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Harry Potter and the Filler of the Summer

I going to try and make this short and sweet.

I've said it before, this summer has been the summer of sequel duds. I have yet to see a sequel other than Live Free or Die Hard that I want to see again. Every sequel has been ok, but nothing special what so ever. That includes Harry Potter and the Order or the Phoenix. I've read all of the Potter books except the last half of Half Blood Prince. I remember thinking when I read Order of the Phoenix that I didn't like it that much compared to the other books. It was boring to me. The movie related to me in the exact same way. I left the movie feeling like I had watched a mid season episode of a tv show. I didn't learn anything new. I felt like I was just watching filler material. Of course, that's kind of what the Order of the Phoenix is anyways including the book form.

I left the movie with the normal feeling I have been having lately. The movie as a whole was ok. The characters and actors(useless cameo actors not included. The ones in this film serve no purpose hardly) were also ok, but I have no urge to want to watch it again anytime soon. Once was more than enough.

A couple of things that bothered me:

1.The 3D aspect of it was cool looking, but I don't like the idea of having to wait until the end to see it. By the time the 3D rolls around, you almost have forgotten that it's going to be 3D. I liked what they did for Superman Returns, where it was select scenes. It kept you on your toes about watching for the 3D. Granted, the 3D scenes in Superman were badly chosen scenes, but Order of the Phoenix had quite a few cool scenes that could have been cool in 3D.

2. I agree with my friend Napoleon that the movies are starting to feel like that they are made for people who have read the books and not for people who haven't. There were multiple times in the movie that things were not explained very well at all. The only reason I understood it was because I remembered it from the book. A perfect example would be the first Occlumency scene with Snape. They don't explain what they are doing in the first scene hardly at all. I knew what it was, but to someone who hasn't read the book, it might not make sense for a little bit.

I need some time to process this movie a little more. I might think of more things to say about it, but this is completely about my first impressions after seeing the movie.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 4:20 AM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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