read the book!

Rating: 1/10 (7 August 2006)

when i read the book, i had a vision of images fleeting fluidly one after the other. however, when i saw the movie, i felt violated. it's like i was seeing something else in my mind's eye and the movie version was garishly disparaging my vision. prof trelawny, whom i envisioned to be statuesque and fluid, although a little eccentric, came across in the movie as just flaky. even the dementors were disjointed. the knight bus was too full of itself to come across as a wizard's chief means of transportation -- it was to glitzy. not only that, the acting, from the first movie, to this installment is getting worse. what's with this? harry potter is a good book. but Hollywood is intent of just cashing in on a good thing and ruining it (turning it into a Hollywood production, full of glitz, lacking in substance). i was just disappointed. i'd rather read the book again and again.