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Definitely Prisoner of Azkaban. No coincidence as well that it's the one directed by a genuinely brilliant director with a singular, auteurist vision in Alfonso Cuarón.
Yeah, they did. Not entirely their fault, though. It was my least favourite book too. All that focus on the romantic lives of the main trio was not really my thing. :p
The First two were the best adapted... Those two movies are the ones that come the closest to what i picture in my head while reading.
The third one has an "ok" script but an incredible direction... But the change on the artistic departmen wasn't so good to the movies; things were way too exentric.
The fourth movie has also an "ok" script, a good direction and the artistic departmen came back to the likes of the first two movies(But they stayed with the cloacks with the red, green, yellow and blue things... things i didn't like from the third. They're cloaks were supose to be all black and "WTF with using muggle cloath?(Never got that...)"
With the fifth movie all begun to fall apart, leaving out some key plot... Then the sixth movie(The sixth book being my favourite one) was one of the worst adaptations i've seen in my live. They wrote a Ginny way diferent from the books, and overall was like 70% made up. They left out some very, very key plots and the part on the Astronomy Tower was really bad played...
Ginny is my favourite character, but on the movies they just created a brand new character that has no chemistry with Harry, and put her name to it(Not the fault of the actress)...
When Deathly Hallows came out, there were just too many plot holes, but they tryed their best and they could fix a little bit of those.
Re half blood prince I couldn't agree with you more - that was my favourite book and the movie was just terrible. Ginny was nothing like in the books and there was no realistic build up to her and harry getting together. Plus the fact that harry wasn't petrified during dumbledores death is just plain unforgivable!!
Finally someone who understands! Yeah, the fifth book was COMPLETELY IMPORTANT for the Harry/Ginny relationship: She starts open up, i love the scene in the library with the chocolate; the way she stand up and, in short words, tells him to stop crying like a baby and being so stupid; and of course, one of the final scenes of the book, when she crashed Cho Chang and when, at the Hogwarts Express, told them about Dean Jajaja
About the sixth and the Astronomy Tower: How can i believe that Harry just stood there and let Snape kill Dumbledore(By the way, Snape should be acting like a mad man... On the movie you crealy knows he doesn't want to kill Dumbledore, who must be beggin for "his life" and not asking Snape to kill him... That scene shows how little Kloves and Yates know Harry and his world.
for me The Prisoner of Azkaban is when the HP movies turned from kids' movies into awesome movies about magic. Everything was amazing in that one, the music, the humor, the drama, the costumes, the casting; and on top of that all the little background magic scenes like the floating chairs in the Leaky Cauldron, the biting book, the housekeeper with the magic broom, the myriad of little details that gave the universe so many more layers than the first 2 movies did. I still have a "Sirius Black Wanted" poster and I think it's one of the most brilliant pieces of artwork ever.
The later movies leave more out of the books, however the work MUCH MUCH better as films.
I'd say Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 is the best movie, very cinematic and exciting, and at the time it was the best 3D I've seen in a movie I thought (still haven't seen Avatar)... after that I'd say Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix.
Order of the Phoenix is the shortest movie and leaves the most out of the book, however it is fantastically directed and they did the best job out of any of the films into streamlining the story into something comprehensible, Goblet of Fire is so choppy with what they leave out it only makes sense to me because I've read the book.
Exactly!! They could maybe have saved it by having some decent interaction between the two of them in the 6th movie but instead SHE TIES HIS SHOE LACES?! Like SERIOUSLY?! Who does that? I was actually cringing while watchng that scene. Not to mention the fact that she seemed to be the one going after him and making the moves when in the book the whole point was it was time for harry to man up and realise she's been there or along and he's been to blind to see her (i.e. the scene after Griffindor wins the cup - epic. But in the movie she kisses him, which was just not cool -_-.
Oh and don't even get me started on the fact that harry essentially hid while dumbledore died - I mean common. There is no way he wouldn't have intervened had he been given the chance, consequences be damned, dumbledore was the only protector/mentor/parent figure he had left.
One last thing, I hated that they missed the funeral, that was just such an emotional part of the book and really showed how harry was finally letting go of his illusion of being protected and essentially his childhood and was going to fight the big fight. Not some random wand waving, but annnywaaaaay.. rant over!! :)
That was a little tough, I've always loved POA the best, but I also loved HBP and DHP2....then broke it down to POA and DHP2...but def. went with POA!! Always been the most fun for me. But DHP2 ah man couldn't have ended the series any better!!
The first two are faithful adaptions, and PoA is both a faithful representation and a beautifully stylized movie that turned turned the world into something more realistic. GoF is probably my second favorite, and could have been quite a bit better if they had just added another half hour of screen time -- it was too rushed at times. Things started to fall apart with OotP and was mostly saved by great casting with Luna and Umbridge...some of the other characters like Dumbledore and Snape became caricatures of what they were in the previous movies (monotone, anyone?) and David Yates tried to make it just too stylized. HBP sucked in my opinion and turned the couplings I already wasn't a fan of into something cringeworthy. DH Part I was the best of the Yates films in my opinion, giving plenty of time to the section of the book given it was split in two. And DH Part II...while not awful by any means, I was just very disappointed. The Gringotts part seemed odd with the rest of the film, and the epic scenes from the book like the "King's Cross" scene with Dumbledore (I blame Gambon) and Snape's "memories" (turned into another rushed montage a la David Yates) just really fell flat to me.
Goblet of Fire was by far the best. Azkaban was unoriginal and got itself caught in the "time-travel holes". Every movie after GoF was a long drawn out build up. The last movie was awesome, but GoF changed the series into a more darker mature tone and started following many more characters.
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Tough call between Prisoner of Azkaban and Deathly Hallows Pt. 2.
ReplyDeleteEither the Globet of Fire or Deathly Hallows Pt 2
ReplyDeleteFor me The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows Part 2
ReplyDeleteGoF for me. I didn't like DH Pt2 as much as the others, they cut so much stuff from the book.
ReplyDeleteDeathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2 for me.
ReplyDeletex - I don't watch kid's movies.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Order of Phoenix...
ReplyDeleteAre you trolling or what...
ReplyDeleteOrder of the Phoenix is pretty good. Very consistent with a great storyline very focused on Harry as a character.
ReplyDeleteThat being said... the first two will always be magical to me, but I think the last one is the best.
How dull you must be.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Prisoner of Azkaban. No coincidence as well that it's the one directed by a genuinely brilliant director with a singular, auteurist vision in Alfonso Cuarón.
ReplyDeleteDeathly Hallows Part 2 is a close second.
All in all, I enjoy them all.
POA or DHP2 for sure... DH for the obvious reasons but POA is my favorite I think
ReplyDeleteYeah, they did. Not entirely their fault, though. It was my least favourite book too. All that focus on the romantic lives of the main trio was not really my thing. :p
ReplyDeleteThe First two were the best adapted... Those two movies are the ones that come the closest to what i picture in my head while reading.
ReplyDeleteThe third one has an "ok" script but an incredible direction... But the change on the artistic departmen wasn't so good to the movies; things were way too exentric.
The fourth movie has also an "ok" script, a good direction and the artistic departmen came back to the likes of the first two movies(But they stayed with the cloacks with the red, green, yellow and blue things... things i didn't like from the third. They're cloaks were supose to be all black and "WTF with using muggle cloath?(Never got that...)"
With the fifth movie all begun to fall apart, leaving out some key plot... Then the sixth movie(The sixth book being my favourite one) was one of the worst adaptations i've seen in my live. They wrote a Ginny way diferent from the books, and overall was like 70% made up. They left out some very, very key plots and the part on the Astronomy Tower was really bad played...
Ginny is my favourite character, but on the movies they just created a brand new character that has no chemistry with Harry, and put her name to it(Not the fault of the actress)...
When Deathly Hallows came out, there were just too many plot holes, but they tryed their best and they could fix a little bit of those.
U crazy? PoA was dirt.
ReplyDeleteRe half blood prince I couldn't agree with you more - that was my favourite book and the movie was just terrible. Ginny was nothing like in the books and there was no realistic build up to her and harry getting together. Plus the fact that harry wasn't petrified during dumbledores death is just plain unforgivable!!
ReplyDeleteFinally someone who understands! Yeah, the fifth book was COMPLETELY IMPORTANT for the Harry/Ginny relationship: She starts open up, i love the scene in the library with the chocolate; the way she stand up and, in short words, tells him to stop crying like a baby and being so stupid; and of course, one of the final scenes of the book, when she crashed Cho Chang and when, at the Hogwarts Express, told them about Dean Jajaja
ReplyDeleteAbout the sixth and the Astronomy Tower: How can i believe that Harry just stood there and let Snape kill Dumbledore(By the way, Snape should be acting like a mad man... On the movie you crealy knows he doesn't want to kill Dumbledore, who must be beggin for "his life" and not asking Snape to kill him... That scene shows how little Kloves and Yates know Harry and his world.
Deathly Hallows part 2, easily, it really is the culmination of all the books/movies into one grand and emotional finale!
ReplyDeletefor me The Prisoner of Azkaban is when the HP movies turned from kids' movies into awesome movies about magic. Everything was amazing in that one, the music, the humor, the drama, the costumes, the casting; and on top of that all the little background magic scenes like the floating chairs in the Leaky Cauldron, the biting book, the housekeeper with the magic broom, the myriad of little details that gave the universe so many more layers than the first 2 movies did.
ReplyDeleteI still have a "Sirius Black Wanted" poster and I think it's one of the most brilliant pieces of artwork ever.
The later movies leave more out of the books, however the work MUCH MUCH better as films.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 is the best movie, very cinematic and exciting, and at the time it was the best 3D I've seen in a movie I thought (still haven't seen Avatar)... after that I'd say Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix.
Order of the Phoenix is the shortest movie and leaves the most out of the book, however it is fantastically directed and they did the best job out of any of the films into streamlining the story into something comprehensible, Goblet of Fire is so choppy with what they leave out it only makes sense to me because I've read the book.
ReplyDeleteExactly!! They could maybe have saved it by having some decent interaction between the two of them in the 6th movie but instead SHE TIES HIS SHOE LACES?! Like SERIOUSLY?! Who does that? I was actually cringing while watchng that scene. Not to mention the fact that she seemed to be the one going after him and making the moves when in the book the whole point was it was time for harry to man up and realise she's been there or along and he's been to blind to see her (i.e. the scene after Griffindor wins the cup - epic. But in the movie she kisses him, which was just not cool -_-.
ReplyDeleteOh and don't even get me started on the fact that harry essentially hid while dumbledore died - I mean common. There is no way he wouldn't have intervened had he been given the chance, consequences be damned, dumbledore was the only protector/mentor/parent figure he had left.
One last thing, I hated that they missed the funeral, that was just such an emotional part of the book and really showed how harry was finally letting go of his illusion of being protected and essentially his childhood and was going to fight the big fight. Not some random wand waving, but annnywaaaaay.. rant over!! :)
That was a little tough, I've always loved POA the best, but I also loved HBP and DHP2....then broke it down to POA and DHP2...but def. went with POA!! Always been the most fun for me. But DHP2 ah man couldn't have ended the series any better!!
ReplyDeleteFor me, Chamber of Secrets and Deathly Hallows Part 2
ReplyDeleteGoF
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Prisoner of Azkaban
ReplyDeleteThe best: Prisoner of Azkaban tied with Deathly Hallows Pt. 2.
Prisoner of Azkaban ftw!
ReplyDeleteThe first two are faithful adaptions, and PoA is both a faithful representation and a beautifully stylized movie that turned turned the world into something more realistic. GoF is probably my second favorite, and could have been quite a bit better if they had just added another half hour of screen time -- it was too rushed at times. Things started to fall apart with OotP and was mostly saved by great casting with Luna and Umbridge...some of the other characters like Dumbledore and Snape became caricatures of what they were in the previous movies (monotone, anyone?) and David Yates tried to make it just too stylized. HBP sucked in my opinion and turned the couplings I already wasn't a fan of into something cringeworthy. DH Part I was the best of the Yates films in my opinion, giving plenty of time to the section of the book given it was split in two. And DH Part II...while not awful by any means, I was just very disappointed. The Gringotts part seemed odd with the rest of the film, and the epic scenes from the book like the "King's Cross" scene with Dumbledore (I blame Gambon) and Snape's "memories" (turned into another rushed montage a la David Yates) just really fell flat to me.
Okay, rant done!
Goblet of Fire was by far the best.
ReplyDeleteAzkaban was unoriginal and got itself caught in the "time-travel holes".
Every movie after GoF was a long drawn out build up. The last movie was awesome, but GoF changed the series into a more darker mature tone and started following many more characters.
POA and OOTP are my all time favorites.I love all, but I watch them two more tbh lmfao
ReplyDelete1. PoA
ReplyDelete2. HBP
3. DH PII
4. DH PI
5. GoF
6. CoS
7.TSS
8. OotP
I'll just compare them from the source material:
ReplyDelete1) Phillosopher's Stone.
2) Chamber of Secrets.
3) Deathly Hallows, Part 1
4) Deathly Hallows, Part 2
5) Goblet of Fire
6) Prisoner of Azkaban
7) Order of The Phoenix
8) Half Blood Prince (It's script is 80% made up and they "killed" the character of Ginny Weasley and her relationship with Harry).
Deathly Hallows Part 1
ReplyDeleteDeathly Hallows Part 2
Philisopher's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Goblet of Fire
Half Blood Prince
Prisoner of Azkaban