Ootp Review, Review of OotP, spoiler free

[SakuraKinomoto03]

I think it's strange that you guys have the problem with the dialogue in this one, when the previous movies had some really crap lines (Like Hermione's lovely tendency to say something twice in a row for pseudo-dramatic effect). I found it much less cringe-worthy in this movie.

Definitely need to see it again after re-reading the book though. It's been awhile since I read OotP, so it wasn't fresh in my mind at all. All I know is this one didn't make me sigh or roll my eyes like the other ones.

[mercurystar]

I dunno...

I agree that the previous movies had their moments too. There just seemed to be so many awkward silences and pauses in this one. For example, I loved how they took nearly word for word the scene right after Harry and Cho kiss...but it was said in a way that just sounded so fake. Their laughter just sounded forced and the whole scene made me cringe.

[aramantha]

Apart from the tiny little snippets of scenes that refer back to much bigger things in the book, the main disappointment was Dan still not catching the wave with Harry's feelings. There is a line there where he's telling Sirius that he's so angry, like ALL THE TIME, and it hardly carries a drop of genuine passion or turmoil or anything. I lamented the cutting of the big scene at the end, in which Harry is overcome with guilt, screaming and half trashing Dumbledore's office -- I thought it was terribly important that the author wrote it that way -- but there was nothing in the way Harry was played through the whole film that would have set up that degree of insane grief and guilt and rage. That little snip of a scene between them was flat, perfectly flat. It made me wonder if they wrote it fuller at first, and then cut it because he still couldn't carry it. And for God's sake, why not, if he could carry Equus? I've seen three fully staged productions of that play, and that role can't be fudged. It's insane. So I can only assume that the writers and directors are just not letting him out or coaxing him out, or giving it the extended scene time to gather steam and explode. You can see one little hint of it when he snarls at Dumbledore to look at him, in the scene after Arthur is attacked by the snake, but they don't let it grow.

[athenamay3410]

I just watched the DVD last night, and it was my second viewing of the film.

I still don't understand why the locket & Regulus are missing from this film; and there's no mention of him in the deleted scenes (which suck btw). It's going to come right out of left field now in DH (or, as I'm fearing, it won't be in the film at all & we'll see a reduction of Voldemort's Horcruxes).

My boyfriend summed it up well- it could have used an extra thirty minutes & filled in some gaps. I realized upon second viewing just how much is rushed & left to the assumption that everyone watching the movie has read the book. He didn't catch that it was Cho was ratted out the DA.

I still don't like Harry's "you're weak" speech at the end, but I think it does set up the final battle in DH.

It's a lot of little things in this one- like in Snape's memory, we don't see Lily. And we almost NEED to see her there b/c of what is to come in DH. The prophecy really isn't explained well at all- you blink & you miss it. And I think it's not the full text of the prophecy either in the script.

So I think this one went from my second favourite, to being tied with PS. Goblet is still my favourite, and I'm back to being fearful of what is to come for HBP.

[Cat_on_my_head]

I finally saw the Ootp movie last month. This is my opinion: It was shit.

I would liken it viewing the dress rehearsal of a middle school production of 15 Minute Order of the Phoenix.

Of everyone's comments, I agree most closely with Godric's on everything except the acting, which I thought was extremely flat. There was very little emotion, even from the more seasoned actors. I was extremely disappointed with this director.

The thing that bothered me most was that they rushed through absolutely everything, as others have touched on also. I know there is a lot to get through, but in the previous movies there were at least a small selection of scenes in each that they concentrated on doing well. I don't feel like one scene in this film didn't scream "Eek, time restraints!" It didn't bother me until the end, because I was expecting all this rushing was so they could give us a really good, thorough department of mysteries and Dumbledore's office. Boy, was I wrong on that one.

[aramantha]

Yes, well, and the same team is doing the last two, excuse me, THREE.