Reflections about this new movie (ATTENTION for the ones who hasn't watched it yet, it's a SPOILER: I might be spoiling the movie for you by giving away some events)

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

Yesterday I finally got a chance to go to the theater and to watch it.
I read all Harry Potter's books and just loved them. Before going to watch the movie I read some reviews which were mostly praising it so I had very high expectations for it.
But I was kind of disappointed. I'm not saying that the movie was bad, it was OK, it had some good scenes. But the fact that the new director gave his own interpretation to the book that I was not agreed with made my opinion about it.
First, I didn't like that he missed a lot of important facts.
For example, the story of friendship between Sirius, Lupin, James and Peter was partially missing. Yes, the did say that they were friends but they never mentioned the fact that: James was also anymagus (and by the way Harry's patronus was his dad's anymagus - also never was mentioned) and that all of them actually became anymaguses to be in the same boat with Lupin since he was a werewolf. It never has been mentioned that while Lupin was in school every full moon he would hide in this chamber in the tree and nobody but his friends and Dumbledore knew that. Director completely forgot to tell that 4 guys who made the map were actually James, Sirius, Lupin and Peter. In the book the discovery of who made the map makes Harry feel closer to his dad, closer to his wild school years.
Another thing that was missing: Quiditch, such important thing in the book was completely ignored in the movie. I think that was a big failure because Quiditch plays an important role in all Harry Potter's books and in Harry's life. In the book Harry gets the new broom for Christmas and nobody knows who sent it, while in the movie he gets it at the end and it comes with a clear message from Sirius - a plum from Buckbeat. That was a pure director's addition to the book.
Also I didn't like that Draco's role was completely weakened. In the book he played a big role in aggravating Harry. In the previous 2 movies Draco had more personality, while in this one he was very boring and unimportant.
Same comment for Dumbledore: very weak personality.
I can go on and on about things that were changed or misinterpreted or missing from the movie. I know some of you can say that if he'd have all this the movie would be 5 hours long. But still I think he could have done better job without making the movie long.
My last comment: the whole movie was so dark. Yes, I know the book was dark. But, unlike the first 2 movies in this movie you couldn't feel any Hogward's magic, he tried to show the territory of the school very humble and down to earth, but it didn't work for me, I'd rather see it mysterious with a lot of passages, secrets, just like in the book. And have you all noticed that everything was located in wrong places? Like Gryffindor's main room. They should have followed the book in describing the territory of school.
The only scenes that I liked were: Harry flying on Buckbeat, then all little scenes with the tree and little birds (kind of a very dark humor, but it gave some spice to the whole darkness of the movie), also the way he filmed the part when they went back in time and watched all the events they just went through was cool.
Overall, I'd rather the director to follow the book rather than giving his own view on the book. I liked the first 2 movies MUCH better than this one.