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Yeah, while I'll totally pay for seeing both halves and I'll probably enjoy it very much, it IS not that great an idea to make a film a straight-forward all-details-included adaptation.
I'm thinking, here, of the really well-adapted Order of the Phoenix - my least favorite of the books for its whiny yell-iness. With so much of that teenangsty fat so adeptly sliced off the bones, it made for great movie-watching, in my opinion.
And in a related note... the news in that article that most disturbed me was that Steve Kloves will be penning all of the remaining films. It was his ham-handiness to blame at the bloat of the first two films (though it IS a director's role to fix broken screenplays with editing.) It was Kloves' picking of the wrong details to cover that messed up my favorite scene in the series (Prisoner's Shrieking Shack scene.) Bleah, after such an excellent adaptation of OotP, why go back to the oinkfisted one?
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