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Originally Posted by BuckinKaeding

I never read the Harry Potter books, but the movies are pretty much always blockbuster hits. I'll be seeing this for sure this weekend.

I'm an avid HP fan and I gotta say with the exception of #3, the movies - for the lack of a better term - suck balls. Ugh.

Originally Posted by Swanman

So far, with the exception of Prisoner of Azkaban, the movies have kinda sucked compared to the books. Being a Stephen King fan, I am used to that. Hopefully with the last 3 movies covering the last two books, they remain more faithful to the books.

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Alfonso Cuaron is the man.

Yep. Both apply.

Originally Posted by Oceanic815Survivor

In their defense though the books are really long and have a lot of info which will not always work in a 150 minute movie

See, I understand that movies need to have some liberties over their adaptations. Take I Am Legend for example. Brilliant book worthy of adaptation. I even grant the whole manickan aspect (which isn't in the book) to portray his inner mind (basically the whole book). That was clever and I bought it. The end, however, was atrocious. It's not even a bastard child of the book. It's horrendous. Period.

Then take HP. Book 5 had an awesome climax and resolution. The book barely scraps it. It should have been 2 movies just like 7. The Minstry battle was absurd with little blobs flying around. Ugh, it was pathetic.

I could go on for hours about the movies being utter wastes of time. For now, I'll just say I await the remakes when people who grew up reading them make the movies rather than filmmakers who are capitalizing on the wave of those reading and growing up on them. I think those future movies will slaughter these.

Originally Posted by frazod

Never read the books, either. I really liked all the movies except for Goblet of Fire, which was just okay.

At least we both agree #4 is worse than the rest. Though I would substitute: "a bag of dog shit is better than 4" instead of "okay".