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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 488169" data-attributes="member: 1194">umm...   this movie sucked.These opinions are coming from a couple who have not read the books, but appreciated the fantasy elements of the first movie.KnowtheToe and others have only mentioned a couple of the HUGE problems the 2nd movie has, but those only scratch the surface.Our guess is that they are now glossing over many areas of the book that are required for understanding WEHY things happen in the movie.that is unfortunate, though expected.Many movies do this with popular books.It's disappointing that they accomplished this tough task (not requiring the reading of the book to enjoy/understand the movie) with the first, but not the 2nd.I'll quote Crothian, I think first:ya, it seemed rushed, and interminably long at the same time.This movie was over 2 1/2 hours long!!  I was shocked, and after an hour and a quarter, it was seeming long to my wife.The beginning scene with the car was totally unneccessary to the story.It detracted immediately from the film.If they had brain one in their heads, they never would have been in danger from the train.And the car-as-deus-ex-machina I could not BELIEVE!I was literally jaw-dropping shocked that they brought that stupid CAR in to save them after filming themselves into a corner with the spiders.And the spiders!!Oh my goodness, was that a HUGE mistake.I don't know ehere to begin with that problem, so I'll leave that to the obvious problems it presents.Moving on, the charlatan instructor (briilliantly played by Branagh) was a big problem over time.Not only was he incompetent as an instructor (why would they have hired this man??!!), but he was evil as well.He mind-wiped other wizards who he stole the stories from, and would have done so to the kids??But he was stupid enough to call out a real wizard (Snape) for the duel so that he could get his butt kicked?That whole scene was flawed.Seriuously flawed to the point that I don't understand how anybody can miss these.Maybe reading the book makes it all different, but when  talking about a FILM, you should always be commenting on what they put on screeen, not what was written on the page in the book.And there's more problems i don't have time for:--- having a Ghost - Moaning Myrtle - be so annoying that they have to shut down parts of the school--  having the Basilisk be so large, yet noone saw/heard it moving around other than Harry?--  the stupid cursed-ball destroying major parts of the schholgrounds, probably killing multiple students if they were realistic, yet the 2nd year student has power to stop it??!!  WTF??many more, but those are the problems which threw me and my wife coimpletely out of enjoying the wonder of the fantasy elements they included, and started making us ask, "Why are those elements there?"</blockquote>

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