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Originally posted by SSS1365
I just saw it with two friends, one who has read the book and one who hasn't. The one who hasn't read the book loved the movie. My other friend and I felt pretty much the same as everyone else on this thread-- that they left too much out.
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I read a review of the movie Thursday night (while at my grandparents, since I went with my grandma yesterday morning), and the reviewer hadn't read any of the books, to come at the movies with a "clean" outlook (or something like that). I think that's why so many of us agree that TOO much was left out of the movie (even though everything that I kept saying was missing or mixed up, my grandma said was a good thing since the movie was
already two and a half hours long...she's never seen the first two movies)
If I hadn't read the book (and actually, reread it before seeing the movie) I think I would've been very confused while watching the movie. I loved the connection between Lupin and Harry, the starting of the "romance" between Ron and Hermione (although some of the staging of the scenes with just Harry and Hermione at the end almost made it seem [to me] that there's also a "romance" starting between these two characters), and the scenery of Hogwarts (especially during Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class with Buckbeak).
If only there was more of the book in there (and a certain Gryffindor Quidditch Keeper
), I think this would be my all time favorite of the movies so far (I still like the first one the best, but POA beats CoS by a mile!)
Also, did anyone else reconize a scene where Harry's scar was on the wrong side? (The only reason why I saw it (from what I remember from the movie, it's right when Harry's about to face the boggart in the DAtDA classroom with the rest of his schoolmates) was that the review I read mentioned it
)