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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 3643482" data-attributes="member: 51817">We did see that actually, IIRC. Just before the scene with Snape being bullied, we briefly see him sitting in a dank room with his knees drawn up to his chest. I think we also saw a shadowy glimpse of someone yelling at him (or yelling at someone else in his presence).Anyhoo. Overall I thought the movie felt a little too much like the Cliffs Notes version of the book. Not in the sense that certain things were cut out (I don't really have a problem with that), but the sense that I thought they often jumped too abruptly between the scenes that were left in. We seldom had enough of a segue to explain why we were going from one place to the next (although the quite creative Daily Prophet montages helped a bit).Then again, my friend who has never read the books said he had few problems following the plot and it's now his second favorite movie right after Chamber of Secrets, so maybe I'm thinking about it too much.There were also a few spots where I couldn't help but think, "You know, that somehow seemed a lot cooler in my head than here in the film." Snape's memories seemed like more of a brief afterthought than a key bit between Snape and Harry. I found [spoiler]the first half of the Department of Mysteries sequence with the kids and Death Eaters kind of disappointing (although the latter bit with Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Harry was awesome)[/spoiler]. And Sirius [spoiler]dying was *way* disappointing. The bit with Harry being held back by Lupin with just the music playing and no dialogue was well-done, but the death itself seemed to lack any real dramatic weight.[/spoiler] My friend agreed with me on that one.Considering that the HP movies usually come up with something *better* than what I was imagining (the Boggart scene in Prisoner of Azkaban comes to mind, for starters), this was kind of disappointing.There were several things I liked, though. Neville shines as usual, and Luna was her serenely loony self. Umbridge is a delightfully nasty piece of work (and the wall of kittens *was* freakier than what I had imagined). Grawp was less annoying than I would have thought (although I was rolling my eyes like mad when he got all sweet over Hermione. Whatever happened to book-Hermione as opposed to Mary Sue-Hermione?). I thought the "family tree room" with all the names and portraits was cooler and more wizardly than the tapestry in the book, actually. And Bellatrix was *awesomely creepy*... I just wish there'd been more of her!I guess I give it an overall "It was fun." I'll enjoy seeing it on DVD when it comes out, but I have no itch to see it again in the theater.Peace & Luv, Liz</blockquote>

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