OK, why I HATEEDDDDD the film

[Lou xo.]

**NOTE - posted it on another site & just c&p it so some of it I may have already mentioned**

It was absolutely awful to be honest I know that the films and the books are two separate things but come on...they could have made it much more like the books than they did....I know they had to keep it to a time limit blah blah blah but it was so rushed ~ at the Burrow for 2 seconds then QWC then Hogwarts? It was naff.

Stuff that pissed me off:

• No Veelas. I know they're not important but it would have been good to have in there
  
• No leprechaun gold ~ which is part of the argument Harry & Ron have, would have been a nice detail
  
• DOBBY! AND WINKY! and her drunkeness and stuff about Crouch coming out from her ~ don't think they handled that at all well..oh and SPEW ~ that really needed to be in there, I love it!
  
• Frank & Alice Longbottom ~ it was said in such a rushed way that people who hadn't read the books might not know who they are, I normally don't pay much attention to people's surnames in films particularly...
  
• Barty Crouch Jnr's trial ~ Not shown, but it should have been to introduce us to Bellatrix...
  
• Moody's eye ~ It was crap. Honestly, just crap.
  
• Final Task ~ Should have had the obstacles ~ Blast Ended Skrewts, Sphinx, Spider..
  
• The ending was rushed ~ Pretty much speaks for itself...
  
• Hermione & Ron's argument confused me ~ Even though I've read the books...it wasn't done as well as it could have been
  
• Percy ~ he really really should have been there.
  
• Crouch Storyline ~ that pissed me off. they needed to explain it more ~ how he got out of Azkaban etc. someone who hadn't read the books wouldn't have a clue...and also it didn't mention that Crouch Snr was under the Imperius
  
  AND FINALLY..THE THING THAT PISSED ME OFF MOST...
  
• WHERE WAS THE RITA SKEETER STORYLINE? ~ Loved that in the books ~ all the stuff about Hagrid & Maxime coming out...Harry's seizure in Divination..and then Hermy catching her at the end ~ really liked it in the book and was looking forwards to it being in the film...
  

The only things I liked were the Yule Ball and the comedy moments...apart from that I think it's a waste of time for them to make it, cos they're not doing it well enough They rushed it alot, and they didn't explain things enough for people who might not have read the books...it was like "OK, finished with that part of the book, lets move straight on and cram it all in!"

I know they had to cut lots of it because of time, as I said before but still.....gah. I don't think I'll waste my money in future

[//Kiss.Me.I'm.Contagious\\]

I agree that they did miss so much out but seeing as your coming from a die-hard HP I've-read-the-books-inside-out-more-then-57835743963-times-each point of view then you're going to miss things. I know did.

I expect that Steve Kloves just worked with the main plot and worked out (from the help of Jo Rowling) which parts were essential to the main plot and which parts weren't.

There is only so much stuff you can have in a sub plot because otherwise the story is jumping from detail to detail and it would miss the main feature of what the film (I personally felt they were trying to achieve) was about.

This was that they were working on the characters themselves. In this film everything is set in place for when Voldemort comes back. We watch them grow up and struggle with hormones etc and this really sets a place in our hearts. It makes us as an audience love the characters, relate to them, adore them, so when we refer back to the main storyline we really hate the evil guys and love the hero's.

It is a technique done in every film. Establishing characters. Thats all it is. Without that we'd fall in love with Voldemort because Harry would be seen as an arogant twat that has too much testosterone in him. They're making us fall in love with them all so that when something bad happens or when someone dies we are touched or upset etc. For eg Sirius. His character in the beginning of book 5 makes us love the way he is so that we are more moved by when he is killed. Same with book 6. We feel for Dumbledore and see his true personality and then he dies. Without this establishment of characters there'd be no point in killing them off. You may as well have had neville breaking a toe and it would have achieved the same effect had we not gotten to known Dumbledore more.

Lol there.

[~*~*Snowy*~*~]

Well..yeah..i know they missed a lot, but i thought it was still really good.

I think it was just the right pace, i would have been wanting it to move faster if it had been slower.

And the stuff about dobby and winky, that irritated me in the book so i was glad it was missed out, and the percy thing...

..i know the rita skeeter thing shudda been in there, but to be honest when i was watching it i was enjoying it too much to think about what they missed, i think its by far the best so far..

[Mrs Snufkin]

they missed out some really great stuff I agree

But i felt what they kept in was fantastic