Order of the Phoenix

[DIEsuke-x]

i think if you haven't read the book you will enjoy this movie alot but if you read the book you will be disappointed
i was disappointed because of the missing parts and it seemed like things were moving too fast.
But watching it a second time was better. I was trying to watch it without thinking of the book lol.
Overall its a great movie =D  

[M1r4-54n]

I agree with Diesuke domokun I was disappointed as well just because I read the book first. I'm just thinking like 'Gawd, what are they doing? D='  

[can o whoop ass]

Koto Namutsu

Mine is kind of long. something i posted in the movie thread already too.

There are only a few things I can say I honestly liked about this movie. Staunton’s job as Umbridge was brilliant. I hated her character from the first little cough she gave during Harry’s trial and I knew then she was going to be amazing. Also Carter’s job as Bellatrix was amazing to put it simple. It was short but really what I felt Bellatrix would be like.

As for my dislike that list goes on. Could almost write volumes.

For one, the entire thing was rushed. I think they could have splurged on an extra twenty minutes for the movie seeing as how the book is the longest of the series.

I think cutting out most of what happened at Grimmauld’s place was a bad idea, especially the scene when Harry first arrives. He was supposed to explode with anger because Dumbledore had such little contact with him, avoiding him. The movie was just like a kid not getting his way. It was just a little tantrum. Also, completely leaving out Hermione and Ron becoming prefects, I thought that was really important in the book because it fueled Harry's anger and raised more questions as to why Dumbledore was avoiding Harry (which was barely touched upon to begin with).

Also the prophecy was barely touched upon and had I not read the book I would not have really know the importance of it. My mom did not read the book ergo she did not really understand and I had to later explain most of the movie to her. You see very little of Harry and Sirius together which cuts the emotional pull when Sirius actually dies, because there was no actual bonding between Sirius and Harry. There's so much missing you can't even call it a good movie.

I'm so disappointed in the Snapes memory scene. It was supposed to be the first real look we got at the Marauders while they were in school and it was cut to a minuscule 20 seconds. I also wished they spent a little more time on the house of black. There is an entire back story about Sirius that I really enjoyed reading that they shouldn’t have cut out just for time’s sake. Also there was supposed to be a big heap of information we were supposed to get from Dumbledore that is cut extremely short.

There were a lot of cut characters and Scenes i think were important for both this movie and the ones to follow.

I know you can’t put everything in a movie but there are some things that just needed to be in there. I think if they would have kept things a closer to the book and not done things in the way they chose they would have been able to do it better, more canon. But whatever, it’s not like I have to see it again if I don’t want.

^Well Put
I thought Luna was awesome too.
But, overall it sucked.