Can a Patronus Charm protect me from a bad movie?
Despite the fact that Daniel Radcliffe turns 18 next week, Harry Potter is only in his fifth year at Hogwarts. This wouldn’t be entirely bad if it weren’t for the fact that David Yates shows a flashback sequence every five minutes depicting Harry Potter as this eight-year-old child, but I was able to get over it.
The fifth Harry Potter installment The Order of the Phoenix, is probably just as bad, if not worse than it’s immediate predecessor, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It’s long, it’s boring, and really doesn’t climax to anything other than a five minute fight scene between Ralph Fiennes and Michael Gambon (which is practically shown in it’s entirety within the second trailer).
However, my biggest complaint about the movie is with the Dolores Umbridge character. We get the point she’s a bitch. We get the point she makes ridiculous rules. We get the point she’s there to make the students at Hogwarts miserable. With that said, there’s no need to fill two hours of the movie with her yelling at and then punishing the kids. It’s the same repetitive nonsense throughout the entire movie, which might I add, does nothing for the plot.
Nonetheless, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint are all growing into their own and provided enjoyable performances.
All in all, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a waste of time. Hopefully Warner Brothers can figure something out to resurrect my interest for the last two movies. Perhaps make the next movie more Prisoner of Azkaban-ish. I’m in favor of booting David Yates and resigning Alfonso Cuarón to direct the last two. I just hope the next movie has more actual use of the Patronus Charm rather than the students practicing it for 45 minutes.
Oh, and those of you who say, “You just don’t get the movie because you haven’t read the book”, I’ll let you in on a little secret, the movie is still shit. Just because you read the book and can justify to yourself why you think it’s a good film, it’s not.
Don’t see this movie. It’s a waste of your time and money.
Prisoner of Azkaban is the only Harry Potter film I like, mainly because it had the balls to stray from the novels. I can’t stand people who bitch and moan when a film isn’t exactly like the novel.
1) It is impossible for a film to be like the novel, mainly because film deals with images and books deal with words. They are a contradiction to begin with.
2) Not to mention, it a film kept every scene in the novel intact it would be one LONG movie.
3) Lot of ideas that work well on the printed page, don’t translate well on the big screen. Just imagine how cheesy The Shining would have been had Kubrick had a scene were hedge animals come to life.
4) Movies are ALWAYS better than novels. Yeah, I said it. Let’s be honest, it is far more exciting to watch something, than it is to read about it. I’d rather watch a football game, than read the highlights in the newspapers.
It also annoying when people will defend an adaptation by saying, “It makes sense if you read the book.” A movie is supposed to be it’s own entity, therefore you shouldn’t have to read the book to understand it. Many dorks constantly use this rationale to defend the shit storm of a movie Dune. “If you read the book it makes sense.”
Well, I hate to break it to you jack ass, but it’s the job of the filmmaker to provide the necessary information his audience needs to understand it, NOT the book his movie is based on. Any filmmaker that relies on a novel to help guide his audience is either lazy or just a no talent hack.
Amen.
But the badassedness of it all…you just don’t get it. The movie was made for Potter fans exclusively, NOT the general public. It’s not supposed to appeal to the majority! It’s for US. It’s OUR Empire!
I LUVVED THIZ MOVIE! I LUV Harry PoTter! OH MY GOD! They need to make a Harry Potter in which he meets Jack Sparrow. It could be called Harry Potter and the Pirates of the Caribbean. It would be sooooo awesome!