Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (SPOILERS)

flippyshark · 07-12-2007, 12:55 PM

My feelings on the movie - It was a mercifully brief summary of a book I didn't like. It was more fun than I thought it would be, largely thanks to Imelda Staunton's frightening performance as Dick Cheney, um, I mean Delores Umbridge.

I'm curious how this will play to those who didn't read the book. The entire Cho storyline is down to one major scene and a couple of brief appearances. Now, in the book, that subplot was pure torture, so I don't mind it being shortened, but given it's treatment here, it seems like an irrelevance. (I didn't mind Cho being used as a shorthand stand-in for another character, though. It saved time.)

I really hope that last book is ravishing, because I agree with those who found volumes five and six tedious. (Half Blood Prince was a slight improvement, but still felt like marking time to me.)

07-12-2007, 12:55 PM	#11
flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	My feelings on the movie - It was a mercifully brief summary of a book I didn't like. It was more fun than I thought it would be, largely thanks to Imelda Staunton's frightening performance as Dick Cheney, um, I mean Delores Umbridge. I'm curious how this will play to those who didn't read the book. The entire Cho storyline is down to one major scene and a couple of brief appearances. Now, in the book, that subplot was pure torture, so I don't mind it being shortened, but given it's treatment here, it seems like an irrelevance. (I didn't mind Cho being used as a shorthand stand-in for another character, though. It saved time.) I really hope that last book is ravishing, because I agree with those who found volumes five and six tedious. (Half Blood Prince was a slight improvement, but still felt like marking time to me.)
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