What to think?

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

I don't think I have ever been so excited to see a movie before. I was honestly giddy. Here I am, a nineteen year old girl who is literally skipping into the movie theatre and can't stop giggling because she is so excited. And then the lights go down and I'm hysterical. I thought, "It's time, finally!" For the first part of the movie I thought "This is great", then came the middle of the movie-"ummm...OK", then the end, "are you joking me?". All in all I don't know what to think. Obviously I'm a fan of Harry Potter, I love the books and saying I've read each one(with the exception of OOTP)at least 15 times is not an overstatement. Reading the Harry Potter series, as sad as it might sound, is a hobby of mine. When the first two movies came out I was pleasantly surprised with how accurate they were, yes there were many changes, but for those non-readers who only saw the movies I felt they were still able to get the jist out of them. But after this one I feel like they need an explanation of what was going on. Looking at the movie, from a movie perspective, the movie was good. It had great special effects and did a really good job with keeping your attention.
However, looking at it from a Harry Potter book fan perspective, it was disappointing. I realized they couldn't have put everything from the book into it, because it would have been too long, but still why leave so much out, and add a lot of pointless stuff. I'm not going to get into detail about all of this because it has already been addressed. However I will say one thing, that doesn't seem to bother anyone else! WHY DID HARRY SEE PETER PETTIGREW ON THE MAP! At that point I honestly wanted to get up and leave. *SPOILER* Could they not think of anything creative, and just decided to jip off an idea from the GOF when Harry saw a certain someone on the map that wasn't suppose to be in the castle. So Harry decided to be Harry to see what was going on. And(one might say)got caught. That scene annoyed me.
I feel bad saying I hated the movie,because I didn't really. But that's why I'm torn. I feel like I'm not a true Harry Potter fan if I say I hated it. But I wish they would have been more faitful. All I know is when GOF comes out I'll go see it the day it comes out, but I'll be really nervous, I hope they are more faithful to that one.