Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- the movie

[lovespink88]

Okay, slight hijack from the current movie, but still Harry Potter related.

I JUST started reading the books this summer. I'm on 4, but I probably won't finish the series till next summer, cause I'm just too busy during the school year to read books for fun.

In addition to the books, I've seen 1 & 2 of the movies. I saw 1 a while ago, thought it was pretty good, but I just saw 2, and thought it was pretty crappy. I mean, I was expecting the books to be better anyways, since books tend to be better than the movie version, but I just had a question...do the movies get better? Like, if you had to put them in order of your favorites, what would they be?

When I saw the first movie last year without having read any of the books, I liked it. So when I started reading the books and LOVED them, I was so excited for the movies. But when I saw 2, I was really disappointed. I just want to know if I have something to look forward too.

[TPA85]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

do the movies get better? Like, if you had to put them in order of your favorites, what would they be?

Here's my personal ranking of the movies:
5
3
6
1
4
2

[DaffyKD]

I liked the first 2 since Christopher Columbus said his kids would kill him if he changed the story. I hated the 5th one. They left out a lot of important material, it was boring and even my son who can never find anything wrong with HP walked out of the theater upset. I have not seen the 6th one yet, but I don't have a lot of hope for it. The more something gets hyped, the worse the movies is in my personal and not so humble opinion.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DaffyKD

I liked the first 2 since Christopher Columbus said his kids would kill him if he changed the story. I hated the 5th one. They left out a lot of important material, it was boring and even my son who can never find anything wrong with HP walked out of the theater upset. I have not seen the 6th one yet, but I don't have a lot of hope for it. The more something gets hyped, the worse the movies is in my personal and not so humble opinion.

Ever since the first one -- maybe the second -- plot points that are very important in the book have been left out of the movies. The first book is 309 pages long, Book 2 a little longer. Book 4 is 735 pages long, and it's not the longest of the books. It just gets impossible to put everything in.

That said, sometimes I'm baffled why some things that could get easily mentioned are left out.

And yes . . . spoiler alerts are a must in this thread.