Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Please Use Spoiler Tags
 

So how about that new Harry Potter film coming out in July. Did anyone see the the trailer this weekend at TMNT? That was the first I had seen of it.

I'm started to get excited already!

This news is from Oct. 2006. The lastest I heard was that she, Daniel and Rupert all signed contracts to finish the final two films.

EDIT: Yeah here's the press release:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../23/c6173.html

But I will say that if she hadn't, I would've been ticked off...







EDIT 2: I mean, uh, yeah first the movie, then the book--July's gonna be a great month! :embarass:

I hadn't heard anything about it and saw a link to the news....I didn't see that it was that old:embarass:

So I changed the thread, because I couldn't delete it......

....I'm an idiot :lol:


EDIT: Does a Mod just wanna delete this mess?

:lol: Man, now I gotta change my post so I don't look like a tool! :lol:

Looks interesting. They showed many clips of cities which looked like NY. It seems the as the movies have progressed, they have been incorporating less Hogwarts and more of the world we know.

Man I gotta see the other movies.

last harry movie was prisoner of arkibat.

I fixed the thread title for you

I'm excited for this... But then again, I'm big into HP. I wonder how this one will translate onto film.

I'm sad about Helena Bonham Carter playing Bellatrix LeStrange. I thought their first choice was perfect, but she had to go and get pregnant, heh. Then again, I'm not a real fan of Carter, but we'll see! She may be perfect. Who knows.

Just have to wait until July to see.

Phoenix, damn it!

Don't think I've seen the trailer yet, anyone have a link?

Ooops, sorry. I was in a hurry to change the thread and thread title, because I'm a dumb@ss.

I'm hesitant about this one. The books are great but the movies have been rather hit and miss. Goblet of Fire was great (as trimmed down as it was), but the other three...not so much.

Especially Prisoner of Azkaban. *shudder*

But I will more than likely be there opening night even if the early reviews are sour. :P

I really like the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, but because of the few key details that were left out for no good reason, it just kinda leaves you unsatisfied at the end.

Indeed it does-- Marauder's Map, anyone? :roll:

Goblet of Fire was a lot worse at that. Mostly because it was just a collection of random scenes rather than a coherent adaption. I sure hope Order will be better.

That and the whole Prongs = James = why Harry's patronus is a stag detail. :dead:

Now, with the new movie arising, there's naturally a lot commotion about the actors. Now see what I found when a confused friend asked me if the last sentence in the first paragraph of Emma Watson's official Bio really means what it means...

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9...rianyn2.th.jpg

Looks like there's a side to Hermione we haven't seen yet.

The pic you linked to is too small to read anything.

No, really? I assume you didn't try clicking on it to get to the 1670x1011 pixel-image? Clever girl... And in case it still is too small after clicking, try displaying the original sized image and not the shrunk-to-fit-window-version.

Dude, chill. I had images turned off and the only link I had went to the thumbnail, not the full version. Problem fixed.

I don't get it. Arian as in from a part of Persia or someone that's an Aries? I even went to dictionary.com and I don't see why it's funny. I'm lost.

Anarky, the Nazi Aryans are spelt differently. Tststs...

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Yeah, but you're "a true aries" if you're born under the sign of Aries. Not an arian.

Besides: an alternate spelling of Aryan, Aryan race.

I'd have gone for another wording as well...

Anyone seen it yet? I just got back from it.

It was pretty cool, much better than the last one. Like in all of the Harry Potter movies, the pacing was a bit off, undoubtedly because there was so much to adapt in such a relatively short time. The final showdown made up was really well done though, and it made up for a lot.

I don't remember the book all that well, but I got the feeling a lot was left out, and I'm not sure I would have understood everything if I hadn't read it (This seems to be a recurring issue with the Potter movies).


All in all, while far from perfect, it's one of the better Potter movies, and I had a good time.

I saw it last night. I really really liked it.

but what you said, mecha cow, I noticed it as well, but marked it off as unimportant, why was it important later?

Anway, what I liked best was



oh, but it was quite awkward in many parts, making me squirm

Like I said, I don't remember the book too well, but I recall it being pretty significant. Here's what Rowling has to say:


I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I don't even remember what the hell the deal with that thing was at this point.

I forget so much about the books after I originally read them... and I don't think I have the will to read through them again. I guess it's Wikipedia for me.

ouh, I didn't know that Rowling had commented on it.. It had just been one of those nagging things that I had been all "what was that about?" about.
Now I'm even more psyched for the book! boo! I was trying to avoid this

Saw it last midnight. Was way better than the last MOVIE because I didn't have the urge to sleep through it. Other than that, my opinion is unimportant since I'm not a big fan of Potter and I'm not familliar with the source material. But, from an outsider's perspective, the cinematic appeal was certainly there.

I saw it, first screening ever in Australia, 10:00 am, Brisbane. I wasn't that keen on going, since they sort of raped their version of the 3rd book (which is my favorite of the series) and really downplayed Sirius (who was my favorite character at the time). Still, I tagged along and got ready for something to confuse me to no end and make a bit of a mockery of the 5th book of Harry Potter.

Boy was I wrong.


I loved that scene in the book, so I was a very happy camper :D

Imelda Staunton (Umbridge's actor) really shines in this movie. From that little cough she does to the little girly giggle...man, she sent shivers down my spine for that. I guess it's the little things that make the difference, no?

But...then we come to the end. Which kind of dissappointed me...


I'm kind of upset with lack of Draco Malfoy, too. He was probably in the movie for about 5 minutes total, and he plays a bigger role than what is portraied there. Ah well. Always movie 6...

And one last thing...

See...


Overall, I did like it. I remember almost everything about books when I read them, so I was constantly noting missing and compressed scenes as I watched, but somehow I wasn't bothered. The scenes left in the book were fun, and will still be there if I choose to read it again, but the movie told one clean story (which is more than we got with Prisoner of Azakaban with all its loose ends and wererat wolf.)

Also,
So basically, they took my least favorite of the Harry Potter series and made it watchable. I think some kudos are in order... though no doubt the ultra-purists will disagree with me. :trazz:

I agree, I liked this ending better, it's arrangement seemed to have more flow and was less confusing.
I didn't mind missing and changed parts at all. It was done well and, after all, certain changes have got to be made when you convert something onto screen.

I might be going to see it with some friends on monday, last 20 minute are 3-D, having read the book I'm looking foward to some good stuff. Except for the fact the voldermort is totally unscary.

A wee bit aprehensive though, when it comes to Harry Potter, I'm a bigger fan of the books. Especially after all the "Hate Katie" stuff about the girl who pays Cho, I have to wonder, are the fan girls angry because she kisses Daniel Radcliff, or because she kisses the guy playing Harry Potter. Its mental.

That's dumb, I mean, I really dislike the character in the books (which, btw, I'm a bigger fan of as well). But hating an actor because of who she plays? W/E stupid.
I'd never heard of this Hate Katie thing before.

also- I'm jealous that you get to see the 3D version. The last 20 minutes were amazing!

I actually hate the Chos character as well, I hard about the sites in the news paper, the things people were saying was really horrible, racist type stuff too. I really dont get how people an be so nasty.

It a maybe for the 3-D thing though, I hope it goes ahead though, I really want a a pair of 3-D glasses.

Speaking of which, how awesome would sanglasses that looked like 3-D glasses be, I would totally buy a pair. But I'm cool like that. :lol:

Isn't reverse-psychology fun? :P

Well, my viewing-party/couple of friends who do know all the HP stuff (I guess that makes them purists) were only disappointed that a few significant parts of the book were downplayed:

Dang! I'm a psych major and everything!

Hrm, I suppose those points not being expanded on more would make it confusing for non-book-farmilliar people...

but really, I didn't mind at all.

Just got back from seeing it...

The big thing I was disappointed in was that they cut out

I understand why they had to cut out alot of the major fight, as it wasn't really PG-13 safe, though I wish they hadn't.


I really did like the little girl that played Luna, heh. She was pretty good. And always good to see Remus again!

And, I'm sorry... But in the movies, Lucius is pretty darn cool. That actor is perfect. Most of them are, for their parts.

And the twins blasting moment... so poignant... so moving... so cool.

Just got back. I was actually :sleep: with the movie. Like everyone here is saying.

Just got back from the movie... wow, I actually really disliked it. I can deal with all the stuff they had to cut, I knew that was going to happen, but I was screaming obscenities in the car on the way home about the stuff that they blatantly changed. UGH!!!

It felt like everyone spent the entire movie just staring at each other a giving funny looks, watching while something occasionally happened. The biggest criticism of Goblet of Fire was generally that everything moved too fast. Well, I'd take that over this any day.

That said, there were some fantastic character moments in the movie, but that's all they really were: isolated character moments.

Ugh... I still need to decompress from this. As of right now, though, this is my least favorite of all the movies.