell Levicorpus, a spell introduced in HBP, and important to the discovery of the identity of the Half Blood Prince. A minor complaint that happened to urk me, as does the lack of the words SNEAK in pimples across the betrayers nose(from the book.) My biggest problem with the movie? The lack of integration of the parts. All of the Occlumency lessons occurred around the same time, the D.A. meetings were in a short time frame, and the decrees were all announced in about 15 minutes. The film had important moments in short bursts, not a slow, well-timed introductions that would keep the audience interested in those particular parts of the movie, while simultaneously showing them a new situation.
The film bounced around to various scenes, without connective tissue. One minute the plot is focusing on Umbridge, then suddenly we see students in Hogsmede.
I will applaud the use of music, which was well-written and well-timed. I loved the visual effects, the movie was seen with Digital quality, the first movie in the theater to be so.
I am disappointed by the screenwriters lack of adaptive ability and the serious neglect of the director and producers to get the best story from a screenplay. What happened to the awesomeness that was the first movie (which only needed Hermione's trial in the Third floor corridor) and the second movie (the one that, in my opinion, what the most true to the original story)? Why did this franchise alienate the fans of the book?