Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (film)

[Trey_P-I_47]

Yeah IMDB has him listed as the director for HBP, but I wonder if he gets enough moderate to bad reviews if they wont try and replace him. Warner Brothers wants the movies to be as large as they can and if Yates is leaving major things out, even though he could have easily had up to another 25-30 minutes, it just seems as if it wasnt very well thought out to me. I guess we will see when all the money is finished rolling in, if it has dropped drastically from GoF, then we may be in for a new director, if it remains the same....well we will see I guess. But I have a feeling that they are already rolling on HBP and its too little to late to get a new Director, maybe he will get the hint from peoples ideas and criticism on this one

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Trey_P-I_47

Yeah IMDB has him listed as the director for HBP, but I wonder if he gets enough moderate to bad reviews if they wont try and replace him.

I doubt that will be a problem -- they'll be more concerned about box office than reviews, and I haven't seen any bad reviews -- but even if it is, they won't replace him.

Warner Brothers wants the movies to be as large as they can and if Yates is leaving major things out, even though he could have easily had up to another 25-30 minutes, it just seems as if it wasnt very well thought out to me.

All of the movies, except maybe the first one, have left major things out. That may be partly the director, but it's also the producer(s) and the screenwriters.

Even though there have been a number of directors so far, all of the movies have had the same principal producer: David Heyman. He's the guy who negotiated the film rights for Warner Bros and who has been perhaps the main contact with JKR about making sure the movies do the books justice in her eyes.

FWIW, I just saw Daniel Radcliffe on Larry King (which I usually avoid like the plague) and he said Yates has been his favorite director and that he's thrilled he's back for HBP. Granted, that may have been some puffery, but since he usually seems to be very careful about being evenhanded, I'm taking him as sincere.

[ZTABullwinkle]

Whew. I was getting worried that I must have been one of the few people who felt like I did about the movie. Don't get me wrong, the movie is good. However, I feel like they deviated too much from the book. A little in the past movies wasn't much, but it was TOO noticeable tonight.

[ErinIsBadNews]

I really liked it, but I was disappointed. I was very angry with Sirius' death. I mean she just casually said "Avada Kedavra" and he just kind of fell. I don't fell it did him justice by any means. It was such an important part of the story and I didn't feel like they portrayed it well. My boyfriend, who loves HP but refuses to read the books because he thinks JKR is long winded. The only book he's read was Prisoner of Azkaban and it was on cd. lol. He came out of that movie full of questions. There was a little boy next to me who kept asking his Dad questions. "Dad, where'd he go? Dad is he dead?" I think it is becoming harder to follow the movies if you haven't read the books.

[flirt5721]

I haven't read any of the books but I liked the movie. I even went to the midnight showing for it. First time for any movie. Although a lot of my friends tell me that there is a lot of stuff missing.

[polarpi]

Add another moviegoer who was a little disappointed. I understand that for editing purposes, everything from the book is not going to be able to fit into a 2hr 18 min movie...but at least (as others have said) get the major points covered (and not "re-written" - what's with Cho being the one who "outed" the DA???)

That said, I'll still buy the movie, and I'm getting ready for the book to come out by re-reading HBP over the next week and a half.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by polarpi

...but at least (as others have said) get the major points covered (and not "re-written" - what's with Cho being the one who "outed" the DA???)

My guess at the reason: It prevents the need to introduce an additional character and provides a reason for Harry and Cho not to end up together without going into the additional Valentine's Day scenes and the like.