Disappointed
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 12:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI'm all hot and bothered; we've been home about half an hour after nipping out to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I've never read any of the books and I'm pretty sure that this is one of those cinematic mistakes that means only people who have read the book first can properly fill in the plot elements that hit the cutting room floor, or understand the significance of half of what's going on. I knew that the stories get darker as Harry gets older and I don't mind that. What I did mind was the fact that with occasional exceptions, the sense of wonder that made the earlier films so fun was missing and had been replaced not by well-scripted character development, but an over abundance of teenage angst. Harry needed a damned good slap about twenty minutes into the film to snap him out of it. Sadly he never got it and that was that.
I shudder to think what was cut out; certainly some necessary plot points. Maybe they will be added back for the DVD release. What was left in was hmmm... pretty. I didn't realise that Sirius had copped it when he did and to be honest, I didn't care when I found out. The greatest irony of the movie though, is that having identified that huge plot points were missing, making sections of the movie almost incoherent as the cast just appeared in one place or another for no apparent reason, was that what remained was too long. Too long by about 30 to 40 minutes.
It seems that afterwards, I came a cross as rather over-vehement while I was explaining my disappointment to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellefurtle and I inadvertently left her somewhat dismayed. That was not my intention and it didn't start out like that in my head. At some level I clearly disliked the movie more than I am owning up to. It certainly didn't make me want to rush off and read the book.
All in all a damned shame; I was really looking forward to seeing the movie and I feel completely deflated and rather disappointed.
I've never read any of the books and I'm pretty sure that this is one of those cinematic mistakes that means only people who have read the book first can properly fill in the plot elements that hit the cutting room floor, or understand the significance of half of what's going on. I knew that the stories get darker as Harry gets older and I don't mind that. What I did mind was the fact that with occasional exceptions, the sense of wonder that made the earlier films so fun was missing and had been replaced not by well-scripted character development, but an over abundance of teenage angst. Harry needed a damned good slap about twenty minutes into the film to snap him out of it. Sadly he never got it and that was that.
I shudder to think what was cut out; certainly some necessary plot points. Maybe they will be added back for the DVD release. What was left in was hmmm... pretty. I didn't realise that Sirius had copped it when he did and to be honest, I didn't care when I found out. The greatest irony of the movie though, is that having identified that huge plot points were missing, making sections of the movie almost incoherent as the cast just appeared in one place or another for no apparent reason, was that what remained was too long. Too long by about 30 to 40 minutes.
It seems that afterwards, I came a cross as rather over-vehement while I was explaining my disappointment to
ellefurtle and I inadvertently left her somewhat dismayed. That was not my intention and it didn't start out like that in my head. At some level I clearly disliked the movie more than I am owning up to. It certainly didn't make me want to rush off and read the book.All in all a damned shame; I was really looking forward to seeing the movie and I feel completely deflated and rather disappointed.