“Half of the movies don’t even make sense to people who haven’t read the books!”
- NoxNiveus

Wow, you are not even in the vicinity of the ball park with this statement. Seeing as I saw the first five movies prior to reading the books and I was able to follow the story just fine.

Rupert Grint was always my favorite of the movie kids, a natural actor. He’s the one I’d be looking for after the Potter thing is over.

Everything is looking really good. I cannot wait for the movie to be released. :)

Those who complain about the HP movies as “unfaithful” to the books must not have read & seen many book-to-film adaptions. I think Kloves & the filmakers have done a good job.

cannot wait for this film. seriously! so exciting!

i’m really excited to see rupert play more than just the comic relief sort of ron in DH.. he’s such a great actor, i know he’ll do wonderfully.

i’m really excited to see rupert play more than just the comic relief sort of ron in DH.. he’s such a great actor, i know he’ll do wonderfully.

If Evanna said it was good, then I trust her judgement.

But I cannot wait, I’ve grown to LOVE Rupert’s acting, I think he has the most potential of the main trio (he can interpret lines and acts so wonderfully, and always has been able to, but his only problem is he clams up at big-scale interviews I think – it’s admirable for him to be so shy, but he needs to expand his vocabulary when talking to interviewers so he can promote his movies well! But then again, I think if he’s good enough he won’t even have to say much about them to get more film roles). ;) Yayy!

Hahaha, well I just can’t wait (as I say in most of my posts!) to actually see the movies. It sounds like Ron has a bigger part now.

I am beyond sick of these Kloves haters. He has done so much for thr series and dedicated so much time and won Jo’s apporval yet you people continue to hate im just cause he cut out your favorite scene. Please. Give me a break. He has written very good and solid screenplays. Miles better than OotP’s awful screenplays anyway. At least Kloves understands pacing and how a movie should be structured.

Yay Go Rupes! Everybody is talking about his performance, I am sure its gonna be a standout! Rupert is the best actor of the trio, not that Dan and Emma are bad, they are really good as well. I am glad bc of Steve´s return, he always considers what JK says. He did an awesome work in SS and COS, for me they were the best screenplays. And it must be really hard to adapt the books indeed. there are so many things that I ask" How the heel are they gonna put that in the film?" In the books is easy to let imaginationn flies, everything is possible in literature, but in cinema is much harder.

This makes me even happier to have Kloves back. Of course the adaptations are never going to be perfect, since I would love the entire book to come alive on screen with zero changes. I know that can’t happen.

Of the two screenwriters we’ve had I think Kloves has done a better job by miles, as I still can hardly bear to watch OoTP. Whether the bulk of the blame for that lies with the screenwriter or the director remains to be seen, though. Or maybe it was a combo of the two, in which case hopefully Kloves will help Yates fill in any holes he might have left on his own. If HBP is as choppy and disjointed as OoTP, then that will be a shame.

I am glad they cut a lot of the Pensieve scenes as they get a bit tedious even in the book, but I hope if nothing else that Yates learned from OoTP not to shortcut the emotions of the scenes. He needed to hold ten more seconds on Sirius’ death scene before cutting to Harry chasing after Bellatrix. If they’d held there, the entire audience would have been on the floor bawling their heads off over Harry’s grief. Instead, he cut right at the moment when the emotion was about to boil over and shortchanged the whole thing. That is my biggest complaint with that film. All the emotion was cut short or eliminated.

The big lesson my group of HP fans and I have learned is not to read the books right before seeing the films. We’re going to have a movie marathon instead, so that we are firmly back in “movie mode” before the release and hope that that will blunt our natural tendency to compare the movie to the book and find it wanting.

Having said all that, though, based on the trailers, pictures and interviews, I am pretty darn excited for this movie. If it holds up to the hype it may become my favorite of the six so far. I hope!! And Deathly Hallows is already looking and sounding amazing, it is going to be a loooooong wait for that one. sigh

i don’t mind kloves either…we really can’t be spoiled…i can’t imagine what these movies would be like in another universe with out the same people behind them. i know there are things we would have preferred differently but i don’t think the grass is greener with these things.

and please, don’t talk about a tv show…please —-no

Well, obviously it would be more interesting for most of the fans to have the entire books directly transferred to images down to last word. A 1-hour episode for each chapter or something of that sort. I can understand those who don’t appreciate the work of Steve Kloves in that respect. However, the fundamental difference between words and images will always be there to create conflicts in these situations. No decent filmmaker in the world would be willing to transfer an entire work of literature into images. There would be no artistry in that. What can be achieved through a book adaptation at best is that it captures the essence, the core, of the work of literature in question and still maintains its unique qualities as a work of moving images. None of the Harry Potter films so far have achieved that in my opinion, and nor can you expect it (commercialism). One of them gets close however, and that is Prisoner of Azkaban. For that, Steve Kloves, but in front of all Alfonso Cuarón – I believe – ought to be praised. I don’t expect these remaining films to please me, but I am fairly certain most Potter fans will enjoy them, which would mean Steve Kloves has done his job quite well.

NoxNiveus:
I agree with some of what you say, but if you truly think “half the books are already written like a screenplay” then you have obviously never read a screenplay.

I disagree with you moglet. Phoenix was all wrong. Everything was bassackwards, not to mention that Ron and Hermione looked like they were mad at Harry for the entire film. I can list at least 20 things that were wrong from book to film, but I won’t go into it here. I think the first four movies were as close to the books as possible considering the movies had to be 2.5 hrs or less. OotP was the longest book of the series and the shortest movie. (HUH! Why?) The writing was all wrong. The sequence of events were all wrong. I think it should have been called “HP and Prof. Umbridge”. I, myself am glad Kloves is back. At least he seems like he studied the books before writing the script.