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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3641499" data-attributes="member: 4936">Given the constraints of movie vs book, I think they did a fantastic job of cutting out the 'fat' that the book had time and space to deliver. This is in stark contrast to the Goblet of Fire, which included countless scenes that added little or nothing to the story (IMO), and excluded scenes that would have added quite a bit (again, IMO). I found OotP's editing to be remarkably tight, yet omitting no vital details. My only 'complaint,' and that term is used loosely, is to point out that for a movie titled 'Order of the Phoenix,' the Order itself played a very small part in the story. Of course, when you boil it down, that's true of the book too...most of what they did there was tease Harry with knowledge then yank it away; driving him absolutely crazy. I think that still came across in this movie. It would have been nice to see more of the Order, if only because they're so delightfully peculiar.I was particularly impressed by how they compressed several side stories (noteably the Cho Chang arc), retaining the basic -spirit- of the plots, but in fractions of the necessary exposition time. Also of note was the excellent use of visual details (newspaper headlines glimpsed, expressions of students in the backgrounds, etc) that conveyed thematic and tone information without requiring any dialogue. They created a hostile, oppressive atmosphere towards Harry (thus helping explain his behavior) without wasting a single word...and often simultaneously with other important scenes....I admit, my reaction is based largely on the -mechanics- of the movie...this is because the content of the story is much as it was presented in the book, even with the cuts in the movie's content. Problems with the storyline that existed in the book are still in the movie, and the myriad explanations that apply to those problems in the book still apply to the movie too. I don't really want to get into them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Because my problems with the movies in the past have been largely problems of the mechanics of moviemaking, it seems fair to judge this one on the same yardstick. And really, I found OotP to be very refreshing. It wasn't Citizen Kane or anything, but especially in comparison to the lackluster and disappointing Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix strikes me as an excellent interpretation of the source material, and well adapted for the big screen.Mew.</blockquote>

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