I just saw it today in theaters, and it's quite good. Most likely, it'd be better if you've read the books, so you understand what's going on. I've read all of them, so it made perfect sense.

Anyway, it has some good qualities to it. I recomend you see it if you already haven't.

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You can definetaly tell it is done by a different director. A TON of small details that make the book what it is were left out, and everything happened way too fast. It seemed like 30 minutes into the movie the end was there. I guess there was no real development.

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Yeah I thought it was directed better, but edited worse. It was a really great film don't get me wrong, but...it was the longest book...and the shortest film.

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By 10 minutes...hardly anything to complain about.

I might be alone on this, but I think the new Dumbledore was an improvement. While it went by really fast, the quality of the editing and other little things impressed me.

BTW, this is hilarious. Prisoner of Azkaban summarized in 15 minutes.

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I didnt really like it, it was OKAY... but then again I was dragged out of my house by my GF to go see it... cant say I can complain with spending time with her but it was kind of a boring movie.

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I didnt like it nearly as well as the other two. The director screwed up stuff and made no reference to the firebolt in the middle but put it in at the very end. The ending was cool but when you do a series you stick to the setup. And then there was Dumbledore.

Dumbledore I think didnt do half as good of a job as the old one. He could at least try to sound old. He talked like he was 55 not 90. Plus he was just off (if u know what i mean) and he didnt seem to put nearly as much effort into being old and wise as the old one.

Oh well. Maybe the next one will be better and dam*it they better but in Cho Chang.

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Dumbledore was definitely the low part of the film for me. I actually enjoyed the other director's style a LOT more. It seemed that with this movie it was less Harry Potter-ish and more like Friends but with wands and no recliners. I dunno, I hope you guys can figure out that one.

My favorite parts of the 15-Minute Summary:

HARRY: Hedwig! You made it!

HEDWIG: Love you too, *****.

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RON: Wow, Hagrid’s hut is in a totally different location than it used to be.

HERMIONE: Seriously, what up with that?

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Some Really Long Bridge on the School Grounds That Didn’t Exist Before This Movie

Some Really Long Bridge on the School Grounds That Didn’t Exist Before This Movie

Everyone else has gone to Hogsmeade. Harry can’t, because the Dursleys suck.

LUPIN: So I knew you’d conjure something terrifying, which is why I stopped you.

HARRY: Except that… you totally didn’t.

LUPIN: Whatever. My point is, I thought you’d choose Voldemort for your turn.

HARRY: Well, then, that makes letting me have a whack at the boggart really stupid, now, doesn’t it?

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...sorry... the point is, if you saw the movie read that it's funny.

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I liked it much better than the first two. There was finally a new story. There was finally some decent action and not as much focus on that STUPID GAME where they fly around on brooms.

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Well, the thing I'm looking forward to is that everyone will die by book 7. What a way to end the Harry Potter Series

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I found it kina short... So many details left out... And I must say, the Werewolf was aweful... Looked like Gollum...

/Edward

Uh Brian, Did you ummm...read the books?


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I've seen em, read and and agree with Brian: The quidditch had already been done to death...

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Heh, well you're gonna enjoy the start of the next movie, then...

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I thought it was better than the other two, but it left a lot of important stuff out.

• The book says the Grim (the dog that Harry sees, the dog that Black turns into) is as big as a bear. The dog in the movie looked like a runty, mangy wolf.
• Throughout the novel, Hermione's cat, Crookshanks, is constantly harrassing Scabbers, who she knows isn't really a rat. Crookshanks is also seen by Harry running around the grounds with Black. Crookshanks appears at the end of the novel when she helps Hermione and Harry enter the tunnel under the Whomping Willow (more on that later).
• Percy is made head boy, but is barely mentioned in the movie.
• Dementors don't fly.
• After Black attacks the Fat Lady in the painting (which has oddly moved since the first two films), she is replaced by Sir Codagen, who insists on changing the password at least two times a day. Neville can barely remember the passwords, and is given a list for the the next few weeks. The list is stolen by Crookshanks, who gives it to Black. Later that night, Ron awakes as Black is slashing his bed curtains to get to Peter Pettigrew. Ron's screams scare Black away. After this, security trolls are placed at the entrance to the common room.
• The significance of who made the map is never mentioned, nor is the significance of Black and Potter's frienship, or the significance of the stag.
• To enter the passage under Whomping Willow, you press a knot which causes the tree to become quiscient. In the book, when Harry and Hermione are chasing after Black and Ron, Crookshanks runs up and presses the knot so they can get in. It seems they wanted to add another 'action' scene instead.
• The Firebolt is given to Harry in the middle of the year, and is then confiscated to be checked for jinxes, as they think Black sent it.
• Quidditch is hardly in the movie, which is quite disappointing since the Quidditch final vs. Slytherin is an awesome game.

Yeah, I'm a nerd. Oh well.

[Edit: Oliver Wood isn't even in the movie, which is distressing because he's the coolest Quidditch captain ever. Also, Ron's boggart isn't a spider with roller skates, it's a spider without legs, but I guess that's not PC enough.]

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Exactly. This seemed more like an independant movie than a screen-adaptation.

[edit: RON AND HERMIONE: *bicker bicker Scabbers plot point bicker*

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MR. WEASLEY: Harry, there’s something I’m not supposed to tell you that I’ve gotta tell you.

HARRY: Okay, shoot.

MR. WEASLEY: Sirius Black is specifically coming to kill you. Promise me that whatever terrible and infuriating things anyone says, you won’t go after him.

HARRY: Should I ask follow-up questions about this?

MR. WEASLEY: Not unless you want to get down to the bottom of the mystery in the first fifteen minutes of the movie.

HARRY: Oh, okay.

WANTED POSTER: SO CRAZY!

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No, I didn't read the books. I tried, but they were too dull. It was seriously a child's book:

It was hot out. Harry lived in a house. The house was on a road. The road was called Happy Street. Harry had a bird. The bird was an owl. The owl was white. White is a color. I am so boring.

You get my point...

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He lives on Privet Drive, not Happy Street.

Duh.

Nope I dont get your point.. dont remember reading that at all....

I'll admit that the first few pages of the books may be like that... but I figured you to be the type of person to be able to read past the first 4 pages of a book Brian.

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I prefer books/novels aimed at a slightly more sophisticated audience.

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I can't believe people would seriously try to deny that children's books are written at a children's level. Yes, the story is interesting, but that alone can't make up for otherwise dull writing (imo).

I read the first 2 books and half the 3rd before I became bored with the series. Meh, I don't really consider HP anything special.

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Which makes a good point. Why are children's authors so boring? Yet, why at the same time do people think Tom Clancy writes interesting stories when he is the MOST boring writer on the planet and probably has had a ghost writer ever since he wrote The Hunt for Red October.

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quoted for those people who may have otherwise skipped over it

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The problem with children's books is that they are written for children. You can't use descriptive words or interesting sentence structures because it confuses young minds.

No idea about Tom Clancy, I was never able to get through even one of his books.

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The sentence structures are simple, yes, but I wouldnt call JK Rowling's writing undescriptive. Most of the time she paints a wonderful picture, with just enough detail to leave some things up to your imagination.

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I actually like the books, but I did think that was pretty funny

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I agree. I didn't find the books boring at all when i read them for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

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Do you guys read often? Like, other, more mature books? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of fantasy and I read all the time. I just couldn't get into those harry potter books.

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