Order of the Phoenix proves disappointing,

Hello mkirby624! I watched the movie too and as everybody kept saying it would be amazing and stuff, I think I got really disappointed. All the parts of the book, and I really mean all, that I really liked was not on the movie. They just neglected the marauders and I think they have a great mean in the history. Some stuff was fine but the changed so many things that I thought I just read another history. Really sad.

What many people don't know is when creating a movie from a book you can only use so much of the book. Only about a hundred pages of a book actually go into the movie along with scenes the producers and what not think are important. Now, with quidditch in the movie and in the book. There may be no word of quidditch in the last book at all. You may love quidditch but it really doesn't have a place in the later books. Now, J.K. herself as said there really isn't a real connection between the prophecy and Neville. Read it on her site if you don't believe me. Now, I thought the movie was pretty good. Yes, they left things out, they always do, but it was much better than 3. I thought the whole movie was put together wonderfully. The special effects were great and the acting was amazing as ever.

I happened to think OoTP, compared to all the other movies, was wonderful. I was not nearly as disappointed with this movie as I have been with mostly all the others. Of course things are left out, you can't cram 900 pages of stuff into a 2 hour movie. The movie can't follow the book entirely. It just cannot. You'd be mad to think that it was possible. Secondly, I think it's important to keep in mind, the script passes through JKR's hands first, and she approves it before it even goes any further. If she felt that certain items were rather important, she would have mentioned this, and it would have been put into the script as best as possible, even if it was just as a passing glance. Quidditch, for instance, definitely isn't THAT meaningful. So what, everyone hates Umbridge. That's all you need to know. You see how much of an evil woman she is. You see that all student organizations are suspended, you don't see quidditch..so what. No biggie. It's just a sport that's pretty much a filler. You can tell Fred and George are thinking about skiving out of school anyway, and they tell you point blank really that they've had enough, and that scene, although short, got the point across. Fred and George are off to bigger and better things. You don't need quidditch, or a horribly long drawn out scene to see this. Lastly, the prophecy thing. The prophecy breaks, which is ultimately the entire point of the fight at ministry. Harry is after something he's not sure about, and when it's found out it's about him, he takes it. And, in the end, Voldemort does not get it. It breaks just the same. What is the point of having the DA fight and fight and seeing Ron loopy from the brains and everything? What is the point of seeing everyone terribly injured? There isn't one. The book scene seems longer because you have to read through all the descriptions, and small filler pieces are thrown in to make the scene look better in your head. The point is, the DA went, Harry got the prophecy, it broke, the Order showed up, helped save them, Voldemort got away. All the IMPORTANT stuff was covered. You don't need filler stuff, nor do you need to make things go entirely like the book to get the point across. That's just rubbish.

i agree with all of this...all stuff my husband and I discussed after seeing it...I still thoroughly enjoyed it..however it was SO short and so much stuff got changed..

Another reason for me not to spend my hard earned money to spend sleeping inside a dark movie theater. I never liked any of the book and no matter how the actors in it are, the movie did not do justice to the book. And Is till can't forgive what Warner Brothers did to Ron's character.

Okay i wont read it then. I have plans goin to see it with my daughter hven it is shown in denmark, but it wont be here before friday. Cant bloody wait

I think i will wait untill it comes out on dvd. It sounds really disappointing. I thought it was great the part with Fred and george left Hogworts and the Ron and hermione are perfects. It sounds like the movie is dissappointing like the 4th movie sort of was to me at least. I want to see it but I'm in no big hurry.

At the very end of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Emma Watson says, "Everything's going to change now, isn't it?" I remembered that quote going into "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth installment of the series; the films have greatly changed, especially in terms of heavy-handed subject matter. Not only is this film even darker than the last, it's also more mature. This is somewhat disappointing, but it is to be expected; the main characters, after all, are now fifteen years old. I have to admit that I was ready to give this film a lower ranking, simply because it lacks the bright, whimsical charm of Chris Columbus' brilliant "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." But then I realized that I was unfairly trying to compare two very different films. On its own, "Order of the Phoenix" is an incredibly well made fantasy film--well written, well acted, and great to look at, all while retaining the essence of J.K. Rowling's novel. The plot, while a bit complicated, is quite engrossing. In his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) will find that the odds against him are increasing. It begins when he's put on trail for breaking the rules and using magic outside of school (he had to save his cousin from a Dementor). Cornelius Fudge, the Head of the Ministry of Magic (Robert Hardy), is convinced that Harry never witnessed Lord Voldemort's resurrection. He also believes that he and Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) are conspiring to take control of the Ministry. In response to this, Fudge gives the Ministry the power to enforce new rules at Hogwarts, rules so strict and unreasonable that they practically become dictatorial.