Book fans beware!

Rating: 2/10 (13 September 2006)

I can't stand this movie at all! Me and my best friend were complaining so loudly in the cinema that our other friends went and sat in the aisle. The PoA is my all-time favorite book and prolly always will be, I had been looking forward to this movie ever since 2001 when they started making them, and was so disappointed at the lack of faithfulness (or ANY faithfulness) to the books. Our friends were asking us countless questions not the way home because the movie didn't cover enough points and left allot of loose ends untied.
Lupin not explaining the Marauders storyline was the ultimate downfall, which was what made the book the best of them all, I was so upset. Lupin looking like an overgrown Hairy Gollum when he was supposed to look like a normal wolf with only a few distinguishing features (tail, eyes etc) also, when they were explaining how Pettigrew was the traitor not Sirius, they didn't really explain the secret keeper charm properly and explained Pettigrew cutting off his finger and transforming into a rat in about a 30 second speech by Sirius. It is so obvious they crammed everything in. The stag at the end was never explained. They say they must cut the movies short or else they'd go on for to long, they had no trouble with Lord of the Rings! 3 hours long and they are considered classics! Oh yeah, the whole set was changed, the fat lady wasn't in a corridor but directly in front of the stairs, they put so much emphasis on that stupid clock and the music was really corny. Professor Trelawney was soooo stupid, she had frizzy hair! Trelawney was always described as sleek, mysterious with shawls and bangles but not, they had to simplify that. They changed the prophesy saying that "Innocent blood will be spilt" and no innocent blood was spilt! NONE!!!! About the only thing they did right were the dementors, the scary scenes were brilliant! I blame the director (Alfonso Cuar贸n) who did just this one film, all the others are fine but the best book is the worst movie and that makes me really mad! All in all, a movie that doesn't explain anything and is totally unfaithful to any form of the book.