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[blahflowers]

I really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I think this is partly because it's my least favourite of the books and I thought Goblet of Fire was a messed up film. Therefore I had low expectations and this film surpassed them. However, Luna Lovegood was a disappointment (she was always going to be a difficult character to play and I think it was the voice that irritated me), Ralph Fiennes is still about as scary as week-old milk and Helena Bonham-Carter should stand trial in some kind of court for actors for her Bellatrix Lestrange, or made to come off of whatever drugs she's currently taking. It was a shame that Natalia Tena and David Thewlis got so little to do in this film as Tonks and Lupin don't do a huge amount in the last two books.

The sets were good and I liked the Thestrals. Michael Goldberg did a pretty good job taking the shears to the large amount of superfluous rubbish in the book, it did unfortunately mean that the whole idea of 'The Order of the Phoenix' was quietly forgotten after about the first thirty minutes. Harry's scene with Neville nicely sets up the last book, and I'm glad a large amount of the relationship stuff with Cho was lost.

So yeah, I probably only enjoyed it so much because I thought it was going to be awful and it was okay. If between now and the next film director David Yates works out how to make a scene look visually interesting we should be in for a treat.

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[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Helena Bonham Carter rocked, dude. And the casting of Lauren Laverne as Luna Lovegood was bold - same initials, see?

Otherwise, I'm very much of your party - I expected a bad film of a bad book, and got an unexpectedly thrilling film which took an axe to a flabby and lazy book. Sirius Black looked a lot less like a douchenozzle, as well, which made his death less of a generally good thing.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

Am I alone in thinking Ralph McTell would make a better villain than Fienes?