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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1582436" data-attributes="member: 115">I thoroughly enjoyed it, and thought it worked well.  Contrary to many people here, I thought the editting of the book to fit the movie medium was fine. Now, the makeup department needs to be shot.  Watch the movie again, and pay attention to Harry's scar.  Not only does it change color, but also dimension and position... in one spot very noticeably, where it's practically in the middle of his forehead. An amazing thing I noticed is that a lot of people in the audience were confused at the end, regarding [spoiler]Hermione and Harry's time-travel[/spoiler].  Unfortunately I don't know how confusing that was, since I have already read the books, and obviously there for knew what was going on already.  I don't think a lot of the people in the theater had even read the books.  Then again, maybe people in Syracuse are dumb, because the whole thing made sense to me, and seemed like it would even if I hadn't read the books.  I don't know. If nothing else this third movie has made me realize even more why I'm not fond of the first ones.  Of course, I don't particularly like the first two books either, so it makes sense story-wise.  From a simple cinematography standpoint though, I think Cuaron's version just looks more realistic... the previous two made the whole thing just look... plastic, I guess.  Especially the "exterior" shots. Oh, and to add me to the list of people with weird HP opinions, I think the fifth has been the best by far.  In fact, I would put them in the order of five, four, three, two, one. (contact! <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=":)" /> ) What I think is beginning to happen, now that Harry Potter is such a big name, is that fans' expectations are starting to reach the unreachable by anyone.  I'm not saying they don't have a right not to like the movies... I prefer the books as well.  However, I think there's not going to be any way that directors are going to be able to be living up to these expectations, especially given the length and complexity of the fourth and fifth books.  I'm noticing it already, in my circle of people... my friends and acquaintences who didn't like it much are all terrible fans of the books.  On the other hand, the people who seem to like it more are the casual readers, who have only read them maybe once or twice.  Of course, that's just my own experience, and not necessarily indicative of... well, anything.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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