'HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX'---Directed By: David Yates---![The Order of the Phoenix [movie] - Harry Potter Wiki](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/oe5tfmdESjLb7CwCQ-GhJA47327/GW299H199 "The Order of the Phoenix [movie] - Harry Potter Wiki") ![The Order of the Phoenix [movie] - Harry Potter Wiki](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/BN3xqf-5T5t84kN6bAbe5w50385/GW317H210 "The Order of the Phoenix [movie] - Harry Potter Wiki")
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- I think the fifth movie is amazing. It has just the right balance of darkness and impending doom, while still maintaining humor to keep movie-goers entertained. The young actors are blossoming right in front of our eyes, and I left the movie theater wishing I could go right back in and watch it again. Of course, there are parts of the book that were left out or changed to make the movie flow better, but with an 870 page book to condense into a 2 hour movie, that has to be expected. The books and movies have to be appreciated on their own levels to really get the most out of this wonderful series. - Kristin B.
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I was so worried about David Yates directing the fifth film. He had only done TV and had no film experience, and after watching Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell take Potter to new heights, I wasn't sure Yates could do the same. Though I must say, upon seeing the movie, and seeing how dark Yates made it, I'm comforted that he will be directing the sixth film asw well. Yates didn't hold back in OOTP, and that's what was so refreshing; regardless of the fact that Harry Potter is a kid's series, there is no denying that it's gotten darker with each book and film. So Yates' decision to make it dark and edgy was such a relief. It's so hard to believe that it will all soon be over. - Nancy B. -
This is the best film because of the inspiration it truly takes from the novel. JK Rowling painted marvelous pictures for us in this novel, and the filmmakers truly took her vision and put it on screen. The acting in this film is phenomenal, because each character truly captures their literary doppleganger, and they all realize the intensity of a film like this. The actors and filmmakers realized this film as a serious political and conspiracy novel, not as a children's book, and they turned it into something that reminded me of the fugitive. Everything in the film was inspired by or taken directly from the novel, even the little added things. The first two films resembled the novels greatly, but felt a bit campy and childish. This film also greatly resembles the novel, but feels like an intense adult film. Yates is DEFINITELY the director for me. - I think that the right amount of things were switched and taken out from the book while still leaving the movie faithful to the books and easy to understand and entertaining. While I think it focused a little too much on Umbridge and not on the Order itself, I loved the conflict between Harry and Voldemort in this movie. I honestly loved all the flashbacks in Harry's mind and how the dreams and occlumency lessons were played out. I also loved the Department of Mystery sequence. Some severe cuts disappointed me, (hello, the circular room with the entrances to all the other rooms?) but still we got the general idea. They shot the death of Sirius to where it evoked deep emotion within all of us, although they should have shown Sirius more throughout the movie than they did.
- I enjoyed the movie very much, it had just the right balance of humor & darkness while still staying true to the book. The movie was just the right length. The one part I was most disappointed was the downplaying of Neville's part of the story line in the film, because you learn so much more in the book about how he is also connected to the prophecy. The actors are becoming greater and greater and are doing well together. And Imelda Staunton was perfect for the role of Umbridge. I also love the ending with the dueling. The movie felt like a roll coaster and it was cool. You will not be disappointed.
- Loved the movie but why would Harry put the prophecy in Malfoy's hand? It's completely against character.
- It was my favorite movie, we saw the 3D version and it was incredible. I actually cried during the fight at the minstry of magic. The actors have come such a long way. In the book I really didn't care for Luna Lovegood one way or another. In the movie, she is fantastic -- you find yourself adoring her. It was just amazing.
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the book was better
show too short! - I agree that the book was better than the movie. But then again if the movie was as long as the book and had every single detail, we'd be watching a pretty long movie! The same goes for every single movie and book. I also agree that in the movie, the actor for Luna Lovegood was a really great character.
- OH MAN OH MAN THIS WAS THE BEST MOVIE OUT OF ALL MOVIES!!!! their such great great actors now they used to suck at it well not rupert grint he was just so cute from the beginning lol!!! it was fantastico i don't know how anyone could not like that movie. hahaha it was also the funniest! and although it may not go into every detail witch i wish it would have but it's all good i wouldn't mind sitting in the theater for about 10 hours comeon intermissions folks!!!! well that's all i got to say it was just BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!
| It's one of my least favorite movies in the series because... - It was my least favorite because it was absolutly boring! It was not the Harry Potter that everyone knows. They didn't even show you a lot of important events that happened. There wasn't even a lot of magic that everybody wants to see. This was the worst movie yet!
- It means we're closer to the end of Harry! : (
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They mentioned NOTHING of Snape being a Death Eater in the past, and how they weren't sure about trusting him or not. While it's fine for this movie, it's gonna screw them over in the 6th movie when Snape kills Dumbledore, because people are gonna be like where the hell did that come from?
- What scared me was the lack of judgement in editing. Some less significant scenes were beautiful, GLORIOUSLY well-paced (Harry in the underpass, Harry and friends laughing by the fire, anything with Luna Lovegood). But then important, climactic scenes were shunted to the side, sped through with such awkward rapidity (Snape's teenage revelation, the Azkaban breakout, Sirius and the 'veil'), I wanted to find David Yates and kick him in the shins. -- Joey W.
- Harry would NEVER give the prophecy to Malfoy! Why would the writer put that in? I was looking forward to Neville and Harry tossing the prophecy around and then dropping it and battling with that Lastrange crazy woman. The movie glossed over almost ALL of the finer points of the book and then created things that never happened. I understand artistic license, but when you have so much material to choose from and cut so many great things, WHY WHY WHY add things that never happened?
- I think that the change in screenwriters really shows in this film. I loved movies 1-4 and think that this is just average. Perhaps if I watch it a 2nd time my mind will change.
- Kreachers nose wasnt a snout like a pigs it was very simaler to dobbys.
- The fight sequences were a bit lame ( with the exception of Sirius's duel)
- Hello where the hell did all the relationships go?
- OK, what killed me was that the "Director" who had never read a single Potter book admits that his goal was to make this the shortest Potter movie to date. I would rather have a longer movie that more closely follows the book than 2 hours of a jumbled up mess. I was soooooo disappointed in the movie and I am dreading what he will do with the next.
- They totally glossed over the death of Sirius. It wasn't as dramatic as it was in the book. That was my only qualm
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is by far the best film so far! As we all know the books get darker, and with this movie the beauty of J.K. Rowling's writing was electrified. The acting is superb, we truly could not ask for anything more. | -The movie wasn't as good as I expected. The kiss was way too long. how could that take 60+ takes? Also,if you didn't read the book first, it would be very confusing. This movie is both fast and slow. Slow because it was a bit boring and unclear, even though I read the book. It was fast and all of the scenes seemed like they were rushing. |
- We are able to fully appreciate the wizarding world and the magic of Harry Potter by seeing it so well put together on the big screen. Not only that, but in the book, the battle scene might be hard to imagine, but the movie really makes it come alive.
Ways the movie version is better than the book...
I thought the whole tabloid-fodder sequence where they show the newsprint headlines about changes at Hogwarts and how Harry and Dumbledore are crazy and all of that was actually better in film, not because of any fault in the book, but just because in our society that sort of tabloid-frenzy phenomenon is a very visual thing. We see it on TV or in magazines at the check-out line. Seeing it onscreen made it come to life for me all the more.
| Ways the movie version is worse than the book... - I understand cutting the "Weasley is our King" Quidditch stuff, but Ron seemed almost like a tagalong in many of the scenes--not because his character is, necessarily, but because of the way Goldenberg chose to handle dialogue. Hermione and Harry were both given plenty of screen time (as was newcomer Evanna Lynch, interestingly enough) but it's like whoever chose to position the actors in different scenes cast Ron perpetually in the almost-out-of-focus background, and usually most of the lines that might have been his in the books went to Hermione. I also thought the pacing in some of the sections was off... the Ministry battle was fantastic but could have used more rooms than just the prophecy hall and the veil room. Plus it left me wondering, if you're one of the people who's never read the books, how are you supposed to know what the Department of Mysteries really is?? Finally, the scene that depicts Snape's Worst Memory (don't worry, I won't spoiler anything) was so quick I felt a blink-and-you-missed-it sensation. What I loved about the scene in the book was that Harry saw it all in slow, agonizing detail... here he just gets a general, vague idea of what took place.
- The fifth book is certainly not the strongest in the series, but upon reading it a second time I realized how great the Department of Mysteries finale was because of Rowling's careful descriptions of each of the rooms. The whole Department of Mysteries seems to be an allegory for all the mysterious and haunting facets of human life--there is the room with the time turners which represents the troubling passage of time, the room with the sticky brains which represents the overpowering control memories have over us. Then, of course, there is the door that will not open--the door that can't be understood by merely gazing upon it, the door that Dumbledore explains later is love. I was disappointed they did not include this in the movie, but I also understand that time is certainly a factor. But INCLUDING the statues in the fountain in the scene and then NOT using them for the final battle is just an illogical travesty. AniJen21
- One of the best chapters in the book was "The Lost Prophecy." It not only helps explain A LOT of Harry's past and his connection to Voldemort, but Harry finally tells Dumbledore exactly what he thinks of practically everything. It would have been a great scene for Daniel Radcliffe as well. I was so disappointed that they cut that scene into only a few minutes in length. And what about Neville and the rest of the prophecy? That was too important to leave out!!!
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Why did the students in D.A. have to be punished by Umbridge and why did it have to be Cho that turned them in? In the book it was her friend who did it willingly, then reaped the consequences (boils on her face). No one but Harry had to endue the pain of Umbridge's special quill that cut into his hand. I also missed more from the department of mysteries battle at the end. The other students didn't get hurt and it all ended so fast! -
I was bloody mad that the statues did not play a part in the Ministry Battle Scene.
- i really wanted to see the brains in the room of thought. it was so cool in the book.
- I was enjoying the film, too bad the ending was so weak. I really loved the book and was looking forward to seeing many of the final fight sequences on film, especially to see Dumbledore demonstrate why he has been called the greatest wizard ever, in the book the death eaters ran when they saw him, and for all his might Voldemort could not kill him and possessed Harry as a last resort. In the film it appeared that Voldemort was wining so why even bother possessing Harry and I preferred that the prophecy was dropped before Harry could hear it so that he has his final breakdown in Dumbledore's office. It is weird to me that in the last two films Dumbledore keeps showing up in Harry's bedroom, that did not happen in any of the books, I found it uncomfortable.
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HARRY HAIKU REVIEWS
The books are epic-length and the movies are marathons. Think you can sum up their essence in a haiku? Dare you to try! (Remember, a haiku is a three-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, and it doesn't need to rhyme!)
Voldie's no villian compared to the pink menace. Thank God for centaurs. --Eruanna
so much to get in
could not have fit it all in
kudos for trying
miss emma watson once a hater, I must say I do love you now -- Joey W.
oh, harry potter
the movies just get better
great scar-headed boy
You started pudgy
I was sad you were not hot
Then Neville stretched
"Harry was famous
all the wizards guarded him well him
until the last battle"
"~Brazilican17~" (liza)
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