I saw the new Harry Potter last night, and I must say…I’m rather dissapointed. I have to start with the theater experience, which was terrible. The theater was freezing, I normally get a little chilly in theaters but this was different. It felt like I was being blasted with 30 degree air, luckily I always take a sweater with me. My boyfriend did not though (even though I told him to), and he had to put his arms inside his shirt, this guy NEVER gets cold either. The temperature just made the experience uncomfortable, which is not something you want when watching a movie.
I’ll keep this concise and won’t go into plot details, because I don’t want to give away any spoilers. I haven’t read the book in a few years, and I only read it once. I actually was pretty pleased with the movie when I was walking out of the theater, until my sister reminded me of all the things they left out (like I said, it’s been awhile since I read the book), she had just read the book and she was actually pretty pissed at all the stuff they left out. She gave me the book and after reading the first couple of chapters I can already see some cool stuff the left out, the meetings between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Magic for example, that would have been really cool in the movie, even though it wasn’t necessary.
But there are also scenes in the movie that were not in the book that were also not necessary. These scenes were all character development scenes, why do we need all this character development for characters who we have gotten to know for 5 movie?. They played the romantic aspect of the books for most of the film which sacraficed some cool actions scenes they could have put in.
I’m just hoping they add some stuff they left out in the next movie, from what I hear the seventh books is going to be split into two movies…that should give them some space to put in some scenes from the sixth book.
