Harry Potter and the top 10 reasons why its movie sucks...

I went to watch the Harry Potter movie, which... as per normal, sucks.
Pardon me for using such a strong word, but I spent about 2 hours gazing at the screen, resisting my urge to stand up, leave the cinema to go and do the rest of my homework that is piling up right now in front of me. This Harry Potter movie just won the "Don't even bother watching it now nor renting the video next time" award.

So, we shall start on the TOP 10 reasons why the Harry Potter Movie Sucks:
Its TOP 10 because I want to go and do my homework, but trust me, it gets much longer then that...

10. Story plot
As with all the other Harry Potter Movies out there, the plot of the book is not adhered to strictly. In fact, half the time I wanted to point out that what has been shown on the film is soooooooooooooooooooooooo utterly wrong.

For example: Cho Chang isn't the person who reported about the DA to Dolores Umbridge, it was Cho Chang's friend who did it. And there were even more plot errors that extends from this. In the movie, Umbridge is able to interrogate students with veritaserum, which causes them to tell the truth no matter what happens. This is FALSE. Why am I bringing this up? Because it does not give enough reasons for Harry Potter to hate Cho.

In the original story, hating Cho is more "plausible" because it was Cho's friend who reported to Umbridge about DA on her own accord. This made Harry hate Cho possible, but in the movie, Cho supposedly reported it to Umbridge under the effects of veritaserum. Under normal common sense of human, wouldn't Harry go and apologise and patch up??

So, what happens is that we now have a plot that makes no sense at all...

9. No consideration for people who never read the books before...

Yea, lets face it, with such a horrible rating for a movie, the only people who should ever watch it are those who read the books and are able to resist the urge of throwing something at the screen. The plot of the movie is so incongrous that people who never read the book will spend about 90% of the movie scratching their head as to what the heck is going on!!

Don't feel like reading the story book but want to know more about the Harry Potter universe? Let me tell you that the movie is a seriously bad place to start this. For example:
Hermoine:"We need to go and find Sirius"
(Harry, Ron and Hermoine entered Umbridge room to use the fireplace to contact Sirius)
Umbridge enters:"(ok I forgot what that toad says)"
[next scene]
cut scene ed: HEY!! Ginny, Luna, Nevilly had all just got caught very "conviniently" to go to London together...

8. Excessive use of the daily prophet
Yea sure, in the wizarding world, the way most of the wizards are able to gain information about what is going on in the world is through the daily prophet, that doesn't mean that the movie should spend most of the time where it wants to cut the time taken for the movie to proceed to "use the daily prophet". Come on... even the producers seem to be too lazy to change the way the daily prophet sequence is animated, causing the whole prophet thing to looks super repetitious...

7. Luna Lovegood
Ok, I admit that her description did fit the ones in the movie, but for gods sake, why is she prettier then Cho and even Ginny?! Harry is supposed to like Cho because of her looks (If you want to argue about this, I would like to point out that it is so freaking explicitly stated in the Quidditch match when they first met) And on another side note, Cho doesn't really look pretty in the movie.

Also, Neville's plant is supposed to play an important part in the meeting with Luna. In the movie, it seems like its there for the sake of it being there... Urgh...
At the rate the movie is going, you'll think that the movie producers can just go and make an alternate story line already...

6. Oh wow, very exciting battles
Remind me again, when did wizards ever get to become swirls of dust in book 5? If you can apparate, why bother apparating with sand falling off you when you are going to enter a battle? George and Fred already demonstrated how apparation looks like right at the start, which is just "pop". So, what's with the sand? Style for the sake of style? No thanks...

I was mentioning about the battle inside the department of mysteries in case you don't know. Come on, the death eaters aren't that lousy for them to not reflect the stunning spell that was sent at them. Harry's reaction might just have been this...

Harry:"STUPEFY!!"
the death eater got blasted away...
Harry:"Oh man, that was just way too easy... wonder how could they kill so many people last time??"
and much later...
Harry:" Hey, I thought I just stunned you about like.... 2 minutes ago?"
..."STUPEFY"
the same death eater got blasted somewhere... who will appear again in a while
(OH yea, stupefy is supposed to be red, not some weird electric white colour)
Boring battles, when it was so freaking exciting in the books...

5. Fred and George Weasley havoc creation...
A very major plot point in the book was the Fred and George Weasley havoc creation during the time when Dumbledore isn't in the school. I wanted to see how the producers could make this thing look great and nice, but they decided to spare themselves the trouble of choreagraphing trouble, and take the easy way out, with only one small little fireworks display...

4. Department of mysteries...
Its quite self explanatory, it just sucks. The producers just cut everything there off, and ends off with a very lousy battle. It shows how lazy they are and how they just want to get the movie out and be done with it. Sirius death was supposed to be more then just a cut-scene (which is a cut-scene in the movie) Oh, I don't even want to remember my feelings there when I saw the battle...

3. Usage of snide remarks
It could have been a saving grace of the movie, but I think here, it makes the movie even more lousy. It shows that the producers realised that their movie sucks, and on a feable attempt to rescue it, they put in a few snide remarks trying to give everyone some comic relief. Sure, comic relief was successful, but....
It makes you think that the movie is lousy until they have no choice but to do this sort of thing...
It destroys a lot of the atmosphere created during the course of the movie leading up to that point...

2. Dumbledore battles
a) Dumbledore vs Fudge and several Aurors...
Oh man, this was one of the best several seconds parts of the entire story...
"Enough of this rubbish!" side Fudge, pulling out his own wand. "Dawlish! Shacklebolt! Take him!"
A streak of silver light flashed around the room; there was a bang like a gunshot and the floor trembled; a hand grabbed the scruff of Harry's neck and forced him down on the floor as a second silver flash went off; several of the portraits yelled, Fawkes screeched and a cloud of dust filled the air. Coughing in the dust, Harry saw a dark figure fall to the ground with a crash in front of him; there was a shriek and a thud and somebody cried,"No!"; then there was the sound of breaking glass, frantically scuffling footsteps, a groan... and silence.

Don't you think its so freaking exciting this part, and it got reduced to..
...Dumbledore grabbing onto Fawkes and disappearing...

b) Dumbledore vs Voldemort
This was slightly longer, but its much more fantastic then the incident above, but its too freaking long to be copied out...
Sigh~~ and the movie just created their own fight sequence, which reminded me badly of Dragonball Z...

Yea, the fight sequence sucks...

1. Overall boredom
Yea, the movie was supposed to narrate the whole storyline of "Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix". To tell you the truth, I don't see from the movie how is that plot going to relate to the order of the phoenix. Except for scattered talks about the order, there isn't much of anything else for us to think that the order is that very useful in the world of Harry Potter. However, we all know that in the book, it was one of the most important plot elements for the order of the phoenix...

Due to the lack of a focus during the movie, everyone was falling asleep and just waiting for the boring movie to end. Nothing makes a complete sense in the movie, with the front being distinctly non-related much with the ending. It was boring. The book however had very exciting parts and kept an overall sense of darkness thourghout the entire story

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I wanted to add some redeeming qualities of the movie, but I realised that what was wrong with the movie is that the people who made it are just looking for a quick buck.

With a large fan base, the creators of the movie are taking it the easy way out, by just using the name "Harry Potter" to generate revenue, while trying to create something that was less then satisfactory to give those fans out there a reason to give away their money. The filmers were lazy enough to use the same sequence of the prophets to talk about different things, just changing some scene here and there. Dumbledore's battles reminded me of Dragonball Z, and we don't even get to see the Dumbledore VS Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Fudge and Umbridge fight..

I won't say that the movie is great or even good at all... It felt so hastily made, things were just put together, ignoring the exciting parts in the book. Even important plot developments that were made known in the book were largely ignored.
I stopped watching since the 2nd movie cause I felt it didn't follow the storyline, but now, the 4th movie felt like a feable attempt to just earn that quick change...

Won't it be better to just concentrate on one part of the plot instead and make a good movie out of that part?

Discmon